WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:03.799 In the words of the Black Eyed Peas, Let's get it started in here, 2 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:10.279 right the early two thousand call they would like some new lyrics. Now, 3 00:00:10.439 --> 00:00:14.439 a friend of mine, she said, a dog, And the dog's 4 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:18.079 name is Ozzie, and Ozzie is a pit bull mix. And Ozzie is 5 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:21.679 like, you know, a cuddly, fun, fat, lazy, stupid 6 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:25.039 dog. And she's like, oh god, Ozzie shit on the floor again. 7 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:26.920 I'm going to give him the needle. I'm gonna give him the needle. 8 00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:29.039 And I said, you love that dog. She's like, nope, 9 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:31.480 I'm going to give him the needle. So that's kind of my phrase that 10 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:33.759 I've been trying to make happen. Yeah, you brought it up quite a 11 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:36.159 few well not quite a few, but a few times today. I need 12 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:39.640 to give you the needle. But then I'm worried that somebody's gonna get pissed 13 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:42.759 off and go I can't believe you're making fun of euthanasia and pets. I'm 14 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:45.719 like, no, I'm making fun of euthanasia and you bitch, because I'm 15 00:00:45.719 --> 00:00:47.840 going to give you the needle. See, I don't know it's going to 16 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:50.799 catch on. I see, I'm gonna be honest. When you first had 17 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:53.439 give you the needle, I thought you were going to like try to shoot 18 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:56.399 me up with heroin, which is really extreme, and that's why I was 19 00:00:56.399 --> 00:00:58.280 like, that's not what he means. I know that's not what he means, 20 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:00.479 but that's what I thought when I heard needle, and so I was 21 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:02.359 like, where are we going with this? So you don't think it's going 22 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:03.879 to take off and be a state fair shirt where it says I'm going to 23 00:01:03.879 --> 00:01:07.040 give you the needle and has a syringe on there, I'm going to give 24 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:08.760 you the needle. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know 25 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:12.439 if like you know, even though it is fake, right, you're not 26 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:18.439 going to give me the needle even pretend threatening murder on someone might not. 27 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:21.359 Yeah, take off very well on a state fair share whatever. All right? 28 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:26.000 So I learned another one at magic Camp of the conference. Okay, 29 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:30.000 and I'm going to show you visually and then I can explain what I do. 30 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:34.719 So Jenny, let me just recap. And as I said that, 31 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:38.560 I put the cap back on a sharpie marker and one of the magicians did 32 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:42.239 that this weekend, and I thought it was so stupid that it made me 33 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:44.879 laugh. So we had a sharpie marker and he's like, okay, so 34 00:01:44.920 --> 00:01:47.719 I'm going to recap, and then you put the cap back on the marker. 35 00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:52.359 And I laughed way harder than I should have. So I'm going to 36 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:56.000 try to make that happen too. So I'm going to suggest while if you're 37 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:57.359 listening to the Minnesota Goodbye right now. First of all, thank you, 38 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:00.959 but remember that next time you're in a meeting and you want to make your 39 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:05.719 co workers laugh, take a sharpie or a bic put the cap back. 40 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:07.439 Well you don't, You just say it first, then then you recap it. 41 00:02:07.759 --> 00:02:12.000 So I'm going to recap, click, put it back on. Okay, 42 00:02:12.479 --> 00:02:15.879 that's good for a laugh. So here's another one that's good for a 43 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:19.400 laugh. So this is one of my favorite jokes that it came to me. 44 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:22.599 And I've told this before, but I like this joke probably as much 45 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:24.400 as I like the whale joke. Are you ready yep? Okay. So 46 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:29.280 there's this boy. His name is Jimmy, and Jimmy was born just ahead. 47 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:34.840 He had no body. He was born just a head nobody, yeah, 48 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:38.000 just ahead, and he did find you know, he grew up and 49 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:40.199 he went to school, and you know, he never really learned to ride 50 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:44.199 a bike, but he watched a lot of TV and you know. So, 51 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:47.520 but but the doctors always said, one day, if we find a 52 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:53.919 body that we can transplant, we're going to transplant the body onto Jimmy's head. 53 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:58.759 Okay, And so years go by, years go by, and Jimmy 54 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:04.120 never finds the body, and Jimmy on his fourteenth birthday, his mom and 55 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:07.560 dad get a call from the doctor and said, oh my god, we 56 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:14.199 found a donor body for Jimmy. We can do the procedure and Jimmy will 57 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:17.280 have a body. Now. Remember it's Jimmy's fourteenth birthday. Okay. So 58 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:22.960 mom and dad rushed into Jimmy's room and he's sitting there in the window looking 59 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:27.520 out the window, and they go, oh my god, Jimmy, we 60 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:31.719 have the best birthday present ever for you. This is gonna make your birthday. 61 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:36.759 It is such good news and it's happening on your birthday. It's the 62 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:39.360 best present ever. And Jimmy looks up with sad eyes and he goes, 63 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:46.639 it better not be another fucking hat, because that's all he gets. Hat, 64 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:50.719 because you buy the kid. He can't really do too many other things. 65 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:53.280 He can buy him a bike or a skateboard and buy him a fucking 66 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:55.680 hat. So Jimmy says, it better not be another fucking hat, and 67 00:03:55.719 --> 00:04:00.800 it's so stupid that I love that joke. Okay, that's a good one, 68 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:03.199 and I swear you maybe have told me that one before because I was 69 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:05.439 like, God, I feel like I know where this is going, but 70 00:04:05.479 --> 00:04:09.759 I did not know the punchline at all. I like that one. Thank 71 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:13.400 you better not be another fucking hat. You gotta say fucking hat because Jimmy's 72 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:15.519 pissed because all he gets is a fucking hat for his birthday. So not 73 00:04:15.600 --> 00:04:18.439 the joke to do at a child's birthday party is what you're saying. No, 74 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:23.759 that would be the now that's magic joke, which is so offensive. 75 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:26.319 I don't think that one works serious. I don't even like to tell that 76 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:29.800 joke. I don't remember it very well anymore because you stopped telling it a 77 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:32.399 while ago because everyone was like, yeah, a little too offensive. Now 78 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:36.240 out of my repertoire, out of my repertoire. Uh Okay, so let's 79 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:41.600 move on to the Minnesota goodbyes, Dave. I don't know if I should 80 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:44.759 laugh or cry. You were talking about how we should have our birthday off 81 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:48.120 because we debated whether you should have your birthday off like a holiday. Well, 82 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:50.639 my birthday is in two weeks and it's a Monday, and I was 83 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:55.879 thinking about going to Olive Garden. Now I need to think of something different. 84 00:04:55.920 --> 00:05:00.639 Any other suggestions from an old lady? Thanks, Ruth. Okay, 85 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:01.800 because it came up because I said, Okay, well, yeah, you 86 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:05.360 should have your birthday off because if your birthdays on a Monday, that sucks. 87 00:05:05.399 --> 00:05:06.800 It's like, well, what are you gonna do on your birthday? 88 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:10.600 Nothing, I'll go to work and maybe we might go to Olive Garden. 89 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:14.439 So Ruth is like, shit, that's my day on my birthday. So, 90 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:17.000 Ruth, it sounds like a shit birthday. To be honest with you, 91 00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:24.519 I would say, go to David Busters or a crack house. A 92 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:28.120 crack house would be do you have a location you could give Ruth of one 93 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:32.360 that she might want to go to. Maybe your favorite go to Coon Rapids 94 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:35.680 and turn left. Okay, it'd be the first crack house on the right. 95 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:39.439 Yeah, so Ruth, you know what I'm gonna tell you, Ruth, 96 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:41.879 I'm gonna guess judging by the fact that you said, you're an old 97 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:44.879 lady and your name is Ruth, and I don't think there's anybody under the 98 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:46.839 age of forty that's got the name Ruth. I love the name of Ruth, 99 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:50.040 and I think it's gonna come back. But you know what, you 100 00:05:50.079 --> 00:05:54.120 know how it is, Ruth. Birthdays when you're older are kind of like 101 00:05:54.399 --> 00:06:00.160 whatever. This my past birthday I spent by myself, and I'll be hones 102 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:01.600 with you. It sucked. It was a bad idea. I thought I'd 103 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:05.160 be fine spending my birthday by myself. It was depressing. Yeah, it 104 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:09.279 was just not a good idea. But go do something, Ruth, cause 105 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:13.480 you're old and you're gonna die soon now, Okay, what you have plenty 106 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:15.279 of birthdays ahead, Ruth. And honestly, if olive garden is what your 107 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:17.839 heart desired, I think that that's what you should do, because, honestly, 108 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:24.319 I don't know a place besides Fazzoli's that has better breadsticks and olive garden. 109 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:27.639 They are legit, aren't they so good? They're warm and just a 110 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:31.920 little crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Okay, don't say 111 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:35.120 my name. And this is a really interesting one, and I want you 112 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:40.959 to listen and see if you have an answer or a similar story. My 113 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:44.560 husband and I got married in twenty twenty one, so just three years ago. 114 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:48.839 We have always filed taxes married separately. This last year, we bought 115 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:53.000 a house, so we knew we would have to file jointly. I also 116 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:56.120 knew my husband owed some money to the irs, but I didn't know how 117 00:06:56.199 --> 00:07:00.000 much. I've got soul customed my son who was sixteen, and I file 118 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:04.839 head of households. So imagine my surprise when I went online to my tax 119 00:07:04.839 --> 00:07:09.040 place to start the process. Once I added in my info his info, 120 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:13.639 my taxes went from a refund of fifty four hundred dollars. That's what she 121 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:16.480 was going to get for a refund. Once she figured in his info, 122 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:24.560 she now owes twelve dollars, all because he owes money to thers. I 123 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:29.439 am pissed and upset. Do I have the right to be mad? He 124 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:32.240 wasn't taking care of his debts, so I guess I had to. I'm 125 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:36.040 the financial one between us. Thank goodness, just so much money I was 126 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:41.279 planning to put into a savings account and invested somewhere. Ugh. Love you 127 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:44.240 guys, so much, thanks for the vent, and I won't say your 128 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:48.439 name. A couple of thoughts here. Number one, it sucks that he 129 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:54.199 kept that from you. Number one. Number two, it sucks that you 130 00:07:54.279 --> 00:08:01.040 are stuck with his debt. Number three red flag. Yeah, if he 131 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:07.439 has been that financially irresponsible, it ain't done. And I hate to say 132 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:11.879 that, but it's not done. So I mean it was fifty four hundred 133 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:16.680 that she was supposed to get back, yes, right, yep. I 134 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:20.439 mean if that's the only thing that he has a problem with, if she 135 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:22.399 knows about his credit card spending and stuff like that, I don't think it's 136 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:26.639 like that big of a red flag. I agree, But but she didn't 137 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:30.600 know about it. Yeah, she's got to pay it. That is the 138 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:33.600 part that's kind of like eh, or like was she able to ask him 139 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:37.559 for the money then for herself, Like oh, okay, you know, 140 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:41.559 he doesn't have people that don't have money don't have money, And by that, 141 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:45.279 I mean it's a really good lesson in life, and I think it's 142 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:46.519 in my book. If they don't have the money now and they need to 143 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:50.679 borrow from you, they're not going to have an abundance of money later to 144 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:54.759 pay you back. Yeah, and that's not always true, but a lot 145 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:58.799 of the times it is. So I want to ask this question, what 146 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:05.720 did you find out financially about your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, 147 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:11.080 partner, spouse? Like, holy shit, I didn't realize they were forty 148 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:16.159 seven thousand dollars in credit card debt until I married them. I didn't realize 149 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:20.960 they had, you know, a tax lean on our house until we were 150 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:28.720 engaged. I didn't realize that he spent fifteen thousand dollars on a baseball card 151 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:35.039 collection without telling me. So I wonder if there's something there that you had 152 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:39.960 some financial experience or misadventure with your spouse where you didn't know that they were 153 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:45.600 forty seven thousand dollars in or or they went out and they brought a brand 154 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:48.639 new Mustang and they couldn't afford it. And they came home and said, 155 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:50.720 look, I got a brand new Mustang and you're like, bitch, I 156 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:54.360 can't afford this. We can't afford this. Yeah, that happened to somebody 157 00:09:54.399 --> 00:10:00.159 in my family. They were so dumb, just dumb. They went to 158 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:03.080 the car dealership and it was probably used. We met that night with a 159 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:07.879 family at Red lobster for a big family dinner and they're like, check it 160 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:11.240 out, it's my new Mustang. Wow. And I'm thinking to myself, 161 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:15.120 you can't afford this. And a couple of months later it got repotd because 162 00:10:15.159 --> 00:10:18.039 they couldn't afford it. Yeah, but the car dealership was more than happy 163 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:22.919 to sell it to them. Yeah, because once they gave the loan to 164 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:24.879 the bank, the car dealership was off the hook. Yeah. You do 165 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:28.480 have to get approved though, for stuff like that. So it's always weird 166 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:35.399 to me to see how certain people are capable of getting approved for certain things 167 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:37.159 and then they can't afford it and then yeah, yeah, And a lot 168 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:41.799 of times, you know, there's these things like we approve everybody low credit, 169 00:10:41.879 --> 00:10:45.320 no credit, zero credit, bad credit, will approve you. I 170 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:48.480 don't know anything about it, but I think you can get approved. But 171 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:52.200 so write to me and let me know. I think it might be a 172 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:54.720 good theme instead of like, you know, shitting your pants or some of 173 00:10:54.720 --> 00:11:01.240 the other themes that we've had on the show lately, about what financial secret 174 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:05.080 you didn't know that your boyfriend all of a sudden came home and he said, 175 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:09.799 I bought a racehorse. You bought a what a racehorse? Okay, 176 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:15.639 so thank you for that one. Appreciate that email. Uh, next one, 177 00:11:15.879 --> 00:11:18.159 interesting one? Howdy, please don't use my name. Love your show. 178 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:22.159 I have a question for those of you that sleep next to somebody every 179 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:26.080 night, but you have your own setup. Do you have your own set 180 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:30.440 of blankets or companis or do you share? Susan and I don't sleep together, 181 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:33.519 but when we do on occasion, we have the same blankets and sheets. 182 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:35.159 What about you, Yes, we have the same blankets and sheets. 183 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:41.720 Andrew does not sleep under the top sheet, so he is kind of separate 184 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:43.440 in that way, but we use the same everything. Yeah, you can't 185 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:48.879 reach out and touch feet, no, usually not no. But he what 186 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:52.600 ends up happening is he just kicks all the sheets off the bed, like 187 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:56.080 the corner. The fitted sheet is halfway off the bed half the time with 188 00:11:56.200 --> 00:11:58.720 him, like I do not know what happens in his sleep. So the 189 00:11:58.759 --> 00:12:01.720 sheet that he does sleep on top of ends up getting kicked to the side 190 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:05.320 anyways, and all ends up on my side. Okay, pretty much, 191 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:07.480 so I almost have my own sheet in that aspect, but we have the 192 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:11.360 same comforter. They go on to say, if you each have your own 193 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:13.480 blankets. What does it look like when you make the bed? Do you 194 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:18.879 separate the blankets? Do those separate blankets match or does your bed look like 195 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:22.000 a half and half pizza situation like this color on this side that on the 196 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:26.440 other. I don't know. My finance and I have sheets on our bed, 197 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:31.200 but only I use the top sheet and he lays on top of it 198 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:33.639 and uses a separate comforter, and I have a weighted blanket on my side, 199 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:35.840 so they don't match by any means. Just wondering if people have a 200 00:12:35.879 --> 00:12:39.279 third secret comforter that they put on top of the entire bed to make it 201 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:46.919 look cohesive. Thank you from your BFF and p one who's dart licking days 202 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:50.720 are long over, but you gotta try everything once, am I right? 203 00:12:50.519 --> 00:12:54.360 I love that? Let me know. I've seen videos on TikTok of people 204 00:12:54.399 --> 00:13:00.279 who do the separate sheets or blankets whatever, and then they have one that 205 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:03.159 goes on top of all of it to kind of hide that there's two separate 206 00:13:03.159 --> 00:13:05.240 sets of things on the bed. Okay, So I think that might be 207 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:07.639 an option for a lot of people who do do the separate things. I've 208 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:11.639 never heard of people doing like different blankets and sheets. But then again, 209 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:15.440 I haven't been to a lot of people's bedrooms and experience that. Yeah. 210 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:18.919 So now this one gets a little long, but I really like it. 211 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:22.480 So we're gonna wrap up with this one, I believe. Let me just 212 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:26.080 see here if there's yeah, I'm gonna get to some of these later, 213 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:31.120 So let me go back to this one. It's a little bit longer now. 214 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:35.120 They wrote in last week and they said that basically, they said, 215 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:37.720 I'm so glad that somebody agrees with me that Taylor Swift is only okay, 216 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:43.399 she's a good singer, she also has overcome somebody's calling me and I don't 217 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:46.639 know who it is. You need an answer it? No? Do you 218 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:50.799 want me to answer it? No? Okay, I don't know who it 219 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:56.320 is? Okay, Anyway, they said, I can honestly say her songs 220 00:13:56.320 --> 00:14:00.639 sound the same, and I don't know what it is about to day's youth. 221 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:03.399 I'm twenty seven, by the way, but I feel like everything is 222 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:07.559 about having the same Stanley cup, the eclectic archy kid and me, or 223 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:11.600 the same phone, the same shoes, the same whatever, whatever happened individuality. 224 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:16.440 Now, we read that last week and some people came after this person 225 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:18.799 and they said to the person that wrote in the other day that I had 226 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:22.879 an issue, and they're calling again. Maybe answer at this time, make 227 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:28.440 sure everything's okay. Okay. I just answered my phone and we took a 228 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:33.399 pause. There. It's Fred. This is so cool, the chef from 229 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:37.840 the Old Country Buffet training video that was gone viral and we played it a 230 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:41.960 little bit last week, and he's like, so, if you tried lasagna, 231 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:46.360 it's my favorite. And he's kind of sweaty, and he's wearing a 232 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:50.360 chef's hat and he's carving meat at Old Country Buffet and the thing is all 233 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:54.240 about make sure you talk to your guests, including our younger guests. So 234 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:58.600 Fred goes, so, what great are you in? Hey, you thought 235 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:05.080 about dessert yet? And it's just corny and very dated and silly and funny. 236 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:07.559 And Fred gets that. Yeah, So he was calling because he's gonna 237 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:11.759 be on the show tomorrow about nine o'clock Tuesday. Don't miss Fred. All 238 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:16.519 right, we were reading this email and so I don't think you set your 239 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:20.200 focus point on the main focus on the main point I was trying to get 240 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:22.200 across. I know, I said, gen Z, come at me. 241 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:26.480 But that was more in regards to Taylor Swift fanatics than not having personalities. 242 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:31.000 And I'm apologized if I didn't if I didn't come off that way. Truthfully, 243 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:35.679 I'm not mean spirited, but the issue I have isn't with gen Z 244 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:39.399 as much it is now. Remember there are only twenty seven, They're not 245 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:43.679 some old lady. The obsession with having and doing what everybody else does for 246 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:50.159 the sake of fitting in. I fully understand that as a teenager this is 247 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:54.480 what seems most important, but with the help of social media, knowing what 248 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:58.960 everybody else does is a lot more accessible than it was before. Capitalism is 249 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:03.799 a much bigger problem, making people believe they need some materialistic thing to achieve 250 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:08.159 a higher status because that's what's most important. And if you don't have that, 251 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:11.840 then not only are you lesser than, but you're a target for bullying. 252 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:15.159 Parents are willing to spend more money on their kids for the reasons that 253 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:18.519 they don't want them to be bullied at school. I'm just gonna stop there 254 00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:23.519 because I've been thinking about this a little bit. If Alison or Carson really 255 00:16:23.559 --> 00:16:29.279 wanted a Stanley Cup, I'd get him a fucking Stanley cup. Not because 256 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:32.480 I don't want them to be bullied, but because they're a kid one time. 257 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:37.720 If I could afford it, they're a kid one time. You get 258 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:42.039 eighteen summers with your kid, and there's a stat somewhere that by the time 259 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:47.519 a kid is eleven years old, you've already spent seventy five percent of the 260 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:51.480 time that you will spend with them. Think about that, by the time 261 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:56.080 your kid is eleven years old, you've already spent seventy five percent of the 262 00:16:56.159 --> 00:17:00.480 time you will spend with that kid. It's true because they get busy going 263 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:04.680 to summer camp and sleepovers and playing at a friend's house, and school and 264 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:10.359 band and gymnastics and cheerleading or whatever. You don't see them as often once 265 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:12.119 they turn about eleven or twelve. Once they turn sixteen, you see him 266 00:17:12.119 --> 00:17:18.039 even less often. So I'm not doing it to spoil Alison or Carson. 267 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:22.839 I'm doing it because they're a kid, just one time, So why not 268 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:26.559 get him a Stanley bottle if I can afford it. And it reminds me 269 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:30.200 there was this I've maybe told this story before. I was probably four or 270 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:33.720 five years old. My dad and I were at the rodeo We went to 271 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:40.480 the rodeo in Colorado Springs and I wasn't spoiled at all. But here comes 272 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:45.640 the cotton candy guy, and I remember he's coming up the stairs and I 273 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:51.039 can still picture him. He's got a rack of pink cotton candies. And 274 00:17:51.079 --> 00:17:55.359 I'm there with my dad watching the rodeo, and I said, Dad, 275 00:17:55.440 --> 00:17:57.720 can I have one of those? And he said, uh, you don't 276 00:17:57.720 --> 00:18:03.160 need one of those. They were probably a dime or a quarterback then, 277 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:06.359 and I'm okay with it. It didn't mar me for life, but I 278 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:12.519 never forgot it how it would have made me so happy to have that cotton 279 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:17.920 candy And would it cost my dad a quarter? Yeah? Do you think 280 00:18:17.920 --> 00:18:19.359 you would have remembered that story had you gotten the cotton candy? Gill, 281 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:22.960 I would not know. That's what I'm saying. You're remembering it because it 282 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:26.359 was like so something you like, just wanted so badly, But had you 283 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:30.000 had gotten it, it's I don't know. I just think there's a lot 284 00:18:30.039 --> 00:18:34.240 of life lessons and not getting everything that you wanted. And I mean I 285 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:37.880 come from someone who didn't get anything. Growing up. My parents argued about 286 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:41.039 money. We barely had money to get groceries half the time, like sometimes 287 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:47.039 in certain parts of my life. So like for me, like I say 288 00:18:47.039 --> 00:18:51.319 this now, not having kids, I'm sure it would change if I had 289 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:56.680 the financial capability capabilities, but I would not be giving my kids everything that 290 00:18:56.720 --> 00:18:59.599 they wanted. Would I give them a little more luxury than what I had 291 00:18:59.640 --> 00:19:03.039 growing up? Absolutely? Because I think that if you have the means too, 292 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:07.839 then sure, but it wouldn't be as easy for me for my kid 293 00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:10.440 to come up to me and ask me for money to go get something, 294 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:15.200 as I think some people are. But also I think your kids will ask 295 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:18.440 for those things if they see, like you spending a lot of money yourself, 296 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:21.880 you know. And I'm not saying that you specifically, I'm saying that 297 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:26.839 if you see your parents doing luxurious things, then they're going to get salty 298 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:30.799 when they ask if they can have a Stanley thermos because you have one, 299 00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:33.359 you might have three of them, so why can't they have one? You 300 00:19:33.400 --> 00:19:36.759 know? So I think you have to have a Stanley thermis or three of 301 00:19:36.799 --> 00:19:38.559 them, and your kid doesn't have one, then you should get them as 302 00:19:38.559 --> 00:19:42.119 Stanley thermis, right for sure? But yeah, I think I don't know. 303 00:19:42.359 --> 00:19:45.480 I do think I think a little differently on that stuff. But that's 304 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:49.200 because I really didn't grow up with anything, and I think that it taught 305 00:19:49.240 --> 00:19:53.519 me a lot in life, which is that like money doesn't buy you everything 306 00:19:53.559 --> 00:19:56.240 that you desire, like, you can still be very happy. I was 307 00:19:56.279 --> 00:20:00.519 a pretty happy kid, yea, even though I didn't have much. Same 308 00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:03.680 thing, Jenny. I didn't have much either, but you know, I 309 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:07.519 had enough. I had a nice bicycle and then I get another bicycle when 310 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:10.279 I get a little bit older. I had my hot Wheels track. I 311 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:17.559 had my rock'm Sockham Robots. I had a semi working TV. But I 312 00:20:17.640 --> 00:20:19.319 wasn't spoiled. But I just, I don't know. I've kind of rethought 313 00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:23.680 it a little bit because your kids are little one time, yeah, and 314 00:20:23.720 --> 00:20:27.640 they grow up and then things become totally different. They can buy their own 315 00:20:27.680 --> 00:20:33.079 shit later, so why not give them some of the joys, whether it's 316 00:20:33.119 --> 00:20:38.359 a Stanley water bottle or a snow cone or what was it what I say, 317 00:20:38.440 --> 00:20:44.000 cotton scandy? An Yeah, why I'm going to the Wisconsin Dells. 318 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:47.640 And I have the same kind of story where I always wanted dippin' dots and 319 00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:49.880 we got to go to the Dells a lot because my uncle to Noah's Ark, 320 00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:52.960 specifically because my uncle worked for a radio station, so we got free 321 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:57.000 tickets to Noah's Ark like every summer, so we would get to go there, 322 00:20:57.079 --> 00:21:00.359 and so it'd be a freak trip for us. So we could do 323 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:03.759 it, but my parents would never give in. We packed lunches, we'd 324 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:07.839 go eat out in the car. But I always wanted Dippin' Dots and they 325 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:12.559 never once let me have them because they were overpriced, Like for you know, 326 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:15.400 it's like you go to a theme park, you go to a baseball 327 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:18.319 game, whatever, a lot of the food is super overpriced. Yeah, 328 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:22.119 and I never got it. But I have that same kind of cotton candy 329 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:25.559 story of like always thinking one day I'm going to get the diping dots and 330 00:21:25.640 --> 00:21:29.160 my parents never got me them. And it's like, you know what I 331 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:32.359 think that you know, I get it. I get both sides of it. 332 00:21:32.480 --> 00:21:33.920 I just and I'm not going to say that if I had kids again, 333 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:37.440 that I would get them everything they asked for. I was lucky my 334 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:44.559 kids did not ask for much. Yeah, Carson liked shoes and he collected 335 00:21:44.599 --> 00:21:48.319 shoes, but he did it with his birthday money and his Christmas money and 336 00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:56.319 later his graduation money and his Eagle Scout money or whatever. But yeah, 337 00:21:56.559 --> 00:21:59.559 anyway, they go on to say, and then they they did say something 338 00:21:59.599 --> 00:22:03.119 about capitalism is a much bigger problem. I think it's really interesting that people 339 00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:07.640 who rip on capitalism. I get it. It does lead to companies charging 340 00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:11.119 forty dollars for a cup so your kid will feel And then if they can 341 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:15.039 charge forty, they'll charge fifty, and if they can charge fifty, they'll 342 00:22:15.079 --> 00:22:18.079 charge sixty. And they don't care if they're raping the rainforest and whatever. 343 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:23.160 But from what I know, and I've done some research, name a better 344 00:22:23.240 --> 00:22:29.799 system than capitalism and maybe there maybe maybe that'll get some responses. Yeah, 345 00:22:29.839 --> 00:22:33.720 my mind is open. Name a better and don't get wordy, but name 346 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:37.880 a better system than capitalism. And if capitalism sucks so bad, why does 347 00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:44.240 the world want to rush to live in the United States? And we've made 348 00:22:44.240 --> 00:22:48.119 capitalism an ugly word, and I don't know that it is an ugly word. 349 00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:53.200 I think capitalism every system has its good and bad. But there's certainly 350 00:22:53.720 --> 00:22:57.559 you're not going to say communism is better than capitalism. But there are people 351 00:22:57.599 --> 00:23:02.880 who believe that capitalism and Marxism is better than capitalism. But we're getting a 352 00:23:02.880 --> 00:23:06.759 little bit deep in the weeds here, So go ahead and have that snow 353 00:23:06.759 --> 00:23:10.559 cone. Why don't keep saying snow cone? It was cotton canny, cotton 354 00:23:10.599 --> 00:23:12.799 candy. And I don't know why I say snow cone. Snow cones suck. 355 00:23:14.119 --> 00:23:15.920 Is there a different story that's coming to mind, that's in the back 356 00:23:15.960 --> 00:23:21.640 of your head that's trying to come out. No snow cones. They squirt 357 00:23:21.680 --> 00:23:23.359 the flavor on the top, it all drains to the bottom. It's paper 358 00:23:23.400 --> 00:23:26.400 pretty soon, it's dripping out all over your shirt. How slow are you 359 00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:30.319 eating your snow cone? I always hammered. Mine's quick enough that it wasn't 360 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:34.200 that liquidy. Mine melts. It gets in the bottom, all the flavors 361 00:23:34.200 --> 00:23:37.480 in the bottom, it drips out. There's a little bit of ice left. 362 00:23:37.519 --> 00:23:41.640 You're eating basically flavorless bland eyes. It's got a little bit of yellow 363 00:23:41.680 --> 00:23:45.400 or a little bit of blue, no flavor at all. It's hard. 364 00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:51.440 It turns into a hard snowball, and then there's flavor in the bottom dripping 365 00:23:51.519 --> 00:23:52.920 out that you have to tip it back and drink it. At the end. 366 00:23:53.079 --> 00:23:56.799 I love snow cones. Those are my jam. You have all you 367 00:23:56.839 --> 00:24:00.680 want, Jenny, I'll buy you a snow cone next year at the fair. 368 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:04.960 Yay, thank you, You're welcome. And that is it. Tomorrow's 369 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:08.119 Naughty Tuesday. If you got a Naughty Tuesday story, love to hear that. 370 00:24:08.400 --> 00:24:14.119 Also, don't forget to use the let me recap joke and let me 371 00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:15.839 know how that goes. If you're sitting in the meeting or with your husband 372 00:24:15.920 --> 00:24:19.440 or with your partner, whatever, and you get a sharpie and you say 373 00:24:19.480 --> 00:24:22.200 something, go let me recap and then put it back on. Let me 374 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:25.720 know how that goes. But make sure that people are looking at you too, 375 00:24:26.039 --> 00:24:27.880 because I had looked down to make a note right as you were starting 376 00:24:27.880 --> 00:24:30.279 that, and I looked up as you did it because I was like, 377 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:33.440 if you're in a meeting and everyone's like taking notes and they're not paying attention, 378 00:24:33.480 --> 00:24:37.319 and then you do it and then you're just waiting verone, be like, 379 00:24:37.400 --> 00:24:40.839 what's going on? What's so funny? And then also let us know 380 00:24:40.880 --> 00:24:47.200 if you found out anything about your partner's spending that you didn't know about, 381 00:24:47.319 --> 00:24:52.599 I think that could be really really interesting. And that is it for the 382 00:24:52.680 --> 00:24:59.240 Minnesota goodbye. Send your emails to Ryan Show at kadiwb dot com.