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It'll be a little bit shorter Minnesota
Goodbye, because we are on a time

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crunch. We have a big wig
coming into town, and we have a

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meeting that we must attend, and
I think it's kind of a state of

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the company kind of a thing,
so we're gonna unfortunately, got to make

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it shorter. I think you'll be
okay. All right, Here we go

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listening to the June seventh Minnesota Goodbye
with an email from the employee who was

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frustrated with her older coworker and her
lack of technology skills, and I had

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to write in. About ten years
ago, I worked with a woman who

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was in her mid sixties at the
time. She could not get the hang

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of email to save her life.
Multiple times a day she would call me

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into her office and say, how
do I use my paper clip aka attaching

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a documentary email? It drove me
up a wall. She was my manager

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and could not remember how to do
something so simple, and it was so

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frustrating. Being up to date about
job requirements in a workplace is an expectation.

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For example, doctors, no matter
your age, they're required to do

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continuing education in order to keep practicing
medicine. If working on a computer is

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required to do the job. You
need to take the time to better yourself

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and your knowledge. However, I
tried to remember she was the same age

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as my mom, and I wanted
to treat her with the same respect.

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I would hope someone would do with
my mom, and I would always go

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in and show her how to use
their handy paper clip. I created a

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little cheat sheet to help her and
hope that instead of calling me, she

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would reference a little guide. I'm
not sure if this would help the person

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who sent it in, but I
thought it might help. Love the show

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podcast and all things I've been listening
since the Dave and Lee days. I

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remember Flushed the format Fridays. Yep. We would play all kinds of different

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songs that were not in the format. And the Dave Ryan Show CDs that

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used to sell around Christmas time.
They were always on my Christmas list.

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Oh that's great, Christie, thank
you. I appreciate that. My dad

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worked until he was seventy eight years
old, and yeah, and you know,

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he was just an ambitious workaholic kind
of a person. And one of

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the reasons he quit was email because
email was in the early nineties. He

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retired in ninety four and he got
chewed out by he worked at the Air

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Force Academy, probably a young captain
who was probably thirty years old, got

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chewed out for not answering his email. And my dad didn't know how to

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use email and didn't realize it was
important and that's how you communicated. So

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that's one of the reasons that he
said, I'm done. So you know

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what, one day, I think
that we'll all be in a situation where

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we've seen technology change so much that
we go I can't keep up with this

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next one. Dave wanted to chime
in, Dave and all I wanted to

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chime in on the boomers in technology. I'm retired, but I remember trying

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to keep up with some of the
tech that seemed to change weekly. I

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wanted to learn, but it is
hard after a lifetime of being the competent

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employee teaching others to a sometimes object
of derision. I learned as much as

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I could on my own, because
trust me, there was no one condescending

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as an it rep. Okay,
that is kind of true. It reps

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get annoyed because we ask him the
same questions over and over. Anyway,

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I know there are many who refuse
to learn, and shame on them.

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But when tech doesn't really come naturally, sometimes you just want to cry.

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Yeah, thanks for letting an old
lady vent. Thank you. I appreciate

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that, and I think that's the
thing technology changes. I'm going to give

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you an example. Ten or twelve
years ago, Allison and I said,

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let's get matching digital cameras, like
nice thirty five millimeter digital cameras. Those

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mother had so many features on them. I could never figure it out and

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had so many settings, and then
it had the basic mode. O.

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God, I kept it in basic
mode all the time because I could never

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figure out how to use all the
different you know, focal lengths or whatever,

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aperture settings or whatever. I would
yeah, you'd have to. Now

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there are so many YouTube videos,
but then that becomes overwhelming to like which

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YouTube video too? I even look
at to learn to use like this product.

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But it is nice that you can
type in on YouTube like you're very

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specific thing and someone will show you
and you're like, oh, that's really

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helpful. That's how Jake's learned how
to do multiple things on the boat without

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having tasted someone to do it.
Yeah, last one, I think we're

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gonna have time for I need your
help with a random thing. Back in

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the day, two thousand and four
to two thousand and eight, i'd watch

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MTV or VH one in the morning
before school. There was one music video

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that I've been searching for ever since. Seriously, it's a visual earworm.

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Not sure if you or listeners can
help. It's of a woman in a

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boat in the Louisiana Bayou and there's
this second line brass band following her.

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At the end of the video,
they all end up in church. Maybe

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it's a wedding. I'm not sure. My memory thinks it was such a

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banger, but I can't find anything
by popular female artists of the two thousands.

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Does it sound familiar to me?
No? Maybe it was never uploaded

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to YouTube, as it might have
been there before. That was a thing

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makes me think of all the lost
music videos over the years. Anyway,

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thank you from Andrew Andrew. If
somebody brings it up, they'll write in

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to Ryan Show at KATWB dot com. It's so interesting because back in the

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days of TRL, that was the
only time they showed videos on MTV anymore.

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It was all like this or that
or reality shows or whatever, and

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the only place back then in the
late nineties was to watch TRL to watch

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videos. Now, any video that
you want to go see, like I

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don't know, a Mariah Carey video. You can go on YouTube and watch

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any video whenever you want to.
But that and I think that's really cool

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because there's a lot of videos that
really they have an impactful memory to you,

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and now you can watch them on
YouTube. Well, I told you

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that Jake's coming of age was to
Christina Aguilera as a genie in a bottle,

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and he said all the stars had
to align for him to get his

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moment because it had to come on
MTV and his parents had to be out

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of a house. He said,
every star had to align for him to

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have his personal moment so he would
pleasure himself to Maria, Yeah, oh,

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Christina Aguilera, Okay, Oh,
that's funny. I know it didn't

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have I don't know, I do
know where as a younger, fourteen fifteen

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year old kid, my source was
like Playboys and Penthouse that my brother had

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either I'd stolen from him or he'd
left when he moved out or something.

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And my dad used to keep Penthouse
forums in the tall, tall, up

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high cabinet in the bathroom, and
of course I knew how to climb up

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there. I actually climbed up the
cabinet like a ladder. Do you know

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what a Penthouse Forum is? I
thought it was a magazine. It is

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a magazine, yeah, but it's
no pictures. It's just stories. So

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it's erotic stories and people write in
And the cliche was never thought I would

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have a story good enough to write
into Penthouse Forum. But here's what happened

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to me on vacation. And they
would go on with some story about meeting

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someone or a threesome, and and
it was kind of surprising that Dad had

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Penthouse Forum stashed away in the bathroom. Well he was horny. Well I

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told you a couple of days ago
about how my dad was visiting one time

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and he found a porn magazine in
my nightstand. So I walked into my

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bedroom because Mom and Dad were staying
in my bedroom, I stayed in the

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guest room, and there was Dad
on the side of the bed reading some

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porn magazine. And we both didn't
acknowledge it. We both just like,

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oh, hey, um, yeah, we're gonna go get dinner. If

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you're ready to go, oh gosh, okay, a kind of a short

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Minnesota goodbye. Thanks for listening to
it. We will be back full length

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tomorrow. And if you got any
ideas something you want to talk about.

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Maybe you discovered your mom or dad's
porn collection. I'm gonna say probably more

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likely dad's porn collection and you want
to tell us about that. Or maybe

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you have a funny story of what
you used to pleasure yourself too. Maybe

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you would look into Sears catalog and
look at the underwear models. That's what

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Steve used to do. He would
look at the Pennies catalog. Steve on

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our show back today, that was
his joy. I think I remember looking

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at the bra ads and a Pennies
catalog too and going Send your email to

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Ryan Show at KDWB dot com