SPEAKER 04 : <time>0:01 </time>

You can take this job and shove it. I ain't working here no more. With the government shutdown impending, Josh Spiegel covering in his news, a bunch of people are about to show up to work and not get paid. Some of those people might be like, you know what? Take this job and shove it right up your a**hole. I'm not coming to work. You just walked out. I alluded to it before. You know this story, Rob, years ago. And I'll do the briefest version I can. I worked with a comic named Kevin Brennan. Who's familiar? Neil Brennan helped write the Chappelle show.

SPEAKER 05 : <time>0:32 </time>

Chappelle show, yeah.

SPEAKER 04 : <time>0:34 </time>

I worked with him for a St. Valentine's Day show where I guess there was a change in management earlier in the day.

SPEAKER 05 : <time>0:40 </time>

I love that he called it St.

SPEAKER 04 : <time>0:41 </time>

Valentine's Day. Did I say that on St. Valentine's Day? Jesus Christ. Yeah, burn. Got my ass. Need some burn cream over there. I was watching the St. Valentine's Day massacre on the WWE Network earlier. And that's where the big show showed up.

SPEAKER 05 : <time>0:52 </time>

He calls it Patrick's Day.

SPEAKER 04 : <time>0:53 </time>

It's Patrick's Day. Jesus. Yeah. They had a change in management earlier in the day. Yeah. Where the new manager took over and I guess lorded over the staff of this comedy club. I mean, screw it. I'll say it's the funny bone. I'm familiar. They're moving in a new location. Yeah. Well, hopefully they left the old manager behind because I guess this little tyrant just dressed them down and gave them the, this is how things are working here from now on. And there's no more of this. And we're going to start doing that. And the whole kitchen staff just walked out. Is that important? It's super big. Considering the show that we were doing for Valentine's Day was a $55 all-you-can-drink champagne, dinner, rose, and tickets to show.

SPEAKER 05 : <time>1:39 </time>

They've all paid for food that they're now not getting.

SPEAKER 04 : <time>1:41 </time>

They've all paid for food. The emcee does his set. That is a nightmare. He eats it. None of them are getting food. They're all drinking free champagne.

SPEAKER 05 : <time>1:49 </time>

And at this point, they realize that there's an issue with the food.

SPEAKER 04 : <time>1:53 </time>

As I get off stage and I'm bombing, I ate it. I get off stage. Kevin Brennan goes on stage. He's eating it. A lady gets up from her seat. A busboy tries to stop her from going into the kitchen. She moves past him, pushes open the kitchen doors because she's white chick champagne drunk. Yeah. She opens up the kitchen doors. She's in the right. We've been waiting for food for an hour and a half. They said, get here early for dinner, and then the show will begin. So they've been there for hours waiting to eat. She shoves the kitchen doors open. I look in there. It's the most spotless, unoccupied, freshly shined aluminum kitchen. Pots are hanging up. She goes back into the main room and goes, there ain't no one in there cooking. She's the hero now. Chaos. Oh, yes. Chaos. That's pretty hilarious. You have like 200 people that are full of champagne. They're all drunk. And it just becomes chaos. Kevin just sits on stage. He doesn't do anything. It's just shouting, yelling. No, there's nothing you can do. The whole staff walked out. God bless the restaurant across the street. There was a Ruby Tuesdays. They let everybody come over there and have free appetizers.

SPEAKER 05 : <time>2:56 </time>

Oh, they made some money that night.

SPEAKER 04 : <time>2:57 </time>

They're like, hey, come on over here. Get your salad bar on. Exactly. Come get your, you know, Whiskey River barbecue sauce on. The Tata skins are on us. 410-338-1098. Who the hell walked out of there? This has to happen every year, especially during the heydays of retail. Eric, what's going on?

SPEAKER 02 : <time>3:13 </time>

Hey, morning, guys. Good morning. Back in the good old days of CompUSA, we were one of the first stores to open on Thanksgiving. So this is like the 2006 time frame, I think. So we all had the computer associates all the way in the back of the store, kind of lined up like a military front line, basically. And when they opened the doors, it was like a flood of locusts coming through the doors. I mean, just awful. The guy next to me hadn't been there that long, and he just goes, oh, screw this, and booked it through the warehouse. We never saw him again. Oh, no. You never saw him. We never saw him again. He never came back for his check. Nothing. He just booked it and was gone.

SPEAKER 04 : <time>3:55 </time>

How long did he work there prior to him leaving?

SPEAKER 02 : <time>3:59 </time>

I was there for probably about two years before. So this was my second Black Friday before he got there.

SPEAKER 04 : <time>4:03 </time>

Okay. But had he been on the job long or this was his first Black Friday?

SPEAKER 02 : <time>4:09 </time>

Yeah, no, this was his first. He had only been on the job for about two months.

SPEAKER 04 : <time>4:13 </time>

With the advent, Eric, great story. With the advent of digital shopping, Amazon's, Tmoo's, Walmart.com's, there's a generation of retail worker that will never know the nightmare that was 80s and 90s Black Friday shopping. People waiting outside in line to get their TV that's half off. Yes, when you're looking... When you watch a zombie show and people have barricaded themselves inside of a grocery store, you just see a thousand faces.

SPEAKER 05 : <time>4:39 </time>

They're fighting over the last few gifts of the gift of the year.

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