Adulthood has made me loss my sympathy, ughh...can I help you fill out an application?
Adulthood has made me loss my sympathy, ughh...can I help you fill out an application?
So you were accosted by homeless people recently? No, no, I I had a bitter moment or what I thought might be a better moment, I had just picked the kids up from school. Okay. Um, and we're driving back home, I guess it's going to get wife, we were driving. We're at a busy intersection. And this human comes walking down like the middle of the street while we're at park like sitting at a red light. With a sign that said something along the lines of last job, two kids need help. I help filling out a job application. Right? Right. That was That is pretty much where my head went. I was. Sorry, I was immediately triggered. Because I have my two children in the back seat. And I'm one Zoom meeting away from being out here in the streets asking for cheeseburgers with you. You know, get your head out. I'm in front of my car. Right? I can continue on with my day. Ah, I just I feel like I guess I think that adulthood has eroded some of my sympathy. And to be fair, the person looked newly or possibly even like homeless pending, they didn't even look like all the way how their clothes were clean. They won homelessness. They looked there was a fully functional able bodied adult, right? And you got like Burger King begging people to make fries. Right? Like so. Are you how homeless? Are you used to homeless that you can't work? Like, I don't understand. I just I don't know. Those are the things that I think about when I see homeless people now. Before I just thought like how much effort please don't wash my windshield, because I really liked my car. But you are, um, well, and I no longer have that car. So I don't really care if they wash it. You know? I do because COVID I don't know how I don't know what's in that bottle. But, um, well, yeah, they said about piracy. And we I don't have sympathy for homeless people that don't look homeless. I think you get now now you have to be like full on crazy for me to like, you don't want to approach those people. Right? But then at least I feel bad for you. I'm like, oh, man, Ray can really mess that up. Wow. All right. Well, I'm Marcus on this wonderful show of head above hypocrisy. And after that, you shaming me about giving that homeless guy food who never really asked for food? I didn't shame you. I just asked some questions that you didn't. Yeah, I didn't have any follow up questions. I just gave him food that he didn't want he was upset and you should like you know, work backwards. Why would someone be upset for receiving a free meal? Well, if I was stranded in front of set establishment, and I asked you for directions, man, anything other than food near like, Here, man have a cheeseburger that would probably make me upset like this man is not listening to anything. I'm saying he's just handing out random cheeseburgers people are in retrospect, you know, hindsight is only 2020 Listening is fundamental. retrospect. You know, I could have went that route. But instead, I decided to be extreme. And I have no sympathy for any homeless now, whatsoever. I mean, I was waiting over with the car I got so upset, no free. Well, let's start with an I would have gotten troubles. I wasn't about to let her you know, poor life decisions rub off on me. You know, you know, I can't afford to go to the I gotta get the kids home. Let's talk about some of these details. Let me get your alibi straight since you almost ran over the person it's pretty good side too. She didn't you know, use those skills to fill out a job application. Or handwriting was better than mine. Do you want to drop the intro? Yeah, no, I'm gonna Yes, I I should get a sigh maybe I should hire her to make a sign that says listen to hit above hypocrisy. She's clearly not afraid to die in traffic. And I need those kind of people out in the street. Advertising make sense to get that paperwork get her in Del Taco girl and I'm on the payroll. I think you know what, that's somebody I'm gonna go see if I can get them on the phone wait so like you have the funds in the budget to hire more people? Well, so that's what I've been asking for a raise. I feel like three seasons her sign is inefficient. She should have left her contact information somewhere on there like Gmail or something and I reached out. I don't expect the Del Taco girl have contact information she was she referred me to her assistant who was behind her in the parking lot. Any diner and that's why I have not yet been able to get in touch with her. Oh, right. So what I've been wrong to offer her food even though she even asked for it. No, no anything to make that situation go away would have been fine if that that's one of those like when a stray dog gets out, yeah, just if you do the cheeseburger out the window to the left, maybe she did and we drive right. And that might have worked, but instead we panic. Well, I mean, she technically it wasn't free because technically, she worked for it. She did sing she provided a great entertainment. Well, we tried to order food that night. And you know, I mean, technically, a job is a job, you know, being well being paid. I guess to be fair, in that scenario, I have more respect for the crackhead than the woman who lost her job and instead of trying to get another job may decide because again you can fill out a job application like how what have you tried before wading through traffic and asking for dollar bills did you try to get your old job back? Why did you lose your old job? Have you tried unemployment? Like what I feel like wading through traffic should be your absolute last resort and this this could be you know book cover judgment but based on the appearance of the lady she did not look like she had tried any of the above I looked like she had left the office and went directly to traffic with her sign how fancy was like calligraphy second grade you get the big Can scientists fair magic? Yeah and it was just Sharpie it was it was straight and legible grammatically correct I believe so I stopped I saw read after the two kids thing because I really had to keep my checking account is zero with this money in the know I mean it's it's open by default. I think I got like$1.38 or something like that so they don't close it and don't get charged right. But you know, as I said I am one Zoom meeting or internet phone call away from apparently being out in the streets because that's what you do you get fired and you immediately go beg for change on live have a free is there any handouts you take? Like right now? No. That's that is what like doing job interviews when they ask what's your weakness? My weakness is that I know it's not I'm bad at asking for help. So like, if I can't ask you for help them definitely like unless you give me anything. It's what I would rather starve to death. You feel like it's a mob rules. Like you know, we don't give favors. We don't take favors. We'd give things I'm sure there's some childhood trauma to blame. I don't know. I honestly don't know. I've always been that way. Like I it's a it's a weird personality, like, Quirk like I'm have I'm quick to help have no problems helping out and loaning in all that stuff. But you know, it's I would never ask, and I won't just wave away the pick. Yeah, you have to like leave it and then I have to find it after you've left. Like a madman. Why did he Well, I guess I didn't need it. I am not to be homeless. I'll take the $20 What is your view on charity? Is like a weakness? Is this? Um, no, there's nothing wrong with charity. Like I think that we should take care of those that need it. But I think that they should need it. I think the standard for needing it needs to be clear this relief. No like it like this lady's situation. I feel like you should have tried like you need to be in like abject failure. Right. Like you don't need to have just lost one job. You don't have been fired been trying to get hired. Okay, like, it needs to be dire straits before you're, you know, begging, or he said she was dressed nicer. Yeah, I mean, fashion forward. She looked cooler than that. Is that does that help? Okay, so like, just trying to pick your brain does that help in the sense of her life? Because she was dressed nice. It didn't look like she was really struggling or that she was like super dirty. Would you have been more inclined to like let me help you out? Or maybe she should be better clean to get a better job like you know what I mean? Like I mean contradiction it's not that it's just I like I it didn't appear to me that she had tried other things besides the handout route Now granted, she was putting herself at great physical risks like being in the middle of the street right? Maybe should be what like a window window washer for like a skyscraper if you want to get paid to risk your life. I'm sure they are because who wants to do it and the people that do want to do it probably don't do it for very long. It's windy out here man. Like I don't think I don't think that's the long term kind of career choice. But she clearly didn't care about her life. So remains would do it on purpose, like, mess around and get hit by a car for $1.12 like is Peterson You know, console change, right? At least as a minimum wage for window washers, I'm sure and there is a labor shortage right now there's no one really wants to work. That's which I think was your original point, right? Like Burger King is paying people $20 an hour to flip fries, and you would rather, you know, dodge cards for random amounts of change. Like, I just I don't I don't understand. And I feel like that's, that's my issue of like charity and asking for help and stuff like that or like curious, just in general, like the the standard needs to be clear. And that way you don't get people abusing the help. And then people that need it, get it and people that need to not be lazy, stop being lazy, because they don't get the help. It's the it's a similar issue I have of like, well, I guess it's different, I get irritated, they don't have any more things to kill. It's one of the very few benefits of COVID If we come out the grocery store, and people actually want to sign petitions to help homeless people in Uganda and such or feed the children in some other country. It's yeah, I just it's never for it's never local, it's never like feed the homeless kid around the corner, we have our own homeless people that we don't have a solution for. So you want me to give you know, my my grocery change to some child I'll never see, as opposed to one that I might be able to run into one day, like, just make any sense. But I think that I think it's, I think it's important to have a very clear standard as to what you know, what warrants charity or or you know, assistance rather, for like Charities is is more about the person providing the resource than it is the person receiving it? What about like assistance better? When you finish a thought I was gonna say, what about those kids that are doing those? Like, you know, hey, I'm from a school that's nowhere near here. Can you please donate and buy? Like all of my chocolate bars? Now see if that is charity? If that's legitimate than not, I mean, not really, because they give you know, you're buying candy. Granted, you could but it's, it's dumb, because they're selling the same candy in the store in front of the store for more money, right. But I guess you're gonna be buying into their butt futures or whatever, right? I just ran somewhere else I did. There's other places that people enter, you know, an exit. I just why would you pick a place that has the exact same product as you sold for? I guess, I guess they only practice sports. They don't go to math. At any rate, if, if, if it's legitimate, that at least they're trying to provide, you know, they're giving you something right, you're buying a candy bar to support their, their team or their cause. And my issue is, is Is it worthy? Like I need to see the what is your record? Like, what's your win loss? Are you I'm sorry, you're asking these kids. I'm not gonna donate to a losing cause if you only want a game and eight seasons, and you out here selling candy? Maybe you donating will help turn the tide for this team, man. Now you got to win. First. Well, isn't it okay? It's not a championship game. I'm saying like, I have a very reasonable standards. I'm not saying you need to have trophies. I'm saying you need to have potential. For me. Like for me to be wanting to invent nobody's gonna invest in something that's going nowhere. So I buy these eight chocolate bars, and you continue to lose games. And I could have just bought them from Ralph. Well, I mean, maybe they needed equipment, and they don't have any equipment. Right? That's what I'm saying. I would know that they need equipment if they had won a game, like oh, maybe they could win two games next year, if they had shoulder pads. So let me buy these Snickers. But if they have not won any games and eight seasons, you are here slaying m&ms, then I'm not I'm not buying for you. I need somebody that has some form of potential. Otherwise, I'm going back in target and I'm gonna get the eight pack for a nickel as opposed to one Snickers for $5 Okay, so here's like targeted charity for like, you want to make sure your money is gonna go somewhere when you're giving to the charitable event so it's not like no fireman's. I don't want it to go to waste. That's all. Like, I want it. The same reason I don't want to give a crackhead $5 To buy a cheeseburger and he just go buy cheap crack. Oh, yes. Be good crack so like if you give him $20 It should be for a cheese burger. Oh, well, okay, so why don't you do like I do and just provide them with the food if they ask for it or not. Maybe not the last part but you know what I was gonna say because if they don't want to I'm not gonna give them something they don't want maybe not the last part but if a if a down on their luck person came to you was like, Hey, man, I needed like money. And they're standing in front of like a food place. Would you give them like would you give them the option for food instead? No, because I likely have just enough money to get the food I came to pick up I am also broke. Like, I don't understand. We all struggling I am not in a position to help anybody. If I help you, I will be standing next to you next week. So I'm not, you know, I'm not going fake the funk just because you look sadder than I do if you're ever in a position of leadership, would you give someone a job, like, just hire them off the street, homeless person. They came again, you have to have won some games, I need to see potential. I'm not gonna just hire an absolute lunatic off the street. Because they're homeless. Like, you need to have the gift. Like we need to have had an interesting conversation. Like juggling and I sell juggling equipment, or there needs to be a reason I don't expect you to walk down to like, but yeah, if Skid Row and be like, Hey, you right there, get a job. If I were in a position to hire people, and there was someone down on their luck that I felt could do the job like resume. Yeah, that would have been absolutely so clean. Absolutely. I have no address, because, you know, they're homeless. But no, absolutely. Because everyone out like, all the other people will get the next job. This guy's never gonna get one. So if I'm in a position to give that person that opportunity, then yeah, then it's on you. Like if you if you're late three times, I'm gonna fire you then that well, you know, such as life, but I will, I will let you in the door. Because I know that generally you won't, that like that opportunity will not be provided. So if I ever I would, it's you know, it's one of those situations, I don't want somebody to do that for me if I were up against it. So again, qualified or able to do the job, I don't want somebody to put me in a position to fail, right? Like, because if I give you the opportunity, and you can't do the job, you're gonna fail anyway, like, you're gonna get fired anyway. So we're not we're doing each other a disservice. So there has to be potential. And if I you know, if you're qualified and you just don't you know, your suit, dirty, Nazi Gadem car with your whole life and, and, or something like that. And, alright, let's see what you got. Okay, I can respect that. So of course, we're not balling, but we're not poor. No, very, bro. I mean, we're like the middle class, America. So you know, for poverty means you know, you can't you're living below your means broke means? Well, for me, at my means. I just don't have money currently. That there's money coming in. There's just no extra. So, you know, a couple of websites, we're giving away key tips to how to get away with things for free. be homeless and they just give you stuff? Yeah, well, okay. Without being homeless. This is more for everyday Joe for working people. They want free stuff. So free days. They say check it online communities and marketplaces. Oh, yeah. If you got a lot of free time and you don't mind incessant emails, there's all sorts of free stuff. Oh, you'll get Raj email address, and stuff like that? I don't I care about my email address. I don't know, I've filled out one or two. And after that, you know, I'm good. I don't I don't, it's always free stuffs always crap so that you don't get anything good for free. But they do say sample the sample products at a Costco. Everybody knows that? Well, I mean, these are just ways you want a free meal. Well, you had to pay for the membership to get in. So you know, again, nothing in America is free. If you want something free, you need to go to another country. It's not gonna cost you money or cost you something else? I mean, I'm not it depends on the country. But you know, you can you can get free things in other countries because other countries take care of their citizens. America takes care of their bottom line. So you know, it's, it's never going to be people first, because we're built on, you know, racism and capitalism. Instead of spending money on the Red Book. I don't know if people do read boxes or Netflix, your library card. I'm sorry, how's that the same thing? You can check out movies from the library? Yeah, from the 80s. What if you want to watch something that came out this decade, on a on a format that was released in the last five years? Sure, there's libraries with DVD players or DVDs. What the library needs to do if they really want to be helpful is give people a streaming account. Then you can stream all them old as movies from the library, if you really want to, you know be helpful, just making America better. I'm just saying like, that's how you keep up with the times you still want DV who has a DVD player you bet you're more likely find a DVD player DVD player in someone's car than you do in their home. And that's that's the the platform that they're helping people out with with their free service. Give them a log in and let them stream all them old as movies. Last year, interesting get better movies on Southwest flying from here to Ohio, they sell movies. I watch the Goonies every time. Like if I'm going out, I'm going out watch something. I love nostalgia. I just turned into a child. But the problem is the flight is long in the movie. So I'm good until the movie goes off. And then you know then we get to Denver and that turbulence hit and it's like you know what woman I promise you if you get me killed between here in Ohio we fighting in the afternoon we will be two ghosts up in This guy wrestling I'm pretty sure that's free you know things that are not free but that is absolutely free you know what I mean was free for years it costs in tax your family all kinds of money unless you're employed. And then if you you know, give him a nickel get life insurance you know when you sign up it's always it's always really really cheap for the life insurance it usually is because you got to pay like $500 for the health insurance anyway. I'm not gonna jump down that rabbit hole at the time that's what needs to be We Can't Wait insurance help the health care your health insurance should be free that's the charity you need that's that's how you fix it right the charity balance of keeping the government out of our lives and keeping them in our lives and their overreach and what if they do it that it's it's two things I was talking to my mom about this earlier it's two things is the south don't want black people to have it doesn't matter how much it benefits the whole world black people get into so now and the other side is it all it will disrupt private industry in Yeah, yeah. So it's capitalism and racism. The two things America is built on you can still like if they offered I think like health vouchers a health care tax credit system that would help to schools talk about health care food stamps, yes. coupons to the hospital. Here's my Kaiser coupon and I please have aspirin if the government was to set up some type of voucher or tax credit like I went to the doctor at 12 Oh, we could just stop being racist that will never fix that but as far as if the south just you know would let the whole country win including black people then we could have universal health care once again I'm not sure if racism will ever be solved in this country but capitalist if we get rid of the South ism we can let them succeed that's the solution there's only like two states or two states yeah in the southern region that we all know would probably succeed then lenses falling under water let them this isn't about Texas and Florida the point is fix a lot of things yeah got all the issues down there all the problems are south of the border look Wait a cocaine comes from oh my god well yeah, there we go. I was waiting for you to go ahead in any salt waivers it's all southern that's a no get COVID from anywhere North Sea cold up there so as we go ahead and wrap this up soon wait to see what before I get geographically canceled and before the CIA murders that would be amazing that you know what that would be at your graphically canceled Yeah, the UN like came in like we heard your podcast and it's offensive to geography. I mean, we do the only be like three nations listening to us like turkey Iran and the angry Korea Yeah. Angry Korea if they are going to be our future listeners and subscribers no we're not talking to them the proud Koreans are not No No, I'm talking we're not just not even together lately. I don't think they're allowed to wear they don't have freedom of T shirt choice and you know in order to listen and or support the show you need to be able to wear whatever kind of shirts and hoodies you want. I don't think anger Korea would appreciate hashtag adult adolescent. How do you know maybe since this episode seems about about all about charity, why don't you be charitable? Send some over this Star Wars. See what I'm good. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not communicating with the enemy. We don't negotiate with terrorists. They're not terrorists to me. Well, they are terrorism, knowing his personal personally and how that works. So because your home was not crashed into they're not like okay, well, I see how that works. I mean, you don't judge a book by its cover at all. Say, what? Well, what's the cover for then? Like, why isn't the book just pages right? That the cover provides a purpose you can your little bit of judgment can come from the cover, right? Like, you know, if it's a do with his chest exposed and hair down to his nipples, it's probably a romance novel. I'm pretty sure you're not gonna have no chemistry in that book. Oh, I thought you're gonna say Italian and Italian or Greek. Like a Rosetta Stone. I thought it was a language book guy anyway, so I'm off subject for What? What? Is that? A lot of recording these episodes. Where can people find more? My joke trap kicked it straight out the window. What did you say? What I don't know what your here's a good joke. Europe, what do you do? Are you about the naked man? Yeah. Like a blind Yeah no I got you I was that's not you know where you go find your slope intercept formula was my point. And I was trying to allude to covers mean something that's my fault and you just asked me about Europe in the middle I was trying to be charitable and help you out. At what point did it seem that I needed assistance? I didn't that obviously I'm bad at this charitable event thing. I messed up with the homeless dude and giving him food when he didn't want it. I'm still learning all right, man, just bear with me. Can you land this plane? I'll learn about charitable events when the planes on the ground and we don't have any listeners. I'll be ready for the next episode. Whenever these come out, my name is Will this has been hit above hypocrisy. Apparently, Marcus is in his feelings because he has poor timing. So if you if you're out there, and you've got a stopwatch, or maybe a book on comedic timing, you can add head above hypocrisy and you know, shoot me a DM and you can send that over to us and we will help Marcus out. But for now you're reading the manual. We're gonna we're gonna head on now. Because he's all upset a little bit. Last time he was off. I wanted to have impeccable timing. It was really off. Yeah, yeah, so I could understand. Correct your joke with my own joke it was. I'm gonna give up and try to get your joke was the word France? What did you know? I don't even know. I'll try and describe the Greek man. It's okay. It's no point of resurfacing back to let's just let it go. Well, yeah, ah Salloway Salloway silhouette Well on that note, I'm gonna go and try to write a joke that's Marcus proof cow what cows are you hungry now? gone Oh, you lost your cow. You said cow God. What do you say? Cow gone the body wash shampoo nonsense Calgon take me away. I don't I use art of sport old am I that old? I thought I was the younger one. Anyways, that's a soap commercial it's I was like zestfully clean or sometimes a little bit more. Cow God as in lack of bovine. I'll show you later just in the show me. I tried to when you start talking about cows missing it's always my fault you drop kick my joke it's my fault yelling about cows is my fault I'm well and I've screwed up the show cuz he don't know what he's talking about. Good day people. Not we love each other.