Speaker 1: Welcome to the podcast that is slowly creeping up on
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Speaker 1: thirty eight. So we're doing I mean getting close all
Speaker 1: the time, all the time, getting closer.
Speaker 2: We're creeping up.
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Speaker 3: We're closer than you who might not be doing a podcast.
Speaker 1: Yepp ouch Jenny. One of our guests on the podcast
Speaker 1: is a very special guest, Kanye We No, it's Secretary Brie.
Speaker 1: Secretary Brie. Secretary Brie sends out staff writer stickers and
Speaker 1: Secretary Brie is an interesting person because you are the
Speaker 1: mom of what two kids?
Speaker 4: Two children?
Speaker 1: Two kids? You are going to school to become a nurse.
Speaker 4: Already a nurse okay, and working on my esthetics nursing.
Speaker 1: So what is esthetic nursing and laser.
Speaker 4: Harry moveal You're going to hook me up?
Speaker 2: Yes, Oh my gosh y.
Speaker 1: How long to take to become certified for botox and
Speaker 1: laser hair?
Speaker 4: Presently?
Speaker 1: Not that long.
Speaker 4: I'm doing it all online. You can do like a
Speaker 4: week long course. You can also do it in like
Speaker 4: a weekend like it's a lot very expensive, but I'm
Speaker 4: doing just a self paced online situation. It's pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, we were talking off the air with Secretary Brie,
Speaker 1: and I hope you don't mind me bringing this up,
Speaker 1: but you I am leading this somewhere. You were heavy
Speaker 1: as a kid, I was, okay, So I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask you in the most respectful way if you are
Speaker 1: a parent and your kid is getting heavy. Let's say
Speaker 1: she's eight years old or he's eleven, and they're like husky,
Speaker 1: because that's what we used to call him when I
Speaker 1: was a kid, was the.
Speaker 4: The jeans are called husky.
Speaker 1: They used to have a brand name called husky, like
Speaker 1: it's sears or something like that. So what what is
Speaker 1: a good way? Because let's face it, if you have
Speaker 1: a husky, I do it partly tongue in cheek. Kid,
Speaker 1: you probably don't want them to face that. So I'm
Speaker 1: going to start with this, what is as a bigger
Speaker 1: kid and growing up bigger? Was that challenging for you?
Speaker 4: For sure?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: And then I think just I think there's just shame
Speaker 4: that goes with when you're young, you don't know what's
Speaker 4: right versus wrong necessarily, and you're trying to learn those
Speaker 4: healthy habits, And it's just I don't know, it's just
Speaker 4: definitely a delicate, delicate balance I think between having a good,
Speaker 4: honest conversation and doing damage.
Speaker 1: Well, I think that's my next point is, like, if
Speaker 1: you've got a kid who's getting bigger than you're, like, eh,
Speaker 1: she's putting on a little weight. She's eight years old
Speaker 1: and she weighs this, how do you approach an eight
Speaker 1: year old or how do you what do you say
Speaker 1: to a fourteen year old who's you know, maybe thirty
Speaker 1: pounds overweight without destroying that self esteem or whatever it
Speaker 1: might be endangering.
Speaker 4: Right, I think it's so hard. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't think you necessarily need to have a conversation
Speaker 2: with an eight year old like hey, buddy, you're getting big,
Speaker 2: because then isn't that partially on you as a parent
Speaker 2: to like feed them better and like get them more
Speaker 2: exercise opportunities. So that's not necessarily a conversation with like
Speaker 2: an eight year old versus like if you're sixteen and
Speaker 2: you do have a little bit more like wherewithal and
Speaker 2: agency than maybe having a conversation with that person versus
Speaker 2: somebody who's like eight, Absolutely what did.
Speaker 1: You hear from your parents if anything? When you know,
Speaker 1: not a lot.
Speaker 4: So I didn't live I only lived with my mom
Speaker 4: growing up, and there wasn't a lot of talk about it,
Speaker 4: but there would be like the subtle I don't know
Speaker 4: if we should have that or you know, little things
Speaker 4: like that. I didn't have a lot of tools though.
Speaker 4: I wasn't in sports other than basketball for a little bit.
Speaker 4: I didn't have a lot of healthy activities that I did,
Speaker 4: and I think that was a big contributor. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Is it genetic also where mom and dad I maybe
Speaker 1: a little bit.
Speaker 4: I was definitely much bigger than either of my parents
Speaker 4: ever were when I was like in my twenties and
Speaker 4: early thirties even Okay, yeah, so.
Speaker 1: How did it affect you? I mean, were you always
Speaker 1: like going, oh, people are looking at me.
Speaker 4: I worried. I think about like, you know, the plastic,
Speaker 4: white plastic picnic table chairs, those cheap ones. Yes, if
Speaker 4: you'd ever go to an event or get together and
Speaker 4: those were the chairs, it was like a moment of panic,
Speaker 4: not like I'm not gonna fit in that chair, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna break that chair like that kind of stuff. Not
Speaker 4: being able to fit on a roller coaster ride. Like
Speaker 4: I stopped going to amusement parks because I had one
Speaker 4: time where I had to get off because it didn't
Speaker 4: fit and it was devastating.
Speaker 2: Yea, yeah, never so sad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what did you do? If I can ask and
Speaker 1: you don't, you know, like if you don't want to answer,
Speaker 1: what did you do to cause you're thin? Now?
Speaker 4: Yeah? So I actually I had weight less surgery eleven
Speaker 4: years ago. I had the gastric sleeve. Okay, yeah, and
Speaker 4: I would do it again in a heartbeat.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I know somebody who had the gas
Speaker 1: tricks something or other. Beth's mother sure was always a
Speaker 1: little bit heavy. Then she got up to I think
Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty five pounds and then she had
Speaker 1: the surgery. And I'll be honest with you, I was
Speaker 1: a little bit annoyed because her insurance paid for it,
Speaker 1: and I was like, you ate your way into that problem.
Speaker 1: But maybe I'm just being a because I can be
Speaker 1: kind of a dick. But she then ate her way
Speaker 1: back through the gas sleeve and gain back everything. Is
Speaker 1: that is that?
Speaker 4: Absolutely absolutely, If you don't fix some of those problems,
Speaker 4: you just binge eat yourself right back into you stretch
Speaker 4: it right back out and you absolutely get the way back.
Speaker 1: One more question, why is everything that is so delicious
Speaker 1: bad for us? Breathe, go ahead.
Speaker 4: I wish I knew the answer, and I wouldn't have
Speaker 4: chipped my tooth on a nerds rope this morning.
Speaker 1: Are you serious?
Speaker 4: I ate a frozen nerd rope on my way in
Speaker 4: the corner of a tooth that I've been perseverating on
Speaker 4: all morning.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it looks like Jim Harry and Dumb and Dummer.
Speaker 1: Yeah that wow. Well, thank you, Brie, we appreciate it. Emails,
Speaker 1: which is the basically the main body of the Minnesota Goodbye,
Speaker 1: Let's get started. Aaron writes in wanted to chime in
Speaker 1: for the listener, worried about naming her baby the same
Speaker 1: as a distant family member. What was the name they get? Jack? Jack? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so they came over with the name Jack and then
Speaker 1: they said, oh, well, you can't name Jack Jack because
Speaker 1: your cousin Katie has a kid named Jack. In my family,
Speaker 1: I've got two uncle Dan's, two cousin Megan's, and two
Speaker 1: cousin Ryan's. One set them a mom's side, other on
Speaker 1: a dad's side. And yes, they are within the same family,
Speaker 1: and the only differing factor is there's also a Caitlin
Speaker 1: thrown in the mix. There's also a cousin Kate and
Speaker 1: a cousin Katie that Mary. As far as I know,
Speaker 1: nobody cares. Nobody cares, and we often get Dans and
Speaker 1: Ryan's together. Makes it confusing for my significant other, but
Speaker 1: got a big deal.
Speaker 2: I wonder if they existed before, like the two parents
Speaker 2: got together, though, because then if it's like ones on
Speaker 2: dad side ones on mom's side, Well, we both had
Speaker 2: a cousin Ryan at the time, so obviously you're gonna
Speaker 2: still have it and no one will care versus having
Speaker 2: one exist and then you name the other one the
Speaker 2: same name as someone who already exists.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, yeah, probably a little bit different, Aubrey
Speaker 1: writes in First Time Writer. So sorry this is if
Speaker 1: this is not the correct way. No, it's fine. I
Speaker 1: was listening to the Minnesota Goodbye episode where Dave talked
Speaker 1: about orkin people I worked for Orcan, and I showed
Speaker 1: my bosses the episode where you guys talked about Orcan Porno.
Speaker 1: I think it traumatized them. Dart Lick, dart Lick. Aubrey
Speaker 1: the Orcan woman. What did we say about organ You said,
Speaker 1: what did I say?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I think you just made a joke
Speaker 3: about the kind of porn you watch, and you said
Speaker 3: all the porn like the orgon.
Speaker 2: Man shows up and it's like, oh, I'm here to
Speaker 2: get rid of your infestation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you said kind of started it.
Speaker 1: You gonna stop me once in a while.
Speaker 3: Well, no, when you get on those weird post the
Speaker 3: best my favorite version of you.
Speaker 1: Actually, Thank you, Aubrey. Next one, another staff writer wrote
Speaker 1: in the Other Day says Shannon for about birthday spankings,
Speaker 1: and she said she was in first grade in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety five. Shit, I'm old. That's when I grab wait
Speaker 1: from high school. But back to birthdays at school, I
Speaker 1: remember everybody able to bring in homeroom treat homemade treats,
Speaker 1: not like Jessica's mom who was going to poison the
Speaker 1: d not like Jessica's mom was going to try to
Speaker 1: poison the entire second grade class. Yet it was in
Speaker 1: fact a treat. What sucked was my birthday is June
Speaker 1: twenty fifth, so no school. Well then they would normally
Speaker 1: celebrate your half birthday. Damn, that's Christmas so no school again.
Speaker 1: I always got screwed. But lucky for my mom because
Speaker 1: she's not little miss Sally homemaker, and my treats would
Speaker 1: have been just a bummer. That's all for today. Lickety
Speaker 1: Dart lickety by from Shannon. I remember they used to
Speaker 1: call him room mothers back when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: and at the beginning of every school year, they would,
Speaker 1: you know, ask for a couple of volunteers to become
Speaker 1: room mothers. And they were the ones that would come
Speaker 1: assist on party days like Valentine's Day or whatever, Halloween,
Speaker 1: and the room mothers would bake cookies or brownies or whatever.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Volunteer, yeah, a volunteer, Yeah, but they would call hers, yeah.
Speaker 1: And room mothers would come on birthdays and whatever. But
Speaker 1: I remember very clearly having birthdays in like third grade,
Speaker 1: and I'd be so excited because my mom was going
Speaker 1: to come this afternoon and she's bringing cookies for everybody,
Speaker 1: and so she'd bring in a tray of cookies and
Speaker 1: they'd hand out milk and all the kids was sing
Speaker 1: Happy Birthday, and I remember being very excited about that.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you one traumatic story, and I've told you
Speaker 1: this before, the first time I was, I was probably
Speaker 1: in a kindergarten or so maybe younger, and my brother
Speaker 1: was about five years older than me, and he was
Speaker 1: having a birthday party in his room. So my mom
Speaker 1: was a room mother and brought ice cream bars, so
Speaker 1: the stick with the chocolate wrapped around the ice cream.
Speaker 1: They handed me one, and it was mostly thowed because
Speaker 1: it had not been in the freezer, and I was
Speaker 1: about to take a bite and the whole damn thing
Speaker 1: plopped onto the ground, and I was so upset because
Speaker 1: I was a little boy and I'd never had one before.
Speaker 1: I remember the sixth grade girls were all like, oh, David,
Speaker 1: it's okay, And I was like, did you have birthday
Speaker 1: celebrations when you were in school?
Speaker 2: We definitely had like where you could still bring in
Speaker 2: baked goods. I do remember that, And now that you
Speaker 2: say room mothers and describe who they are, we definitely
Speaker 2: had like the same like three moms come and volunteer
Speaker 2: for like before Christmas and like Valentine's Day, the ones
Speaker 2: where we had like the big party in class. But
Speaker 2: I remember specifically like if somebody had a parent, come
Speaker 2: in and have lunch with them, like in the cafeteria.
Speaker 2: That was the biggest damn deal in the entire school.
Speaker 2: You'd be like, oh my god, Ashley's mom is here
Speaker 2: and she brought McDonald's for her and Ashley to eat.
Speaker 2: Oh my gut. It was like the coolest thing to
Speaker 2: have ever happened. When really looking back on your like,
Speaker 2: that was cool.
Speaker 1: Now, that's funny because when when Carson was in elementary
Speaker 1: school one through five, I would go once or twice
Speaker 1: a year and go have lunch with him, and he'd
Speaker 1: be very proud, and he would and his friends that
Speaker 1: you know when you when you're a certain age third grade,
Speaker 1: you giggle and make jokes and you know, with with
Speaker 1: somebody else's parents or whatever. But then I went one
Speaker 1: time in fifth grade and I sat with him and
Speaker 1: all of his boys and they were quiet, and I
Speaker 1: could tell I was killing their vibe because here was
Speaker 1: an adult figure that kept them from making titty jokes
Speaker 1: and fart jokes and booger jokes. So they all sat
Speaker 1: there and politely ate, and I knew that was that
Speaker 1: was it, And I no.
Speaker 2: More past that.
Speaker 4: No, I'm so jealous of summer birthdays though, by the
Speaker 4: way back, having a January birthday awful. Yeah, awful, so cold,
Speaker 4: nothing to do, no pony ice skate sled yep, that's
Speaker 4: like it. Yeah, maybe a roller skating. There's no water parks,
Speaker 4: there's no amusement parks, there's no camping, there's no I
Speaker 4: have my husband is a July birthday and so jealous.
Speaker 1: That, yeah, so jealous because in the summer you get
Speaker 1: to have like the kids come over for a slip
Speaker 1: and slide or run through the sprinkler or you know whatever.
Speaker 4: So many choices.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I winter, you're like in the thick of the
Speaker 2: school year, we had one of my speech team kids,
Speaker 2: it was her birthday the other day and we just
Speaker 2: all sang to her on the bus and that was
Speaker 2: all that she got.
Speaker 1: Lame. That was it, oame lame. Uh. Let's see, we
Speaker 1: got a couple more here, Amanda writes in and by
Speaker 1: the way, the address is always Ryan Show at katiewb
Speaker 1: dot com. I want to share my story about skipping
Speaker 1: school and getting caught middle school. I'd spontaneously decided to
Speaker 1: stay home or walk to the bus stop and just
Speaker 1: kept on a walking. My mom went to work at
Speaker 1: the same time, so I knew she wouldn't be home.
Speaker 1: I walked back home and thought I was in the clear.
Speaker 1: About ten minutes after school started, my mom called my phone.
Speaker 1: Now I didn't think about what would happen after the
Speaker 1: school called my mom, but my mom was then texted
Speaker 1: me was very upset, saying that she was coming home
Speaker 1: to look for me. I didn't think about the fact
Speaker 1: that she would think I got kids. I decided I
Speaker 1: was going to hide in a box with stuffed animals
Speaker 1: that were we were donating brilliant, I thought. My poor
Speaker 1: moms racing around our house panic looking for me. She
Speaker 1: decided to call my cell phone, which gave away my location.
Speaker 1: She was so mad. Probably a year or two later,
Speaker 1: I had the same idea, but I hid under my
Speaker 1: bed and put blankets and clothes in front of me.
Speaker 1: She found me the same way. That damn phone didn't
Speaker 1: learn my lesson. Looking back on it, I feel so
Speaker 1: bad for putting my four poor mom through that. I
Speaker 1: am twenty five now and she is my best friend.
Speaker 1: Stay warm out there from Amanda. I used to fake
Speaker 1: sick a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did not go in.
Speaker 1: Once every two months. Oh that I didn't want to
Speaker 1: go in, Yeah, because it was so fun to stay
Speaker 1: home and watch prices right, yep. And I remember one
Speaker 1: time I told my mom and said, I don't want
Speaker 1: to go to school. Okay, we'll stay home because she
Speaker 1: was very permissive. And Donna, my sister, who was probably
Speaker 1: ten years older than me, she got up and she's like,
Speaker 1: why are you not at school? And I said, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to school. So I hid in a closet
Speaker 1: and I could hear Donna walking up and down the hall, David, David, David.
Speaker 1: She couldn't find me, and then she finally had to
Speaker 1: leave for work or whatever it was. And I got
Speaker 1: away with it. But I skipped school. I mean fake sick, sure,
Speaker 1: quite a bit.
Speaker 2: I never once faked sick in my life.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think Vaughn asked us on the podcast last
Speaker 3: week if we skipped school, and Bailly and I were like,
Speaker 3: way too good of students, Yeah, that we we just didn't.
Speaker 2: I went to school on days that were optional because
Speaker 2: I was such a good student. Suck up.
Speaker 4: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of it for the Minnesota Goodbye.
Speaker 1: We would love to have more emails. So if you
Speaker 1: want to write an email, and you're a first time emailer,
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Speaker 1: Stanley get all caught up today. Thank you Brie for
Speaker 1: coming in and we'll see you tomorrow on the man Minnesota. Goodbye.