Now Here's why we don't get to pre read anything on the Minnesota Goodbye today because I have a dermatology appointment and I got into doctor Terene for two things. Nice. Number one, I need to do a body scan for you know, moles and things like that. And I've got two spots on my leg that are a little bit darker, a little bit on, more unusual than I would expect, and I don't remember them being there last week.
So I'm like, okay, maybe I should ever checked out. You ever had like a suspicious anything like a skin thing looked at or taken off, Well, I told you about it. In the last year. I had gotten the spot on my face and we had had your friend Wendy, Nurse Wendy on to talk about it, and I mean it turned out to just be some sun damage that was starting to come in already from like my years of tanning beds and sitting out and not using sunscreen. So that's the only
thing I've ever had problems with. But I do have to be careful because my dad has like bouts of skin cancer quite often, and my younger sisters had to have moles removed and things removed, so my family is like pretty aware of stuff like that. Yeah, we you know, we're very fair skinned like you guys are. So my family has had that too. Susan Tan's Alison Carson do not tan, Chase, I don't think so. In
Beth definitely doesn't tan. When Beth was a little girl, she used to come visit me in the summer and whenever she'd come, her nose would be bright red and peeling from being out in the sun. She grew up in Florida and she would not wear sunscreen and it was always bright red and peeling. And I'm like, Beth, you've got to wear sunscreen. Well, try to talk you know, her mom was irresponsible and to try to talk Beth in, you know, a nine year old, ten year old and
wearing sunscreen just never gonna happen. So checking emails, it is Naughty Tuesday, but I'm not sure if we have any Naughty Tuesday emails. Let's see what we have, Okay. I like this one a lot. This one is really interesting. I work for a national tech company and most employees work from home. The culture is very much about being employee focused. Benefits are
awesome, and work life balance is good. They send out frequent anonymous surveys to gauge how employees feel about the company, bosses, corporate et cetera. Are these actually anonymous? I love my job, but there are issues that I have with my smaller division that have been ignored in the past that I would like to bring up in these surveys, but I don't want them trace back to me, since I like to keep my head down at work and fly under the radar. Is it better to just suck it up and ignore
the bs or should I bring these issues and risk not being anonymous. I'm not going to say their name because they requested that. I don't I one hundred percent understand what you're saying, because I think the same thing. We get these once in a while, and it's like a satisfaction survey. Do you think that your boss does a good job doing this? Or do this
or this? Do you think that management is good? Blah blah blah and and sometimes and I can't think of anything that I would have answered a different way. But there are times when I'm like, no, I'm not going to be honest because I don't want them to be like oh, so, Dave Ryan says that they don't get paid enough, or Dave Ryan says the benefits here suck, or Dave Ryan says that there's you know, the culture is poisoned or whatever. So I, like you, like to fly under
the radar. It's not going to change if I said something like, yeah, the benefits here at iHeart are terrible, it's not going to change, yea, even if I said they're terrible. So I'm going to fly under the radar just like you. Yeah, I mean, I think we've openly talked about on the radio. We honestly we make fun of the company for a lot of things, just openly on the radio, And like, I'm surprised we don't get in trouble more for stuff like that, because I will.
I will admit that the benefits here do actually suck at iHeart. They aren't great, and I'm not afraid to admit that. And I'm sure that they're very well aware of that. So I don't think that this is news to anyone if they do hear this. But I am like nervous to take those surveys too. I think I took one recently, ranking the company on all kinds of different things, and I was pretty honest on it. But I think there was a point where you're supposed to put like if you were
male or female or what age you were? Right, right, And I think I lied about that information so that they couldn't track it back exactly to who I was, Like I put a different category of like what age I was in or something. Oh really did you something be like, well, it can't be Jenny because she says she's like forty four to fifty five. Okay, you know, we do make fun of iHeart here sometimes, but I will tell you iHeart is not perfect. But there are a lot of
other radio companies that are a lot worse than iHeart. And I'm not going to name any because you know, I might end up applying for a job at one of them someday. But you know, we make fun of iHeart and now like they you know, like there's a Dave's Dirt intro that says something like, let's do Dave's Dirt before they before iHeart cuts it out of the budget, and we joke about it that because we're like a lot of
corporations, there are budgets that are more and more and more restrictive. I don't know of a lot of companies that don't have more and more restrictive budgets. I'm going to go ahead and throw out Medtronic. Medtronic a billion dollar, multi multi multi billion dollar worldwide company, but they have had again, I don't want to get it wrong, but I think they've had some struggles and not making as much as they had so they had to lay some people
off. So a lot of people got let go of Medtronic in the last year or so. But you know, you think about a company. I look out the window and there's a Kemps building right across the street. I know nothing about Kemps, but I'm gonna guess that Kemps faces the same struggles that a lot of companies do. They want to drive the shareholder price up. They want to impress the shareholders, so they figure out how to make ice cream a little more efficiently, or how to make the carton, you
know, two cents to make rather than five cents to make. I read somewhere like a Dorito's bag, those little foilly kind of Dorito's bags. They figure out they have like a whole team of people that figures out how to save one one hundredth of a penny in making a Dorito's bag, because that all adds up to millions of dollars over the course of a year or whatever.
Right, because everybody's trying to cut budgets and try to figure out how to matt That's why bars of soap are now shaped like an hourglass or concave, because they don't make big fat bars of soap. Have you noticed that, I've never considered that I was good the Dove soap so that's never had that shaped. It's more of the oval shape. Oh, but are you talking about how it kind of like like goes up with the oval. You're
the ones that just the hour glass. I don't If I looked at a bar of Doves soap from today and versus one from twenty years ago, I guarantee it smaller. Yeah, And there's a name for it, and it's I can't remember what it is. I can look at up really quick. Here' stall for me for you know, what's the biggest ripoff is a bag
of sun chips. That's the biggest ripoff. Not only are there bags smaller than most potato chip bags, but there's so much damn air in them that it's like you need like three bags to get what should be in one bag. I feel like for sonships. So true, shrink flation is what they call it. Yeah, shrink flation is the term, and that is where if you buy sun chips, and there used to be it was like full to the brim packed with sun chips, and now there's a lot less.
We noticed it a few years ago when Lena was here, So now we're talking ten, twelve, fifteen years ago. We were talking about tuna because you know, I remember a long time ago, you open a can of tuna, there was a little bit of water and a lot of tuna. Now you open a can of tuna and you squeeze out the water because you're not going to put that in your sandwich, and you squeeze it out and
it's literally one third of a can. So Lena and I, who used to work on the show, we filled out a form for a class action lawsuit and Starkist or Chicken of the Sea or somebody had to send me like five dollars worth of free tuna coupons because of shrink flation. And that's what they do with soap. They do that with bags of chips, and you
are paying the same amount, but you're not getting as much. Yeah, there's one other thing that I wanted to bring up, and this came to me last night because I was watching a show called The Signal, and The Signal is about a couple and the woman is an astronaut and she goes to space. Something happens in space, and on the flight home from her landing, she disappears, and it's like, what did she see in space that
the government wanted her to disappear? And it's really good. It's called The Signal, But they made some political jokes in there, and I hate when I watch whether you're or liberal or whether you're conservative, we respect you no matter what. We might not agree with you, but we respect you because we're not gonna like say, wow, I'm gonna make everything about what you
are politically. But I was watching this show and they made a couple of political digs, and I was like, can't they just do a fucking show without making a political dig. We never make political digs on this show. We might say something sarcastic, you know, like about how I don't know, like Biden forgot whatever, or we try to be pretty equal though, like when we make fun of one side. We try to make fun of the other two, you know what I mean. Yeah, but you'll never
really notice. We don't call Trump the Orange Man, and we don't say that, you know, Biden ignores the crisis at the border. We don't do that. If you want to hear that, trust me. There are plenty of other platforms, and you don't come here for that. Yeah. But I did think of something last night and I think I wrote it down. Let me see if I can and see if you agree with this one. Okay, hold on, Yeah, I'm gonna need a second to digest one Upkase. So I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking, looking,
looking. Okay, here we go. I would ask, either liberals or conservatives, do you want everyone in the country to be happy and live a good life or just people who think like you. Now, this is a philosophy that it occurs to me. If you are a good person, no matter what somebody thinks, you want them to have a good life and be happy. So you and I might disagree on something politically, but I still want you to live a good life and be happy. But I do think
that there are people who if you don't think like them. They want you canceled, they want you to be fired, they want you to be shamed, they want to put you on Instagram and talk about what an asshole you are. So tell me whether I'm onto anything. If you are a good person, no matter what somebody's political affiliation is, you want them to be
happy and have a good life. And I'm not here to pat myself on the back, but I look at anybody and I want them to be happy and have a good life, unless they're just a terrible person or a murderer or a sexual predator or whatever. What do you think? I mean, I agree with that completely. I mean this isn't political, but when I've had like friendship breakups because they were just not great people, I've never wished anything ill upon them, like I always still want it. I always hope
that they're very happy in their life. I thought that friendship just wasn't for me anymore. So, like, I definitely feel that way. Politically, I don't. I highly doubt that. Even Andrew and I like won't agree on everything all the time, But we don't like get upset with each other because we don't always agree on everything. You know, No, I think it's totally true. But I think that, you know, I think that that's a good mesa of why do we bicker and bitch and finger point and
accuse and slander and cancel anybody who? Okay, I'll give you an example. And I'm not we don't want to get political. But during the speech the woman who got killed by somebody who was in the country illegally, somebody brought it up during the State of the Union speech the other night and they said, say her name, and so he had a button. President Biden had a button and he said her name wrong. Her name is Lake and I believe, and he called her Lincoln and then he called the murderer an
illegal. Yeah, she was killed by any illegal? Holy ballsack? Did both sides just use that as the worst ammunition ever? And it was like fock And it really made me think, do you really want the other side to ever be happy? Or do you only want people like yourself to be happy? So is that I don't I'm not going to answer the question for you, but I'm going to guess that you probably want everybody to be happy, but we never act like that. So we're a little short on emails.
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