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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
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(00:56):
How are you doing? Colin? Pleased to be at work today?
I can tell pleased to be here? World be days here,
day like to day, like it to be or not
to be or a you're talking about this be chures
to the second letter of the alphabet. Ah, that be
good day. Don't remember we need to save bees. Give
in mind. The honey bees are the ones who kind
of swarm around the flowers. Those are good bees. Those

(01:18):
are good bees. It's the yellow jackets that those have
a bad name for all bees.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Those are wasps. Yeah, they have no reason, they have
no reason to be around.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
I'm sure they'll make a dramatic return to August or
can't wait. That's to rescue dog day today? Good day
to rescue a dog, to rescue you right back? Oh,
a lot of cats in the news today and rescue
dog Day or is it national? Like you know, support
or honor a rescue dog. You can do that too, okay,
you know, because you got those like cadaver sniffing dogs

(01:52):
and things like that.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Cadaver that's a terrible word. Our j you know, you
know what I'm talking about, good dogs that help people.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
There's bomb sniffing dogs, dogs at the airport dogs, our
buddy down at Sanford and Fargo. Yeah, yes, his name.
You followed them on Instagram and the last person you
and I both followed, Yeah it is Actually that's okay,
that's okay.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, you'd either go rescue a dog or honor a
dog who happens to be in the profession of rescuing.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, got it. Yeah, wording wasn't clear. A lot of
wedding today, a lot more gift cards, Spring cleaning week
two around these parts. We're going to work on that
pretty quickly. Here, let's look at the forecast. Those showers
fifty two fifty two is all we get for a
high yesterday. That was yesterday's high temperature. We got to
sixty two. Yes oh, we did six zero sixty on

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Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, we're going to do that Tuesday. I'm going to
be here with you. That's beautiful. Don't that be fantastic?
I love to do the big giveaways.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Seven sleeps away. I can't wait for this long weekend.
Let me just get this sober with I mean, really,
what are we going to be missing? Rain? Snow? Come on?
It will be pleasant day long. We can't good day
to work today for sure? Oh absolutely? How about you?

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Ready TV? The entertainment World and whatever. Here's what you
missed on Excel ninety three.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Are you ready for the amazing news? Always ready? Prime
for good news? Good news? Wow? That is good Hey,
good news for you? Wow, good news for me? Him
lots of cats in the news. Maybe it's because it
was today back in nineteen eighty nine. Toots Is the
Driving Cat, his debut on Saturday Night on nineteen eighty nine,

(04:37):
nineteen eighty nine. Oh man, I remember it.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
I always called him Tuontis, but it's too sissots As
the Driving Cat.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, we've got a cat and the Moron Award later
this this morning, later this hour, and a cat to
tell you about. After we talked about a panda watch
Zoo keepers to the National Zoo and DC said their
two giant pandas have been pretty deflirty lately. His name
is bio Lee and her name Ching Boo. She's been

(05:05):
ignoring him for mons, but not anymore. So they're hoping
for a love connection. Both pandas on loan from China.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
I heard a guy in the radio talking about all
every pand in the US is on loan from China,
every single one of them.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
I think I heard that too. Yeah, yeah, I didn't
know that. More animal news here. The San Diego Humane
Society took in a two month old black bear Cob
after they couldn't find his mother. A video they posted
is in the news because they've been wearing a cheap
bear Halloween costume to interact with him. Maybe the bear

(05:40):
knows I let down your guard till I eat.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
You and I yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Why do I have to wreck a good news segment?
I don't know do it all the time though? A cat?
Let's go to the cat world at you're a cat girl.
Now I am a catgirl. Never thought I would be
never never never. A cat Lakeland, Florida named George recently
got new didn't want to stick around to see what
else might happen. I heard about this. He popped his
cage open, scaled the fence, and escaped, all while still

(06:09):
groggy from anaesthesia. Now, thankfully he's okay. He somehow knew
which way to go, walked three miles and showed up
back home. A few days later. He was able to pop.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
That cage open and he sprung out of there, and
he was gone in seconds. Coming back from there, he
has to go through two or three subdivisions, he has
to go around the lake and probably five or six roads.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
So I was distraught and heartbroken.

Speaker 4 (06:36):
He needed a human touch, you know, and that's what
he got.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
That's amazing. I don't see a lot of people walking
their cats. I know, your cats in and out of
the house, yeah, but a lot of people have in
the house all the time. Cats, I've heard of those.
People like my dog. I could understand how he would
make his way home from the vet if he could
cross Gateway Drive, because he's been there many times. We've
walked there.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Many know these things, these these schools, animals they know, Trevor.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Angry cats, tiny bears, giant pandas we underestimate the animal kingdom.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Did you see the video of that cage though that
cat had to get.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Out of it?

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, It's like I don't think I could
get out of that. Figure out how to get out
of that?

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, right video, Oh excelntty three dot com. You can
check that out for yourself. I don't know if this
is a topic. Sometimes there's topics that nail on the head,
great for you and I to discuss, But on a
day where our j's here with me, we're talking about
things that make you irrationally angry? What makes you irrationally angry?

(07:37):
I don't know if you're going to be able to
come up with that anytime. Well. I was worried about this, Trevor.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
As I was getting ready this morning, I thought, we're
going to do the thing about irrational anger.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Some people in your lives maybe, and I thought they've noticed.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, yeah, it's such a jerk. I thought of himself, like,
how am I going to like stop? So I think
this would almost need like a whole pot cast, like
a whole two hours for sure. So I have to
I have to stifle. I have to stifle myself. You
know that's all stifle, stifle myself. Yes, I guess, yeah,

(08:11):
I guess I could ask Kim what what what makes
me right rationally angry? But it was also interesting as
I walked in here, I saw that your computer screen
was on the front. It sure is, And I thought
of myself, what a great day to start this topic,
because I'm sure that is making you a little bit angry.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
It's just making me crazy. I think it's the term.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Nobody would know it, but I know you very well, Trevor.
He's furious right now. It's like incredible hulk mad that
the computers. Nothing I can do about it, I know.
And you want to throw that right out the window,
don't you.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
There's two screens for those who can't see, because this
is a radio showed here today, there's two monitors and
it's all fine and dandy when they're working, but they're
flipping back and forth on me. Even our engineer couldn't
figure out what was happening. I think he ordered a
monitor a couple months ago. And it's funny when he's here,
it doesn't do a damn thing.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Rong that that's that's the thing that makes me angry too. Yeah, yeah,
that's just the way it goes. So he can't properly
diagnose this. He drives back to mine. Not Yeah, thing
goes crazy on me. It's misbehaving, you know what we
call that. And I don't know if anybody gets this
reference anymore. If I were to call you, if I
were to say, this is the dancing frog syndrome, would
you get that reference?

Speaker 1 (09:17):
No?

Speaker 3 (09:18):
I didn't think so. See, this is why I can't
have conversations anymore. I need to like go to like
some retirement homes and talk to them because they'll understand. Well,
there was an old Warner Brothers cartoon, like Donald Daffy Duck, Bugs, money,
that type of stuff, and this frog would in one
of the cartoons, Hello my baby, Hello my dance. Yeah, yes,
Cyril cecil, I can't remember the guy frog example. He

(09:41):
was just singing right and the guy would try and
show off this dancing frog, but anytime anybody would look
at the frog, it was dead in the box. So
I've always said it's a dancing I might have coined
this phrase. I don't know, but that's what we call
that's what I call that. I call it the I
want to throw this computer out the window.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Syndrome. Mom and dad are home syndrome engineers here, it's
working perfect. Ah, yes, yes, yes, yes. Parents are out
of the house. The kids are running a mark and
that's what these two screens are doing right now. So
unfortunately it wasn't bringing baseball back to work. I didn't
do that, bring your baseball back. I like that one.
Excel many three in morning. Yeah, looking for a winner.

(10:18):
Well there, I come back at you with a quick
hey and yes I am. What is your name? Yeah, Jesse.
What makes you irrationally angry? That's my question of the
day today. What makes you irrationally angry? Well, you know
those drivers that always cut you off, the ones that

(10:39):
come me off. That's very considerate of you to thinking
about drivers that frustrate me, or all of us off.
So it's amazing how people like us are in the
ninety nine percent of top percent time for best drivers
out there?

Speaker 5 (10:53):
Right? Yeah too, we think for better.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Than we are. I think we actually are better. Do
you play the game when you're behind somebody who's maybe
going too slow or maybe swerving a bit? Are they drunk? Dump?
Are they on their phones? Or are they a thousand
years old? Oh?

Speaker 5 (11:10):
Yeah, nowadays it's probably on the phone.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, I know, it's always phone, right, Hey, Jesse, how
about you drive hopefully stress free to River Cinema to
go see a Mission Impossible eight, The O Show, The
Last Reckoning and a hook up with the Ramas guy's
gift card? Yeah awesome, sohone's great. Where you at today?

Speaker 4 (11:29):
I'm just tucking them on going to the cavalier at
homes some chemical.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
I appreciate you listening, Yeah you bet. What station's proud
to be your movie premiere connection? As we go? Ninety
three minutes commercial free? Yeah, actually ninety three? I sound
ninety three? What makes your rationally man angry today? Tom says?
My irrational anger people who don't go for five to

(11:54):
ten seconds after the light turns green. Oh yeah, that
I start cursing them in, questioning their mother's pedigree and
swearing what had happened.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Their mother's pedigree. Wow, that's that's so nineteenth century.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
I love it. It's it's amazing. And I try to
think of your your stop watching right now where you
get angrier. You probably still do get angry, but not
ass not as it helps.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
Okay, So this last weekend we were at Culver's Rank
and there was a kid was getting his soda in
front of me.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
And he was so slow, so slow.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
And his mom's like, help him get a lit on them.
I brought up my stopwatch and it was you click
it in his ear. No, I did not, but it
was thirty four seconds. And I muttered to him, I said,
thirty four seconds, Ryan, that's all.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
It took thirty four seconds. What was he getting? Because
I know Culbert's root beer takes forever to not foam.
It was it was the root beer. It was it
was it was.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
He was fumbling with the lid like in front of
our he was done.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Thing of soda, waiting for the bubbles to go down.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
Hitting the done I'm like, okay, take the thing got out.
And that's terrible because you know, I've got childing and
I'm the most patient these kids never they never get
on the nervous but you know other other people do.
But again, but I feel better, I said, can't look,
he's only like thirty four seconds.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
You see, I can wait thirty four seconds.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
I have that time, so so big you Yeah so
I I And there are other people like me.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
I'm saying, get your some little stopwatch.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
Click it when you're annoyed and you're like, oh, I
guess it's not as bad as I thought.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
It works? Is an I? We you me both always
in the people who don't have their poop in a
group line, whether you at the grocery store, the bank, yes,
crossing the border, there's a couple of ways to choose,
and always choose the wrong wak always always Oh we
need IDs, hang on, we dig them out for you.
Yeah yeah, I get at my watch of my watch

(14:02):
seeing three cars go buy me in the lay next
to me. Why did you just like the opening scene
of Office Space you can this? Yeah? Yeah, who doesn't
move in? Yeah that's how that's how that goes. But
there just should be a fast express line everywhere for
people who have their poop together. Oh yeah, maybe they
should just do like age Like okay, I can't.

Speaker 6 (14:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yeah, this line for you know, like sixty to ninety,
this line for zero to fourteen, and this line for
this you know, yeah, that would work.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
You think us middle aged people would would be the quickest. Yeah,
I think so, uh something, I think so. Yeah. I
guess my fear would be people who don't have their because.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
We're the least likely to pay with cash or or
a check. Oh my goodness, Heaven forbid a check.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Well, you just know, like, all right, I'm next, My
groceries are out, credit cards in hand.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
I'm ready. You know, these are the things that do.
I do everything as quickly as possible, and it's my
hope that some day, like somebody will notice me. You
are very fast, young man. I thank you for your efficiency.
Nobody's done it yet. Nobody's come up to me and said,
you know what, man, you were fast in that line
back there, Like, how did you do that?

Speaker 1 (15:11):
I think we're we're such good buddies because we're the
only two people who run in and out of stores.
Oh yeah, the weather could be perfect outside, but we're
just doing it to save some precious seconds.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
And precious seconds. I'll tell you I was in line
in Grafton and hugoes there and this this the cashier.
He's beep beep, doing that thing right, and one of
my things flies off. This kid like jumps did a
somersault grab my thing was right back at the table
within like two seconds. You know what I tell that guy?
I said, dude, you are fast, you were efficient. You

(15:40):
need to raise because I think efficiency and speed should
be That's like pressed, applauded because I noticed it. See,
these are the things I hope one day somebody notices
about me to.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
Make you feel better. And nobody's said I'm fast and
efficient either. Nobody's ever said, but you're waiting. You're waiting. Yeah,
one day. It's taken forever. Some answers rolling in. What
makes you inexplicably angry? What's my computer's work in here?
I'll tell you. There you go. I was thinking about

(16:10):
this too, Trevor, and I thought of myself.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
All of your all of your r Jay, all of
your irateness, all of your anger is completely justified. It
is not irrational. I would have to say, if I
was going to go irrational anger, it would be the
fact that I'm going on a twelve day vacation soon
and it's going to rain for eight of those days.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
You don't know, Oh, I know. Extend a forecast. We
put too much stuff.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
It's not even extended. I'm leaving next week. That's not extended.
They can they can forecast seven days out. It can
forecast seven days.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
I hold not hope for you. Okay, this rain to
make you feel any better, wasn't really a wash out.
Tuesday wasn't in the forecast. I didn't pay super close
attention on the weekend, but FRONDI, it wasn't in the foremost.
So you're thinking it is just getting it out of
the system so I can go on vacation. This is
less than a seven day span from when the forecast
happened to what's going on today.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Okay, there's hope. Okay, hold on days. I could say
that is irrationally angry.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Things will change, things will go your way if you
hold on for seven more days. As a couple, wise
ladies once said Amanda says, my soon to be ex
mother x X and his mother, the X and his
mother and his mother. God had got it. Yeah, co
workers make Steve irrationally angry amy just as people in general.

(17:27):
We've got to share some examples. Yeah, well, I obviously
do terry driving in other places, and Fargo makes me
road rage in the worst ways. Driving in other places. Okay, yeah,
Fargo can be rough driving on the shopping strips. So
thirteenth and Fargo thirty second here where you've got out
of town, ER's there all the time. We don't quite
know the traffic flow people forever. I've heard Canadians don't

(17:52):
want to drive, but Canadian tours who are on thirty
second aren't used to turn here on this lane, do this, this,
and this, and it's the same on thirteenth Avenue and
far go to where it's what is it four or
five lanes across. People who aren't familiar with the roads
don't know how to utilize these roads, and therefore their

(18:12):
their inexperienced since they're making some I'm not from here mistakes.
But I chalk that up to what's going on in
thirty second Avenue South all the time now too. I
don't use signals if I'm at a turn lane, ever,
unless I'm on that road, because people sometimes don't know
what turn lane is a turn lane. For example, on
thirty second Avenue South, the out of towners, all the

(18:35):
small towns that come into Grand Dum small towns, right, Trevor,
love them all, yeah, love them all. The morning signs
your phone could be being spied on in trending coming
up Excel ninety three. I am McClaren, right, Hey, yes

(19:01):
you are. I guess we could have said, because yeah,
that would have been more efficient. But what's your name? Katrina? Katrina?
What makes you irrationally angry?

Speaker 5 (19:12):
Funny?

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Hear kids screaming constantly? It's too much sometime.

Speaker 6 (19:19):
Your kids are any kids, any kids, pretty much like
if they're mistaying in the store, I need to hear
your kids just scream.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
And yeah, that's another case where you want to even,
but you can't. Yes, I can't even. That is a
good case.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
And I have noticed that about you know a lot
of the ladies, Katrina that I know if I'm in
the store with it. And I'm not in the store
with a lot of ladies anymore, but I have been
in the past. You pile them all up. They've always
been annoyed by this, and I'm always like, sounds like
a choir of angel So I could listen to that
screaming all day and.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
They wonder what's wrong with me.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
There's the time and place. That's a maternal instinct, Traversey.
They believe in discipline. We are always the guy, so
we're like, yeah, whatever, right, is that our problem?

Speaker 1 (20:02):
Katrina?

Speaker 3 (20:04):
No?

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Oh, how about a restaurant. Oh, restaurant. Okay, kids are
hanging from the ceiling fan. You were pushing it there. Yeah,
there isn't the servers to babysit. I just recalled being
a kid, and you just get the eyes like you
knew if you got the eyes from mom or dad

(20:25):
that it was over. Yeah, you're on your best behavior
and hopefully the wooden spoon doesn't get whipped out when
you get home.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
Well, Katrina, I hope you know that. I don't think
that you have an irrational anger. I think that is
perfectly founded.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
You're a normal. We think you're a normal. Yep, that's good.
You've been branded and normal from Trevity and r J.
That should be worth something, well, it could be worth
it is worth either. We've got fifty bucks a deekspizza
for you, ninety three dollars depon is my misty. Oh,
we'll get you into Mission Impossible eight. The O Show

(21:01):
Final Reckoning at River Cinema with a gift card Chicago Burritos.
You can take that package a gift card to Northern
air Action Park. Hmmm, I think I'll do Northern air
Let's get your northern area. She wanted to hear the
screaming kids. Yeah, my kids. So there's a time and
place you're allowed to scream an air action Absolutely. What

(21:24):
station's proud to be your Northern Air Action Park connection,
your kids screaming connection. I'm not trending testagg trending.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
On Excel ninety three.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Not one more thing to worry about.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
Just be concerned, one more thing to be mindful of,
mindful and conscious over Okay, yeah, there would go perfect.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
So these are some signs that people are spying or
someone is spying on your phone.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
Now, modern spyware will hide in the background, so it's
not always obvious. But here are some signs for this
will make everybody nervous right off the bat. Your battery
is draining really fast, right, Well, your phone might just
be old, okay, but if it's brand new and it's
starting to drain really fast, really fast, yeah, you might
want to look into that.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
Like some random times, maybe you've got something open that
just drained your battery.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
On you and oh yeah, or if it's searching searching
for service definitely, yeah. Yeah, So if your battery is
draining very fast, it might be a sign that somebody
is tracking your GPS. And we know the government and
all that they always are. I mean, somebody is always
listening to you. But we're talking about like bad guys
that are going to bribe, you know, the dark webers

(22:37):
with the dark webers. Yeah, over sized sweatshirt for the
hood up right, those guys, these are the ones we're
watching out for. Because yes, everyone is always somebody is
always listening to you. But you know, this is a
different thing. So if your phone is heating up when
it's just sitting there, okay, it could be running GPS
or other background apps. You can tax your phone's process

(22:57):
or no, it's pretty cool. It's pretty good. Mine, it's
pretty cool. Especially yeah, when you're not using it. That's
the big red flag. Increased data usage. Okay, so you're
supposed to check out in your settings to see if
you're using more data than expected. A lot of people
with spyware on their phone only find out when they
get data limit warnings from their soul company.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
Now a lot of us don't pay attention to that anymore.
You have unlimited everything.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
Right, exactly, that's the thing. Yeah, this okay, I would
say this would be the most gigantic red flag strange
texts or notifications. And we're not talking about like like
spam messages. We're talking about you watch for these, watch
for text messages containing random characters or codes. Some of
the cheaper spiwere apps will control your phone with SMS commands,

(23:43):
So this would be a random code text that would
show up and then disappear.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
You see that. That that's a huge red flag kind
of happy. I don't really know what your well, I
know what you mean, but yeah, I haven't experienced.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
Well if I haven't, either, I mean, thank goodness, I've
gotten random text like hey, you know, do you have
about this political party or whatever?

Speaker 5 (24:01):
You know?

Speaker 3 (24:02):
But uh, I would assume that if you're in your
text threads or you're texting somebody, all of a sudden
you get an incoming text from some weird number with
a bunch of symbols and then that text disappears, that
would be not good. Uh, your screen randomly turns on
this one doesn't. I don't want to have to watch
out for this one because mine any slight vibration I

(24:22):
need bump, even through the floor. It hits the screen
on because that's what they do nowadays, you know. But
if it lights up and it's just sitting there and
no one's touching it, it could be a sign that
someone is tracking your location or even larstening. Oh yeah,
I got People won't speak like us listening.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Listening.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
Listening is the word I haven't talked to my brother
too much, which is that we don't pronounce words right anymore. Okay, listening,
r Jay. Now, if you do think someone is spying
on you, run a security software to check for suspicious apps.
But know this, that security software is probably the actual malware.
That's exactly believe that's that's how they get you.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
That's how they got you. Yeah, this turned into it.
That's how they get you. Tuesday. Did we make it better?
I think we did it. Make so many things better.
Threatening Everything RJ shared with you is up at excel
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(25:41):
When Kurt Cobain and Christ Nobleshek first started playing music together,
it was not as Nirvana. They joined up to start
a Cretan's Clearwater Revival cover band called the Sellouts. Weird,
isn't it? That is very interesting? CCR tribute. Betch didn't know.

(26:03):
The seaside village of Carmel, California, bands wearing high heels
more than two inches in height without a permit. Oh
now you ask, why, yes?

Speaker 4 (26:13):
I do.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
This was added to the municipal code in nineteen sixty
three to defend the city from lawsuits for people on
high heels trip over uneven pavement. Permits are available free
of charge. By the way, Ah, that must you fall
and it's on you yep? Okay? Two inch heels good?
Three inch bad troublesome. The T shirt Betch didn't know.

(26:38):
The T shirt was invented in nineteen oh four and
marketed toward bachelors who didn't know how to sew and
replace buttons. I think all of us know how to sew,
we just don't want to do it. You know how
to sew?

Speaker 5 (26:50):
Well?

Speaker 1 (26:51):
I can.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
I mean I could figure it out. Maybe be like
that seen on Zoolander when they're trying to turn on
the computer.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
That's how I'd figure out how. So all of you know,
I in middle school sowed a oh mini jim bag.
Yes so tonight, and we were going to bring those in.
I remember that the workday. Yeah, but I haven't. I
can't worry, is exactly.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
But I'm doing. Button sewing is a little bit different
than it. If you're talking hand threads.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
You couldn't do that.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
I could do it out of millionaires. Really, you have
more faith in you than I do.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Should we sow some stuff one morning?

Speaker 3 (27:23):
No?

Speaker 1 (27:24):
I did. I wouldn't hurt my fing. And who's going
to spread the needle?

Speaker 3 (27:27):
Do you know how old we are? We can't see
the thing anymore. We'll bring in your goons that day. Yeah,
they'll thread the needle in the just do it?

Speaker 1 (27:35):
You know, the most washed episode of a TV series
in the twenty ten I never would against this, but
it makes perfect sense, breaking bad. It doesn't even matter
what the show was. The premiere episode of Undercover Boss
on CBS February twenty ten. You know why, No, it
had thirty eight point seven million viewers. It aired right

(27:55):
after a super Bowl. Super bowls don't count because they
aren't a TV series, but the US in that episode
in so many viewers. People still the TVs. Okay, that
makes sense. Super Bowl forty four. You and I could
have a show right after the Super Bowl. I would do.
It would do well, forty four million viewers, but it
would do decent. Episode one forty four million larseners. Finally, mosquitos.

(28:18):
How many would it take to bite at the same
time to drain all of your blood most of minus
a million? Fifteen million, one point two million, that's it?
Oh really one time? One point two million mosquitos, bitch,
at the same time they drain all your blood.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
That's scary because I'd swear there's one point two million
floating around in any average North Dakota backyard cookout.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
A lot of times there are this this moisture if
a slash when it heats up. I've seen a couple
of mosquitos so far, but nothing on of hand. One
point two million coming soon to backyards everywhere. Wow, you're welcome. Yes,
you're you're good like Mosquito. Horror movie title right tonight?
One or one million hits theaters this Thursday, Suck Suck

(29:05):
you or something.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, that's I got to write that down.
I'm gonna make that a fake promo. Okay, let me
put it this way.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
You're Tuesday morning moron a warning yes on my nexcel
ninety three.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
Tarting to force cats to do anything they don't want to,
am I right, cat lover, Yes, yes it is so.
Maybe this cat wanted to be a drug mule. Prison
officials in Coasta, Rica caught a cat trying to smuggle
drugs behind bars last week. Now they captured it climbing
over a fence with two hundred and thirty six grams

(29:43):
of marijuana and sixty eight grams of heroines strapped to
a chase. I don't think the cat was acting alone.
Something tells me yeah. Officials believe the cat was deployed
by someone to smuggle the drugs to prisoners inside. Just
don't see the cat deciding. I've heard of cat burglars.

(30:03):
But not casting. Oh man, I know I should have
the drums set out.

Speaker 5 (30:09):
I know.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
They cut the drugs off the cat, handed it over
to animal care to have it checked out. It's okay
and isn't facing any charges. The cat's up. That's good.
That's good. Now they're searching through security portage to figure
out who's behind the cat mule, and it probably wasn't
the sharpest person because the cat's mostly white and was
unleashed at night, making it really really easy to see.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
Yeah, it'd be great if they still had like the
owner's tag on Oh yeah, like I found please returns.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Hoping that was going to be the end of the
story too. Yeah, but they they're confident they will catch
this clown from Costa Rica drugs smuggling cat trying to
break into prison.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
The cat will be facing no no charge of saying goodness. Really,
all they have to do is let the cat out.
You'll find the home. Yeah, really, you just follow it home.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
Prove that or good news story earlier this album.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
That is not the day to have have this random
stray cat show up at your house when you're not
the guy. Oh man, that'd be terrible.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
We'll get this coastareak an individual when they track him down,
he's appropriate. Tuesday morning more on.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
Award first trip ever. Can we go this KKXL Excel
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Mayor Tuesday. Hit us up with your questions for Grand
Forks Mayor Brandon Botinsky and you do it.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
By the books.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
You got it. The Mayor is my ass.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Every other Tuesday at eight am Xcel nightty three, it
is that time to welcome the greatest Mayor and all
of the land of the show once again. Oh, one
of the only brand. It's good morning, my friends.

Speaker 5 (31:50):
Great to ensure a gentlemen. Happy to be here as always,
Thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
Well, good to have you back on the show last week.
Spoke with you and I in the parking lot opening
up three Street Bakery and Grand Forks all you.

Speaker 5 (32:06):
Got to get what a great bakery. I left with
some good It's like a small town. Remind me of
the Park River Bakery, my wife's hometown.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
It's funny you bring the Morca bars everything.

Speaker 5 (32:15):
It was awesome.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
I hid some Mocha bars so I made sure they
were still there for me to purchase when I got done.
With my live broadcast a couple of weeks ago. Yeah,
it was successful and they are equally delicious.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
As a park of a big you think, so okay, Yeah,
see I brought Brendan I from old Welches. It's not
Welches anymore, it's Hans now. But I brought Trevor a
few of those Mocha squares.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
I never had one. I like, perty glorious, aren't they
pal Well, that's a party.

Speaker 5 (32:41):
In your mouth, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
All right, I'm not gonna that's what anybody said. We're
going to jump right into business here, jump right in
talk to the mayor on Tuesday. Let's start with city
council l aftermath. What did we learn yesterday?

Speaker 5 (32:57):
Well, there was probably i'd say three three of the
main times I got most of the time. The first
one was an anti or a ban on camping. So
it's just allowing the police to have interactions with people.
It largely stems from there's been a couple of times
there's some camp encampments i'll call them along we're being
a sphees in different areas where people were, you know,

(33:18):
kind of setting up long term sort of campsites. There
probably on house people, but there's been some issues with that,
so they're trying to combat that in a you know,
a humane and in the best way possible. So that
had quite a bit of discussion. Then we talked on
the water treatment plant, So the old water treatment plant
you're on the kind of the north part of downtown,
but on the south end of downtown, we've got that

(33:39):
wire treatment plant that's going to need to get developed.
But for now that council is going to wait. They
couldn't come up with a solution to what goes there next,
so it'll probably be there for a little while. But
that was a good discussion, and all those were kind
of the main two.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
So back to the camping backs. The first one here
to ten year olds having summertime sleepovers have to worry
about back here camp outs where they set up tensil first.

Speaker 5 (34:03):
Great question one would only be in public space as
you can and you can camp all day on your
own you know, your own private yard. You can set
up pens and do as you wish in your own
This would only be on public property.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Die I envisioned the three of us maybe being the
fun wrecking crew go around to backyard campsites, and rip kids,
tens down, parties, over house sleepover for you.

Speaker 5 (34:27):
Oh, that's like every horror movie's got something like that
in it. So nope, we're not going to be scaring kids.
Maybe a Halloween will do that.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
Fun policing a little bit, well, the big topic of construction,
and we have had plenty of fair warning. It is
finally time for the Columbia Overpass to be put to
rest for a while, not put to bed forever, but
for a while. I've got multiple construction questions here basically

(34:55):
all the same sort of thing. Though. How many more
sleeps till the constructions complete in the Washington Underpass and
how many hundreds of slaves to Columbia Overpass reopens, and
will it reopen a little bit at a time.

Speaker 5 (35:07):
No, that's one. So they got forty barnings. They have
to lift the whole bridge up in those particular spots
and they change the bannings so that It's amazing how
much engineering it takes for a bridge like that in
our climate, that has to be able to heat up
and cleve down and shift so that thing can move
up to six inches on a you know, a heat
or cold. So it's going to be kind of an

(35:27):
all and on that'll be out to October. The good
news is the Washington one is going to start wrapping up,
so we're only going to deal with about six weeks
of having them bolt down. And then obviously next year
we're going to have that forty second underpass, so both
these should wrap up before that underpass to the railroad
at immerging forty second start. So I think the planting's

(35:49):
done pretty well to have that small amount of overlap,
but there is.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
Some overlap six weeks so in the entirety of summer.

Speaker 5 (35:56):
Well around here that can be Yeah, well, we only
have two seasons when through.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
It, right, Yeah, So I'm reading our mind right now.
If he was me living on the north side of town,
I'm not going to the south side of town until
everything's back old. That's true.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
I might consider moving to a different town, but that's
that's me. Don't don't be like that second will be
open for us to be able to transition. Nice for
people in the northwest part of the city, like myself.
My other question is, Brendan, are they actually is anybody
like remember when they were building the new hospital and
they had the live feed of tearing them down and

(36:31):
starting to build it. Are think anybody gonna do that
because it sounds actually kind of interesting to see them
lift this thing. Is anybody filming this?

Speaker 5 (36:37):
You know, they should be livestream It's gonna be kind
of Yeah, it's gonna be kind of lame because I
mean they're lifting it like two inches, you know, pulling up.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
That's all they're doing. Never mind that they jack it.

Speaker 5 (36:46):
Up at each one, which yeah, you can't obviously have
cars on where that's going on, but it's you know,
it's all taking place on the underside through jacks. You know,
I've been envisioned, you know, a giant fleet of helicopters.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
You know, That's what I was saying. Okay, well you've
answered that question. Is always so much more exciting in movies.

Speaker 5 (37:04):
Yeah, I think it's the nature of them.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
We could take a.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
Picture on the twentieth today, and then each month for
about the next four months, and we can make a
little like flip the book and it's a book.

Speaker 5 (37:17):
Ye there you go look exactly the same.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Oh man, there's something there's something we can do there. Well,
more lighthearted fun grand Forks Mayor and Brandon Bacchansky. Can
you give us a few summer activities to look forward
to in Grand Forks this upcoming summer being it starts
in three more sleeves.

Speaker 5 (37:38):
Well, obviously we got the golf courses opened. Get use
the greenaway, get your bikes out there. My son's has
an affinity for mountain biking and skateboarding, so his new
thing is to look up the skateboard kerry in his
eye when he bikes from our house up to the
skate park up there by the old large tuner plant.
So he's been doing that and having a great time.

(37:59):
But get out, get the kids out of the neighborhood,
run around playing games and chase each other around and
tearing themselves out like we used to do.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
Get the heck out there up.

Speaker 5 (38:10):
Checking them out of the house. Can't them back to
dark out? Do we?

Speaker 1 (38:14):
Still? Are those electric scooter bikes still around? I don't
know if I've seen one yet this year?

Speaker 5 (38:19):
All that bird so the company that was doing that
went under, so I think they're selling some of the scooters.
I don't know if they've got anymore in town, but
that that company went under, so I don't know if
another company has interest in coming in or well, we
tried it for two years and then we got we
had to use it then, and it's gone. I'm not
sure what they're going to do.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
There's here today, here today, gone today. In other words,
as they say.

Speaker 5 (38:45):
Yep, you got to use it where we got it,
I guess people are.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
Really going to crave them now. I don't know what
you get. I was just kidding it gown right. I
know you didn't want to do it, so I figured
i'd sing it beautiful. You're the singer, I'm the DJ,
you're the rapper. Okay, So I just saw this today.
Las Vegas named Trip Advisors number one American summer travel
destination this summer. You the mayor of Grand Forks, Brandon Baschanski.

(39:14):
Where are you traveling to and where would you recommend
for summer twenty twenty five? That again begins this Friday.

Speaker 5 (39:21):
Well, I'm a huge fan of Montana. So if I'm
taking a summer trip, and actually I'm taking a trip
leaving Thursday taking the kids, We're going out to just
west of West Yellowstone Ockey Yeap, I right, Glacier National Park.
That's that's probably my favorite. But that's just a great
area to go in the summer, get up the mountains,

(39:41):
stay cooler there. I'm a scenery and hiking type of guy,
so that that does it for me. I know there's
a lot of beach goers. They don't have that here.
I'm in Grand Forks, but you know that's in the summers.
I enjoy the lake. You know, your beaches on a lake,
and that works too. So those will be my two
recom notions.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Uh, he's country, he's going next to Isn't that weird?

Speaker 3 (40:04):
Brennan. You're going next Thursday. You're going out west. I'm
going out east next Thursday. See I like Wisconsin. Yeah,
well except he doesn't. He I don't like cheese at all, least.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
Fan of cheese.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
I hate cheese, and I like to tell the Wisconsin
it's that too, and then like get back from where
you came now.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
But it's a lot of good hiking out that way.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
But you see, it's going to be snowing and cold
over there the whole, the whole two weeks, Brendan, So
you're going to deal with the two out west.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
RJ also goes to Vegas and heats gambling, can coonts
the Yeah yeah, I also, yeah, that's so man. I'm
weird though.

Speaker 5 (40:44):
The summer trip to ay I just don't get that.
The summer trip to Vegas, it's like it's one hundred
and seven degrees and you've got to stay inside a
smoky casino or something.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
You got the pool.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
I don't like show Girls either. I don't feel like
that's the least to me that that I don't. I
don't like that kind of staying.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
Here's the deal. That's like, you know, you're like a dog,
right and you haven't eaten in weeks. Like here's a
plate of bacon, can't touch it. No, No, I I
don't need any of that. I don't need that in
my life.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
No.

Speaker 5 (41:09):
Oh, we've got to the whole new level of Yes,
we have.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
Question of the Day. I actually have two questions for you.
It just was reading this earlier today and thought you
could advise us on something to do with Memorial Day movies.
But our question of the day today is what makes
you irrationally angry? For RJ. For example, it's Showgirls.

Speaker 5 (41:35):
Oh, I you know, I don't think there's much that
makes me you're actually angry. Nobody likes sitting in traffic.
I'll put this way. If you're on a long trip,
So you got like a eight and nine hour car
ride and you're like an hour into it, and then
you're stuck in a city and its traffic's not moving,
and you know you got to get through that dravet
for eight more hours. I think that would just about

(41:55):
anyone irrationally.

Speaker 3 (41:56):
See, I don't know if that's irrational. That it sounds
perfectly sane. This is a perfect saying.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
Food. You're going through, going through the Twin Cities this summer,
on three hours, you get from the west point to
east point of the twin city. That's right, that's right.
Would this be a rational house? Brandon? What kind of
deodorant do you use? It's okay, be fair? Huh be honest?
Degree degree? Is it cool Rush by any chance? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (42:23):
No, I don't think it is.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
Well anyways, I don't know why. Here's here's the deal, Okay,
so cool Rush degree. I love this stuff, right, It's
good stuff.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
Right.

Speaker 3 (42:32):
I go to Sam's this this weekend and I get
my five pack of it because it's been a while
I'd stocked up on it. Little did I know in
between the last purchase and this one, they've changed the
scent as soon as I got home, something's wrong, and
Kim says, oh, whatever, nothing's wrong. Oh no, oh they
changed it, did a little bit of you googling, and
it turns out I'm not the only one. Some DJ
in California was so mad about it. He brought it

(42:53):
to the attention of the world. They changed it back,
and they're throwing a parade this week about it. But
you know, you know, why would you ruin Why do
they ruin things that seems unnecessary? And it seems unnecessary.
I'm sure it was cheaper to make it the other way.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, well okay, so that's why they do it.
That makes it?

Speaker 3 (43:09):
Is that a rational anger? Is this tangent toy? I
smell different today than I did yesterday? And that bothers me?

Speaker 5 (43:14):
Is that a rational big They took away the cherry
dip at Dary Queen to like three monks a little
while back, So that was another one that was chalk
up right there with who you are. See, had no sense.
I mean there could have been a parade on both
sides of that one.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
See that's a perfect example. See he knew, he gets it,
he gets it. Brand is the one to come to
our Jay next day, you've got an issue and we
need a parade to bring something. Question of the day.
List of best Memorial Day movies just came out, including
Born on the Fourth of July, Apocalypse Now, Saving Private
Ryan Mash and American Sniper all making the list. Could

(43:49):
you possibly add one more movie to this list in
case there's a couple hours of downtime, maybe some raintime.
Memorial Day long weekend, well, you know.

Speaker 5 (43:58):
Obviously Memorial Day has, you know, quite a significance for
the for those of that have fallen and fought in wars.
But I think bigger, these are our heroes. So I
think of heroism when I think of more Weekend, I
think a movie, you know that that sparks true heroism,
you know, and what could have been a mundane Christmas
party which turned into a hostage situation and required one man,

(44:22):
John McClain to step forth and free the hostages from
that high rise tower in Los Angeles. So if I
if I have time, I'm definitely gonna watch die Hard one.
I might get into Diehard too if I have time,
But sometimes I've just watched I Heard One a second time,
So that would be my recommendation. If you've got you've
got some time free time this weekend.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
What a great idea and heroes like that. I have
never seen in the news since the late eighties any
story related to something going around at a Christmas party
that's true. Can't be the only ones. Okay that that
sounds like an interesting movie. I'll have to look into that.

Speaker 5 (44:57):
It's worth to watch.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
Okay, worth the watch you pi Kaya, Brandon. I hope
you have a great Memorial Day long weekend. And it
has been quite the conversation today. It's been a verbal banquet,
hasn't it. Brennan.

Speaker 5 (45:10):
Absolutely, you guys have a good one to have a
good weekend.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
Well do her again. In fourteen Sleeps doctora Mayor Tuesday,
Brandon Bachansky excel nuety three. Good morning, Hi, Hey, Hey,
good day. Who is this Maddie. This is Maddie with
an M. Yeah, Maddy with an M. What makes your

(45:33):
rationally angry? Oh? This is horrible.

Speaker 6 (45:37):
I know it's still lost, but when people stop at
stop signs and there's nobody coming and they just sit
there for like, it's probably only two seconds, but it
feels like thirty.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
Do I agree? I'm so mad and I'm like let's
go please. Hello. When one person isn't paying attention screws
up the whole rotation in a four way stop. Yeah,
can you even? I don't think me and RJ can. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:01):
And even the people that try to be polite and
wave you through when they know they're the ones that
are supposed to be going yeah, and they messed it
all up.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
Maddie.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
May I suggest you get a stop watch. You need
to stop watch this so what happens. Because I'm just
like you, Maddie. You have this stop watch when next
time you're annoyed by time and just put it out
and then you'll realize it's only two seconds.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
I'm going to get over this or right around with RJ.
He'll do the stop watching for you.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
Do stop watching. Yeah, you take me with I'll do
the stop watching. We'll get over this together.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
We'll get through this perfect. I need something. I just
rented you out, buddy. Well, Maddie, let's get you maybe
fifty dollars to Deek's Pizza. We can do a dinner
in a movie. Option we get your mission possible aid
with us Chicago Burritos gift card can get you ninety
three dollars to Blinds by Misty or a gift card

(46:49):
to anothern air Action park. What do you want to
play for? Of course yes you can. So my next
question is how many streaming services do you have? Maybe
like two or three? Okay, well you need to get
three rights, and we're gonna make you a winner. Name
the streaming service sound effect on National Streaming Day? Are

(47:12):
you ready, Maddie? Yeah? All right, Here we go with
the first one. Did you hear that one? Was that Netflix?
Good start? Yes? All right, New Marrow Dose it was?

(47:38):
Can you name that streaming service?

Speaker 5 (47:40):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (47:41):
I have no idea what that was? You don't take
a guess?

Speaker 3 (47:44):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (47:45):
Like? Wow?

Speaker 1 (47:47):
Whoa? I could use someone who Someone's Hulu's past Hulu
password though, because I really wouldn't need to watch It's
always sunny. I'll give you two prizes for your past.
All right, get this, Get this next one. You're three
for three. Those are the big ones. All right, Maddie,
Here we go. What in the world is that most

(48:15):
of us have this by default? I think? But I
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(49:07):
make this quick because Lobe high on. I've got a
team's meeting called.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
Okay, right right right, Hey, the next meeting, maybe we'll
go through how a game show is supposed to work.
You can tell me, you can tell me how these
things are run. All right, well, and this is the way.
So if you've got a corporate job, and I suppose
we do nine to five job, how much of your
day do you think is derailed by meetings? Microsoft has

(49:30):
a new report out there claims that office employees are
interrupted by meetings, emails, or other work related pings, as
they call them, every two minutes, every two minutes.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
That's like, I guess I understand that it's a little
shock it's two minutes.

Speaker 3 (49:46):
They also say sixty percent of meetings are ad hoc
I mean called on, you know, call them in the moment,
all right to the conference room, everybody. You know, I
don't see that so much, not like the office. Yeah,
because we don't have that's every meeting a run now.

Speaker 1 (50:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
And because of all those meetings during the work day,
they say there's a fifteen percent increase in the number
of chats sent daily outside of work because you can't
get any work done at work because you're too busy
talking about all the stuff you're going to do.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
Or that should exactly as the thing.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
How many times you be like, hey, can we work
on that one thing that absolutely is our job, Like
can we you know, said some time, No, we got
that meeting.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
Oh okay, so we'll have to not do that one
thing that we're supposed to be doing. We're going to
talk about something that should be a priority about nineteen
but we're going to make that test better. Yeah, talking about.

Speaker 3 (50:35):
It, Yeah, forty five minutes exactly because it would be
like houses on fire, the fire departments, like let's get in.

Speaker 1 (50:40):
The drugs, Like, no, don't have time for that fire.

Speaker 5 (50:43):
Thing.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
We got a meeting.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
We've got to talk about fire prevention this week, so
we can't. We don't have time to go over there
to do that. I mean that is the actual equipment
of it. Lengths of your hose meeting, Yeah, the lengths
of your hose. One suggestion is to pick a time
day of the day that you're most productive and block
that time out.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
But that doesn't work.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
In fact, that's the only because I say, oh, I'm
productive between one and one thirty every day. So you
block that out and say I cannot do meetings. Will
you try and tell the big Wiggs you can't do
that exactly, it's not going to work. So that's agestion.

Speaker 1 (51:16):
Kind of can do that when we're on the air.
But still, I've got teams meetings that start right at
nine o'clock sometimes right right.

Speaker 3 (51:22):
Would you probably do today? You weren't joking everything said.
There's a truth to everything said in just do you
have a meeting today?

Speaker 1 (51:28):
No, I don't check my calendar now, I never say don't.

Speaker 3 (51:32):
For what it's worth now, Microsoft claims that this demonstrates
a need for more artificial intelligence, but not to go
to the meetings for you. Unfortunately, the agents would just
do your other actual work so you could go to
these meetings. This sounds like a trick to me. That
sounds like that's take This sounds like that's how they
get you. Actually, we'll just.

Speaker 1 (51:51):
Do your actual work. You go to the meeting. That's right,
pat packed on the head, and then pretty soon kind
of a tangent from your Stopwatch theory. I've always believed
that every single team's meeting can be done in fifteen minutes,
because they get too long you stop paying attention. Our
at tension spans aren't that big. Anyway, We're waiting for
a fifteen minute meeting that's now forty three minutes to

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come to an end, and we were talking.

Speaker 3 (52:13):
About irrational anger every meeting I've ever been at, I'm
apparently it's in the culture in Finland to just you
start a meeting, you say, hey, this meeting is about this,
and then it's over. Apparently they're very efficient that way.
I didn't know this, but that's their stereotype. They're very efficient.
I can't stand an American meeting. You're like, Okay, we're
going to talk about this one thing, and then somebody,
how was y'all weekend?

Speaker 1 (52:33):
Oh? Yes, how was this?

Speaker 3 (52:34):
And then people are joking and laughing and kissing the
butt of whoever is in charge of this right, like,
just stop, just just get to the point.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
Get to the meets, right past the potatoes. Yes, got it.
That's what I think about a meeting to say, there
you go. Good meeting, fifteen minutes done, So there you go.
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