It'll be a little bit shorter Minnesota Goodbye, because we are on a time
crunch. We have a big wig coming into town, and we have a
meeting that we must attend, and I think it's kind of a state of
the company kind of a thing, so we're gonna unfortunately, got to make
it shorter. I think you'll be okay. All right, Here we go
listening to the June seventh Minnesota Goodbye with an email from the employee who was
frustrated with her older coworker and her lack of technology skills, and I had
to write in. About ten years ago, I worked with a woman who
was in her mid sixties at the time. She could not get the hang
of email to save her life. Multiple times a day she would call me
into her office and say, how do I use my paper clip aka attaching
a documentary email? It drove me up a wall. She was my manager
and could not remember how to do something so simple, and it was so
frustrating. Being up to date about job requirements in a workplace is an expectation.
For example, doctors, no matter your age, they're required to do
continuing education in order to keep practicing medicine. If working on a computer is
required to do the job. You need to take the time to better yourself
and your knowledge. However, I tried to remember she was the same age
as my mom, and I wanted to treat her with the same respect.
I would hope someone would do with my mom, and I would always go
in and show her how to use their handy paper clip. I created a
little cheat sheet to help her and hope that instead of calling me, she
would reference a little guide. I'm not sure if this would help the person
who sent it in, but I thought it might help. Love the show
podcast and all things I've been listening since the Dave and Lee days. I
remember Flushed the format Fridays. Yep. We would play all kinds of different
songs that were not in the format. And the Dave Ryan Show CDs that
used to sell around Christmas time. They were always on my Christmas list.
Oh that's great, Christie, thank you. I appreciate that. My dad
worked until he was seventy eight years old, and yeah, and you know,
he was just an ambitious workaholic kind of a person. And one of
the reasons he quit was email because email was in the early nineties. He
retired in ninety four and he got chewed out by he worked at the Air
Force Academy, probably a young captain who was probably thirty years old, got
chewed out for not answering his email. And my dad didn't know how to
use email and didn't realize it was important and that's how you communicated. So
that's one of the reasons that he said, I'm done. So you know
what, one day, I think that we'll all be in a situation where
we've seen technology change so much that we go I can't keep up with this
next one. Dave wanted to chime in, Dave and all I wanted to
chime in on the boomers in technology. I'm retired, but I remember trying
to keep up with some of the tech that seemed to change weekly. I
wanted to learn, but it is hard after a lifetime of being the competent
employee teaching others to a sometimes object of derision. I learned as much as
I could on my own, because trust me, there was no one condescending
as an it rep. Okay, that is kind of true. It reps
get annoyed because we ask him the same questions over and over. Anyway,
I know there are many who refuse to learn, and shame on them.
But when tech doesn't really come naturally, sometimes you just want to cry.
Yeah, thanks for letting an old lady vent. Thank you. I appreciate
that, and I think that's the thing technology changes. I'm going to give
you an example. Ten or twelve years ago, Allison and I said,
let's get matching digital cameras, like nice thirty five millimeter digital cameras. Those
mother had so many features on them. I could never figure it out and
had so many settings, and then it had the basic mode. O.
God, I kept it in basic mode all the time because I could never
figure out how to use all the different you know, focal lengths or whatever,
aperture settings or whatever. I would yeah, you'd have to. Now
there are so many YouTube videos, but then that becomes overwhelming to like which
YouTube video too? I even look at to learn to use like this product.
But it is nice that you can type in on YouTube like you're very
specific thing and someone will show you and you're like, oh, that's really
helpful. That's how Jake's learned how to do multiple things on the boat without
having tasted someone to do it. Yeah, last one, I think we're
gonna have time for I need your help with a random thing. Back in
the day, two thousand and four to two thousand and eight, i'd watch
MTV or VH one in the morning before school. There was one music video
that I've been searching for ever since. Seriously, it's a visual earworm.
Not sure if you or listeners can help. It's of a woman in a
boat in the Louisiana Bayou and there's this second line brass band following her.
At the end of the video, they all end up in church. Maybe
it's a wedding. I'm not sure. My memory thinks it was such a
banger, but I can't find anything by popular female artists of the two thousands.
Does it sound familiar to me? No? Maybe it was never uploaded
to YouTube, as it might have been there before. That was a thing
makes me think of all the lost music videos over the years. Anyway,
thank you from Andrew Andrew. If somebody brings it up, they'll write in
to Ryan Show at KATWB dot com. It's so interesting because back in the
days of TRL, that was the only time they showed videos on MTV anymore.
It was all like this or that or reality shows or whatever, and
the only place back then in the late nineties was to watch TRL to watch
videos. Now, any video that you want to go see, like I
don't know, a Mariah Carey video. You can go on YouTube and watch
any video whenever you want to. But that and I think that's really cool
because there's a lot of videos that really they have an impactful memory to you,
and now you can watch them on YouTube. Well, I told you
that Jake's coming of age was to Christina Aguilera as a genie in a bottle,
and he said all the stars had to align for him to get his
moment because it had to come on MTV and his parents had to be out
of a house. He said, every star had to align for him to
have his personal moment so he would pleasure himself to Maria, Yeah, oh,
Christina Aguilera, Okay, Oh, that's funny. I know it didn't
have I don't know, I do know where as a younger, fourteen fifteen
year old kid, my source was like Playboys and Penthouse that my brother had
either I'd stolen from him or he'd left when he moved out or something.
And my dad used to keep Penthouse forums in the tall, tall, up
high cabinet in the bathroom, and of course I knew how to climb up
there. I actually climbed up the cabinet like a ladder. Do you know
what a Penthouse Forum is? I thought it was a magazine. It is
a magazine, yeah, but it's no pictures. It's just stories. So
it's erotic stories and people write in And the cliche was never thought I would
have a story good enough to write into Penthouse Forum. But here's what happened
to me on vacation. And they would go on with some story about meeting
someone or a threesome, and and it was kind of surprising that Dad had
Penthouse Forum stashed away in the bathroom. Well he was horny. Well I
told you a couple of days ago about how my dad was visiting one time
and he found a porn magazine in my nightstand. So I walked into my
bedroom because Mom and Dad were staying in my bedroom, I stayed in the
guest room, and there was Dad on the side of the bed reading some
porn magazine. And we both didn't acknowledge it. We both just like,
oh, hey, um, yeah, we're gonna go get dinner. If
you're ready to go, oh gosh, okay, a kind of a short
Minnesota goodbye. Thanks for listening to it. We will be back full length
tomorrow. And if you got any ideas something you want to talk about.
Maybe you discovered your mom or dad's porn collection. I'm gonna say probably more
likely dad's porn collection and you want to tell us about that. Or maybe
you have a funny story of what you used to pleasure yourself too. Maybe
you would look into Sears catalog and look at the underwear models. That's what
Steve used to do. He would look at the Pennies catalog. Steve on
our show back today, that was his joy. I think I remember looking
at the bra ads and a Pennies catalog too and going Send your email to
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