As Per My Last Podcast

As Per My Last Podcast S1E11 - Making It Seem Pretty Good

Greg and I return to our roots, the rotting festering heinous complain about our job roots.

We also talk Astronomer Affair Scandal, Shane Gillis at the Espy's, Racing, David Letterman looking cRazY, and executives coasting.

Greg and Eric talk about the following

-Gen Z is not moving out

-Greg reviews Stick with Owen Wilson

-Shocked that baggy pants are popular again

-Realize we're so old that popular stuff when we were a kid is now popular again...oof

-Eric tells a story about someone putting their foot all the way into their mouth

-Talk about how we got our food complexes (think pizza hut reading programs...)

-Eric talks about how bands perform the magic trick of turning into adult rock radio watered down versions of Coldplay

This episode is a bit more about our personal lives.

-Greg talks vacationing, Florida and Disneyworld

-Eric talks getting old without it getting old.

-Talk the responsibility of middle age

-Parents getting older as a warning for us "young" folk

-Why strawberry blondes can't use just for men hair dye

-The best business model ever and unrealized aspirations to become Goofy the Disney character

We discuss avoiding whammy's.

Recognize Robert California as the Lizard King

Greg calls the job market a powder keg

Eric counts how many people actually work in a company (spoiler alert, it's low).

We recommend if you're going to be sad, at least make sure your sad is funny!

Explicit only because we swear, nothing weird people.

Start with the chain of screaming.

Talk workplace toxicity

This podcast makes Greg's week, and the rest of the week is ruined as a result

Garfield weighs in on Mondays

Talk toxicity from being gaslit by your employer

ATS systems force people to network on Linkedin or risk not getting work.

WFH can mean never being present anywhere cause you're always at work

Also, we swear but nothing else is explicit. FYI.

In this episode:

Start with the best job ad ever

Review top innovations from 2000's and 2010's

React cathartically to AirBnB CEO Brian Chesky's interview advice

Feel guilty from Mr. Feeny's speech about our privilege as a generation in Boy Meets World

Try not to shit on EDM cause playing instruments is magic

Agree that smoking is cool...

Relate over couches being moved up hallways like Ross and Chandler in Friends "PIVOT!"

Talk about how Gen Z isn't getting driver's licenses despite us getting away as soon as we could.

Topics Discussed:

Klarna hiring people back that they "replaced" with AI.  

Friends and neighbors is fantastic show.  

Rich dad, poor dad guy, Robert Kiyosaki saying to put money in silver/gold/crypto but sounds like he's investing in tinfoil hats.  

Creating clay sculptures of your boss and punching the shit out of it may be the answer to workplace violence.

Cabs didn’t get replaced by Uber so we all won't be replaced by AI, but maybe a lot of us.

Greg says what grinds his gears about the interview process.

Eric talks about the innovative hobos in Portland, Me

I'm pretty sure we both are scared of self-driving cars

Stanley from the office finishes it off by saying what we're all thinking

In this episode, we discuss:

-How every day feels like we're Neo after taking the blue pill.

-Why bosses are being even bigger dicks than normal and why that's not gonna change any time soon

-How being underworked has become the new overworked

-Wait to the end to find out why there's only one reason why Greg doesn't do crack and it's not what you think.

In this episode we are live from NYC, the city that never sleeps until we tried to go to a bar after 10pm and nothing was open. We discuss AI, the future of work, the past of work, and the present that is anything but a gift.