Longmont Potion Castle 14 · 2017

Rubber Puppet

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• SPEAKER_01: Inverse Talk Station, 630, K-How. :
  
• SPEAKER_01: (Tom) Hi, Tom Martino, your troubleshooter. Ah, :
  
• SPEAKER_01: we have more employment questions, hang on, we’ll get right to you. :
  
• SPEAKER_01: Welcome, what’s going on Dan? :
  
• SPEAKER_00: (LPC) I was working, and my manager, at the Denver Puppet Theater, was an eighties rock fan, you know, :
  
• SPEAKER_00: Jay Giles, Boston, Einstein, Neubound, and such. :
  
• SPEAKER_00: And recently, I wore a different shirt during the Spirit of ’76 :
  
• SPEAKER_00: festival for the band Hound and my manager Juanita said no no hound the singer of that band :
  
• SPEAKER_00: damaged my puppets,’ and this and that and the other thing, and she said, you know, ‘pound rocks’ basically, get outta here. So, my question is… :
  
• SPEAKER_01: get out of here so my question is let me ask you this this is a puppet theater right yes :
  
• SPEAKER_00: and you're a puppeteer or whatever they call you well i've pioneered a new kind of rubber :
  
• SPEAKER_00: puppet but basically yes i'm a puppet okay and then another question are you a w :
  
• SPEAKER_01: to employee or are you a contractor? :
  
• SPEAKER_00: Contractor. :
  
• SPEAKER_01: Yeah. :
  
• SPEAKER_01: well, with a contractor in theater, ‘cause most actors are contractors, :
  
• SPEAKER_01: and that’s why I asked, you don’t have the same rights as an employee. :
  
• SPEAKER_02: Isn’t that right, sir? :
  
• SPEAKER_02: That's true. :
  
• SPEAKER_02: I mean, uh, then again, depending upon what kind of contract you might have with your uhhh… :
  
• SPEAKER_00: (LPC) Well, have you heard of a precedent for having a particular band objectionable, and being fired on that basis? :
  
• SPEAKER_01: (Tom) Let’s just say for arguments sake, they control enough that he could :
  
• SPEAKER_01: make the argument he’s an employee, and should have rights. :
  
• SPEAKER_01: Could they creatively tell him they don’t want him to wear the, the shirt promoting a certain band? :
  
• SPEAKER_01: I want to make a guess this time. :
  
• SPEAKER_01: Yes. :
  
• SPEAKER_02: guessing wearing a shirt you want is not a protective class, so yes, you could get fired for wearing something. :
  
• SPEAKER_02: (Third voice) Yes, you can absolutely get fired for wearing a particular shirt with a particular band on it. :
  
• SPEAKER_02: (Tom) So Dan, they could tell you that your puppet is off base. :
  
• SPEAKER_01: And if it was a Metallica shirt, they probably wouldn't. :
  
• SPEAKER_01: In your case, Hound. :
  
• SPEAKER_01: They could. :
  
• SPEAKER_01: They could say, Dan, your puppet, cannot wear this shirt anymore. :
  
• SPEAKER_00: They could. :
  
• SPEAKER_01: (Tom) So you know, if you thought you were gonna sue her, there’s really nothing to sue for. :
  
• SPEAKER_00: (LPC) Well, I’ve moved on, like I say I’ve got rubber puppets, :
  
• SPEAKER_00: I’m doing well. :
  
• SPEAKER_00: I just wanted to ask. :
  
• SPEAKER_01: (Tom) When you say Rubber Puppets, what kind are we talking about? :
  
• SPEAKER_00: (LPC) Well, I can’t say too much, because I’m a pioneer, and I invented it. :
  
• SPEAKER_01: (Tom) You ought to get ‘em protected if they’re unique. :
  
• SPEAKER_01: I’m serious. :
  
• SPEAKER_01: You know, we have an intellectual :
  
• SPEAKER_01: property attorney, I’ll get you his number. I’m serious by the way. If you came up with something :
  
• SPEAKER_01: that’s unique, Rubber Puppets, he would help you. He would first of all do a search, :
  
• SPEAKER_01: and then he could help you protect it. Very serious about that. Okay, we got a lot coming right back. :