Bonus #118 - Dan Carney [PATREON PREVIEW]

Patreon preview. Unlock full episodes at https://www.patreon.com/c/stavvysworld Dan Carney joins the pod to discuss his bootstrapping days as a janitor at a Chick-fil-A in Times Square, coming from the infamous town of Brandon, FL, exploiting himself for Uber rides and low-level opportunities, and much more. Stav and Dan help callers including an overeducated woman who loves her hometown but is unimpressed by her dating prospects, and a stay-at-home mom who feels judged by her friend for not circumcising her son. Watch Dan Carney's series Run Club: https://www.youtube.com/@RunClubTheShow Follow Dan Carney on social media: https://www.instagram.com/danmancarney/ https://twitter.com/DanManCarney 🎟️ See Stavvy live on the Dreamboat Tour 🛥️💕!!! https://stavvy.biz/ for tickets 🎥 Rent or buy LET'S START A CULT at https://stavvy.biz/movie ‼️ Bonus episodes every week! Unlock exclusive, Patreon-only episodes at https://www.patreon.com/stavvysworld ☎️ Wanna be part of the show? Call 904-800-STAV and leave a voicemail to get advice!

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• 0:00Speaker 00

  My first job here, I was pretty much like a janitor at Chick-fil-A at Times Square.

• 0:05Speaker 00

  Like, literally, I was mopping floors, cleaning up. We had a guy overdose in our bathroom. My cleanup is vomit. And the first half of the day, like, white windows.

• 0:14Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 0:15Speaker 00

  It was like an insane, forty hours a week I was doing this.

• 0:18Stavros Halkias?

  You're like, "Do you think maybe I could, uh, maybe I could fry the chicken?" They're like, "Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, let's take it easy."

• 0:24Speaker 00

  You're like, "With that pretty smile?" You're a front-of-house type guy.

• 0:29Stavros Halkias?

  Wow, how much do you have to say? Did you say "my pleasure" a lot?

• 0:31Speaker 00

  Dude, oh, yeah, yeah. So like, I like, when I first moved here, I like, uh, I like hooked up with this girl who like worked at Chick-fil-A corporate. And she's like...

• 0:42Stavros Halkias?

  Literally, the fucking for every hookup. You fuck, my son is fucking for a janitorial job. He's prostituting himself for Ubers and the fucking privilege to wipe down bum diarrhea from fucking Chick-fil-A.

• 1:02Speaker 00

  My son is a whore with no concept of the market value of his own asshole.

• 1:09Stavros Halkias?

  Holy shit.

• 1:10Speaker 00

  Yeah, man, I was throwing it back for anybody, dude.

• 1:13Stavros Halkias?

  You fucked this girl at Chick-fil-A corporate?

• 1:15Speaker 00

  Like, one time, the craziest thing I saw was like, after the lunch rush, you know, everyone's just kinda trying to catch their breath. You know, there's a big, huge window. You can see like the street on Thirty-seventh Street, um, in Manhattan. And like, I was like, at the front of the door, we'd have like little iPads to kinda catch peoples that come in to like, be more efficient.

• 1:34Stavros Halkias?

  Yes.

• 1:35Speaker 00

  So I'm taking this guy's order, right? It's like just me and him in the store. It's like after lunch rush. And then as I'm taking his order, this like fire, a truck associated with the fire department comes and like, a few guys get out. Not a fire truck, but like, you know, whatever.

• 1:48Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, like a SUV.

• 1:49Speaker 00

  Yeah, like a truck with the emblem on it. Yes, and it says like, "Fire Department in New York." And these guys get out, they, they, they lift up this manhole, and one of the guys climbs in, and within seconds, fire exploded from this manhole. The circumference of the manhole, like, twenty feet in the air.

• 2:08Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, my god, dude.

• 2:10Speaker 00

  And I'm watching it happen with the guy whose order I'm taking, and he is like, like he just saw ghosts.

• 2:15Stavros Halkias?

  Right.

• 2:15Speaker 00

  I'm like exhausted, you know, like, I have more work, and so, and dude, this guy's like... You should do something.

• 2:22Stavros Halkias?

  I can't believe it, nine eleven two is happening.

• 2:23Speaker 00

  He was like, you should call nine one one. And I'm like, would you like to make that a meal?

• 2:29Speaker 00

  I'm like, why'd you call nine one one?

• 2:31Stavros Halkias?

  I'm on the clock. What do you think? I'm a public servant?

• 2:34Speaker 00

  Yes, now I do everything. Oh, I'm sorry. And I just jumped through the window and saved this guy. And like, so this guy was horrified. He told like, I remember like talking to uh, the people like at the front desk. He's like pointing and they don't give a fuck.

• 2:50Stavros Halkias?

  Of course.

• 2:50Speaker 00

  Everyone there was on food stamps.

• 2:51Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 2:52Speaker 00

  And like, they're like, fuck you.

• 2:54Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, what are you getting paid at Chick-fil-A?

• 2:55Speaker 00

  A minimum wage. Yeah, it was fifteen an hour. Um, and then he's-

• 2:58Stavros Halkias?

  And that's only because you're in New York.

• 3:00Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 3:00Stavros Halkias?

  Anywhere else, it would have been so much less.

• 3:02Speaker 00

  Pennies. And like, so we got one free meal.

• 3:04Stavros Halkias?

  Look up Florida minimum wage, let's compare.

• 3:06Speaker 00

  It's just, you know, I was, I was rich compared to where I came from. And uh, so we get one free meal and then like one meal is fifty percent off that we couldn't take home with us. We had to eat it there. Um, but yeah, and then so the, the explosion thing happened. The two other guys like peered into the manhole and then got back in the truck and left.

• 3:23Stavros Halkias?

  The guy?

• 3:24Speaker 00

  Yeah, that was, that was, that was what I saw. I don't know what happened. But like, that was the full arc of the story. They put the manhole cover back on and just fucking drove off, dude.

• 3:36Stavros Halkias?

  I mean, hopefully that guy got out somewhere else.

• 3:38Speaker 00

  You would hope, you would hope. Maybe they looked down like, okay, we're all good.

• 3:41Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 3:41Speaker 00

  But it was like, you know, it was weird. It was like cartoonish, you know?

• 3:45Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, those guys didn't seem troubled, did they? Or did they?

• 3:47Speaker 00

  They were like, huh, what was that? Yeah, curious. Curious would be, would be the um, would be the expression uh, that they had on their face. So that was like, obviously the craziest day. And then like the, like the, the way, you know, I ended up quitting that job. The last thing that I ever-

• 4:04Stavros Halkias?

  Quickly or how long? Two months you said or no?

• 4:05Speaker 00

  I did have like two months. And then like, I remember like uh, a month after I quit, uh, there was like this dude that I was like, became like friendly with or whatever at Chick-fil-A. He was like one of the cooks and you know, he'd hook it up for me sometimes like. And uh, he um, he like DM'd me on Instagram. He was like, hey, bro, how's it going? Whatever. And we're just kind of chopping it up. And he's like, hey, look, man, uh, I gotta bail my boy out. Can I get twenty dollars from you?

• 4:29Stavros Halkias?

  Oh my god, dude.

• 4:30Speaker 00

  Like get 20 bucks.

• 4:32Stavros Halkias?

  For 20 dollars?

• 4:33Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 4:33Stavros Halkias?

  And you hadn't talked to?

• 4:34Speaker 00

  I hadn't talked to him like over a month, yeah.

• 4:36Stavros Halkias?

  Damn dude.

• 4:36Speaker 00

  So that was the last I heard from that Chick-fil-A.

• 4:38Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 4:38Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 4:39Stavros Halkias?

  Damn, I've been, it's a good Chick-fil-A, you know?

• 4:42Speaker 00

  It's great, it's great. I still eat Chick-fil-A. That's how good Chick-fil-A is.

• 4:44Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 4:45Speaker 00

  So I did all that and I still enjoy their, their dishes.

• 4:48Stavros Halkias?

  20, 2 months though is like, that's, that's so, it's such a funny menial labor ass job to get.

• 4:54Speaker 00

  It was definitely, I think, the most menial labor job that I had.