June 11, 2025 • 24 mins
We talk about happiness, brushes with fame, sentimental things we own, and more poop stories!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And here we go with a Minnesota good bye. Let's
see if anybody else has got a story about pooping
their pants, we will you know, I think everybody does,
but most people don't want to share it. You know,
when I had an idea, you should write this town. Yeah,
I had an idea when I was walking or riding
the bike yesterday. On a scale of one to ten,
how happy are you? And it could be anonymous because
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you would text in we don't know your name, we
don't know anything about you when you text. So maybe
we should do that tomorrow on a scale of one
to ten, how happy are you? Because I'm curious how
happy people are? And it made me think, like, you know,
you're walking along the you know, riding along the trail yesterday,
and there was it was pretty busy. It was right
after work, four to five ish or so, and it
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was pretty busy, so you weave around a lot of people,
and people would weave around you, and I thought, you know,
you see somebody out there walking along. Are they happy?
Are they out walking because they're so grief stricken that they,
you know, just need to get out of the house.
Or are they depressed or anxious or maybe they're depressed,
but they're still happy. I don't know if that's possible. Yeah,
but I would say I'm pretty happy. I have my
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peaks and valleys. I'm generally a happy person because I've
got it pretty good. Yeah, I don't have a lot
to be unhappy about. Yeah, but I would say I'm
probably a seven. I average a seven.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I think it's really subjective because if I, like, if
I analyze how happy I am, like in a moment,
I feel like I could always be happier. But if
I look at like my life as a whole, I
think I'm pretty happy. Like I might be lonely sometimes,
but I like my life and I think it's really
fun and interesting and I like living every single day.
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So I would say that that equates happiness. But if
I was saying, like, Bailey, are you happy right now?
It would be hard to determine that unless I was
like walking down the middle of Main Street, USA, Okay
in Disney World.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, I mean I have my moments. I'm like everybody else,
but I think that people. You know, I've said this before.
I'm just a generally happy person. I don't have a
whole lot I can pick out things to complain about,
and I do, but they're usually dumb things like good, Bailey,
the Caribou coffee today is really inconsistent and bad good.
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But I don't sit there and go, God, my kids
are rotten and my job is rotten.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
We're both optimists, I think, And do you think so?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, okay, good.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I don't think you're a pessimist.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I don't really think I can be pessimistic sometimes. I
have a friend who's sometimes very difficult because she is
the ultimate glass is half empty kind of a person.
And if you're listening, you know I love you and
I've told you this. I said, you need to not
make the worst case scenario happen in your head every
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time a new story came out a couple of Saturdays
that there was a data breach on Facebook and a
data breach on Google or Yahoo or whatever it was.
And she's like, oh my god, I've spent the morning
changing all of my past codes and now I'm worried
somebody's gonna steal my identity. And I'm like, You've got
to stop going to the darkest place possible. Yeah, And
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I think that just some people are naturally that.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Way, yeah, or your mind jumps to the worst case scenario,
and mine always like I always try and see the
bright side of anything, Like even if I got into
a car accident, I'd be like, well, at least I'm alive,
and at least I have decent insurance. You bet.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, yeah, good. That's a good mindset to have. All right.
So a couple of emails, it says Minnesota, Goodbye. Brushes
with fame, Donna writes in and sayers, I've had a
couple of brushes with fame, most recently Dave Grohl in Nashville,
who was super cool and fun to hang out with
a couple of hours. And way back when Fergie from
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Toto used to play for years as a member of
our country club in Rochester, he was cool and interesting
to talk to. And also Matt Damon played in a
charity tournament and hung out at the bar for hours afterwards.
Oh that's some pretty big celebrities. So all my experiences
have been super positive. Curious to see who else has
had these brushes with fame. Love y'all. You brighten my days.
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Thank you, Donna. I don't think I've had a organic
celebrity encounter. Every one of my celebrity encounters has been
because of what we do.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, I that, Yeah, I don't meet celebrities period like ever.
I mean I saw I always tell a story about
seeing Post Malone at Disney World. I saw him, made
eye contact him three times. We did not speak. I
also saw Zach Braff at Disney World and squeezed a
whoope cushion when I said hello. So it was hello
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and he I don't even think he looked at me.
So I don't meet many celebrities unless it's like a
meet and greet, because then I'll like then it's but
that doesn't feel organic like you were saying, yeah, so
my people.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
My only organic that I can think of is Shaq
was in town for the super Bowl and he flew
into the Flying Cloud Airport instead of the Big one
because the Big one was too crowded because everybody was
flying in. So Shaq was there in the lobby and
I was on the phone with Steve and Fallon and
I said, Shack's in the lobby. He's right over there,
and they said, don't be a whimp, go over and
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say hi to him. I'm like, the challenge accepted. So
I went over and I said I'm a local DJ.
And he was very fun and he said, I'm a
DJ too. He goes, I go to the clubs, I
play white Boy Rock. I said, oh, what's white boy rock?
He said, Rick Springfield. White people love Rick Springfield. And
he was just charming and funny and he didn't have
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to be Yeah, he could have said nice to meet you,
right and then look back at his phone. Was tall,
he was sitting down.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Oh, thank goodness.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yes, but that was my only real non station celebrity
in County.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Anytime I see one, I just think, oh, that person
looks a lot like so and so. Even if it
is that person, I'll just be like, Wow, what a doppelganger?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Did I ever tell you the story? I read this?
You know? The Beatles. George Harrison was the guitar player
for the Beatles, and in the seventies he was extremely famous.
Couldn't go anywhere without people going, oh, my god, you're
George Harrison. So he bought a really shitty car and
when he would drive around LA and Hollywood, he knew
that people would look at him and go, God, that
guy looks like George Harrison, but it wouldn't be George Harrison,
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because George Harrison would be in a Mercedes or something.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
He wouldn't be driving that shitty about right. Yeah, he
gets that all the time.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Here we go with a poop story, and Jennifer writes in,
I heard your story about pooping in the bushes. I
had to share this. A couple of weeks ago, I
pulled into work after running some afternoon errands. I'm walking
past the building. I catch a glimpse of a mushy
substance out of the corner of my eye. I immediately
know it's a bodily function gone wrong. Mind you, this
is literally right outside the front door of work. I
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cannot bring myself to investigate further. I go in and
share that somebody had an accident in some kind. Wasn't
sure it was puke or poop, So we did what
any office coals would do. We pulled up the cameras.
What we witnessed was something we can never unsee. Poor
woman on video visibly struggling with some tummy troubles, pacing,
shaking hands. You could almost see the sweat on her brow.
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Shoot it out of options and had to make a decision.
That pole decision was to pull her pants down in
a very public place and have an explosive shit in
the rocks. Then she pulled out some sort of small
tissue out of her purse and gave a very half
assed wipe and threw it on the sidewalk, proceeded to
pull up her pants and go on with her life.
After a good laugh, we discussed what we would do
in that situation. It was unanimous we would poop our
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pants and head home to clean up. What would you do? Okay, Well,
I think that there's got to be somewhere better than
on the sidewalk in front of work, in a public
around the corner, because you know what, even if you
have to go suddenly, you have at least a few
minutes of warning, yeah, and probably maybe thirty seconds of
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like there ain't no going back exactly. So you duck
behind a dumpster, or you'd get the trash can out,
or you get behind a bush or something. But to
go right on the sidewalk is like, that's just raw, bro.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Just find a bush. There's got to be a bush,
smart thing, Yeah, somewhere that is so. I love how
stories because they're so funny. I like that. I've never
had a poop in my pants situation, but that means
I'm probably overdue.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Right down, Where did you take an emergency poop?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Emergency poop?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Because we've done that a couple of times on the show.
And I remember a friend of mine. She was in
the laundry room, I think at her apartment, and she's like,
I ain't gonna make it upstairs. I'm not going to
make it, So she pooped in the laundry room trash can.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Oh my gosh, Well at least it's a trash can.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Right, Yeah, Happy day my favorite crew once again, Christia
with another rando question, What is the most sentimental valuable
thing that you own, so not money wise, besides pets,
because we all know our babies mean the world to us.
Mine would definitely be the velveteen rabbit I got when
I was one year old. He still sleeps in my
bed thirty five years later. Or my dog plush that
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I got to replace my baby dog Tilly who we
lost enough fire. Oh but it actually has her caller
on it too. Sorry it might be a little sappy,
but hey, love you guys, all right. From Kristen, I
hadn't thought about that. I actually have a few things
from my mom and dad that are sentimental. I would
say my dad got the Distinguished Flying Cross in World
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War Two, which is I think one of the highest
honors you can get, and I still have it. You
had to be a pilot or an airman, that's what
they called him back then, airman, and you had to
fly in battle and combat, and so he has the
Distinguished Flying Cross. So I would say probably that, but
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I could think about other things too.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Yeah, my family is not really for sentimental things.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I do have. My mom got me this.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Kind of like it's a framed sort of print of
something my grandpa who is now gone, and I really
loved him, we were pretty close. But he wrote down
the lyrics to You'll Never Walk Alone because he read
it at church the week before he died, and he
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had to write it on a big on a piece
of paper so he could read it. And my grandma
gave me that piece of paper and my mom had
it like printed on this like really pretty piece of
like wood, and I have that and it's just in
my grandpa's handwriting, and it's nice and big and it
makes me think of him. So I think that's pretty sentimental.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
We don't really like. Yeah, we don't really hold on
to sentimental like things.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Okay, Okay, some people don't. Yeah, And I think sometimes
as you get a bit older, you get a little
bit more sentimental.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I do have a dress that belonged to my mother
that I wear occasionally, that she would wear at like
work events like work a not an award ceremonies, but
just she would wear them at work. And I always
thought my mom was so cool when I was a
kid because she was like a career woman. So now
I own her dress and it's got sunflowers on it.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
So ah, so cute.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
That's very sure.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I found the lyrics too. You'll Never Walk Alone.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Oh, I love it.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
It's from the show. It's from some show Rogers and Hammerstein.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I think it's Carousel.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Okay, sounds right. So let me read this to you.
You'll never walk alone. When you walk through a storm,
keep your chin up high, and don't be afraid of
the dark. At the end of the storm is a
golden sky and the sweet silver song of a lark.
Walk on through the wind, walk on through the rain,
though your dreams may be tossed and blown, walk on,
walk on with hope In your heart and you'll never
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walk alone. You'll never walk alone. Oh that's pretty and
very pretty.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Is my Grandpa's favorite song is You'll Never Walk Along.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I don't know how it goes, but I've definitely yeah,
that's really that's beautiful walk No, no, no, Now you're
ruining it. Now you're ruining it. Okay, we skipped it.
We talked yesterday about banned baby names, and there was
an article that said in the United States, there's certain
names you're not allowed to name your baby, and one
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was king, and one was Queen, and one was Majesty
and then there's Adolf Hitler and Santa Claus. And we said,
I don't think that's true. And then some people debated
and said, yeah, it is true in some country or
some states or whatever. But they say this from Naomi says,
I believe it's Australia where they are illegal, so they
have banned baby names in Australia. I'm trying to blow
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up her text and I'm having a little difficulty. But
for example, King, Queen, and Pope, as well as offensive terms,
brand names, and names associated with religious figures, mythical injuries.
For example, Baron Duke Princess admiral are not allowed in Australia.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I know a princess, so that's hmm okay, okay. I
mean we all said we knew like either somebody who's
named King or Kingston or King something or other.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, that's pretty common, all.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Right, next one, please don't say my name. You were
talking about something that somebody said that's stuck with you.
Back in college, I started weight watchers. I lost a
bunch of weight. I was close to graduating. My dad said,
it's good you lost the weight. It's easier to get
a job. Oh oush. My weight has gone up and
down over the decades, and I still think about this
comment when I go in for an interview on a
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bigger size. That's it. I hope you have a wonderful day,
I think as a parent. I started thinking about this yesterday.
I read her email last night at home, and I thought, God,
is there anything I've ever said to Alison or Carson
that is stuck with them? Probably I said something to
Carson one time because he was so shy. He was
about six great and it was annoyingly shy. It's like, Carson,
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make an effort. And I said something like shy people
are losers. And he said, so you're saying I'm a loser.
And I said, it's not what I meant. And it
wasn't what I meant, but I was like I was
trying to I don't know what I was trying to do,
but I said, shy people are losers. And I hope
it didn't stick with him. I don't want to know.
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He is still so painfully quiet, and it's funny because
he deals with other people all through his day with
his tour manager biz, at his job, and he's got
a ton of friends. He lives with three guys, he's
got tons of friends. Whenever he comes home, he's gone
all the time with his buddies. So he's not boring.
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But like when you have a conversation with Carson, you
got to do all the you got to bring up
every subject. And I've really tried to train him, like
ask how somebody's day was, what'd you do this weekend? Yeah?
What do you like to do when you're not working?
And he's just not so.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
He does take like practice though, because I once had
a friend of mine tell me that I was a
bad friend because I never asked him many questions. Yeah,
but I thought like, oh, we're just having a conversation,
Like if you want to say something, then you should
say it. But now I'm trying to be better in general.
I mean that was like fifteen years ago. But like,
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if I'm having a conversation with somebody and I realize
that I'm talking a lot because they keep asking me questions,
I'd be like barely ask them a question. Yeah, in
my brain, So it definitely is like I don't think
it's something you just like pick up.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
You have to like constantly work at it.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I think so. Yeah, and some people are better, Like
my friend Curtis is the best. You almost feel like
we go to lunch. It feels like a job interview sometimes. Yeah,
So tell me how is Alison doing it? And how
far along is she with her new baby? Yeah? Does
she have any new baby names picked out? How do
the other girls feel about becoming big sisters? And it's
like I'll answer all these questions and then I'd like, well,
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tell me what's going on with your work? Oh, it's fine, anyway,
more about Alison. So some people are just really good
at that. I think he really enjoys that, all right,
Next one tap that elite. Here we go. Hello, It's Jess,
longtime listener, first time emailer, and random texter. When we
text in questions, does it have a running list of
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all the messages we have sent or do people usually
sign their name? I've always been curious. I keep meaning
to send this message when I'm listening, and I keep forgetting,
but I decided to send it while I binge me
some Minnesota Goodbye? Can I get a sticker that is
Jess up in Coon Rapids? How would you answer that question?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yeah, so when you text in, your number is attached
to it, so we can click the phone number and
see your like bank of all the text messages that
you've sent in since we started the service. But we
don't like no, it's it just seems anonymous as it's
like popping up unless you like sign your name. So
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we do have a handful of people who sign their name,
and so then we can see like, Okay, so and
So is texting us again, like Rowan's texting us, Michelle
is texting us. And that's I honestly like it when
people sign their name, especially if they're a frequent texter,
because sometimes I just like memorize the last four digits
of the phone number, and I'm like, oh, this is
the person who texts in frequently. And then I check
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by clicking the number to go back and see, like,
is this the person I was thinking of? So yeah,
we can see like.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Your history, your history, but we don't know your name. No,
by default, we don't.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Know your name.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
We don't know like who you are unless we click
on the number and find out using context clues.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Yeah, yeah, okay, next one, please don't say my name.
I have something been going through wondered if any of
you have had experience with it. I worked in sales
for a tech company for the past six years in
the building right next to your space Needle studio. The
first few years were great, great people, great benefits, great
work life balance. However, last couple of years, the best
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people of the come have left. It's a high school
click and directors are promoted based on how well they
suck the VP's ass. It has nothing to do with merit.
I have felt pushed out and gasoling into thinking I
am the problem. You're too negative. Smile more, stay positive
and manifest the big deal, and big deals will come
your way. This is truly the advice they give. Do
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you all or anyone listening have experience with being pushed
out of a job. The vibe I'm getting is the
new hires are two naive to know any different. So
senior leadership is trying to get rid of the most
tenured grips that have an opinion so they can keep
the smiling new people. Any advice or insight would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks for doing what you do. I don't
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the only thing, and I don't want to turn this
back on you, but I would just take a second
to self reflect and say, am I negative? Do I
seem grumpy or cranky around the office? And I'm going
to guess that the answer is no, I'm fine. I
might be a little bit pissy because of the way
I'm treated, but I would self reflect. It's kind of
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like they say, if everybody around you is a jerk,
you're the jerk. You ever heard that before?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I heard that on a book on tape back when
they were cassettes, and I was sitting at the airport
somewhere waiting for a flight, and it said, and we'll
round it up, wrap it up with this. If everybody
around you is a jerk. You're the jerk, and I
started to think, well, everybody around me is kind of
a jerk, maybe I And I think I was because
I was immature. Yeah, and I was a big man
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on the radio at twenty four years old, and I
thought I was in the shit. So I think I
kind of was the jerk. No, anyway, so let's go
back to you probably are not, but it's least take
ten seconds to reflect that.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Yeah. Interesting.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Yeah, I've never been pushed out of a job before.
I feel like I've been treated not the greatest at
a job. I was an intern once for like my
dream job. I wanted it so badly, and then they
hired at the end of my internship for essentially the
job I was already doing. And I applied and I
didn't get and they took me out to lunch on
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the last day of my internship to be like, thank
you so much.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
For your work that you did here. It was just
so great getting to know you.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
And that was before I found out that I didn't
get hired, and so I feel like that was a
little bit shitty of them, like a pretty misleading to
be like okay bye, And I was like, but I
don't want to be gone, Like you're not respecting me
wanting to be here because I applied for it, and
you know I applied for it, and now you're saying
goodbye to me. So it kind of felt like a
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all right, we know you applied, but we're not going
to give it to you. This other person just has
better qualifications. Bye, Like I'm literally.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Doing the job already. But I don't know what it
was about me. They just didn't care for me, I.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Guess, And sometimes that's just the way it is. And
I knew somebody who worked at a moderately big sized
advertising agency here in town, and it was run by
a woman who she had a circle around her that
was like a cult, and if you did not get
accepted into that circle, you were treated like shit. And
this was a brilliant and this is a woman that
I knew very well, brilliant, the kind of I used
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to say, you are an employer's wet dream, because you
are smart and capable and compassionate and warm, and you're
attractive and I mean I don't mean like hot, I
mean like you dressed the part, and you look the part,
and your hair is the part, and you walk the part,
but she just was never accepted into that inner circle
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and eventually she got fired.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Yeah, it feels like high school over again. I mean,
in general, a lot of jobs are very kind of
cliqui the in crowd.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
You know, there's a little bit of a clique crowd
here in our building, but it doesn't really affect us
very much. We're not in that cliquie crowd.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
We're in a little like island.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I feel like everybody on air people are on an island,
and then like salespeople are in their own little group.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
But like I couldn't go into there and talk to them, you.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Know, I could there is this is the thing about salespeople.
They're so friendly. Yeah, they're salespeople. If you walk back
into the sales area and you said hi, Leslie, she'd
be like.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Hey, I saw her in the bathroom and I did
say hi, and she said hi, and she'll is.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You Leslie would put down her pen and go what
are you'd up to these days? Or if you went
back and said hi to Eric, Eric would be like, hey,
what are you doing? I heard you guys talking about
the vikings this morning, you know what I mean? So
the salespeople are very They're very friendly.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
All right, Next one, last one. I'm looking at our time.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Oh okay, hold on one second it did it? Did do?
Do you? Okay? In Minnesota? Goodbye from our friend Mike.
Hello friend, So happy to see Jenny and David cub
on Friday. I treasure each one on this show and
want to bless each of you as you bless me
each morning. Question what makes one a Zaddy? Okay, Bailey,
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and he goes on to say, as I hope to
become available in the near future, interested in finding out
like what is out there and what I can do
to prepare myself. All right, I.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Feel like a Zaddy is all about the confidence, but
you do have to be like Over, I don't know
fifty five to be a Zaddy okay, and have like
some gray hair, which Mike does. Other than that, I
think it's the confidence. Zaddy is who you are, not
what you.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Are that's interesting. Is that who you are? Okay? I
know you're pulling shit out of your ass Over, Yeah,
I know, Mike. I love you. I don't think that
you are a Zaddy, but I do think you're attractive.
I was telling my gay friend Curtis. I said, yeah,
I know this friend Mike. He's it's you know, it's
too bad that he's not gay, because you would really
like him. Yeah, because he's really attractive. But I don't know,
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it seems like Zaddy's got a little bit of a
playboy in it, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I have like one extra button undone on your shirt.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Right, and Mike, that's not you. I think that Mike,
if you are ever available, and people will find you
attractive because you're genuine and your kind, you're kind of hot,
and you're you know, financially stable.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Yeah, just going down to the old Beapho Brady's or
the Willie McCoy's instead of the bar, and then I
think that's all you need to do, Mike, Really you
think I feel like some lady is gonna walk he
how you buy me a drink like Miller Lights with olives?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, and that is going to do it. That is
it for the Minnesota goodbye this time. Thank you for listening.
We appreciate you sending your emails about anything at all
to Ryan's show at KDWB dot com
And here we go with a Minnesota good bye. Let's
see if anybody else has got a story about pooping
their pants, we will you know, I think everybody does,
but most people don't want to share it. You know,
when I had an idea, you should write this town. Yeah,
I had an idea when I was walking or riding
the bike yesterday. On a scale of one to ten,
how happy are you? And it could be anonymous because
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you would text in we don't know your name, we
don't know anything about you when you text. So maybe
we should do that tomorrow on a scale of one
to ten, how happy are you? Because I'm curious how
happy people are? And it made me think, like, you know,
you're walking along the you know, riding along the trail yesterday,
and there was it was pretty busy. It was right
after work, four to five ish or so, and it
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was pretty busy, so you weave around a lot of people,
and people would weave around you, and I thought, you know,
you see somebody out there walking along. Are they happy?
Are they out walking because they're so grief stricken that they,
you know, just need to get out of the house.
Or are they depressed or anxious or maybe they're depressed,
but they're still happy. I don't know if that's possible. Yeah,
but I would say I'm pretty happy. I have my
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peaks and valleys. I'm generally a happy person because I've
got it pretty good. Yeah, I don't have a lot
to be unhappy about. Yeah, but I would say I'm
probably a seven. I average a seven.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I think it's really subjective because if I, like, if
I analyze how happy I am, like in a moment,
I feel like I could always be happier. But if
I look at like my life as a whole, I
think I'm pretty happy. Like I might be lonely sometimes,
but I like my life and I think it's really
fun and interesting and I like living every single day.
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So I would say that that equates happiness. But if
I was saying, like, Bailey, are you happy right now?
It would be hard to determine that unless I was
like walking down the middle of Main Street, USA, Okay
in Disney World.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, I mean I have my moments. I'm like everybody else,
but I think that people. You know, I've said this before.
I'm just a generally happy person. I don't have a
whole lot I can pick out things to complain about,
and I do, but they're usually dumb things like good, Bailey,
the Caribou coffee today is really inconsistent and bad good.
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But I don't sit there and go, God, my kids
are rotten and my job is rotten.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
We're both optimists, I think, And do you think so?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, okay, good.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I don't think you're a pessimist.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I don't really think I can be pessimistic sometimes. I
have a friend who's sometimes very difficult because she is
the ultimate glass is half empty kind of a person.
And if you're listening, you know I love you and
I've told you this. I said, you need to not
make the worst case scenario happen in your head every
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time a new story came out a couple of Saturdays
that there was a data breach on Facebook and a
data breach on Google or Yahoo or whatever it was.
And she's like, oh my god, I've spent the morning
changing all of my past codes and now I'm worried
somebody's gonna steal my identity. And I'm like, You've got
to stop going to the darkest place possible. Yeah, And
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I think that just some people are naturally that.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Way, yeah, or your mind jumps to the worst case scenario,
and mine always like I always try and see the
bright side of anything, Like even if I got into
a car accident, I'd be like, well, at least I'm alive,
and at least I have decent insurance. You bet.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, yeah, good. That's a good mindset to have. All right.
So a couple of emails, it says Minnesota, Goodbye. Brushes
with fame, Donna writes in and sayers, I've had a
couple of brushes with fame, most recently Dave Grohl in Nashville,
who was super cool and fun to hang out with
a couple of hours. And way back when Fergie from
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Toto used to play for years as a member of
our country club in Rochester, he was cool and interesting
to talk to. And also Matt Damon played in a
charity tournament and hung out at the bar for hours afterwards.
Oh that's some pretty big celebrities. So all my experiences
have been super positive. Curious to see who else has
had these brushes with fame. Love y'all. You brighten my days.
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Thank you, Donna. I don't think I've had a organic
celebrity encounter. Every one of my celebrity encounters has been
because of what we do.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, I that, Yeah, I don't meet celebrities period like ever.
I mean I saw I always tell a story about
seeing Post Malone at Disney World. I saw him, made
eye contact him three times. We did not speak. I
also saw Zach Braff at Disney World and squeezed a
whoope cushion when I said hello. So it was hello
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and he I don't even think he looked at me.
So I don't meet many celebrities unless it's like a
meet and greet, because then I'll like then it's but
that doesn't feel organic like you were saying, yeah, so
my people.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
My only organic that I can think of is Shaq
was in town for the super Bowl and he flew
into the Flying Cloud Airport instead of the Big one
because the Big one was too crowded because everybody was
flying in. So Shaq was there in the lobby and
I was on the phone with Steve and Fallon and
I said, Shack's in the lobby. He's right over there,
and they said, don't be a whimp, go over and
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say hi to him. I'm like, the challenge accepted. So
I went over and I said I'm a local DJ.
And he was very fun and he said, I'm a
DJ too. He goes, I go to the clubs, I
play white Boy Rock. I said, oh, what's white boy rock?
He said, Rick Springfield. White people love Rick Springfield. And
he was just charming and funny and he didn't have
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to be Yeah, he could have said nice to meet you,
right and then look back at his phone. Was tall,
he was sitting down.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Oh, thank goodness.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yes, but that was my only real non station celebrity
in County.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Anytime I see one, I just think, oh, that person
looks a lot like so and so. Even if it
is that person, I'll just be like, Wow, what a doppelganger?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Did I ever tell you the story? I read this?
You know? The Beatles. George Harrison was the guitar player
for the Beatles, and in the seventies he was extremely famous.
Couldn't go anywhere without people going, oh, my god, you're
George Harrison. So he bought a really shitty car and
when he would drive around LA and Hollywood, he knew
that people would look at him and go, God, that
guy looks like George Harrison, but it wouldn't be George Harrison,
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because George Harrison would be in a Mercedes or something.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
He wouldn't be driving that shitty about right. Yeah, he
gets that all the time.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Here we go with a poop story, and Jennifer writes in,
I heard your story about pooping in the bushes. I
had to share this. A couple of weeks ago, I
pulled into work after running some afternoon errands. I'm walking
past the building. I catch a glimpse of a mushy
substance out of the corner of my eye. I immediately
know it's a bodily function gone wrong. Mind you, this
is literally right outside the front door of work. I
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cannot bring myself to investigate further. I go in and
share that somebody had an accident in some kind. Wasn't
sure it was puke or poop, So we did what
any office coals would do. We pulled up the cameras.
What we witnessed was something we can never unsee. Poor
woman on video visibly struggling with some tummy troubles, pacing,
shaking hands. You could almost see the sweat on her brow.
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Shoot it out of options and had to make a decision.
That pole decision was to pull her pants down in
a very public place and have an explosive shit in
the rocks. Then she pulled out some sort of small
tissue out of her purse and gave a very half
assed wipe and threw it on the sidewalk, proceeded to
pull up her pants and go on with her life.
After a good laugh, we discussed what we would do
in that situation. It was unanimous we would poop our
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pants and head home to clean up. What would you do? Okay, Well,
I think that there's got to be somewhere better than
on the sidewalk in front of work, in a public
around the corner, because you know what, even if you
have to go suddenly, you have at least a few
minutes of warning, yeah, and probably maybe thirty seconds of
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like there ain't no going back exactly. So you duck
behind a dumpster, or you'd get the trash can out,
or you get behind a bush or something. But to
go right on the sidewalk is like, that's just raw, bro.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Just find a bush. There's got to be a bush,
smart thing, Yeah, somewhere that is so. I love how
stories because they're so funny. I like that. I've never
had a poop in my pants situation, but that means
I'm probably overdue.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Right down, Where did you take an emergency poop?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Emergency poop?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Because we've done that a couple of times on the show.
And I remember a friend of mine. She was in
the laundry room, I think at her apartment, and she's like,
I ain't gonna make it upstairs. I'm not going to
make it, So she pooped in the laundry room trash can.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Oh my gosh, Well at least it's a trash can.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Right, Yeah, Happy day my favorite crew once again, Christia
with another rando question, What is the most sentimental valuable
thing that you own, so not money wise, besides pets,
because we all know our babies mean the world to us.
Mine would definitely be the velveteen rabbit I got when
I was one year old. He still sleeps in my
bed thirty five years later. Or my dog plush that
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I got to replace my baby dog Tilly who we
lost enough fire. Oh but it actually has her caller
on it too. Sorry it might be a little sappy,
but hey, love you guys, all right. From Kristen, I
hadn't thought about that. I actually have a few things
from my mom and dad that are sentimental. I would
say my dad got the Distinguished Flying Cross in World
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War Two, which is I think one of the highest
honors you can get, and I still have it. You
had to be a pilot or an airman, that's what
they called him back then, airman, and you had to
fly in battle and combat, and so he has the
Distinguished Flying Cross. So I would say probably that, but
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I could think about other things too.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Yeah, my family is not really for sentimental things.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I do have. My mom got me this.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Kind of like it's a framed sort of print of
something my grandpa who is now gone, and I really
loved him, we were pretty close. But he wrote down
the lyrics to You'll Never Walk Alone because he read
it at church the week before he died, and he
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had to write it on a big on a piece
of paper so he could read it. And my grandma
gave me that piece of paper and my mom had
it like printed on this like really pretty piece of
like wood, and I have that and it's just in
my grandpa's handwriting, and it's nice and big and it
makes me think of him. So I think that's pretty sentimental.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
We don't really like. Yeah, we don't really hold on
to sentimental like things.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Okay, Okay, some people don't. Yeah, And I think sometimes
as you get a bit older, you get a little
bit more sentimental.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I do have a dress that belonged to my mother
that I wear occasionally, that she would wear at like
work events like work a not an award ceremonies, but
just she would wear them at work. And I always
thought my mom was so cool when I was a
kid because she was like a career woman. So now
I own her dress and it's got sunflowers on it.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
So ah, so cute.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
That's very sure.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I found the lyrics too. You'll Never Walk Alone.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Oh, I love it.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
It's from the show. It's from some show Rogers and Hammerstein.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I think it's Carousel.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Okay, sounds right. So let me read this to you.
You'll never walk alone. When you walk through a storm,
keep your chin up high, and don't be afraid of
the dark. At the end of the storm is a
golden sky and the sweet silver song of a lark.
Walk on through the wind, walk on through the rain,
though your dreams may be tossed and blown, walk on,
walk on with hope In your heart and you'll never
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walk alone. You'll never walk alone. Oh that's pretty and
very pretty.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Is my Grandpa's favorite song is You'll Never Walk Along.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I don't know how it goes, but I've definitely yeah,
that's really that's beautiful walk No, no, no, Now you're
ruining it. Now you're ruining it. Okay, we skipped it.
We talked yesterday about banned baby names, and there was
an article that said in the United States, there's certain
names you're not allowed to name your baby, and one
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was king, and one was Queen, and one was Majesty
and then there's Adolf Hitler and Santa Claus. And we said,
I don't think that's true. And then some people debated
and said, yeah, it is true in some country or
some states or whatever. But they say this from Naomi says,
I believe it's Australia where they are illegal, so they
have banned baby names in Australia. I'm trying to blow
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up her text and I'm having a little difficulty. But
for example, King, Queen, and Pope, as well as offensive terms,
brand names, and names associated with religious figures, mythical injuries.
For example, Baron Duke Princess admiral are not allowed in Australia.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I know a princess, so that's hmm okay, okay. I
mean we all said we knew like either somebody who's
named King or Kingston or King something or other.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, that's pretty common, all.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Right, next one, please don't say my name. You were
talking about something that somebody said that's stuck with you.
Back in college, I started weight watchers. I lost a
bunch of weight. I was close to graduating. My dad said,
it's good you lost the weight. It's easier to get
a job. Oh oush. My weight has gone up and
down over the decades, and I still think about this
comment when I go in for an interview on a
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bigger size. That's it. I hope you have a wonderful day,
I think as a parent. I started thinking about this yesterday.
I read her email last night at home, and I thought, God,
is there anything I've ever said to Alison or Carson
that is stuck with them? Probably I said something to
Carson one time because he was so shy. He was
about six great and it was annoyingly shy. It's like, Carson,
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make an effort. And I said something like shy people
are losers. And he said, so you're saying I'm a loser.
And I said, it's not what I meant. And it
wasn't what I meant, but I was like I was
trying to I don't know what I was trying to do,
but I said, shy people are losers. And I hope
it didn't stick with him. I don't want to know.
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He is still so painfully quiet, and it's funny because
he deals with other people all through his day with
his tour manager biz, at his job, and he's got
a ton of friends. He lives with three guys, he's
got tons of friends. Whenever he comes home, he's gone
all the time with his buddies. So he's not boring.
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But like when you have a conversation with Carson, you
got to do all the you got to bring up
every subject. And I've really tried to train him, like
ask how somebody's day was, what'd you do this weekend? Yeah?
What do you like to do when you're not working?
And he's just not so.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
He does take like practice though, because I once had
a friend of mine tell me that I was a
bad friend because I never asked him many questions. Yeah,
but I thought like, oh, we're just having a conversation,
Like if you want to say something, then you should
say it. But now I'm trying to be better in general.
I mean that was like fifteen years ago. But like,
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if I'm having a conversation with somebody and I realize
that I'm talking a lot because they keep asking me questions,
I'd be like barely ask them a question. Yeah, in
my brain, So it definitely is like I don't think
it's something you just like pick up.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
You have to like constantly work at it.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I think so. Yeah, and some people are better, Like
my friend Curtis is the best. You almost feel like
we go to lunch. It feels like a job interview sometimes. Yeah,
So tell me how is Alison doing it? And how
far along is she with her new baby? Yeah? Does
she have any new baby names picked out? How do
the other girls feel about becoming big sisters? And it's
like I'll answer all these questions and then I'd like, well,
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tell me what's going on with your work? Oh, it's fine, anyway,
more about Alison. So some people are just really good
at that. I think he really enjoys that, all right,
Next one tap that elite. Here we go. Hello, It's Jess,
longtime listener, first time emailer, and random texter. When we
text in questions, does it have a running list of
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all the messages we have sent or do people usually
sign their name? I've always been curious. I keep meaning
to send this message when I'm listening, and I keep forgetting,
but I decided to send it while I binge me
some Minnesota Goodbye? Can I get a sticker that is
Jess up in Coon Rapids? How would you answer that question?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yeah, so when you text in, your number is attached
to it, so we can click the phone number and
see your like bank of all the text messages that
you've sent in since we started the service. But we
don't like no, it's it just seems anonymous as it's
like popping up unless you like sign your name. So
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we do have a handful of people who sign their name,
and so then we can see like, Okay, so and
So is texting us again, like Rowan's texting us, Michelle
is texting us. And that's I honestly like it when
people sign their name, especially if they're a frequent texter,
because sometimes I just like memorize the last four digits
of the phone number, and I'm like, oh, this is
the person who texts in frequently. And then I check
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by clicking the number to go back and see, like,
is this the person I was thinking of? So yeah,
we can see like.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Your history, your history, but we don't know your name. No,
by default, we don't.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Know your name.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
We don't know like who you are unless we click
on the number and find out using context clues.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Yeah, yeah, okay, next one, please don't say my name.
I have something been going through wondered if any of
you have had experience with it. I worked in sales
for a tech company for the past six years in
the building right next to your space Needle studio. The
first few years were great, great people, great benefits, great
work life balance. However, last couple of years, the best
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people of the come have left. It's a high school
click and directors are promoted based on how well they
suck the VP's ass. It has nothing to do with merit.
I have felt pushed out and gasoling into thinking I
am the problem. You're too negative. Smile more, stay positive
and manifest the big deal, and big deals will come
your way. This is truly the advice they give. Do
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you all or anyone listening have experience with being pushed
out of a job. The vibe I'm getting is the
new hires are two naive to know any different. So
senior leadership is trying to get rid of the most
tenured grips that have an opinion so they can keep
the smiling new people. Any advice or insight would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks for doing what you do. I don't
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the only thing, and I don't want to turn this
back on you, but I would just take a second
to self reflect and say, am I negative? Do I
seem grumpy or cranky around the office? And I'm going
to guess that the answer is no, I'm fine. I
might be a little bit pissy because of the way
I'm treated, but I would self reflect. It's kind of
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like they say, if everybody around you is a jerk,
you're the jerk. You ever heard that before?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I heard that on a book on tape back when
they were cassettes, and I was sitting at the airport
somewhere waiting for a flight, and it said, and we'll
round it up, wrap it up with this. If everybody
around you is a jerk. You're the jerk, and I
started to think, well, everybody around me is kind of
a jerk, maybe I And I think I was because
I was immature. Yeah, and I was a big man
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on the radio at twenty four years old, and I
thought I was in the shit. So I think I
kind of was the jerk. No, anyway, so let's go
back to you probably are not, but it's least take
ten seconds to reflect that.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Yeah. Interesting.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Yeah, I've never been pushed out of a job before.
I feel like I've been treated not the greatest at
a job. I was an intern once for like my
dream job. I wanted it so badly, and then they
hired at the end of my internship for essentially the
job I was already doing. And I applied and I
didn't get and they took me out to lunch on
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the last day of my internship to be like, thank
you so much.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
For your work that you did here. It was just
so great getting to know you.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
And that was before I found out that I didn't
get hired, and so I feel like that was a
little bit shitty of them, like a pretty misleading to
be like okay bye, And I was like, but I
don't want to be gone, Like you're not respecting me
wanting to be here because I applied for it, and
you know I applied for it, and now you're saying
goodbye to me. So it kind of felt like a
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all right, we know you applied, but we're not going
to give it to you. This other person just has
better qualifications. Bye, Like I'm literally.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Doing the job already. But I don't know what it
was about me. They just didn't care for me, I.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Guess, And sometimes that's just the way it is. And
I knew somebody who worked at a moderately big sized
advertising agency here in town, and it was run by
a woman who she had a circle around her that
was like a cult, and if you did not get
accepted into that circle, you were treated like shit. And
this was a brilliant and this is a woman that
I knew very well, brilliant, the kind of I used
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to say, you are an employer's wet dream, because you
are smart and capable and compassionate and warm, and you're
attractive and I mean I don't mean like hot, I
mean like you dressed the part, and you look the part,
and your hair is the part, and you walk the part,
but she just was never accepted into that inner circle
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and eventually she got fired.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Yeah, it feels like high school over again. I mean,
in general, a lot of jobs are very kind of
cliqui the in crowd.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
You know, there's a little bit of a clique crowd
here in our building, but it doesn't really affect us
very much. We're not in that cliquie crowd.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
We're in a little like island.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I feel like everybody on air people are on an island,
and then like salespeople are in their own little group.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
But like I couldn't go into there and talk to them, you.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Know, I could there is this is the thing about salespeople.
They're so friendly. Yeah, they're salespeople. If you walk back
into the sales area and you said hi, Leslie, she'd
be like.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Hey, I saw her in the bathroom and I did
say hi, and she said hi, and she'll is.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You Leslie would put down her pen and go what
are you'd up to these days? Or if you went
back and said hi to Eric, Eric would be like, hey,
what are you doing? I heard you guys talking about
the vikings this morning, you know what I mean? So
the salespeople are very They're very friendly.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
All right, Next one, last one. I'm looking at our time.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Oh okay, hold on one second it did it? Did do?
Do you? Okay? In Minnesota? Goodbye from our friend Mike.
Hello friend, So happy to see Jenny and David cub
on Friday. I treasure each one on this show and
want to bless each of you as you bless me
each morning. Question what makes one a Zaddy? Okay, Bailey,
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and he goes on to say, as I hope to
become available in the near future, interested in finding out
like what is out there and what I can do
to prepare myself. All right, I.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Feel like a Zaddy is all about the confidence, but
you do have to be like Over, I don't know
fifty five to be a Zaddy okay, and have like
some gray hair, which Mike does. Other than that, I
think it's the confidence. Zaddy is who you are, not
what you.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Are that's interesting. Is that who you are? Okay? I
know you're pulling shit out of your ass Over, Yeah,
I know, Mike. I love you. I don't think that
you are a Zaddy, but I do think you're attractive.
I was telling my gay friend Curtis. I said, yeah,
I know this friend Mike. He's it's you know, it's
too bad that he's not gay, because you would really
like him. Yeah, because he's really attractive. But I don't know,
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it seems like Zaddy's got a little bit of a
playboy in it, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I have like one extra button undone on your shirt.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Right, and Mike, that's not you. I think that Mike,
if you are ever available, and people will find you
attractive because you're genuine and your kind, you're kind of hot,
and you're you know, financially stable.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Yeah, just going down to the old Beapho Brady's or
the Willie McCoy's instead of the bar, and then I
think that's all you need to do, Mike, Really you
think I feel like some lady is gonna walk he
how you buy me a drink like Miller Lights with olives?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, and that is going to do it. That is
it for the Minnesota goodbye this time. Thank you for listening.
We appreciate you sending your emails about anything at all
to Ryan's show at KDWB dot com
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
Ridiculous History
History is beautiful, brutal and, often, ridiculous. Join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown as they dive into some of the weirdest stories from across the span of human civilization in Ridiculous History, a podcast by iHeartRadio.