I work at a famous big box retailer that I won’t [mostly can’t] mention by name. I generally don’t write about work because I don’t identify myself like that. “Hi, I’m Carlos, and I’m a XYZ, at ABC company.”

That’s not how American people should introduce themselves. Identifying with my job, or rather the method I generate money, shouldn’t be part of me.

I digress.

I’m on the Night Merchandise Team, or Night Merch for short. Monday through Friday, a water delivery is scheduled at 2pm, or the moment the team clocks in for the day. We muster up in the warehouse receiving area otherwise referenced by us as the “dock”.

Since we are cordial with one another, we talk in micro convos. [Micro conversations last only a 30-seconds up to 4 minutes] Dare I say we have developed friendships. With friendships, it includes trust, and comfort level more so than a co-worker only or stranger.

Speaking of stranger, we have strange, and varied topics to discuss.

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Please, Sir, May I Have Some More Water

Some days we, as a team, tackle cerebral subjects, and other days it’s simply just raunchy. Either way I enjoy it immensely. Whoever decides to make an opening statement, it usually incendiary in some way to spark debate, discuss, or a full-blown arguement.

Monday through Friday we process a water truck delivery at 2pm – so straight outta the gates from clocking in. Steve quipped, “YO, Los. [a Korean raised in New Jersey is a wild mix] Kirkland Signature Water is the Starbucks of filtered water brands. There I said it, fight me.”

“Brommando, not only am I not going to fight you, I’m gonna support this statement!” I chuckled. “There’s nothing special about it, it’s on every street corner in America, and everyone buys it because they are conditioned to it.”

That said, we needed to examine the other brands in the warehouse. Other team mates dove in, while we were moving pallets of water so it was broken, interrupted micro convos after that. 481 Gilbert Costco offers Smart Water, Arrowhead, and that’s about it.

We decided that Arrowhead is 2nd place to, priced higher, and isn’t that much better tasting that KS. So it’s Dutch Bros Coffee. SMART water is some boutique, local coffee place that isn’t franchised. I started in on my bougie water, Waiākea Water.

Completely isolated from the rest of the world, Waiākea offers purity in its ultimate form. Located just outside the quiet town of Hilo and surrounded by rich, bio-diverse forest preserves, a deep well source sits at the eastern base of the Mauna Loa volcano, one of the purest environments on Earth.

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PEW, PEW! Shots FIRED.

Machine Gun Kelly was brought about by Steve. First some background.

What is the beef between Machine Gun Kelly and Eminem about?

From what fans can understand, the beef between Machine Gun Kelly and Eminem started with a 2012 now-deleted tweet by Kelly commenting that Em’s daughter Hailie Jade was “hot.”

He wrote about then-16-year-old Hailie via Twitter: “I have to say, she is hot as f**k, in the most respectful way possible cuz Em is king,”

At the time, fans thought Eminem had ignored the comment but it appeared he harbored resentment behind the scenes.

In 2015, Eminem banned the Midnight in the Switchgrass actor from going to Shade 45, his radio station.

Six years after MGK’s initial tweet, Eminem referenced the rapper’s Twitter post in his song Not Alike.

He rapped: “I’m talkin’ to you, but you already know who the f**k you are, Kelly…I don’t use sublime and sure as f**k don’t sneak-diss…But keep commenting on my daughter Hailie.”

The Lose Yourself rapper’s words prompted a response from MGK on his diss track Rap Devil in which he directly references Em.

Kelly sang: “F*** Rap God, I’m the Rap Devil.”

Alongside the track, he also tweeted: “Im standing up for not just myself, but my generation.

“I’m doing the same s**t you did back in ur day. life is still real on my side, and i had to take time from the grind to defend myself from someone i called an idol.”

After the release of Rap Devil, Eminem blasted Kelly in a sensational interview with Sway.

He denied the beef started because of Kelly’s comments about his daughter.

He said: “The reason I dissed him is actually a lot more petty than that.

“The reason that I dissed him is because he got on—first, he said, ‘I’m the greatest rapper alive since my favorite rapper banned me from Shade 45,’ or whatever he said, right?

“Like I’m trying to hinder his career. I don’t give a f**k about your career. You think I actually f**kin’ think about you?

“You know how many f**kin’ rappers that are better than you? You’re not even in the f**kin’ conversation.”

… so Steve said he’s lost all respect for MGK because he switched music genres, again. I chuckled that I never did have respect for him, even after he pulled Megan Fox as a fiancée.

In a new interview with Kevan Kenney of Audacy, MGK revealed that he currently feels like he’s accomplished all he set out to do with his pair of pop-punk records, and that he now feels like it’s time to return to hip-hop — a genre many people believe he cowered out of after losing a highly public rap feud against his idol, Eminem, back in 2018.

Oh, and he’s no longer Machine Gun Kelly, that infamous Prohibition gangster. Simply known as “mgk” because the words “machine gun” promote gun violence. Whatever, bro.

Every hour is different of every work shift. So I’m wondering what’s today’s topic(s)?