A Boomer and GenXer Walk into a Bar
Wit and wisdom, some smart assery, and a Mother and Daughter questioning “Are we even related?”
A Boomer and GenXer Walk into a Bar
Side Hustles Beyond the Ordinary: A Mother-Daughter Exploration S:1E:53
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Ever wondered about the weird and wonderful ways people make extra cash? From selling bathwater to renting themselves out as fake dates, the side hustle economy has gotten strange—and surprisingly profitable.
In this candid mother-daughter conversation, we dive into the bizarre world of unconventional income streams that might just make you question everything. Jane shares her experiences as an auctioneer and equine massage therapist, while Bobbi reveals her stint as a singing telegram performer, complete with corn cob costumes and grim reaper outfits. These personal stories highlight how side hustles can range from practical to downright peculiar.
Whether you're looking to supplement your income or just fascinated by human ingenuity, this episode offers a window into the creative ways people have found to make money on their own terms.
What's the strangest way you've ever made extra cash? We'd love to hear about your unique side hustles! Drop us an email at boomerandgenxr@gmail.com with your stories or suggestions for future topics.
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Episode Introduction
Speaker 1Welcome everyone to today's show. A boomer and a Gen Xer walk into a bar, coming to you from the rabbit hole studio, where you, as our listeners, will experience some wit and wisdom, some smart assery and a mother and daughter questioning. Are we even related? My name is Bobbi Joy and my co-host is my mom, jane, and for the next little while we are here to entertain you, hello Mom, hello Bobbi. So just before the show, someone was getting chewed out over Watch Envy, so that was interesting.
Speaker 2Well, not chewed out, I wouldn't say. But it's just interesting that my daughters work multiple jobs or something, or multiple shifts, because they don't have a pot to piss in, because they have no money, and yet they have these expensive. What do we call those? Exercise watches or what are they?
Speaker 1Well, mine's an Apple watch, so it's, it's apple product might be a smart watch.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah okay okay so y'all have that. And I just got a new smart watch only because dr domain, god love him, uh bought me a new one and I do love it. Thank you, dr domain, uh, but but but it's like, how do you kids afford that stuff when, hmm, you have no money?
Speaker 1I can tell you how I afforded mine it was a gift it was a gift to me from the five finger discount oh no, no, it was a gift oh, that's nice.
Speaker 2It wasn't for me. I know that much. No, and it's not like it's the top of the line one.
Speaker 1It's literally, I think, the cheapest one.
Speaker 2It just has all the bells and whistles I see well, dr domain has a really nice one.
Speaker 1Oh, that I bought for him I know and I can see it from here and it's almost the size of his head.
Speaker 2I know it's crazy and it was super expensive. But he goes, this is the one I would like to have. If I got one and I'm like, oh my gosh, you couldn't have picked a different one. So anyway, I got it for him for his birthday.
Speaker 3Don't ask the question if you're not prepared for the answer.
Speaker 2This is true. This is true.
Speaker 3I didn't hesitate.
Speaker 2I was like this is it right here but I bought that for you for your birthday, so there was a reason why he got that, yeah, but he bought mine, which is not as expensive. I mean, it's a nice one, don't get me wrong, but I didn't want a super expensive one, because I tend to fall, break and drown stuff yeah, so, yeah, so um you.
Speaker 1Tractors, bikes, motorcycles, yes, you know all of it, all of it I did have a watch.
Speaker 2We aren't even on topic yet, but I did but we're leading there, we're leading there I did have a smart watch and I went to the park and I fell in the water. Of course you did. I found the water and hurt my other arm. I thought it broke my other arm. The water and hurt my other arm, I thought I broke my other arm and drowned my other watch.
Speaker 1Why wasn't it waterproof?
Speaker 2I bought a cheaper one. No, no, this was like a cheaper one, this was like a $39 one See, all my stuff has to be waterproof because I'm an idiot.
Speaker 1Yeah, like straight up.
Speaker 2Mine needs to be everything proof.
Speaker 1Shockproof, waterproof, airplane proof.
Speaker 2Spitproof. Run mine needs to be everything proof, shock proof, waterproof, airplane proof, spit proof, run over proof proof, yeah, anything proof, so anyway. So how you doing today, I'm good a little tired. I see that your arm is wrapped up down there, bobby. What happened? I thought we weren't gonna get into this we are gonna get into this because you have an injury I do.
Speaker 1Oh, I have a few injuries, but my arm is the worst, yeah, so bobby uh works in an environment where she works with people who are.
Speaker 2What do we say?
Speaker 1intellectually disabled, but also um severely violent, and they are sex offenders.
Speaker 2Yeah, and so she works for the state and, uh, she does help with that and she unfortunately got attacked and it is part of the job. But, you know, breaks my heart, see you get hurt but and I know, had you, uh, had your way had we been on the streets and I've not been clocked in it would have been a whole nother story. But you can't do that in those places.
Speaker 1Gotta follow the rules, and you know I mean god, love them, that they try to protect us out there. But there's only so much that we can do, and and it is what it is and it is just uh, you know it's a condition of employment yeah, you kind of sign up for it when I mean you don't, you don't really sign up to get your ass kicked every day, but.
The Watch Envy Conversation
Speaker 1I mean it can happen. Yeah, yeah, it can happen, but I'm good. I mean nothing's broken, you know, just bruised and swollen and a little painful. But yeah, speaking of that, our topic today we're going to talk about really interesting ways to make money on some unique side hustles.
Speaker 2Yeah. So there are so many unique side hustles out there and every time I hear somebody making money off of something I'm like what, how?
Speaker 1You make. Yeah, who's paying for this? Who's paying for that?
Speaker 2You know, you know, one of the most bizarre ones that I think and people are making literally hundreds of thousands, if not millions is selling your pictures of your feet, see now. Now, I'm not talking about sexual pictures.
Speaker 1No, no, no. I'm just talking pictures of your feet Like pictures in high heels or just of your feet, right, you know maybe a little toenail paint on it yeah. See, and if my feet, my feet are all scarred up from surgeries and stuff and I'm like is there, is there a an audience for that? Because I could use some extra money. Like I got to get my truck fixed. You know things like that.
Speaker 2I've thought about that too, because every time I go in for my pedicure it's like I've grown talons or something on my feet and you know they want to go get the belt sander Right and so I'm like yeah. And and God love them. Every time I go in, they go. What happened?
Speaker 1What happened? What happened to you? Why are you like this Glory be?
Speaker 2Because they do. They look really bad.
Speaker 1They say you out catching fish.
Speaker 2What are you?
Speaker 1doing oh stop, Stop.
Speaker 2And then you know, I play pickleball a lot and at least once a year I lose a big toenail. Yeah, and that's disgusting all in itself.
Speaker 1Well, and you had a surgery when I was younger, because I remember you using my skateboard to get around.
Speaker 2I did On your pinky toes. Yes, I had the bones pulled out and turned around because my toes were laying down yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1So you got kind of funky feet. I'm sure that there's an audience for that out there that they would want those pictures.
Speaker 2Would they be called combat feet or something I don't know?
Speaker 1unique um hunter's feet or something you know, things like gorilla toes, but you know if, if you find a guy like, let's say, you're dating a guy and he's got, you know, very nice feet, you could just shave them suckers, put some toenail paint on it and they would never know. Doctor.
Speaker 2Domain. I'm going to be checking your feet out just a little bit closer next time I see them.
Speaker 3Don't get any ideas. Oh, you never know, I'm a light sleeper. Oh well, this is true. This is true, this is true.
Speaker 2So, yeah, so today we're going to talk about some unique side hustles, you know selling your pictures and we know that sexual you know porn sells for sure.
Speaker 1And so we're not going to talk about porn. Okay, I don't understand, though, because you can get it for free. I know Like that's so weird to me. It's like you have an entire free industry that you could look up and people are still paying for it, like why yeah?
Speaker 2Or they, they, what's the one? Um, I'm trying to think here that, like I was watching some show, some reality show, and they're all on this and it's like they can be in swimsuits or whatever. They don't even have to be naked and they're selling these pictures like for real money yeah, real good money, yeah, okay. It's crazy to me. I don't know, my body's not such that I could.
Speaker 1I could do anything like I don't know man, I've seen some of the strippers at the outer limits. I think that you could give them a run for their money really is that on amateur night um no actually that's the professionals that's what's scary that is, but you know I mean there's side hustles that everybody knows, like doordash and instacart um, you know you've got lyft and uber, things like that. I think those are more normal side hustles like dog walking.
Speaker 1Dog walking kind of a normal babysitting maybe you know if, if somebody needs driven around, for you know, chore, you're not chores, but like errands yeah even like the elderly you know, just picking them up and taking them for their doctor's appointments right, or picking them up and taking them out for a meal and just conversing with them. Yeah, you know things like that, but there are some pretty weird ones out there. Can you think of one?
Speaker 2that's really weird well, yeah, actually I can this ought to be interesting.
Speaker 1So quite a few years back, there was actually a social media star who was under some fire for the side hustle that she was doing because some people got sick from it and what she was doing is she was selling jars of her bath water. The gag that came out of you. Now here's the funny thing these guys got sick because they were freaking drinking it okay, like this is an honest thing. This made news news.
Speaker 2Oh my gosh, and this was like a celebrity that was doing it.
Speaker 1Well, it was an internet celebrity. So you know a social media star and it was just wild to me that people are paying for this. So that was her side hustle and as far as I know, you know at that time she was making a couple million dollars doing this.
Speaker 2People have too much money. I think, oh God, I'm telling you. So I saw a really bizarre one here recently where these people would eat certain foods and then belch into the jar and close the jar up real quick.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2What you think when you open that jar, that it really does smell like that.
Speaker 1Oh, you don't remember when we were young, and oh no, that wasn't you, that was my sister. So when, and oh no, that wasn't you, that was my sister. So when we were young, you know, we had those mason jars. Yeah, of course we still have them now. But you know, if you fart in a jar and put the lid on real quick and put it in the freezer and then you hand it to your sibling and say, hey, what's this smell like? It actually does smell really.
Speaker 2yeah, it keeps its smell, so I did see that as a side hustle, and people are actually paying to have that delivered to their door. Yeah, what a gross society we have.
Speaker 1People are so weird. People are going to people. They've been peopling since the beginning of time.
Speaker 2I guess I'm not sure I like that people in business, because it's pretty sick.
Speaker 1Yeah, and you know, and some of the ones that I've seen, even around my community, is we have someone who will come and power wash your garbage cans you know, that's not a bad idea.
Speaker 1It's not, but it is unique because I mean, who would really think you know to offer that service? Or they also not only power wash them, they offer to bring the garbage cans up after the garbage has been picked up for people who can't get there, or they're you know, because we have a 24 hour window where we have to have our garbage cans off the curb within 24 hours.
Speaker 2That's because you live in the city?
Speaker 1It is, it's because I live in the city, but you know there are people out there that either they work, they're on the road or they're, you know, disabled or elderly, and you know these kids go around and it's mostly kids, because these kids are hustlers. Yeah, and they will go around, they'll bring the garbage can up, they'll wash it out, they'll put it where you know it's accessible to the person and they get paid for it.
Speaker 3You could have used that the other day.
Speaker 2I could have used it because, my garbage can was horrid.
Speaker 1It was terrible, she's leaving out an important fact. Oh my gosh, it had what were those things?
Speaker 2maggots? Oh yeah, and he. So he brings it back up and and he sits it outside the garage and he goes. Should I leave it out in the sun to let it bake and I go, yeah yeah, please, please, do so you know back in my day, and I think even today, there's a lot of kids, or not even just kids, because I know some adults, because I've had to hire them. Their side hustle is mowing still.
Speaker 1Oh yeah.
Workplace Injury & Side Hustle Topic
Speaker 2Or trimming somebody's yard, you can make pretty good money.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, we got a kid that actually goes around on a ride on mower with a trailer on the back of it with his weed eater stuff. He will literally ride around our town and just go up and knock on doors hey, can I mow your lawn? I'll only charge you $20.
Speaker 2I'll only charge you $40. Or even shoveling snow right, clearing your sidewalks and things like that, because again in the city you got to have your sidewalk cleared Raking leaves Any of that?
Speaker 1I mean that's a common side hustle, though. I mean that's pretty common stuff.
Speaker 2So mine wasn't really unique in a sense, but I had a few over the years. So I went to auction school and I was a sort of you know licensed auctioneer.
Speaker 2And that was years ago and I went to school for it and opened up an auction house. Then I went to work for the energy business and tried to do them both at the same time. Realized I was making more money in the energy business, so I kind of gave it up, yeah. And so, you know, I thought, oh, what do I want to be when I grow up? Oh, I want to be an auctioneer. Nah, that didn't work out.
Speaker 3I think you should try it. Auction off this pen, that pen.
Speaker 2Let me hear it.
Speaker 1Yeah, when I Now I will say I do remember that because I used to ride my tricycle around in the auction house. Yeah, you did While I was auctioning. Yeah, while I was calling.
Speaker 2You would be going up and down the aisles. Nobody would be paying any attention to what I was selling. They were just paying attention to you. That's because I was cute back then. What happened? So the second thing that I did I was trying to think here is oh, this was actually the first thing is I used to do singing telegrams me and another gal. This was back in our day when we were pencil thin and young. God love us.
Speaker 2And you know, ambitious yeah and we could actually sing a little bit, but we didn't need to sing a lot because we looked good in what we were, right, they didn't care what you sounded like here.
Speaker 1They didn't care.
Speaker 2So we would show up, sing happy birthday, sing, for he's a jolly good fellow. Whatever it was, get the heck out of there, collect our money and get out of there, and so, to be honest, it was quite lucrative.
Speaker 1Yeah, and you know that's funny because I didn't know that you used to do that. I did that for a little while for the theatrical shop out in Valley Junction.
Speaker 1I did the singing telegrams but fortunately or unfortunately, apparently I wasn't pretty enough to just do it by myself. So I had actual costumes, because it was a costume shop. So I had actual costumes I would show up in like a big corn cob or a pink monkey. There was one time that I was was this it was a grim reaper and he was like 10 feet tall and I had to like duck under and get into the building and then go sing happy birthday to this person in a grim reaper outfit I just want to know what kind of event was going on that you had to dress up like a corncob?
Speaker 1it was literally a singing telegram and it was a happy birthday. It was an iowa birthday theme, so they had me dress up as a corncgram and it was a happy birthday. It was an Iowa birthday theme.
Speaker 2So they had me dress up as a corn cob and go sing happy birthday. We are the state of corn, so yeah.
Speaker 1I did that too. That's funny that I didn't even know that you had done that, and I did that for a little while.
Speaker 2So then my next one was I went to school in Montana to become a certified equine massage therapist because I had horses my whole life and really I wasn't interested in making money off of it although I did. I was really interested in learning more about my horses and making sure that I knew you know how to take care of them and their muscular skeletal disorders and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2So I did go do that, I did go do that, and other than that I don't know that I did anything else to really make money.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Other than work constantly.
Speaker 1See, and I did weird nerdy stuff like I would go to shows and find comic books and resell them or I would do card games like Magic the Gathering, things like that. Yeah, I did a lot of that and I did gambling. I guess would be a side hustle. You know blackjack, things like that. Yeah, um, yeah, I did a lot of that and I did gambling I guess would be a side hustle, you know blackjack, things like that.
Speaker 2Oh, I guess I did teach a kickboxing exercise class for about 10 years yeah, you did so yeah, I did do that that kind of I tell you what you want to screw up your, your flexor muscles.
Speaker 1Do it, do it, yeah, because man so there's this funny thing now that we're talking about it. So you know people a lot of times you know how you can go to like enterprise and rent a car or things like that.
Speaker 1So there's now this thing where private owners can rent their cars. Yeah, out to people, yeah. So I was watching where this private owner rented this very nice car. Um, you know, the people paid, paid for it, everything like that. I think it was like two days later he got a word from a friend saying hey, I think I saw your car on youtube and he's like no no, you know no, here's the funny thing. And entered it and they raced it. Oh my god, I mean they paid to rent it.
Speaker 1They didn't say what they were going to do with it.
Speaker 2Oh my gosh, so did they bring it back damaged?
Speaker 1so yeah it had a couple thousand dollars worth of damage to like the brakes, the tie rods, things like that. But yeah, he watched his car in this race that he had no idea about. He thought he was just renting it out to people you know to drive around the city, things like that. Wow, that's funny.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's funny. Dr Domain, did you ever have any side hustles to make money?
Speaker 3A side hustle that doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 2What is it? What was?
Speaker 3it. Delivering paper.
Speaker 2Well, like a newspaper carrier, yeah, but that was more of a job, wasn't it? I did that as a kid, yeah, it was kind of a no. No. Actually it helped me kind of bridge between a couple of different jobs.
Speaker 1Oh, okay, yeah, I did it when I was over 18.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 3Yeah, and I think that was pretty much it. Okay, so I rented stuff out, but that was later on.
Speaker 2So we have a motor home, and when we bought the motor home, you had suggested that we rent the motor home out, and I was no, no, poo-poo.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, I've seen that They'll go and set it up at the campsite for you and let you rent it.
Bizarre Side Hustles
Speaker 2But the way I look at it is. You know it's like a rented mule. You know there's a saying out there you ride them like a rented mule, which means you don't give a crap about that mule, and it's rented.
Speaker 1Well, it's just like renting a car you go, you rent the car, you pay for the insurance. I mean, you could crap your pants in the front seat and ride it into a lake, and that insurance is going to cover it.
Speaker 2You don't care, it's not your car People don't care about that stuff.
Speaker 1No, it's not yours. Yeah, it's a big risk.
Speaker 2Yeah, it is a very big risk, like renting out your home.
Speaker 3Yep, there's some potential there too. Yeah, there is potential. If you want to take that risk, yeah and you know people Vrbo their homes.
Speaker 1They do Airbnb things, want to take all my personal stuff out of my home when I leave, and uh, and there's so many horror stories there are, there's a lot, just absolute horror stories about it. There's like, uh, so how about have you ever heard of people who go around and offer to remove your dog poop out of your yard?
Speaker 3just saw something the other day for that, yeah, there's somebody in our town that does it.
Speaker 2that's a good idea. It is yes, yes.
Speaker 1Nobody wants to do that, so what they do is they charge a fee for the first time, because you know the first time is going to be the worst time, right? And then if you book with them at a steady pace, afterwards, it's a discounted rate and they come and they remove the poop and it's done. You don't have to worry about it, wow.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1That's about it. Wow, yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2I mean gross, but yeah cool no, but I mean it's a service, you know if you think about it. I mean, my dogs have been trained not to poop up by the house, so they go out in the timber and poop, and they do it at both houses yeah, so it's kind of weird. I mean, it's not like I trained them to do that they. I just took them out in the timber to poop before and right, that's what they do.
Speaker 1See my dog only poops in one spot, so it's just a mess of dog crap you know when, maybe you should call somebody, come clean the poop up should or the owner of the dog. I was gonna say the owner of the dog, who is my child, should pay for it or just go out and clean up the poop.
Speaker 2Yeah, so any other side hustles that you've had dr domain uh, I used to volunteer for the National Guard.
Speaker 3Is that considered a side?
Speaker 2hustle. I think a side hustle is where you make money. Yeah, I mean, I did a lot of volunteer stuff too.
Speaker 3Yeah, it was part of my dream job.
Speaker 2No, that's not your dream job.
Speaker 3It's a water cannon operator.
Speaker 2That's right, oh yeah.
Speaker 3No, I did volunteer.
Speaker 2That'd be a cool job. No, I did, that'd be a cool job yeah, but I would love to be a water cannon operator. That would be cool that'd be way cool.
Speaker 1So have you heard of people who get paid to be a friend?
Speaker 2you know, I I didn't hear that, but it's kind of funny that there's. It was kind of a funny joke type thing that at christmas time and thanksgiving, yeah you know, I'll run myself out to be your date I'll be your boyfriend for this tier.
Speaker 1We just started dating for this tier. You know we've been together for a while for this tier, I'll put a ring on your finger for the day and I'll help do dishes and tell you I love you in front of your mom and for this tier we'll take family photos together there's a word for that what, what is?
Speaker 3it Pimping yourself up.
Speaker 2Prostitution, oh no Well there's no sex involved.
Speaker 1No, there's no sex involved, but it's leading up to it. No, no, not at all what it is?
Speaker 2is it's to keep your family off your back?
Speaker 1Yeah, To keep up appearances.
Speaker 2No, seriously, seriously, let's say Bobby hasn't been married and she hasn't for a long time.
Speaker 3I'll be your friend. Bobby, no, not friend 20 bucks an hour Not friend?
Speaker 2No, but let's say that every time she came to dinner to a holiday, I would say Bobby, when are you going to find a new boy?
Speaker 1No, this is an actual thing.
Speaker 2Bobby, when are you going to find a new boyfriend? When?
Speaker 1are you getting married?
Speaker 2When are you getting married? When you get married, when are we going to change your haircut? If you drop 20 pounds, you could lose. You could find a man. Why don't you get your nails done? If you'd wear this?
Speaker 1kind of dress you know you get. You got aunt edith over there going. Why haven't you had a boyfriend in 10 years? So are you?
Speaker 3are you suggesting that the customer for the service is primarily a woman? No, no, no I can tell you guys would never do this. This is those would be offered to guys.
Speaker 1Well, it could be a beard too, like if their family doesn't know that they're gay they could rent a woman and say we, you know, this is my girlfriend yeah, and we've been together for so long, type of thing.
Speaker 2I mean there's endless possibilities for this. There are.
Speaker 1And that runs into the cuddle buddies that get paid to come over and cuddle with you with no sexual contact. Yeah, nothing like that.
Speaker 3That'd be $30 an hour, Bobby.
Speaker 1I charge more than that. I mean, you got some really weird people out there, but you gotta wear socks. Yeah right.
Speaker 2So no sex involved, just cuddling, no kissing, none of that business.
Speaker 1All you do is come and cuddle with them because they want to hug, because they want that contact with someone.
Speaker 2I'll cuddle with you. I'll cuddle with you. Oh, I'll do it with you for free, god shut up.
Speaker 1Can you not flaunt it everywhere in my face, every day? This is getting old.
Speaker 2Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1Bobby why haven't you found someone?
Speaker 2I've never said that to you, I've said Go run a friend. Yeah.
Speaker 1One day you'll find your soulmate.
Speaker 2You'll find your person. Run a friend, yeah, one day. One day you'll find your soulmate, you'll find your person. You will, right now, right now you still got a chicken.
Speaker 1Well, I mean, I think it was like a taco or a chicken sandwich and I already ate it here's the problem I don't even know what that chicken's name is today well, he doesn't have a name today because, um, he wasn't supposed to be on the show triple toad. No name no cuddles, cuddles, there we go. His name is cuddles oh my gosh.
Speaker 2So um what are some other?
Speaker 1so I have one that goes with where I grew up. Oh, so, a lot of people don't know I grew up on a cemetery um, okay, you didn't grow up on a cemetery. Well, it was it was the cemetery. Your dad took care of a cemetery and the and the house was right next door. Well, and the cemetery went around our house too, around our yard, things like that, right, so there's actually people who go and clean and maintain gravestones. That's true. Yeah, that is true, I saw that and I think that's so cool.
Speaker 2I think it's way cool. Most of it is done for free as a volunteer type thing right somebody will go do that for you. The other thing that would be cool and maybe they already do it, but you'd have to have permission from the whoever runs the cemetery is to do some ghost tours oh yeah, they do, those like the walkthrough tours like here's where so-and-so is buried, and he was buried with dynamite no, they didn't, but here's what they did. Do they did? What do you?
Speaker 1call them Treasure hunts, yeah.
Speaker 2The treasure hunts, like they would put something in the cemetery and give them directions on where to find it.
Speaker 1Yeah, and it was like pitch black, dead of night, and that was like a college, like high school college thing, where it was just for fun, oh gotcha.
Speaker 2And so they'd show up in different cars at different times and go try to find this stuff, and it was like a what did what? They used to call them Not treasure hunts, but what'd they call them Scavenger?
Speaker 3hunts, scavenger hunts. There you go, yeah.
Speaker 2And so they'd put those little glow sticks next to it out there, because it was super dark.
Speaker 1Yeah yeah, we didn't have any lights in the cemetery.
Speaker 2And so they'd come in. They got our permission to do that, which was kind of cool.
Speaker 1Yeah, it was kind of cool, yeah, because usually it was right around Halloween time too, because they wanted it to be spooky type of thing, you know. And I mean that's the one day we were popular as kids, the other days we were just the freaks that lived on the cemetery. That's right. But how about those people that ATMs and vending machines?
Speaker 2Yeah, they make some good money.
Speaker 1Oh man.
Speaker 2Yeah, right there, that's good money. And now most of them are digital because Dr Domain everywhere we go. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3It is such a pain.
Speaker 2He has to play the jukebox.
Speaker 3Oh, the jukebox. Yeah, that's a great thing.
Speaker 1That's a moneymaker, well, and a lot of times it's even on your phone. You've got the touch tunes that you can just have the app on your phone and you can play anywhere.
The Hosts' Personal Side Hustles
Speaker 1Yeah, you don't even have to be there. No, and the funny thing is so I was a bartender off and on in the town that I live in and in one of the bars I had a friend there who bartended, and on the nights that I was off and he was bartending, I would stack the jukebox with Cher songs, because it just absolutely drove him nuts. I'd be at home just paying for Cher song after Cher song and he'd be calling me stop, I can't do any more, cher, you need to stop. I'm going to turn the jukebox off and I'm like, yeah, okay, but yeah, you can do it from anywhere.
Speaker 3Yeah, that seems it's really good.
Speaker 2I'm not promoting them, but uh, no but I think it's a big money maker, oh yeah it's gotta be, it's gotta be especially if you're going to waffle house.
Speaker 3You kind of waffle set, the mood waffle house.
Speaker 2Setting the mood at waffle house why?
Speaker 1because the the line cook in the back. Who's strapped with the nine isn't set in the mood enough. We know where we are and why we're there. Let's not play games.
Speaker 2Little Johnny Cash or Waffles Put George straight on the jukebox and shut up Like come on, there's a lot of people who restore furniture and stuff and I love watching that on the reels Right On YouTube and stuff. Yeah, because I've done a little bit of that. I used to do it periodically. I remember I bought these two little tables from an auction that was back when I was auctioning and I think I paid $2 for them for both of them and I completely redid them and sold them for $80. Now, that was back in the day. You know. That was way back.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And so I really have a lot of respect for these people who have the vision and have the ability and the artistic talent, because I still have some projects out in the garage that I plan on doing, but I just don't have the patience anymore.
Speaker 1When I start something, I want it done right now, right, and a lot of these are, you know, week, month long type of projects right I just do not have that kind of patience anymore so one of the side hustles I had when before I had kids, um was mainly to benefit me in a way that didn't involve money.
Speaker 1I mean, I got paid really good for it.
Speaker 1So I used to work at the outdoor festivals, so like Laser Fest, dot Fest, laserpalooza, these giant outdoor festivals that would have these big headliner bands come in and they would have, you know, two, three stages of bands going all day, all night long, and I would work for the companies who would either sell the food and drink tickets or security, or even in the food and drink tents, because, first of all, you're right there next to the stage, you get to see everything, yeah, and a lot of times the actual performers would be at your tent because they want food, they want drinks, they want, you know, to go get some beer tickets, things like that.
Speaker 1Because it's such a small and local festive, you know thing, I would make a couple hundred bucks a day doing that, get to see the bands that I wanted to see and, you know, if I was lucky, at the end of the night I'd score some merchandise that they didn't sell yeah, I know a lot of people who volunteer at like not just the concerts, but if they can get a job at like the civic center and right to see those bands yeah, see the bands, see the sports teams play.
Speaker 1You're working, but it's not that big a deal, right?
Speaker 2you know you're working but it's not that big a deal right you know you're seeing everything that's going on right so I think that's kind of cool. Um, back to unique side hustles I was trying to think of don't hurt yourself? I don't, I know. Do you smell wood burning?
Speaker 1I smell the hamster wheel burning your poor hamster.
Speaker 2He died. All you hear is eek, eek, yeah, yeah. So you know a lot of things, like you know being a tutor or you know a lot of that stuff to me is like a job, but it can be a side hustle for people If you're smart enough to be a tutor. Right, I had to have a tutor, so it wasn't like I could do any of that. But, um, what about voiceovers? Would you ever do any voiceovers?
Speaker 1um, I don't enjoy my voice, but if people did, yeah, I would absolutely do?
Speaker 2yeah, I would too.
Additional Unique Money-Making Ideas
Speaker 1I mean, my voice is kind of screechy like fingernails going down a chalkboard, but I mean like I could do like a rip off of like south park cartman and be like ma'am kitty's being a dildo, something like that I know you don't watch south park cartman and be like ma'am kitty's being a jojo, something like that. I know you don't watch south park, but people out there who do would know who that is like I'm saying. So the funny thing is is on the way home from like appointments and stuff with the kids in the car I've sang entire songs in cartman's voice and just had the kids cracking up, that's so yeah you had talked about.
Speaker 2You know, taking people where they need to go, you know, or even delivering packages is kind of a side hustle too, and I don't mean picking them off off somebody else's uh porch and then to deliver them to your own house.
Speaker 1That's a porch pirate.
Speaker 2That's a porch pirate right there. So but, um, I've thought about, you know, just like renting out a room for the night, because I have this part of the house that is rarely used. Yeah, and somebody could have the whole part of the house and I wouldn't even know that they're down here but true, but I mean that's.
Speaker 1That's kind of scary to me to let somebody you don't even know into your home while you're there yeah, but that's kind of like hey jeffrey dahmer.
Speaker 2Come on in yeah, and especially if you're still living there and you're kind of sharing it with somebody. Yeah, that's what I'm saying yeah, so anything else, bobby, today that you can think of? That was I would like to hear from our listeners um on what their side hustles are. I know several people have them.
Speaker 1I would say, probably the best one that I found was like selling vintage clothing. I like that. That's so cool.
Speaker 2So here's what Poshmark?
Speaker 1you know eBay, things like that Stuff you've had since high school, like the starter jackets. You know things like that, man, those go for good money if you kept them from high school. They really do.
Speaker 2And also you know you can go to like the Goodwill or the starvation army flea market, flea market things like that and pick up stuff and then put them on eBay and I'm good with that. I mean yeah.
Speaker 1Anything you can do to flip a buck.
Speaker 2I mean like seriously do it and do it for cash and keep it away from the government, because hey, you know that I'm for unionizing sex workers, so literally anything.
Speaker 3We already did that podcast the world's oldest occupation. Yeah, yeah, thank you very much. Protect them people. Very much yeah.
Speaker 2So if you can do it for cash, cash is king.
Speaker 1Always.
Speaker 2Always. You know, if you can do it for cash, cash is king, always, always. Um, you know, if you can do it for cash and keep it away from the government. I hate the government. I've told you that before, time and time again hate them, hate them, hate them. Yeah, hate paying taxes on taxes, about the taxes of and your taxes, right?
Wrapping Up the Episode
Speaker 2um so I think that's probably all we have for today, because I think, we exhausted that whole side hustle, and so we appreciate you joining us here at the Rabbit Hole Studio. Be sure to follow us. Hey, one thing I do want to tell you is here in the near future, you're going to be seeing some short clips, reels and YouTube videos of Bobby and I as we are recording and some of the things that we are kind of promoting probably or not really promoting behind the scenes.
Speaker 1Look kind of a behind the scenes look.
Speaker 2So you're going to see those out there online, and so we'd really appreciate you clicking on them, liking them and following us, but we love spending time with you each week. Please like us. If you have positive feedback for us or if there's a topic you'd like us to talk about, drop us a short email at boomer and gen xr at gmailcom. If you have hate mail, put that in your side hustle bag because we're not interested, okay, um, so I am jane burke and I'm bobby joy and you're stuck with us.
Speaker 1Peace out Later.