WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:03.040 We've got a Juanita. We got a Jannita file, and 2 00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:05.440 let's get right to the Juanita file. She is sent 3 00:00:05.519 --> 00:00:08.199 in another contribution. Now a little background on the Minnesota 4 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:11.960 Goodbye Onannita would send in ranty emails and they were 5 00:00:12.039 --> 00:00:14.279 very funny. So I said, we'll make a video, and 6 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:16.039 so she sent a video. And she's kind of like 7 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:18.839 a stand up comic. So let's see. And another think 8 00:00:18.879 --> 00:00:20.559 she lives here. I don't know where she lives. I think, 9 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:21.839 did she does she live here? 10 00:00:22.079 --> 00:00:24.719 I do that answer? I thought she did, but maybe not. 11 00:00:24.839 --> 00:00:26.559 I think she does. Now they think about it. Here's Jannita. 12 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:28.600 Let's see what she's got. We have not previewed this. 13 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:32.640 Hey, y'all, Hey wanted to hear with my video for 14 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:35.560 the week. So I don't know if either of you 15 00:00:35.679 --> 00:00:38.799 have a friend or an associate that whenever they tag 16 00:00:38.840 --> 00:00:42.880 along with you or go you all go anywhere. If 17 00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:45.359 you buy something, they want to eat off of you 18 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:47.399 or drink all of you instead of going to buy 19 00:00:47.399 --> 00:00:52.439 their own shit. Well, just this past month, E forty 20 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:56.159 and ice Cube were performing at greg Casino Hinkley, and 21 00:00:56.200 --> 00:00:58.920 so me and my best friend went. So we get 22 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:02.719 to the concert a little early, and while we were waiting, 23 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:04.519 I said, you know, I'm gonna go grab me a beer. 24 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:07.319 Are you gonna go get you something? She goes, no, 25 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:11.120 I'm good. Okay, so I go get me a beer. 26 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:16.519 Fourteen dollars for a can of fucking beer sometime anyway, 27 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:20.920 come back with the beer. Sit down, let me get 28 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:24.519 a sip. Bitch. I just asked you if you wanted anything, 29 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:29.200 and you said you were good. So that sip turned 30 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:33.719 into she drank half of my beer. Boy eat forty performs. 31 00:01:33.879 --> 00:01:37.439 He's done. We're waiting for ice Cube to get this 32 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:40.359 stuff set up on stage. So I noticed that there 33 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:45.799 was a Guyro food truck in the parking lot. Yes, 34 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:49.879 I know it's not pronounced Guyrol, but I'm black, so 35 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:52.239 I asked her. I said, so you're gonna go get 36 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:54.239 you something to eat? No, remember I ate before we 37 00:01:54.400 --> 00:01:58.200 before we came. Okay, go get my Guyrol. Come back, 38 00:01:58.319 --> 00:02:01.480 sit down. Before I could even pull the damn foil back, 39 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:04.400 let me get a taste. But you know, damn well 40 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:06.560 what a guy wrote taste like, take your cheap ass 41 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:08.159 over there and go buy you something to eat or 42 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:10.919 get you something to drink, like I said, she's my 43 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:14.000 best friend. I love her dealer, but sometimes I could 44 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:17.960 choke her till fucking eyeballs pop out. Whenever we go somewhere, 45 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:20.439 she wants to eat or drink whatever it is that 46 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:22.560 I have, but she won't go buy your own stuff. 47 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:25.680 Well that's my rant for the week. 48 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:29.479 Love you guys, bye, love you back. Wanted to thank you. 49 00:02:29.719 --> 00:02:31.520 I love that one. Susan is that way? 50 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:33.639 I am also that person, are you yes? 51 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:35.479 So I will buy something, I'll be like, oh, you know, 52 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:37.000 I want to go to the Twins game. I'm gonna 53 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:39.120 get I'm gonna get a hot dog. You want anything? 54 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:41.800 Oh no, I'm good. No, can I have a bite 55 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:42.080 of that? 56 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:42.439 No? 57 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:47.080 I don't like people biting from my food, So tear 58 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:48.759 off a little piece or you do the same thing. 59 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:50.840 Well, I'm not necessarily like if I was at a 60 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:53.400 concert or a Twins game or something and someone bought something, 61 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:54.479 I wouldn't ask to eat it. 62 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:55.560 I would buy my own. 63 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:57.840 But if you walk into this room and you have 64 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:01.719 something that smells delicious, will look at it until you 65 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:02.719 offer me a bite. 66 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:04.759 So I am I'm a slight. 67 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:08.000 It's just like a dog, like watching it go from 68 00:03:08.039 --> 00:03:09.199 hand to mouth kind? 69 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:11.639 Is that bacon? What kind of a is a maple kind? 70 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:15.719 Actually get that joke? Do you get that joke? Jenny? Oh, 71 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:16.560 a bacon? 72 00:03:18.039 --> 00:03:18.680 I've got bacon? 73 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:19.080 Yeah? 74 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:20.840 Yeah, the maple kind. 75 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:23.560 It's a dog that they synked up his licking his 76 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:25.520 mouth and opening his mouth so it looks like he's 77 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:28.520 talking and he's like this big, brown eyed, wide eyed, 78 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:33.000 cute dog and he's talking to the camera going, you. 79 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:34.240 Know you got what do you got there? 80 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:37.879 No, it's just like a cute little video that was 81 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:40.280 like viral, like literally fifteen years ago. 82 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:40.840 Something like that. 83 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:41.639 The map. 84 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:47.080 Staff Rider Laurel. Here it says, I debated writing in 85 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:49.599 because I don't want to sound like a Karen, but 86 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:53.400 it comes up enough that I need to address it. 87 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:56.479 I've noticed it instead of referring to women, some of you, 88 00:03:57.199 --> 00:04:01.759 Vont and Jenny say females. Sometimes it'll even go as 89 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:06.639 far as females and men. Female means applies to the 90 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:10.039 female sex of any species, but woman applies to a 91 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:13.280 female human. I've noticed men use the word females often. 92 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:16.199 It sounds so dehumanizing. Every time I hear it on 93 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:18.519 a show or podcast, I cringe. I understand this is 94 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:22.360 used not to ostracize non binary people, but when referring 95 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:25.480 to women or female presenting people, maybe just use women. 96 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:30.120 Just some food for thought. Okay, Jenny, I've never heard 97 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:31.040 you use females. 98 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:33.439 I was going to say never, not even once, don't 99 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:35.959 know the last time. But I also might be unaware 100 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:38.959 that I've used that before. I really don't feel like 101 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:42.040 I use that word, but if I do, I will 102 00:04:42.199 --> 00:04:43.439 work on not using it. 103 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:46.680 Though I say broads. I say broads a lot because 104 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:48.360 I think broads is kind of you know what I'm 105 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:50.800 talking about. Yeah, it's a fun, friendly term and it 106 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:53.600 rolls off the tongue in sort of a blurty, broad 107 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:54.560 sort of a way you. 108 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:56.079 Put a little cigarette in. You're in the corner of 109 00:04:56.120 --> 00:04:56.759 your mouth when. 110 00:04:56.600 --> 00:05:00.959 You say it, like these broads of giving me headaches. 111 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:08.600 These broads are everywhere now. Vont says females and we've 112 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:10.639 given him a hard time about it, and you know, 113 00:05:10.759 --> 00:05:15.759 vont is such a lovable dope dope, Yes, and I 114 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:19.079 think that he doesn't mean anything disrespectful. Yeah, I think 115 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:20.199 it's just vont I. 116 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:22.759 Think a lot of the stuff that Vonta said because 117 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:24.920 I call him out on that all the time. If 118 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:26.959 we're just sitting together and he says females, I call 119 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:28.639 him out on it. But yeah, a lot of the 120 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:32.600 stuff that he says that I find offensive or whatever, 121 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:34.639 I call him out on it and then he's like, oh, 122 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:36.560 I didn't realize that was a thing. So the more 123 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:37.920 I call him out on it, the less he's going 124 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:40.759 to do it. So hopefully I am creating a positive 125 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:41.560 change in one. 126 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:46.319 Let us know if there's anything else that we do. 127 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:48.560 And I'm not trying to be like, oh well, if 128 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:50.879 we're do anything wrong, let us know, But let us 129 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:52.759 know if there's anything else maybe each of us have 130 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:56.920 like a little pet thing. I know, I say like 131 00:05:57.199 --> 00:06:00.680 a lot, Yeah, I go a lot. 132 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:03.120 I say sure a lot, which I know that I say, 133 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:06.160 sure a lot. Listen, listen, but that's a bit. That's 134 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:06.680 a funny bit. 135 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:07.920 But it is a funny bit. 136 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:09.920 Yeah, but sure is just like the thing that I 137 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:12.240 say to acknowledge that I'm listening to you. 138 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:16.360 I say, all right, I'll say I'm just being honest 139 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:19.160 or honestly or something with honest in it a lot too. 140 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:23.279 So let us know if there's anything that sticks out. 141 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:24.199 I'd be curious to know. 142 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:25.800 But thank you for the email. I am trying to 143 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:27.639 work on it with font Dave. 144 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:30.399 Your doppelganger is Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob. Look 145 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:30.759 him up. 146 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:36.439 That is TikTok video of him the other day, like 147 00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:38.399 last night. I don't, I don't know if I agree 148 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:38.560 with that. 149 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:41.480 I don't. I mean a little bit. Yeah, I can 150 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:44.959 see that he's got less hair than I do, and 151 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:46.879 he's skinnier bonier than I am. 152 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:48.160 I can see it. 153 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:50.680 I can see it, Tom, I think, Dave, I think 154 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:53.040 you're a better looking guy than Tom Kenny. Tom Kenny 155 00:06:53.040 --> 00:06:54.680 looks like SpongeBob SquarePants. 156 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:55.319 I get that. 157 00:06:55.720 --> 00:06:59.920 So I mean, you have glasses something that you wear. 158 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:02.519 To put my contacts in today? And if you wear contacts, 159 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:04.759 you know, I'm so used to him. I've worn them 160 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:06.959 since I was like nineteen or so. Wow, you put 161 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:10.480 them in, they feel good, no problem. Today I touched 162 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:13.160 the contact to my eyeball and it hurt, so I 163 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:14.920 took it out, cleaned it off, put it back in, 164 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:16.480 and it hurt again, so I took it out. Wearing 165 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:18.519 glasses today, I don't know what's wrong. Probably nothing. 166 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:20.000 Well was a good story, though, Pink Eye. 167 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:24.759 Good story though. Yeah, it's pink. I another ps from 168 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:27.600 the same writer. I don't know if you've mentioned the 169 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:29.319 date of Boo Bash yet, but I'd love to go 170 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:34.000 again this year and drunkenly cry over meeting Dave. I 171 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:34.879 would love that too. 172 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:35.279 Yeah. 173 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:37.399 It makes me feel good, it makes me feel important, 174 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:39.079 it makes me feel significant. 175 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:41.360 Can she drunkenly cry over me too? I would like that. 176 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:44.439 I'll ask her, Laurel, you mean, can you come and 177 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:47.199 drunkenly cry over Bailey? What is? Because you know you 178 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:50.680 get privileged information. The tentative date target date for Boo 179 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:54.480 Bash is Halloween night, It's a Thursday night, and the 180 00:07:54.519 --> 00:07:58.759 tentative location is still the barn at Cowboy Jacks, which 181 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:00.759 is awesome. We want to have Gara Spivey there. We're 182 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:03.240 gonna have the Tammy, the tarot card reader, and we're 183 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:05.800 gonna have the costume contest for much, much, much money, 184 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:07.920 and we're working on an act now. Last year we 185 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:10.319 had Paul Russell, She'm a Little boo thing you a 186 00:08:10.360 --> 00:08:16.639 Little and that was huge because it was It's Paul Russell. 187 00:08:17.079 --> 00:08:19.079 He had like the number one song and we just 188 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:21.600 happened to luck out that we had him this year, 189 00:08:21.600 --> 00:08:24.639 we'll have somebody amazing, but I don't know who. So Laurel, 190 00:08:25.160 --> 00:08:29.879 we'll see you there. Ah okay, next one is I 191 00:08:29.879 --> 00:08:31.680 won't say your name yet. Let's see. I had to 192 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:34.120 share this with somebody who's so connected to my day. Sorry, 193 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:36.039 you guys are my guinea pig. I went to cub 194 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:39.840 at three point fifty five in the afternoon. Upon leaving, 195 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:42.240 I noticed an elderly gentleman with a cane doing the 196 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:44.720 Harvey Korman shuffle. Now you don't know what that is, 197 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:50.279 but it's an old reference to a character shuffling along 198 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:54.759 very slowly with a cane. He exited his vehicle located 199 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:57.720 in the handicapped area. Distance of vehicle to the store 200 00:08:57.759 --> 00:09:01.000 about three hundred feet. He moves slower than large harsh 201 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:04.759 shell snapper turtle. I love that. When he hit the 202 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:08.080 cub store walkway, vehicles breezed by him like nothing to 203 00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:10.519 be concerned about. He kept his hand down, clutching his cane, 204 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:13.960 focus on every single step he took. So he's moving 205 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:15.720 forward about a third of his way into the intersection. 206 00:09:15.759 --> 00:09:18.159 I made the inner the decision to intervene. I stepped 207 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:21.000 halfway into the intersection to ensure that he would make 208 00:09:21.039 --> 00:09:23.080 it to the cub entrance. We experienced a handful of 209 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:25.080 drivers who were kind and patient enough to pause for 210 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:28.120 the forty five plus seconds needed to cross over the threshold, 211 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:32.080 and one who was not so patient. Once he got 212 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:34.080 to the curve, he said, I'm so incredibly thankful for 213 00:09:34.120 --> 00:09:36.240 all the kind people in this world. Thank you. I 214 00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:38.080 had my left hand on his arm and cane my 215 00:09:38.159 --> 00:09:40.559 right hand position on his lower back as I gently 216 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:42.759 lifted pushed him over the curb and said, it's a 217 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:45.679 wonderful thing when we have help. Have a good night. 218 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:51.600 Within six seconds, the disgruntled female driver circled around to 219 00:09:51.639 --> 00:09:56.879 greet me, screaming yes, screaming you fucking bitch Jesus, and 220 00:09:56.919 --> 00:09:59.879 she turned her head away. I apologize for the profan. 221 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:02.120 I'm a fan, and I understand if you prefer initial 222 00:10:02.200 --> 00:10:05.120 facts over fiction. I'm not interested in being on the air. 223 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:08.159 I am aware you do not discuss politics. However, I 224 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:11.440 am certain this topic will generate interest and hopefully community. 225 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:13.200 I don't see how it has anything to do with 226 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:17.279 politics at all, just decency. It gave me pause. What 227 00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:18.919 in the world happened to you today that you would 228 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:22.399 become so irritated with an individual helping another who is disabled. 229 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:25.200 If it was truly me, she would have maintained eye 230 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:28.879 contact In thought, Is all this anger and bitterness worth it? 231 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:32.039 Are we not here to help others? Some of us are, 232 00:10:32.919 --> 00:10:35.759 and some of us are not. Some of us selfishly 233 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:38.559 go through our day doing what is best for us. 234 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:41.279 And it's kind of like I've become a lot more 235 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:43.360 patient with trucks. I used to get behind a dump 236 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:45.399 truck or a semi and be like, god, son of 237 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:49.159 a bitch, fucking truck, God, damn it. Yeah, But now 238 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:53.000 I realize we all benefit from trucks. They deliver things 239 00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:59.480 cub to target, to them all. They deliver patio furniture 240 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:03.480 to my home, they deliver new couches to my house. 241 00:11:04.279 --> 00:11:06.759 So I've just become a lot more patient with trucks 242 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:08.960 to hey, I fucking truck it out of my fucking way. 243 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:11.559 My dad used to have really bad road rage, and 244 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:14.039 he said the way he got over it is that 245 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:16.639 he just imagined that whoever was like driving kind of 246 00:11:16.679 --> 00:11:18.720 like an idiot in front of him, that it was 247 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:20.840 his daughter in that car. Oh, she really that she 248 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:23.200 was probably lost or she didn't know where she was 249 00:11:23.559 --> 00:11:27.039 or she was thinking about her job interview that she 250 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:29.240 was going to. So he's just like, well, my daughter's 251 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:32.320 in that car, so I guess I just will be 252 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:33.039 patient with it. 253 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:35.919 That's a really good way to look at it, you know. 254 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:38.080 I think that I think of listeners, and I think 255 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:40.799 a lot of radio people are really guilty of thinking 256 00:11:40.840 --> 00:11:45.600 of listeners as listeners. They're not listeners, that's not what 257 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:50.480 they do. They are people are who happened to listen 258 00:11:50.519 --> 00:11:52.759 to this show. And I think a lot of radio 259 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:57.279 people think of listeners as something to be manipulated and 260 00:11:57.320 --> 00:12:00.559 not people. And I've worked with some people who who 261 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:03.240 they don't think of listeners as anything more. I've heard 262 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:09.279 them called crumb grubbers, clampers, prize pigs, and it's like, no, 263 00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:11.399 I think of listeners as people who are really no 264 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:15.200 different than my sister Donna, or no different than my 265 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:18.759 cousin Janey, And they're just people who like this radio 266 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:22.519 show and they're like friends to me never And I 267 00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:25.559 don't like calling people listeners. They're people who listen to 268 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:28.879 the show. They are mothers, they are doctors, they are 269 00:12:30.360 --> 00:12:33.919 hotel maids, they are baristas that happen to listen to 270 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:36.360 the show, and to me, that really puts a different 271 00:12:36.480 --> 00:12:39.039 light on the people who listen to the show. And 272 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:42.200 that's why I appreciate you so much. So if you 273 00:12:42.200 --> 00:12:44.519 do come up to me crying at Boo Bash and 274 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:47.919 you're drunk, you know I will absolutely. 275 00:12:47.399 --> 00:12:48.360 Appreciate you drunk. 276 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:53.200 Let's see we get time for one more. I have 277 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:57.519 to write in after listening to the show about construction workers, 278 00:12:57.679 --> 00:12:59.320 what do we say about construction workers? 279 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:02.039 So it was someone who had a question about why 280 00:13:02.080 --> 00:13:04.559 do cohenes get put out like way ahead of time 281 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:09.120 and then like the actual work doesn't happen for like weeks. 282 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:12.759 And then I think the general like why is one 283 00:13:12.759 --> 00:13:14.879 person working and everyone else is standing around? 284 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:15.399 Kind of thing? 285 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:19.120 And it's kind of true. So they say, my husband's 286 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:22.440 in road construction for twenty years. The last six years 287 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:24.759 he's been in the forty niner union. That's a heavy 288 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:27.279 equipment operator. I tell you why so many of them 289 00:13:27.279 --> 00:13:29.559 are standing around because they're fucking lazy and they have 290 00:13:29.639 --> 00:13:32.960 no idea what they've gotten themselves into. Wow, Wow, didn't 291 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:36.919 see that cold. It's because they're fucking lazy and have 292 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:40.120 no idea what they've gotten themselves into. There just aren't 293 00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:44.159 enough new, young, hard working people willing to take on 294 00:13:44.200 --> 00:13:46.960 the workload. The older guys are getting older and more burnout. 295 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:49.039 Trying to get the youngsters to learn the trade and 296 00:13:49.080 --> 00:13:53.320 take over the turnover on road construction workers is crazy. 297 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:55.879 People have no idea how hard it is on your 298 00:13:55.879 --> 00:13:58.600 body and for some their families as well. Do the 299 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:02.799 long hours. All five day work weeks minimum of sixty 300 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:05.600 plus hours, with most of my husband's being over seventy 301 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:08.919 five hours, and the really terrible weeks are over ninety hours. 302 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:10.519 Oh wow, that sucks. 303 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:13.159 Just think about that for a second. Ninety hours in 304 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:15.600 his week, yes, six days plus. We live an hour 305 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:17.399 north of the city's he got a two hour drive 306 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:20.200 each day. Takes a special spouse to deal with everything 307 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:22.240 one dred percent for seven months out of the year, 308 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:25.679 especially with kids involved. Two when the other spouse is 309 00:14:25.720 --> 00:14:27.759 in construction. All right. Year old will often asked, well, 310 00:14:27.759 --> 00:14:30.240 I see Dad tonight? No, probably not. He's out of 311 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:32.919 the door by four am and home after nine years, 312 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:36.519 he says, since hitting forty his body has said it's 313 00:14:36.519 --> 00:14:38.840 burning out. Sure, he gets five months off each winter, 314 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:42.240 but still it is tough. Just because he's an equipment 315 00:14:42.279 --> 00:14:44.840 operator doesn't mean he's running equipment all the time. Half 316 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:47.120 the time, he's still a laborer out in the ninety 317 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:51.320 plus degree heat because their days when those are the 318 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:53.399 days when the lazy ones really don't even show up 319 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:56.039 for work. The money is good, the benefits are even better. 320 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:58.240 The retirement package is the reason to stick it out 321 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:00.600 as many years as your body will allow. But there 322 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:04.000 are many negatives involved too. Anyway, there's my two cents 323 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:07.639 from the wife of a construction worker. Didn't expect that. 324 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:10.240 I really thought she was going to say they're all working, 325 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:14.320 they're all doing their thing, but she says so many 326 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:17.200 of them are lazy. Wow. Now I would love to 327 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:20.000 hear a counter to that. Yeah, yeah, maybe you would say, like, oh, 328 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:22.960 that's not true at all. Keep up the great work 329 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:25.159 on the show. Love you all. No dart looking here, 330 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:28.240 because who's got time for that when they're working ninety 331 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:31.120 hours a week. Yeah, that's from Vanessa. 332 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:33.600 I wonder if it depends on like the team that 333 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:36.799 you're assigned, because I can imagine that, like, because there's 334 00:15:36.840 --> 00:15:40.039 construction happening everywhere on all different parts of the road, 335 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:42.960 just in Saint Louis Park where we are, and I 336 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:45.519 wonder if you like wake up knowing exactly where you're 337 00:15:45.559 --> 00:15:48.080 going to be, or if you get like assigned throughout 338 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:50.759 the day and you don't know who, like your coworkers 339 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:52.759 are going to be until you get there, because then 340 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:56.000 if you have like five lazy coworkers and one that 341 00:15:56.120 --> 00:15:58.559 actually does the work, then yeah, it's going to be 342 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:01.120 like a bunch of kids sitting on their phones. 343 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:05.120 I've wondered how they I would drive by a construction site, 344 00:16:05.159 --> 00:16:07.399 like if you go buy thirty five or not thirty five? Yeah, 345 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:11.000 that's one too. But who's in charge of where the 346 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:14.240 dirt goes and where the concrete goes? That's always puzzled me. 347 00:16:14.279 --> 00:16:17.039 It's like, there's got to be somebody and he or 348 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:19.399 she is going, Okay, we need a slab over here. 349 00:16:19.799 --> 00:16:22.639 I'm looking at the blueprints and here's a guy with 350 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:26.919 a shovel digging a hole. How does each piece fit in? 351 00:16:27.240 --> 00:16:29.960 And is there a master plan? There's got to be 352 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:32.080 somewhere yeah, where it's like, oh, you got to back 353 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:34.720 ho over here, you're digging a big hole. Who's got 354 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:39.320 the master plan of how that particular task fits in? 355 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:39.799 You know? 356 00:16:39.799 --> 00:16:41.600 What I mean. Yeah, it's fascinating to me. 357 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:44.000 What I think is interesting about like road construction people 358 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:46.600 is that you see them every single day, and yet 359 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:49.159 I couldn't name one person who works in road construction, 360 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:51.720 but there's so many people. Yeah, but it seems like 361 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:55.559 they're this strange, magical career that no one actually knows, 362 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:57.279 but they see them right in front of them all 363 00:16:57.320 --> 00:16:57.919 the time. 364 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:00.120 Just so that there's like turnover and stuff. Sure, we 365 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:02.399 probably don't know people because I've probably tried it and yeah, 366 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:04.880 like never mind, I'm not doing it all. 367 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:07.640 Right, Shane writes in and Shane says, kind of a 368 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:09.960 bummer of a question, But I thought you guys might 369 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:13.480 have some advice if you've gone through similar situations. My 370 00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:17.920 best friend of twenty five years was diagnosed with brain cancer, 371 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:22.519 starting chemo radiation treatment next week. I haven't had anyone 372 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:24.480 super close to be go through something like this. We're 373 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:26.640 in our mid thirties and he's had a couple of 374 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:28.519 young kids and a wife, so it's a little scary 375 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:31.519 for sure. We have a relationship where we can get 376 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:35.960 deep and personal occasionally, but overall, our conversations and relationship 377 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:37.720 is more of a fun tone For example, he's a 378 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:40.240 huge wild fan. I'm a Red Wings fan, so I 379 00:17:40.359 --> 00:17:43.400 randomly sent his son a red Wing toy and closed 380 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:46.599 just to pick at him. My question is what different 381 00:17:46.599 --> 00:17:49.519 ways can I support him and his fam Any idea 382 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:52.559 is welcome. Should I strike the more you're a badass 383 00:17:52.680 --> 00:17:55.559 tone or the super soft and sympathetic tone, or just 384 00:17:55.640 --> 00:17:58.480 ask for occasional updates without inundating him since he's probably 385 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:01.680 updating everybody in his life while acting normal ninety five 386 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:04.400 percent of the time. Hopefully that question makes sense. Help 387 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:09.200 me brainstorm dartin and lickan that is Shane. I don't know. 388 00:18:09.480 --> 00:18:12.559 I have like one piece of advice, like, instead of 389 00:18:12.920 --> 00:18:17.880 asking for an update, if you like look up specific 390 00:18:17.960 --> 00:18:21.279 questions that you can ask somebody, ask him something specific 391 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:23.839 that has like a specific answer, because like saying, hey, 392 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:26.160 what's an update, then it's putting like all the pressure 393 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:28.400 on him to like give you the low down when 394 00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:31.319 he is probably updating everybody and everyone in his life. 395 00:18:31.799 --> 00:18:35.720 But if you say, like, how is this particular treatment 396 00:18:35.839 --> 00:18:39.519 making you feel, that's a more specific question that he 397 00:18:39.559 --> 00:18:42.519 can be like, well my stomach hurts, or well I'm 398 00:18:42.559 --> 00:18:44.319 tired all the time or whatever, and give you more 399 00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:46.480 of a specific answer than just saying give me an update. 400 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:50.279 You know that sounds good, I would say, by being 401 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:53.759