Now Here's why we don't get to pre read anything on the Minnesota Goodbye today
because I have a dermatology appointment and I got into doctor Terene for two things.
Nice. Number one, I need to do a body scan for you
know, moles and things like that. And I've got two spots on my
leg that are a little bit darker, a little bit on, more unusual
than I would expect, and I don't remember them being there last week.
So I'm like, okay, maybe I should ever checked out. You ever
had like a suspicious anything like a skin thing looked at or taken off,
Well, I told you about it. In the last year. I had
gotten the spot on my face and we had had your friend Wendy, Nurse
Wendy on to talk about it, and I mean it turned out to just
be some sun damage that was starting to come in already from like my years
of tanning beds and sitting out and not using sunscreen. So that's the only
thing I've ever had problems with. But I do have to be careful because
my dad has like bouts of skin cancer quite often, and my younger sisters
had to have moles removed and things removed, so my family is like pretty
aware of stuff like that. Yeah, we you know, we're very fair
skinned like you guys are. So my family has had that too. Susan
Tan's Alison Carson do not tan, Chase, I don't think so. In
Beth definitely doesn't tan. When Beth was a little girl, she used to
come visit me in the summer and whenever she'd come, her nose would be
bright red and peeling from being out in the sun. She grew up in
Florida and she would not wear sunscreen and it was always bright red and peeling.
And I'm like, Beth, you've got to wear sunscreen. Well,
try to talk you know, her mom was irresponsible and to try to talk
Beth in, you know, a nine year old, ten year old and
wearing sunscreen just never gonna happen. So checking emails, it is Naughty Tuesday,
but I'm not sure if we have any Naughty Tuesday emails. Let's see
what we have, Okay. I like this one a lot. This one
is really interesting. I work for a national tech company and most employees work
from home. The culture is very much about being employee focused. Benefits are
awesome, and work life balance is good. They send out frequent anonymous surveys
to gauge how employees feel about the company, bosses, corporate et cetera.
Are these actually anonymous? I love my job, but there are issues that
I have with my smaller division that have been ignored in the past that I
would like to bring up in these surveys, but I don't want them trace
back to me, since I like to keep my head down at work and
fly under the radar. Is it better to just suck it up and ignore
the bs or should I bring these issues and risk not being anonymous. I'm
not going to say their name because they requested that. I don't I one
hundred percent understand what you're saying, because I think the same thing. We
get these once in a while, and it's like a satisfaction survey. Do
you think that your boss does a good job doing this? Or do this
or this? Do you think that management is good? Blah blah blah and
and sometimes and I can't think of anything that I would have answered a different
way. But there are times when I'm like, no, I'm not going
to be honest because I don't want them to be like oh, so,
Dave Ryan says that they don't get paid enough, or Dave Ryan says the
benefits here suck, or Dave Ryan says that there's you know, the culture
is poisoned or whatever. So I, like you, like to fly under
the radar. It's not going to change if I said something like, yeah,
the benefits here at iHeart are terrible, it's not going to change,
yea, even if I said they're terrible. So I'm going to fly under
the radar just like you. Yeah, I mean, I think we've openly
talked about on the radio. We honestly we make fun of the company for
a lot of things, just openly on the radio, And like, I'm
surprised we don't get in trouble more for stuff like that, because I will.
I will admit that the benefits here do actually suck at iHeart. They
aren't great, and I'm not afraid to admit that. And I'm sure that
they're very well aware of that. So I don't think that this is news
to anyone if they do hear this. But I am like nervous to take
those surveys too. I think I took one recently, ranking the company on
all kinds of different things, and I was pretty honest on it. But
I think there was a point where you're supposed to put like if you were
male or female or what age you were? Right, right, And I
think I lied about that information so that they couldn't track it back exactly to
who I was, Like I put a different category of like what age I
was in or something. Oh really did you something be like, well,
it can't be Jenny because she says she's like forty four to fifty five.
Okay, you know, we do make fun of iHeart here sometimes, but
I will tell you iHeart is not perfect. But there are a lot of
other radio companies that are a lot worse than iHeart. And I'm not going
to name any because you know, I might end up applying for a job
at one of them someday. But you know, we make fun of iHeart
and now like they you know, like there's a Dave's Dirt intro that says
something like, let's do Dave's Dirt before they before iHeart cuts it out of
the budget, and we joke about it that because we're like a lot of
corporations, there are budgets that are more and more and more restrictive. I
don't know of a lot of companies that don't have more and more restrictive budgets.
I'm going to go ahead and throw out Medtronic. Medtronic a billion dollar,
multi multi multi billion dollar worldwide company, but they have had again,
I don't want to get it wrong, but I think they've had some struggles
and not making as much as they had so they had to lay some people
off. So a lot of people got let go of Medtronic in the last
year or so. But you know, you think about a company. I
look out the window and there's a Kemps building right across the street. I
know nothing about Kemps, but I'm gonna guess that Kemps faces the same struggles
that a lot of companies do. They want to drive the shareholder price up.
They want to impress the shareholders, so they figure out how to make
ice cream a little more efficiently, or how to make the carton, you
know, two cents to make rather than five cents to make. I read
somewhere like a Dorito's bag, those little foilly kind of Dorito's bags. They
figure out they have like a whole team of people that figures out how to
save one one hundredth of a penny in making a Dorito's bag, because that
all adds up to millions of dollars over the course of a year or whatever.
Right, because everybody's trying to cut budgets and try to figure out how
to matt That's why bars of soap are now shaped like an hourglass or concave,
because they don't make big fat bars of soap. Have you noticed that,
I've never considered that I was good the Dove soap so that's never had
that shaped. It's more of the oval shape. Oh, but are you
talking about how it kind of like like goes up with the oval. You're
the ones that just the hour glass. I don't If I looked at a
bar of Doves soap from today and versus one from twenty years ago, I
guarantee it smaller. Yeah, And there's a name for it, and it's
I can't remember what it is. I can look at up really quick.
Here' stall for me for you know, what's the biggest ripoff is a bag
of sun chips. That's the biggest ripoff. Not only are there bags smaller
than most potato chip bags, but there's so much damn air in them that
it's like you need like three bags to get what should be in one bag.
I feel like for sonships. So true, shrink flation is what they
call it. Yeah, shrink flation is the term, and that is where
if you buy sun chips, and there used to be it was like full
to the brim packed with sun chips, and now there's a lot less.
We noticed it a few years ago when Lena was here, So now we're
talking ten, twelve, fifteen years ago. We were talking about tuna because
you know, I remember a long time ago, you open a can of
tuna, there was a little bit of water and a lot of tuna.
Now you open a can of tuna and you squeeze out the water because you're
not going to put that in your sandwich, and you squeeze it out and
it's literally one third of a can. So Lena and I, who used
to work on the show, we filled out a form for a class action
lawsuit and Starkist or Chicken of the Sea or somebody had to send me like
five dollars worth of free tuna coupons because of shrink flation. And that's what
they do with soap. They do that with bags of chips, and you
are paying the same amount, but you're not getting as much. Yeah,
there's one other thing that I wanted to bring up, and this came to
me last night because I was watching a show called The Signal, and The
Signal is about a couple and the woman is an astronaut and she goes to
space. Something happens in space, and on the flight home from her landing,
she disappears, and it's like, what did she see in space that
the government wanted her to disappear? And it's really good. It's called The
Signal, But they made some political jokes in there, and I hate when
I watch whether you're or liberal or whether you're conservative, we respect you no
matter what. We might not agree with you, but we respect you because
we're not gonna like say, wow, I'm gonna make everything about what you
are politically. But I was watching this show and they made a couple of
political digs, and I was like, can't they just do a fucking show
without making a political dig. We never make political digs on this show.
We might say something sarcastic, you know, like about how I don't know,
like Biden forgot whatever, or we try to be pretty equal though,
like when we make fun of one side. We try to make fun of
the other two, you know what I mean. Yeah, but you'll never
really notice. We don't call Trump the Orange Man, and we don't say
that, you know, Biden ignores the crisis at the border. We don't
do that. If you want to hear that, trust me. There are
plenty of other platforms, and you don't come here for that. Yeah.
But I did think of something last night and I think I wrote it down.
Let me see if I can and see if you agree with this one.
Okay, hold on, Yeah, I'm gonna need a second to digest
one Upkase. So I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking, looking,
looking. Okay, here we go. I would ask, either liberals or
conservatives, do you want everyone in the country to be happy and live a
good life or just people who think like you. Now, this is a
philosophy that it occurs to me. If you are a good person, no
matter what somebody thinks, you want them to have a good life and be
happy. So you and I might disagree on something politically, but I still
want you to live a good life and be happy. But I do think
that there are people who if you don't think like them. They want you
canceled, they want you to be fired, they want you to be shamed,
they want to put you on Instagram and talk about what an asshole you
are. So tell me whether I'm onto anything. If you are a good
person, no matter what somebody's political affiliation is, you want them to be
happy and have a good life. And I'm not here to pat myself on
the back, but I look at anybody and I want them to be happy
and have a good life, unless they're just a terrible person or a murderer
or a sexual predator or whatever. What do you think? I mean,
I agree with that completely. I mean this isn't political, but when I've
had like friendship breakups because they were just not great people, I've never wished
anything ill upon them, like I always still want it. I always hope
that they're very happy in their life. I thought that friendship just wasn't for
me anymore. So, like, I definitely feel that way. Politically,
I don't. I highly doubt that. Even Andrew and I like won't agree
on everything all the time, But we don't like get upset with each other
because we don't always agree on everything. You know, No, I think
it's totally true. But I think that, you know, I think that
that's a good mesa of why do we bicker and bitch and finger point and
accuse and slander and cancel anybody who? Okay, I'll give you an example.
And I'm not we don't want to get political. But during the speech
the woman who got killed by somebody who was in the country illegally, somebody
brought it up during the State of the Union speech the other night and they
said, say her name, and so he had a button. President Biden
had a button and he said her name wrong. Her name is Lake and
I believe, and he called her Lincoln and then he called the murderer an
illegal. Yeah, she was killed by any illegal? Holy ballsack? Did
both sides just use that as the worst ammunition ever? And it was like
fock And it really made me think, do you really want the other side
to ever be happy? Or do you only want people like yourself to be
happy? So is that I don't I'm not going to answer the question for
you, but I'm going to guess that you probably want everybody to be happy,
but we never act like that. So we're a little short on emails.
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