HR BESTIES - HR Besties Happy Hour – Besties vs Butker (aka Butthead)

Episode Date: May 17, 2024

Welcome back to another Happy Hour, Besties! We’re sure as hell glad it’s Friday. In this Happy Hour: Questionable pizza trade Studying abroad Geriatric millennials and The Golden Girls Graduates, don't listen to Harrison Butker Your To-Do List: Grab merch, submit Questions & Comments, and make sure that you’re the first to know about our In-Person Meetings (events!) at https://www.hrbesties.com. Follow your Besties across the socials and check out our resumes here: https://www.hrbesties.com/about.  We look forward to seeing you in our next meeting - don’t worry, we’ll have a hard stop! Yours in Business + Bullsh*t,  Leigh, Jamie & Ashley Follow Bestie Leigh! https://www.tiktok.com/@hrmanifesto https://www.instagram.com/hrmanifesto https://www.hrmanifesto.com Follow Bestie Ashley! https://www.tiktok.com/@managermethod  https://www.instagram.com/managermethod https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleyherd/ https://managermethod.com Follow Bestie Jamie! https://www.millennialmisery.com/ Humorous Resources: Instagram • YouTube • Threads • Facebook • X Millennial Misery: Instagram • Threads • Facebook • X Horrendous HR: Instagram • Threads • Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello besties. Woohoo! It is Friday yet again. We have made it. Collective sigh. Yay! We brace ourselves as we enter the weekend, which will go like that, of course, really super quick.

And then we're back at it on Monday, aren't we? But for now, it's Friday, and it's happy hour and we're drinking. We're feeling good. How are you all? Did you survive the week? Yeah, wasn't too bad, actually, for once. There you go. There you go. Learned helplessness has kicked in. That's good. I'm thriving. It's been a good week. Thriving. I set some goals at the beginning of the week. I accomplished many of them by midweek. Okay, something to aspire to. Thriving. That's nice.

And so, yeah, this is, I got to really relish this while I have it. Oh my God. Next week I'll be like, ugh! Exactly, exactly. It just comes in waves, doesn't it? Oh, well, what do we got on the agenda for today? What do we want to talk about? It's happy hour. I've got a busy day. Yeah, tell us what you got going on. Well, we're happy houring. And then I head to a corporate retreat to do some speaking for a couple of hours.

Nice. I know. Okay. I'm heading to the Texas Hill Country. If anyone hasn't been, you should. It's stunning. It's like where all the snowbirds come down. But believe it or not, it's really, really green and wet.

Here in Texas, you think it's a desert here, it is not. Just over on that west side, you know, we gotta remember it's a big ass place. I think we have every climate and every terrain in Texas. It's some crazy stat like that. But Texas Hill Country, quite the destination, but I'm doing a little keynote there, but here's what's cool.

It's actually a friend of mine going back 20 years, college friend, we studied abroad together in Italy. She reached out to say, hey, do you wanna join us on this corporate retreat? Hell yeah. Like that sounds incredible, right? And she's like, oh, thank goodness, because my boss is one of your super fans.

Wow. And so I actually sent like a, what is it, a little audio of her text and she sent it to her boss and she like totally fangirled and freaked out and it's now a ringtone. So that's really cool. Yeah. Wait, what does it say? What does it say? I was just like, hello you. Oh, I am so excited to join your retreat. Oh, but I did do the, not a question, but a quick comment. Of course, the signature. I cannot wait to meet you in person, you know. Yeah. And she was supposedly freaked out.

She really liked that, you know, but of course we got to be there for our long time besties. Shout out to Araceli. I told her, Hey, I'm, I will flirt and char your boss. Like no one's business. Wait, what was that name? What was that name you said? Araceli. Araceli, yeah. It's beautiful. I call her Ara, but Araceli. Yeah, but we had some times in Italy, you know, so some I definitely cannot share.

But what I will share real quick is like our first weekend there, you know, I met Araceli and we go to the local town bar and this is like middle of nowhere, Tuscany. And some Italians came over and they laid some pizzas down. And then all of a sudden one grabbed me by the arm and like escorted me to this other part of the bar and, you know, tried to hook up with me right there in public. So that's the Italian welcome.

Ha! Ha! Pizza then fuck. No, no, that's my point. No, I literally got traded for pizza. Wait, is it like pizza and chill? Like the equivalent? I got traded for pizza. So I'm there with like all my new friends,

like my classmates basically, we're all trying to get to meet each other. Pizza gets laid down. Our Sully knows Italian, she speaks no shit like six languages. She's fucking brilliant. Like she speaks Russian too, like what the heck. But there was an exchange. Oh, but there was like an exchange of words. And then all of a sudden, I'm like in a back room being traded for pizza.

What in the homeland is this? I think there was a deal that was brokered and I got traded for pizza. Now, I haven't worked all that out what happened there. But Well, that sounds like a good you know what, honestly, that sounds like a great subject to bring up at this corporate retreat in front of her boss. I know I'm totally going to share that story. Yeah, yeah. I'm horrified. But also how was his pizza? going to share that story. Yeah, yeah. I'm horrified. But also how was his pizza?

Oh, I know. I know. Well, I remember telling him, and I don't want to put a trigger warning on this, so I won't like go into details on what happened. But I remember telling him like, I didn't come all the way from Texas for this. Now I did. Okay, that's the thing. That was a lie. But I can't be, I did. Okay, that's the thing. That was a lie. But I can't be the hoe of the summer, like the first weekend. I mean, you know what I'm saying? I got to pace myself. You got to ease in. I got to pace. I was focused on making friends. It was our first night out as a collective student group that is spending the whole summer together. You see what I'm saying? But not that good of friends to start. You got to ease in. But that being said, I'm just trying to really think through this. I'm in college and someone's like, here's some pizza.

I'll do anything for pizza. Then you have to be like, well, not any. Okay, hold on. Not anything, guys. I didn't actually mean that. Yeah. Well, not anything tonight. Yeah. Okay. Maybe tomorrow. He was hot as hell. You know, I'll give him that, you know, but unfortunately, I didn't see him again. I kept going to that bar. But

anyways, it was quite the night, but that was like my first experience with her. And now I'm sure it, I'm sure he wasn't like, like, can I have your friend for pizza? I mean, you know what I'm saying? I hope not. I will get clarity on that. I don't think I ever have. But I'm sure it was just like, gifting you pizza. Can I go talk to your friends? He was a distraction. It was, you know, some sort of... Right.

She's like, yeah, you're lovely. Well, that's a, that's a, I hope they left you some pizza because that would be jacked up if they ate all the pizza. I don't even remember eating pizza that night. I know. But I did go up to the bar and I ordered a Cape Cod and then realized I was in Italy. That was my Cape Cod era.

And they're like, what the fuck is that? What's a Cape Cod? Is that grapefruit and- No, that's a Greyhound. It's a cranberry and vodka. I'm a vodka person. Oh. And then I ordered a Long Island iced tea.

Hold on. I've always just said vodka and Korean and it's called something. It's Cape Cod. Well, let me just say, Lee can no longer claim this states. I went to state school. You're in state school ordering a bougie as Cape Cod in college. Yeah, because I've never drank beer. I do not drink beer.

Like I'd be like, may I have a Bush light? Your finest. Yeah, exactly. Your least finest. That is, you are, you are, you're all the layers to your onion leaf. Dude, I was drinking Cum Chocca though. I mean that vodka is like $2.99 a bottle. I don't know what, I mean, you know what I'm saying?

Like the cheap shit. It's not, I mean. But I can't do, I know now. Yes, but, but that's what I'm up to Friday. Order up for Damien. Hey, how did your doctor's appointment go, by the way? Did you ask about rubellsus? Actually, I'm seeing my doctor later today.

Did you say rubellsus? My dad's been talking about rubellsus. Rubellsus? Really? Yeah, he says it's a pill that... Well, I'll definitely be asking my doctor if rubellsus is right for me. Robelsis, really? Yeah, he says it's a pill that's- Well I'll definitely be asking my doctor if Robelsis is right for me. Robelsis. Ask your doctor or visit Robelsis.ca.

Order up for Robelsis. Jamie, did you study, Brad? No, I couldn't afford that. I'm still paying for it. Literally. Yeah. No, I worked full-time and a part-time job in college. So, JB did not do much of anything fun in college.

Yeah. Now that's why you're doing some fun stuff now. Yeah, sort of. Do you have student loans? No, those are paid. See, I'm still going. Luckily. You know, when you're poor, you get the Pell Grant.

So, I got lucky. My college, like I went to Center College in Danville, Kentucky, and we actually had, it's like, it's like a top, top five school for study abroad. And so they have a little bit different program and that like we would go abroad. I went abroad with like 20 of my friends and it's the same tuition basically that it was. Oh my God. And I was there in 2002 when the euro was coming out and the exchange rate was great. And so they actually gave us money back right before spring break. Oh, nice. But we did when we went, it was a professor from our school.

I lived in apartments with my friends and we only had class like Monday afternoon to Thursday morning. So we'd travel like Thursday night to Monday and we'd show up at the train station and be like, where do we want to go? And so some of those and like, and I get like, I slept, we slept on like the, in like the right, the train car, like on like the luggage, the luggage rack, we were, we were hostiling it. Like it was not, it wasn't fancy, but my kids love hearing the stories of like, like I remember in, I was in Strasbourg, France, but in Italy we went and there's like this man with scars all over his face named Piero, who took us to this Chinese restaurant that

had a hostel above it. And like my kids love hearing that. They're like, what was that man's name? And we kept seeing him all over town. And so I love those stories. But that being said, I tell you, youth is wasted on the young. What would you do now? I stayed around for like five plus months. I can't fathom going and having been able to travel for free slash cheap without responsibilities.

Oh, good. I'd give anything for that now having money more than I did in college. I didn't have shit. You know what I mean? I just putting it on my tab. Yeah, yeah, exactly. But we'll see. We'll see how that goes later today. I look forward to chatting a bit, maybe getting clarity on if there was a pizza deal made or not. Yeah, I need to know about that pizza exchange. You need to spend two hours. Don't talk about work topics. Talk about this topic and drill it right in front of her boss, the super fan. He won't mind. she won't mind. He or she? She, okay, she won't mind.

I plan to, yeah, we'll get some clarity. I was listening the other day to one of our episodes and I swear when the ads come on with your voice, I'm like, I wonder if people like record this. Like it really is voiceover level. And so if anybody ever is looking for like a voiceover talent or those things, like we'll promote Lee in that way. Like it's like I chuckle because I'm like,

what is this ad going to be for? I don't know. And then I'm- They're sexual sounding. And I mean, I just kind of wonder how many of our male friends, our male listeners are whacking. Oh my God. Oh my God, you can't say that.

All right. I just took a drink. You wonder, huh? Well, wonder no more. If you are, send Jamie a note. No, no, that's not needed. Send her photo proof. Not necessary.

I do not need proof. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. Oh, shit. Oh my God. It's like a trigger card bingo on this episode today. Oh, I know.

Gosh. You know, someone did reach out to me earlier this week to MC an event in December. Nice. And I'm there for that. Okay, that's exciting because of the voice, you know, that's what that's that's part of it, you know. Yeah, okay. I know. Well, I don't think it was like a sex event, but I could get clarity. It's a vibrator convention. Because you go, rare. Oh my god. Oh my god. OK. A vibrator convention. Oh my god.

Oh man. With this taking a turn, look, I'm literally drooling over here. Jamie, do you have a story? And by story, I mean like big. We've already hit, we've already done the four corners and cover your board bingo with trigger warnings. I have a quick comment. So actually, this is two parts.

So first part, actually, earlier this week, you posted a video of drinking coffee out of a Golden Girls mug. Yes. And you said you were Gen X. Yep. Love. And that set me off because technically you're a millennial. And you know how I feel.

I am mother millennial. I saw that. But that is feel, I am mother millennial. But that is not what I wanted to get to. So part two is mama- Well, wait, hold on, but hold on before you get to that. Technically, I'm a millennial without giving out my full date of birth. I'm like two and a half months into millennial?

Yes, yes, because we're all the same age. Well, we were all born in the same year, I should say. Well, but then I thought to myself, do millennials really know Golden Girls? Because for me, it's a very specific era that people that watched it on repeat. Elder millennials. Yeah, elder, elder, that's I should have said, elder. Geriatric, I say geriatric. Geriatric millennial. Shoot. You have a brother, is he older or younger than you? He's older and he is Gen X.

He's Gen X. So sometimes I think any, like an elder millennial with a Gen X sibling, it's, you can identify with both because I have a Gen X sibling too. Because you were there for his trends and what he liked. Like a buzz cut, a rat tail, jam shorts. Yeah. you know, what he liked. Like a buzz cut, a rat tail, jam shorts. Yeah. Yeah. So you're familiar with it, but you still identify with like the millennial stuff, because that was really your. So anyway, that was number one. Number two is your golden girl mug. You posted that and someone, Mama Bear actually commented, which?

Cindy. Yes. Which golden girl would each of us identify as? And so I want you guys to answer, but I actually have it all written out who I think who is. So do you want me to go first? Are you saying yourself? Yeah. Yeah. So I think I'm, I personally think I'm a Dorothy. I do. So she's just like, she's

practical, she's sarcastic, she's short tempered. Oh, yeah. And she follows like current events. Like I feel like that I'm a Dorothy. Ashley, what do you think you are? I mean, I don't know. Honestly, I think I'm probably Rose because I talk about Australia just like she talks about St. Olaf College. Like literally, that's my Roman Empire. Australia is my Roman Empire. And so that's what I think about myself. I have to.

That's who I picked for you is Rose. You're so spot on. And I want Lee to say there is only one correct answer for Lee and we know what it is. Yes, there's only one correct answer for Lee. I'm asleep. I'm only going to say Blanche. Do you disagree, Lee? And if so? Well, but I have a Dorothy mind. Okay. Okay. Or a mama mind. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yes.

I agree with that. I got a blank sort of attitude about me. That is so funny. That is funny. So Murphy's mom, cool mama bear, she's kind of those two names on TikTok, but Cindy Opeca. And so sometimes we'll get reach outs of like, who is your go-to HR consulting expert for California?

It's Cindy Opeca. So if you happen to be listening and you're like, I want someone Cindy's, she's really great. But her content is really she makes super fun videos. And yes, I just zoomed with her last week for like the first time. Yeah. Oh, she's extremely knowledgeable about California. Like laws and regulations. So go follow her on TikTok. Yeah. So look up Cindy. Oh a past-draft-free peek at, but that cracks me up. That is, boy, that really is funny. I saw that and I kind of chuckled, but I hadn't thought about it.

I screenshotted it and then I like did a deep dive on all the ladies and going, okay, we know Lea is Blanche. And then I'm like, but who would I be? And you know what's crazy? Did you know they were only like 50 when they filmed that show? Yeah, no, absolutely not. I think like in the opening episode, Blanche said she's like 55. What? Oh my gosh.

I can't. We've come a long way. Well, when I was in any, I remember seeing that stat like when I was in college and we'd sit around and watch it for, you know, hours on end with hours on end with McDonald's or whatever. And I'd be like, yeah, yeah, but 50, that's old. And now I'm like, 50 is young. 50 is very, very young. Oh yeah, of course.

Now that I'm closer to that age, I'm like, no, no, not at all. I love it. This week, my grandmother reminds me so much. She looked very similar to Betty White. She was real funny, played basketball. She was about four foot nothing towards the end of her life, but she passed at 96, but this would have been her 101st birthday this week. And so I have her picture on my desk. It's behind me in

every video. And she would be a huge HR Besties fan if she were here. So every time I see Betty White, which she was also lovely, I think of her. Would she also have to Google some of the things we say? She would, she totally would. So I call my mom, Mama Manager Method. Her name's Nancy is a great name. My mom loves mama manager method, her name is Nancy, is a great name. My mom loves, loves HR besties, but she laughs that she frequently on our episodes has to

Google terms, like flashlight and things like that. And she's like, oh my God, there's things I didn't need to know. And so my Gigi would have been right alongside that and she would have chuckled. She told me her favorite city when I was studying abroad, she said, I just love Amsterdam. I just love to go to Amsterdam. I love the ladies there. So nice. So I think she would have been besties up there with it. Shout out. Heard I have that in common. I love Amsterdam. Yeah. I was going to say she was about half your size, half your height, but she really packed a punch. So I try to live up to her.

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And graduation season. I mean, speaking of things like student loan, people have enough realities, many of them that are gonna hit them in the face. But this is the time to celebrate. Especially a lot of people now graduating college may have been in high school in 2020. And so they didn't get to have big graduations and things like that.

And so I think it's probably especially meaningful. But at college, Benedictine College, they had a commencement speaker who's Harrison Butker, who's the kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, the Super Bowl winning Kansas City Chiefs. So he gave this speech and I was like, God, why is this video? So he starts off this speech very inspirationally by saying that women have been fed diabolical lies. And by that, he's not talking about student loans. He is talking about people that you're probably in this audience, you're probably excited

for your careers, but you're thinking of the titles you may have. But really the title that I bet you're really looking forward to the most is being a wife and a mother down the road. And he goes on and talks about things like some of these diabolical. I see he gets very political in this speech as well, but in it he talks about one of the lies being IVF, being something that's very problematic in society. But so I just thought, especially on the heels of our episode this week, where we talked about, we started with your story, Lee, about mandatory Bible study. And we say it's a slippery slope,

because, you know, yeah, yeah, like there are people that are that are religious that may want to participate in that. But there's a lot that don't when you force things. So when you're a leader and you have these microphones and are saying things, you can be sending a message that is completely inappropriate for that occasion. And it just I heard that I saw that video and I literally my mouth gaped open at just how I would feel sitting in that audience on my exciting day and him just taking it and shitting all over the excitement thing. I know. It was so gross. The misogyny was so loud for no reason.

Gosh, I haven't seen it yet. Imagine being excited to get your degree, work so hard for you, busted your ass and then that's what the speaker says to you. It was all for nothing. Yeah. Well, the thing that's, you know, you know me, you know me, I go deep. So this is where I have, I have a shocking-

Tell us everything. Yeah, so I'm like, oh, and I was thinking to myself, you know, it's so funny because he's from, he's from Georgia, and his family lives not far from where we used to live, where I used to live in Atlanta. And I was like, hold on a second. And so his mother, so I think his wife actually got a degree in computer science and Spanish in college. But his mother went to Smith College, which if you're going to talk about a place that's full of women getting yours, so those that don't know, it's a women's college that is one of the top institutions in our country

that's produced some incredible leaders, innovators, including his mother who went on to get graduate degrees in physics. And she's a physicist for Emory Hospital's oncology, which is a cancer unit. So he's got mama issues. Mom's brilliant. My God. And it's, I mean, to me, it brought up so many things of like, I mean, I'm super curious,

like how would you feel, you know, as a parent of your kids, like you should have just stayed home with us and not like, and all of those innovations, but in 2024 that that's a speech and just being mindful that there are leaders that get up there and espouse their like personal views and they have no concept how offensive it is and inappropriate for that for that moment in particular. You want to put that on your social media, go for it. Like people

can choose to mute you. But what are you going to do in the middle of commencement? Well, that's kind of like, I wonder, where is the like the check? Where's the double check? Are we getting a copy of the set speech? Are we looking over it first? Are we giving it the okay? What are you talking about up there today? Because like, yeah, yeah, then I'm questioning the university.

Like I'm assuming they didn't. I'm going to assume that they did not see it. All of a sudden, he's having to submit her remarks in advance for the afternoon today. Oh, I know. Oh, you should. Yeah. Oh my gosh. But they hired a NFL kicker.

Yeah. That misses a lot. Oh gosh. I mean, you know what I mean? It's humbling. But then people are like, they knew what they were getting. If you look at his social media, which I will not be, he espouses a lot of these. And again, very anti things.

Like that's the aspect for me is like, you show up on exactly a celebratory day and you're like anti so many things. And it's just, and just, just thinking about that. And so again, this year's, sure we'll talk about this on more Wednesday meetings, but like it's election year and with all these things, just being about that. And so again, this year's, sure, we'll talk about this on more Wednesday meetings, but like it's election year. And with all these things, just being mindful that just because something fits with you and you assume everybody else thinks or should think the way you do,

especially when you have a leadership role at work, please don't. Oh, gosh. Yeah, I mean, he didn't read the room. Please don't. I'll pass from watching the video, probably just piss me off anyway, like most things on social.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like I wonder how his wife feels though. I've seen other people I saw had said that his wife has very similar views on social media. So maybe she maybe she regrets that computer science degree. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah. And I wonder his mom as well. I mean, make the assumption because of her position, you know, she believes one thing, but who knows? I mean, she raised that guy. So it would be curious, but that's, you know, coming from a real place of privilege for him to say that, being that, of course, he has a mother who enabled his dreams and his career, I'm going to guess,

and funded it, I'm sure. Yeah. To then turn around and say that. But I mean, it sounds like his mom hopefully has it all. But I'm assuming that wasn't his message, that you can be a wife, mother, and also... He was not leaning in. He was like, lean on my shoulder. Yeah, he was leaning out.

Lean on my shoulder. I got you. But I actually saw a video now, it was like a you know, lean on my shoulder. Lean on my shoulder. I got you. But it's, I actually saw, I saw a video now, it was a few weeks ago, and it was so, it was long. It was like eight minutes long. And I never watch eight minute long videos. I'm like a three and a half max. But she was talking about how she had always been told this message of like, you know, don't, you know, not being independent and her marriage did not work out. And how she is in a situation now where she's trying to apply for things and she couldn't get a job and she felt like she used to have skills and

she feels like she has skills but can't translate those. And it was like, it just, your heart broke. It was super emotional in her car. And it just also that aspect of like as you're in hiring and in recruiting, those people, when they have those gaps on their resume, and it cuts across whether it's, you know, a wife that's, you know, been dependent on their spouse or whether it's anybody that's taken time off to care for parents, anything, their own selves, just being mindful. A lot of those people are probably super worried

about you being, you know, judging about those gaps, but knowing that having employees who are able to take that time for themselves or care for others, those are real skills that they can bring to your workplace. Anyway, I'm getting emotional at this happy hour. Was there any feedback from students? You know, I didn't, I was listening for, well, that's the thing. I was listening for, I mean, I have to imagine people were kind of, I would imagine people would be shocked. I thought I heard a crying baby during it and I thought you'd probably see a young baby.

Please don't. No. Inspiring him. You'll be so excited to have kids. Meh. I know. I would have started booing. Yeah, oh same.

I actually would have. Like I would have stood up and then like, boo! Okay, Dorothy. Yeah. Totally. Jamie would have been leading the charge. Donna Martin graduates kind of. Yeah. Could protest. I would like been leading the charge. Donna Martin graduates kind of. Could

protest. I would like, rush the stage! You know, and I'm not a big Twitter person, ex, whatever, but I did. I looked because I was like, oh, and how people are reacting. And I did see it was like, I wonder if Harrison Butcher getting cooked online counts as him having women in the kitchen or something. I'm kind of butchering that a little bit, but it was like, people are clever. So that's the silver lining to when everything's happened is people bring out their humor and rally around

and are like, don't listen to this nonsense. Yeah, well, way to go him being his authentic self, just out loud and proud, you know? Yep. Good for him, you know? Oh damn. People. Do you all remember your commencement speakers? No. Me neither. Yeah. Ashley does. I was extremely hungover. Just being honest. We had for my college was Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao. So, yeah, Mitch McConnell. When I was a kid, Mitch McConnell's daughters

used to babysit for me growing up in in Louisville. It's a fun fact. Yeah, like many, many years ago. So, yeah. Okay, shout out to Mitch. But that being said, like I was saying, it was like very, very dry and very boring. And so I definitely remember some people falling asleep as probably tends to happen for hangovers

and other reasons at graduation. But yeah, that was my college. I think I had Robert Gates and then he later became president of Texas A&M. But I don't know how quickly we forget, right? Yeah. I have to, we had, I remember my friend, my friend who was actually, she'd moved from Louisville to Atlanta. She had the principal, she had, I can't remember his name. I wish I could. The principal that played Mr. Belding on Saved by the Bell. But I was like, but

what did he, I'd be so curious, but what do you have to say? So. Oh, well, gosh. Well, if any of you besties listening had a memorable graduation speaker for better, for better or for worse. Feel free to share that. I wonder what this graduating class song is like ours was vitamin C. As we go on. I graduated in 2000. And I know I remember I graduated in 2000 and I know I remember like 1999, the class before me, they were party like it's 1999. But that vitamin C song I believe came out right then. So that's, that was really their song more than ours. But yeah, that was, I was class of 99 as the elder here and I can attest one. Yes, our prom theme was party like it's 1999

as everyone's was. And two, yes, it came that song, vitamin C. And then, but then there was like, but so sometimes, see people don't listen to like the local radio as much, but in the local radio they would play it and they would have people's like messages interspersed and they'd be like, they'd be like, I'm always gonna remember the football field

like my teacher. But in it, like I think in that actual song, the person's like, you know, my advice, wear sunscreen. That starts it off. If you've heard like the full version, I did not appreciate that advice as much in 1999 as I do in 2024. I wish I'd listened. I wish I'd listened in like 1987 to that advice and didn't get sunburns when I was a kid. It's created some issues in adult life. But that Wear Sunscreen is real. That's very non-controversial, hopefully, advice.

But I think I can do it with The Broken Heart by Taylor Swift. It's a good. Do you think that's theirs? It's a Taylor song? Well, it's got to be a Taylor song. But that's a brand new one. That's pretty good. Actually, it's probably not inspirational. So I don't know it. I don't

know. I don't know. I'll just, well, when we, when we sign off, I'll just sing it to you all. I know exactly. Please do. But yeah, shout out to sunscreen every day and shout out to the graduates of 2024. Cheers on your accomplishment. That makes more sense. Cheers on that. And we've heard lately from some besties that have gotten things like a SHRM certificate or any of those HRCI. And despite people have different feelings each way, when you get those, it's important to celebrate that accomplishment and don't let anybody hold you down.

Growth mindset, shout out to continuous learning. Yes, ma'am. Yes, and you can be whatever you want to be, unlike Harrison's position. You're missing those field goals, bud. Cheers. Cheers to that. Cheers to that. Enjoy the weekend, besties.

Bye. Bye. Bye.