Speaker 1: All right, here we go with the Minnesota good Bye.
Speaker 1: Let's see what the mail bag holds today. You know,
Speaker 1: we used to get get a lot. We used to
Speaker 1: do a segment called Letters from Prison. Oh and we
Speaker 1: had a lot of people who listened in prison that
Speaker 1: would write to the show. Who and you know what,
Speaker 1: I think, I've got one over here and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: read it to you and gon'a pull this out. I
Speaker 1: kind of forgot about this one.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: This is from Heather, who is in It looks like
Speaker 1: she's in shackapy. She wrote an actual letter from prison
Speaker 1: and it says on the outside you ever got a
Speaker 1: letter from her prisoner before?
Speaker 2: No, I haven't.
Speaker 1: It has mailed from a Minnesota correctional facility and she
Speaker 1: wrote this a couple of days ago or a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago. But I'm gonna read. It's long. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna read some of it. Okay, let's find out what's
Speaker 1: going on in prison. Okay, Hi, guys, my name is Heather.
Speaker 1: I listened to the show every morning. I have been
Speaker 1: for about six months. It's the only thing I look
Speaker 1: forward to at work. I fold balloons for anagram Monday
Speaker 1: through Friday seven am to three for fifty cents an hour.
Speaker 1: As you probably guess by now, I am in prison,
Speaker 1: the female prison in Shakapy. I wouldn't have come here. Oh.
Speaker 1: If I I hadn't come here, I would have never
Speaker 1: heard of the Dave Ryan Show. Crazy. I know I'm
Speaker 1: from Ely, so I don't really know about any cool
Speaker 1: radio stations. You don't get much up there. I will
Speaker 1: continue to listen to you guys when I get out. Okay,
Speaker 1: so here's the thing. I have no idea what any
Speaker 1: of you look like. So here is how I imagine each
Speaker 1: of you.
Speaker 2: Oh this is exciting.
Speaker 1: Okay, everyone is always making day for being old. By
Speaker 1: the way, I know you don't have gray hair now
Speaker 1: because you were just talking about it, But I can't
Speaker 1: stop my brain from imagining you with salt and pepper hair.
Speaker 1: I feel like you're tall, with an athletic build, maybe
Speaker 1: a slight dad bod, which is totally in these days.
Speaker 1: I don't see you with facial hair, and you dress
Speaker 1: in a suit and tie every day, which I also
Speaker 1: know isn't true. But your voice is given off fancy.
Speaker 2: Okay, your voice is giving off fancy.
Speaker 1: Before I found out Jenny is blonde. I imagined her
Speaker 1: a tall, skinny brunette, and for some reason you give
Speaker 1: me a Bella Swan from Twilight.
Speaker 2: Whe ooh nice.
Speaker 1: I cannot, for the life of me picture you, blonde Bailey.
Speaker 1: I imagine you with dirty blonde hair glasses, and you
Speaker 1: look like a oh this should be good on Frona.
Speaker 1: I look like U looks like a preschool teacher checks
Speaker 1: out actually wearing an overall like dress with apples on
Speaker 1: the pockets.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: You wear your hair pulled back and a half pony
Speaker 1: or secured with a matching apple hair clip. I picture
Speaker 1: you being kind of short and skinny and kind of nerdy,
Speaker 1: but in a hot way. You have a fade. I'll
Speaker 1: bet no facial hair.
Speaker 2: Oh that's Vont.
Speaker 1: That has to be vond O wait wait wait, okay,
Speaker 1: uh oh okay, yeah, okay, yes, I picture Vont. Let's
Speaker 1: go back, thank you. I picture Vont being short and skinny,
Speaker 1: kind of nerdy, but in a hot way. You have
Speaker 1: a fade, no facial hair, and you wear a hat. Sometimes.
Speaker 1: You always got some fly kicks on though you were
Speaker 1: talking about those cool tan looking air forces, get them, Yolo.
Speaker 1: I was wondering if you four have a group picture
Speaker 1: you would take and have taken, it would be possibly
Speaker 1: descended to me. Do you get many people that write
Speaker 1: from prison. No, I don't expect to reply, but it
Speaker 1: would be awesome to see what you guys look like.
Speaker 1: I will ride her back. I've had this sitting over
Speaker 1: here a month and I should have gotten back to her. Also,
Speaker 1: I'd like to say, Bailey is my favorite girl. You
Speaker 1: make me laugh every day and you give me the
Speaker 1: best vibes. I love when you talk about your kitty.
Speaker 1: Cap If you've got any pictures of your kitty, send
Speaker 1: them my way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dave, if you if you send back a photo
Speaker 2: of us, I'll send you a picture of my cat
Speaker 2: and you can include.
Speaker 1: That, Okay. I'd love to see him's cute widow face.
Speaker 2: Oh he's baby.
Speaker 1: Every time War of the Roses comes on, I let
Speaker 1: all of my fellow balloon folders know we all enjoy
Speaker 1: the juicy drama. As if there's not enough in here.
Speaker 1: I wish I could tell you guys some of the
Speaker 1: things that go on in here. I think I can not,
Speaker 1: just in great detail. Recently, a woman beat another woman
Speaker 1: with a broomstick because they were doing the Lovin' and
Speaker 1: the one with the broom found out the other has HIV.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Pretty crazy. Yeah, it's a lot that goes on here.
Speaker 1: This place is pretty entertaining at times.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you're allowed to do this, but
Speaker 1: is there a way you could give the ladies who
Speaker 1: fold balloons in shot? Could be a shout out and
Speaker 1: keep up the good work. I'd like to be left anonymous,
Speaker 1: but I know they would just think that's so cool.
Speaker 1: We don't get much to look forward to in here. Well,
Speaker 1: obviously we're in prison. Lol. My favorite bit so far
Speaker 1: as wore the Roses Jenny's Emo Thremo former Emo Girl
Speaker 1: for sure, Waitning song Wednesday and the new sound effects bit.
Speaker 1: I really love that one. It's fucking hilarious. And when
Speaker 1: Dave does his Clinton impression, I think you guys should
Speaker 1: do a talkback Tuesday of people doing their best impressions
Speaker 1: of famous people. Maybe you've done that already, but do
Speaker 1: it again for sure. That's not a bad idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll write it down.
Speaker 1: Can you do an impression of anybody? Jenny st Jimmy
Speaker 1: Stewart is pretty legit? Who Jimmy Stewart.
Speaker 2: Oh my, Jimmy Stewart. Yeah, like, do you want the moon, Mary, Well,
Speaker 2: I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
Speaker 2: I do that, and then I have like Fran Drescher
Speaker 2: because she's what she Oh, Chandler Chandler Bang. That's not
Speaker 2: Frank Jesha, but Chandler Bang's girlfriend. Anyone who's got a
Speaker 2: Jessey accent and is like a skinny fashion icon. I
Speaker 2: can do one of those.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I do. I think I do a good
Speaker 1: Mickey mount, but nobody agrees.
Speaker 2: Oh, hi, Many, that's awful. Huh, that's awful.
Speaker 1: I could do.
Speaker 2: It's pretty good. No hot dog, Oh Many, Oh that's.
Speaker 1: Better than mine dog. In my head, it sounds pretty good, though,
Speaker 1: Mickey Mouse. I recently got into cosmetology school. I start
Speaker 1: the end of December, so i'll be done folding balloons,
Speaker 1: which means I won't be able to listen every day anymore.
Speaker 1: Sad face. But on the brighter side, I will finish
Speaker 1: my time here and leave with a hair technician license.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 1: They offer many good programs here. You can even do
Speaker 1: college classes and get your Associate of Arts degree. Honestly,
Speaker 1: if I wouldn't have come here. I'm not sure where
Speaker 1: I would be. I'm participating in AA meetings every week.
Speaker 1: I got my ged and I'm working on my mental
Speaker 1: health and physical health. Wow, I'm become the person I've
Speaker 1: always wanted to be. I plan to be a contributing
Speaker 1: member of society when I get released. I thank you
Speaker 1: guys for helping me along with my prison bid. You
Speaker 1: really do help my days go by faster. The Dave
Speaker 1: Ryan Show gets me through the days, even on my
Speaker 1: worst days. You four put a smile on my face.
Speaker 1: Keep doing what you do. I'm becoming a huge fan.
Speaker 1: I hope to someday meet you, maybe at the State Fair.
Speaker 1: You guys rock. Your friend Heather ps, it is two
Speaker 1: chugg is and one chew choo. So we ask, is
Speaker 1: it how many chug is? How many chew choo? Yeah,
Speaker 1: she says it's chug a chug a chow choo. Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: some people go chug a choo choo or chug a
Speaker 1: chug a chug a chug a choo choo.
Speaker 2: Mine's a four chugga chugga chugga chugga choo too.
Speaker 1: And here is the addressed to reply, and our email
Speaker 1: gets scanned we get copies of letters and pictures. I
Speaker 1: know this to be true because my nephew in prison
Speaker 1: asked me to send him pictures of sports illustrated girls
Speaker 1: in bikinis, and there's certain ones that he liked, and
Speaker 1: he's like, he said, send a digital picture because if
Speaker 1: you mail it, it will get scanned and it will
Speaker 1: be in black and white. Yeah, so that's interesting. So
Speaker 1: they don't let you actually receive interesting for those they
Speaker 1: get scanned. So anyway, that was really interesting. I read
Speaker 1: that letter the other day and I forget got to
Speaker 1: read it on the radio, but I think we should
Speaker 1: read it on the radio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we should definitely give the ladies who fold balloons
Speaker 2: at Shokpia.
Speaker 1: I want to know more about folding balloons.
Speaker 2: What does that way?
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: Like balloons for I can't even imagine, like the big
Speaker 2: fat balloons that you put helium in. Maybe they have
Speaker 2: to be folded to put in a package. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Interest maybe yeah it could be. But good for you
Speaker 2: all the other stuff that you accomplished, like the cosmetology school.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 1: And seriously, thanks for having such a positive attitude. And
Speaker 1: I'm really glad that we help you get through the day.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on, Carmen writes in via email,
Speaker 1: Happy hump Day, guys. So today's am I a jerk?
Speaker 2: Me?
Speaker 1: Has me heated? This was the one where a guy
Speaker 1: was asking us whether he's a jerk. He is divorced
Speaker 1: and he is living with his two kids, you know,
Speaker 1: like shared custody and his new girlfriend, and his ex
Speaker 1: wife is annoyed because his girlfriend is in their Christmas
Speaker 1: card photo with the two kids, and the ex wife
Speaker 1: is like, you have not known her long enough. I
Speaker 1: don't want my kids in that picture. And he's like,
Speaker 1: I live with her, of course I'm going to put
Speaker 1: her in the Christmas card picture. Carmen goes on to say,
Speaker 1: I am not your traditional ex wife. And when my
Speaker 1: ex and I split up, I told him we will
Speaker 1: not fight and I'm not going to fight over materialistic
Speaker 1: shit because we still got to raise our son and
Speaker 1: I will never hate you. Fast forward to today. My
Speaker 1: son is now twenty three. His mom and dad are friends,
Speaker 1: His dad and stepdad our friends. We raised him together.
Speaker 1: Did we argue, yes, did my current husband have to mediate, Yes,
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, we're still a family.
Speaker 1: I will have my ex husband's back till one of
Speaker 1: us dies, and vice versa. This woman needs to learn
Speaker 1: to accept the girlfriend, get to know her, and maybe
Speaker 1: jump in the picture and show the world co parenting
Speaker 1: can work anyway. Merry Christmas, my beautiful friends and little
Speaker 1: sassy bitch Dave. Thank you Carmen, she's a friend of
Speaker 1: the show. So next one, Charis writes in, I rarely
Speaker 1: write in this frequently leave, but I felt I had
Speaker 1: to call Dave out on something I wrote in on Monday,
Speaker 1: and Dave only read part of my email and skipped
Speaker 1: the rest. So what you skipped over day was me
Speaker 1: telling you guys what I did at the Bloggio. When
Speaker 1: I wrote in about maternity to leave a few months ago,
Speaker 1: I mentioned I worked at the Bologgio, and you guys
Speaker 1: were trying to guess what I did there. So to
Speaker 1: end the suspense, I was a cashier in the poker
Speaker 1: room from two thousand and five to twenty twelve. There
Speaker 1: was no breaking arms or fingers. I do, however, have
Speaker 1: many interesting stories from my time there, and we'll be
Speaker 1: happy to share the next time you guys have an event.
Speaker 1: I hope you read this, and happy holidays. To you all,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 2: I wish she told us she was a showgirl. That
Speaker 2: would have my mind would have exploded.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you something. I used to work in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. I used to live in Las Vegas. My
Speaker 1: first radio job was in Las Vegas. I did the
Speaker 1: morning show and there was a woman who did all
Speaker 1: nights on the weekends, and she was also a show
Speaker 1: girl at the Tropicana. Yeah, And it was interesting because
Speaker 1: she was a normal looking woman, just tall. She was tall,
Speaker 1: and I never I could I can't say she was
Speaker 1: skinny because she always wore like sweatpants and baggy clothes.
Speaker 1: But she would get off work at the Tropicana and
Speaker 1: then she would, you know, I don't know if she
Speaker 1: worked on the same nights, but she would come to
Speaker 1: the radio station and she was the all night DJ.
Speaker 1: And she was very ordinary looking in that you would
Speaker 1: never look at her in guess showgirl, right, but then.
Speaker 2: When she puts the makeup on, in the head dress
Speaker 2: and all that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and she was normal, kind of quiet, never really
Speaker 1: had much to say, but yeah, she was a showgirl.
Speaker 1: And I don't know anything else about her life at all.
Speaker 1: Didn't you know a show girl whose name was Lola.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and she had feathers in her hair and a
Speaker 2: dress that went down to.
Speaker 1: Their down to wear down there, down there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and she did the cha cha and did marangue.
Speaker 1: I think, I think the marangue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but then like her lover was shot.
Speaker 1: I think, oh no, one day, well what happened to her?
Speaker 1: Then it was rough after that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I can't remember exactly.
Speaker 1: Think they she would sit at the bar and drink
Speaker 1: herself like half blind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds accurate. Yeah, I mean much.
Speaker 1: She lost her youth, she lost her boyfriend Tony, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then she lost her mind mind where she work?
Speaker 2: She well, she was a show Well, her name was Lola.
Speaker 2: We've established that she was a showgirl. The Copa though
Speaker 2: was yeah, yeah, what a great place.
Speaker 1: Don't shake your head at this bit. This is a
Speaker 1: good bit. Okay, don't shake your head at this bit.
Speaker 2: Cabana. If you don't know that song, look it up
Speaker 2: because Barry Manilow is a national treasure.
Speaker 1: It really is a national treasure. Don't say my name, okay.
Speaker 1: Hoping for a suggestion. I've applied for a position within
Speaker 1: my company. The company does social work around the Metro area,
Speaker 1: and they just added a contract with a new country.
Speaker 1: I applied for the position and was oh, county, sorry county,
Speaker 1: and I was offered the position. However, it asked for
Speaker 1: a wage requirement. I stated more money than what I
Speaker 1: make now. I think I put fifty seven one thousand
Speaker 1: I currently make fifty two. Wages were not discussed in
Speaker 1: the interview, So how do I ask about it without
Speaker 1: seeming rude. I know it's not a financial based show,
Speaker 1: but I think Dave has helped others advocate for proper compensation.
Speaker 1: I've never negotiated a salary before, and my family won't
Speaker 1: be of help regardless of what they say. I will
Speaker 1: take the position as it is closer to home, but
Speaker 1: if I can get a bit more money, that would
Speaker 1: be great. The new contract is starting with myself and
Speaker 1: one other social worker plus a supervisor currently positioned as
Speaker 1: about forty social workers, so we'd be learning all the
Speaker 1: new county process as rules, etc. I'd be up for promotions.
Speaker 1: The contract grows in the county, and that would lead
Speaker 1: to pay increases. Thank you, Okay, so let's go back.
Speaker 1: They do social work and on the initial application it
Speaker 1: asks for a wage requirement.
Speaker 2: Yeah. First of all, congrats, on getting that job.
Speaker 1: Great job, Yeah, he says, I currently make fifty two thousand,
Speaker 1: and I think I put fifty seven. Well, you are
Speaker 1: absolutely entitled. Is the first word that comes to mine
Speaker 1: or deserving to ask for a salary requirement.
Speaker 2: I've always been told to ask for like five thousand
Speaker 2: dollars more than what you make, if not ten, okay.
Speaker 1: Sure, And the worst they can do is say no.
Speaker 1: And sometimes they have more budgeted than what you think.
Speaker 1: So if you say you know, let's say you I
Speaker 1: don't know, the first thing you do is ask what
Speaker 1: the job pays. And if they say, well, it pays
Speaker 1: fifty two, you say, oh, well I'd really like to
Speaker 1: make fifty seven. They'll either say well it doesn't pay
Speaker 1: that or they'll be like, yeah, I think I can
Speaker 1: do that. Sure, but you can ask them what the
Speaker 1: job pays, or you can say, you know, my salary
Speaker 1: requirement is fifty seven and then might go oh, well
Speaker 1: it only pays fifty two, And you can go, okay,
Speaker 1: well can you do fifty five? Right? Yeah, we can
Speaker 1: do fifty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so she can negotiate a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no reason ever to settle for the salary
Speaker 1: that they give you. I'm going to tell you a
Speaker 1: quick story. When I got my first morning rate job.
Speaker 1: I was twenty one years old and I was making
Speaker 1: I think maybe one thousand dollars a month, which back
Speaker 1: then was enough to live on. And so I got
Speaker 1: a job in Las Vegas. They asked me on the phone,
Speaker 1: what do you want to make? And I said, oh,
Speaker 1: remember I made one thousand a month, maybe eleven hundred.
Speaker 1: I said, oh, fifteen hundred, and the guy went, who if? Okay,
Speaker 1: let me check, and I thought, I blew it. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to get the job. He calls me back
Speaker 1: the next day he's like, yeah, fifteen hundred, Yep, we
Speaker 1: can do it. So I'm making fifteen hundred dollars a month, yeah,
Speaker 1: which is eighteen thousand dollars a year. Now. This was
Speaker 1: a long time ago, and you could live on that
Speaker 1: pretty easily. And I'm driving around with the boss's assistant.
Speaker 1: One day. He looks over at me, and I'll never
Speaker 1: forget the look on his face. He goes, you're such
Speaker 1: a dumb shit, and I said why what? He goes
Speaker 1: they were ready, he had an accent. They were ready
Speaker 1: to pay you thirty thousand dollars a year, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: and I asked.
Speaker 2: For eighteen so that a they saved a bunch of money.
Speaker 1: Because I didn't know. But I didn't give a shit.
Speaker 1: All I cared about was I got this great job
Speaker 1: and I could live on this. Somebody once told me,
Speaker 1: they said, oh, fifteen hundred dollars a month, you're not
Speaker 1: going to be eating peanut butter. And it was like wow.
Speaker 1: And like I said, fifteen hundred dollars a month back then,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what would equate to now. But
Speaker 1: I was single and young, and I didn't have expensive anything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and my car was paid off. It was from my dad,
Speaker 1: So I didn't I think one of the persons, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get a great job that you like, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna it's gonna be closer to where you live, so
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a big plus right there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I save on gas money.
Speaker 1: But yeah, negotiate a little bit. There's nothing wrong, nobody will.
Speaker 1: People hate hate negotiating. That's why most people accept what
Speaker 1: is given to them. I think that's one of the
Speaker 1: reasons why that women make less than guys. For many reasons.
Speaker 1: One of them is women are are conditioned to be
Speaker 1: less assertive.
Speaker 3: Would you say, yeah, for sure, just like yes we're
Speaker 3: bitches if we're a sort of well right, but.
Speaker 1: I think that women are just the demure, be more demure.
Speaker 2: Well, I wouldn't ask for I mean I would say like, oh,
Speaker 2: I would like this much money, and if they're like, no,
Speaker 2: we can't do that for you, I'd be like, Okay,
Speaker 2: it's fine.
Speaker 1: Well, and I think some I've been through that too.
Speaker 1: It's like, uh, where did I go one time? And
Speaker 1: I asked for like and they're like, no, this is
Speaker 1: what the job pays. I was like, okay, and don't
Speaker 1: remember anyway. Let's move on to the next one. And
Speaker 1: good luck with that one. This one's fare longtime. No talk,
Speaker 1: don't say my name, it's your girl, and then she
Speaker 1: says her name right away. Few thoughts to share today
Speaker 1: for your Lovely podcasts. First, regarding the there I Said
Speaker 1: It segment, I just wanted to share a there I
Speaker 1: Said it I figured out today on my commute home
Speaker 1: from work. Just because you spent nine to ninety nine
Speaker 1: to put a dumb ass baby on board sticker on
Speaker 1: your car, does it make me hate you any less
Speaker 1: for driving twenty miles an hour when entering the freeway.
Speaker 1: What the fuck there? I said it? Also, what's with
Speaker 1: people not accelerating on the entrance ramps? Yeah, that's an
Speaker 1: acceleration lane, not a stop and look over your shoulder lane.
Speaker 2: People like full stop on it, Like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: This isn't a yield you just go.
Speaker 1: No, you're supposed to look over your left shoulder, gauge
Speaker 1: and plan and accelerate. And they give you plenty of
Speaker 1: time to accelerate in normal traffic conditions, So you accelerate.
Speaker 1: And it's your job, not the people in the lane
Speaker 1: to your left, to fit you into the traffic. Now,
Speaker 1: if they're kind, they might slow down or maybe even
Speaker 1: speed up or get in the left lane to let
Speaker 1: you in, but it's your job.
Speaker 2: Just to plan that match their speed.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and accelerate and plan the way to get
Speaker 1: in PSA everybody, it's a ramp to get up to
Speaker 1: freeway speed. Good lord? AnyWho? One last question wondering if
Speaker 1: you guys have any advice for keeping things spicy in
Speaker 1: a long distance relationship, mail them your underpants? Well you
Speaker 1: got anything better? I don't know what do you got?
Speaker 2: Snapchot?
Speaker 3: I don't Jenny, Sorry, I was reading an email about
Speaker 3: Christmas wish. My brain's all over the place today.
Speaker 1: All is the question, how do you keep things spicy
Speaker 1: in a long distance relationship? I said, mail them your underpants.
Speaker 3: Oh I'm ex I mean I was going to say,
Speaker 3: just you got to send some nudes every once in
Speaker 3: a while.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh, take like polaroid nudes. That's like classy if.
Speaker 1: You do it. I don't know why would you do
Speaker 1: that when you get a phone.
Speaker 2: Because you're like phones dime a dozen. But if you
Speaker 2: send it in the mail, polaroid nudes and then I
Speaker 2: don't know, spray them with your perfume.
Speaker 1: But a bing but a not a terrible idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds like a book. I'm writing a book here.
Speaker 1: I would say, make a plan to be together frequently,
Speaker 1: because I think one of the things that kills a
Speaker 1: long distance relationship is I'm only going to see you
Speaker 1: once every four months, and then it's like I want
Speaker 1: somebody that I can see all the time. Sure, and
Speaker 1: I know that it's like you love each other, you
Speaker 1: want to be together, blah blah blah. But make plans
Speaker 1: to see each other as frequently as you can. Therefore
Speaker 1: you have something to look forward to and but that's hard, or.
Speaker 2: If it is once every four months, like make a
Speaker 2: plan for that four months rather than just like, oh,
Speaker 2: I can't wait to see you and then you show up,
Speaker 2: you see each other and you're like, okay, now what
Speaker 2: should we do? Like make a concerted plan? Okay, Like
Speaker 2: if you make the plan, then you can be like, oh,
Speaker 2: in four months when I see you, we're going to
Speaker 2: this ben and breakfast and you know what we're gonna
Speaker 2: do together. We're got a good, freaky Okay.
Speaker 1: If anybody to talk like that, I'd be like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna that's how I write.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's cursive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's cursive. Okay, let's see here next one. I'm
Speaker 1: a longtime listener, first time writer. I hope to write
Speaker 1: more as I come up with good topics, which brings
Speaker 1: me to my topic for the day, The new way
Speaker 1: to sing the alphabet song. Have you heard it. I'm
Speaker 1: a new mom to a six month old named Mia
Speaker 1: see attached photo to melt your heart. She is adorable
Speaker 1: and I've been singing to her all the typical baby songs. Recently,
Speaker 1: it's pointed out I'm not singing the alphabet song. The
Speaker 1: right way. Specifically, the lmnop part has changed because we
Speaker 1: did this a couple of months ago, because kids think
Speaker 1: that element op is a wor is a letter. So
Speaker 1: this prompted me to look up the new alphabet song
Speaker 1: on YouTube, and after listening to it, I've come to
Speaker 1: the conclusion that it sucks and I will not be
Speaker 1: singing it that way to my daughter. I get it,
Speaker 1: it's to help the pronunciation, but it still feels wrong
Speaker 1: and I can't sing it that way. I have attached
Speaker 1: a link to the new song on YouTube, but feel
Speaker 1: free to look it up separately because I'm always wary
Speaker 1: about random links. Anyway, it brings me back to my
Speaker 1: original question. Have you heard it before? And how much
Speaker 1: does it suck?
Speaker 2: Yeah? It sucks.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to click on the link. I totally
Speaker 1: trust your link, and I'm going to turn the Okay,
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. It's getting
Speaker 1: ahead of me here. I'm going to wire this through
Speaker 1: the right channels so you'll be able to hear it
Speaker 1: as I play it. And it just takes a couple
Speaker 1: of button pushes and switches being switched, and then I
Speaker 1: got to click on this and then I think we're ready.
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Speaker 1: You know, I don't think it would be that hard
Speaker 1: to re learn it. And if you got the fresh
Speaker 1: mind of a three year old, that's going to be
Speaker 1: new to you. So I can see one side of it.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, fuck you now. I say
Speaker 1: that to get a shot out of you. Seriously. At
Speaker 1: the same time, millions of kids and generations for generations
Speaker 1: have gotten by and learn their alphabet perfectly well, because
Speaker 1: you don't know that it's element op is one is
Speaker 1: different letters, LP the spy.
Speaker 2: When you learn it, you just you learn the different letters.
Speaker 2: You don't just learn the alphabet.
Speaker 1: Song and you're not going to use those letters at
Speaker 1: two years old, right, not. So by the time you
Speaker 1: realize that it's not element op, then you're you're old
Speaker 1: enough to realize to write. By the time you're old
Speaker 1: enough to use them, you're old enough to realize it's
Speaker 1: not one letter. So I think it's putting a solution
Speaker 1: for a problem that doesn't exist exactly. And I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'd say, yeah, it's just weird. It's like kind of
Speaker 1: like writing with your left hand, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're right handed. I don't want to. I don't
Speaker 1: want to and it feels weird.
Speaker 2: Let me live.
Speaker 1: So thank you for that one. And honestly, I think
Speaker 1: that is all the time that we have for now
Speaker 1: on the Minnesota Goodbye. I love the randomness of the topics.
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