HR BESTIES - HR Besties Happy Hour - See? It's Not All Bad!

Episode Date: May 24, 2024

Welcome back to another Happy Hour, Besties! We’re sure as hell glad it’s Friday. In this Happy Hour: Leigh's instagram feed is *delicious* Happy Conception Day to the HR Besties Podcast Listener Bestie workplace green flags Ashley's wholesome travel recommendations 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.  For tickets and more deets on Jamie's Nashville 90's Night event, click here. 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. Happy Friday. Hey, hey. Wow, we made it. We all made it. Did you all make it out there? I guess you are if you're listening to this right? Unless you're're in Will, what's his name? Will Williams basement. Oh, oh, God. You know, I love him, that chef that's kind of awkward and cringe. What's his name? Oh, my God. I don't know. Will Yum. Willum something, but I adore him.

Yeah, Will Yum. Will Yum. Will Yum. Yeah. Oh, gosh. He's so cute. I wish I was in that basement. If you don't know what we are talking about, I don't know if I say highly recommend, I tentatively recommend you go look up William, W-I-L-L-Y-U-M, underscore Conrad on Instagram. Well, but I actually, one, We'll post one of his videos on our stories. But yes, we will. I don't even the video. Sure. Yeah, great. But the comments, break your ankle, run into the comments because the comments are the chef's kiss. Yes. Mm hmm.

And I mean, I'm all proud because I'm like, oh, gee, on that account. Like, I love him. Like, how did you find it? Did it just pop up in your feed? It popped up because, you know, I'm all proud because I'm like OG on that account. Like, I love him. How did you find it? Did it just pop up in your feed? It popped up because I'm always liking food stuff. So I guess there was a connection there. And then I started watching him. And then I shared something with you all, right? Yeah, I didn't know he existed until you shared it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I found out from Lee. Our chat, and Lee's feed is interesting. I was like, read these comments. Well, I found out from Lee. Our chat and Lee's feed is interesting. I was like, read these comments. Well, you know, Lee doesn't, she doesn't follow, well, she doesn't follow me. She did follow me for a day on my birthday. It was your birthday. It was her birthday.

And then she- Can you tell Ashley's bitter about this? Then the day after she unfollowed me, which is- At like 1201 or something. On the dot. I mean, right, she stayed up. She stayed up. She, she'd even did it Eastern, even though she's central. She's like, I'm doing, I'm going to do it Eastern. She's savage. Imagine, imagine. I could even give you Pacific. I could even give you Pacific.

She doesn't have a self curated feed. So, so she Instagram gives her what Instagram and TikTok give her. It's a fucking trash game. It's amazing because the stuff she sends to me, and I am chronically online because of the pages I run. Yes, you are. And the shit she sends me, I'm always like, oh my God, I haven't seen this. And I usually end up sending it to other people. Oh really?

Okay, good. Because I hold back. My friend Anne, Queen Quirk, she's another meme-er. I always am usually sending them to her too. Oh, see, I hold back. I don't even go as crazy. Because I, you know, I mean, you don't know how people feel about receiving... No, I love it. Are you kidding? Just constant reels or, you know...

That's like an act of love to me. Oh, okay. It's a love language. Oh, is it to you, Ashley? No, I love it. And especially because it's, it's very, it's, it's, it's thoughtful. Again, it's, and I did get an exclamation. I got like three exclamation points yesterday on something for Lee. So I, I feel that's also obviously a love language. But she, she, she then went and unsent it. I don't think she did. I know all rude, could you imagine?

She's now going to figure out how to do that, make that text expire. So I can't relish it. But I got a screenshot, so it's fine. Damn. I actually have something for us. Oh. So this Sunday, May 26, will mark our one year conception of the podcast. Oh my God. Wow. Wow. That is like from when I was at the Great Wolf Lodge gift shop. It's your text. I scroll all the way back to find your text.

Girl. I did. You scrolled back and I did. That's a break there at your thumb with that. Yeah. Of Ashley being like, what do you think if we start a podcast? And then I was like, hell yeah, I'm down. And then you're like, What about like with Lee, you know, HR manifesto? And I was like, Yeah, that sounds amazing. And it literally was the very next week. Oh, my god, I like chills. We hopped on a call together, the three of

us and we were like, Oh, for sure. This is it was like we knew each other for forever. We've well y'all had met but oh, yeah, not cool So what is that called conception? Immaculate conception like what anniversary? Yeah, I said you said conception. What do you get a paper? Paper is the first and you know a paper is money. So money is such a symbol. Okay, okay Not the fake not the fake money like the kids get at the science fair museum, you know, field trip. Not Monopoly money. No, no, not Monopoly money.

Real, real. And I don't actually care if it's real or not, as long as it doesn't turn up when they mark it with that marker. Exactly. Exactly. Isn't that cool though? I thought that was exciting. I love that.

I knew it was coming up because I remember you went to Great Wolf Lodge for Memorial Day weekend. How can I forget? I'll post on... I screenshotted it. I will post it. Of course you did because that's how you are. I'll post my story.

I made a story. Oh, yeah. I made a story. Well, it's not a story. I made a real. God, it's not like a boomer. I made a video for the internet. I made some content.

I created some content at Great Wolf Lodge. And I'll post that on our HR Besties. The memes. Oh man, I love that. Look at all these feel-goods. And it is a feel-good week, right? Because our show on Wednesday was all about green flags. So see, it's not all toxic

out there, says the toxic workplace survivor. There's good things that are happening out there, too. There are some actually great things. And we posted out on our HR Besties Insta, you know, tell us what you've seen that are your green flags. And we've got actually we've got so many great comments and like 100 comments on there already. Yeah. And we've got actually we've got so many great comments and like a hundred comments on there already. Yeah. And honestly, it was like refreshing to see that, you know, not all companies are bad. And there really are people and managers and leaders out there trying to do the right thing. So I thought we could read a few. Yes. Yeah, let's do that. We will all scroll through. How about that?

Let me go to www.instagram.net. Pull it up on your computer box on your desk. One that I really appreciated, actually there was two, one of a monster commented on us and yes, the job board monster, flexible remote work policies, which I second. But this one is the one that I think was my personal favorite because it's so important is there's a bad storm coming. Do you need to go pick up your daughter early? Like just having your leader be aware and thoughtful.

It's so simple. Like we said in the show, all these things are free. These are free things. These don't cost the company additional money, and it's so easy to do. Here's one I love, right? And it's got a lot of likes too, so shout out to Seth Daniel Watson. But when my then boss, the HR director, told me the story of mistakes she made on a daily basis in her role as I was the HR manager for the department

at the time. She made it safe to admit I didn't know something, made it safe to make a mistake and had the emotional intelligence and grace not to stake my self-esteem and dignity to the conversation. She remains a good friend and professional hero." Oh, I love that. I would always inadvertently do that as a leader. Just like, oh man, I done fucked up again. Listen to this. Oh yeah. I will fall on that sword. Yeah, exactly. You're not supposed to know everything, people. It's okay, right? We're

figuring this out together. I love that. It really is a good topic for a meeting, for a leader to say, hey, I just want to let you know this. And I've made plenty and I've made you may have heard this may have not. And I just thought it'd be fun. And you don't have to go around the room and say your biggest mistake because your team members may be like, no, thank you. Red flag. Yeah, but saying like it just but just saying that as a leader and knowing that and especially

senior senior leadership by saying like, you know, because I did leader and knowing that, and especially senior leadership by saying, because I did this and I was there, and proactively saying, I'm not gonna make everybody go around the room and tell their biggest mistake, and people will probably laugh and be like, gratitude right here. But to say, but if you ever have one,

my point in telling you this is that we will figure it out. And yes, some are bigger than others. Someone said recently, I was doing a training, and someone's like there's mistakes that are above the boat and below the boat. Like if it's below the boat, it's like structural. We got to figure this out ASAP and they're like that's more serious. Above the boat's like, yeah, yeah, like, you know, they're not as big of a deal. Ornamental, right.

I feel like you could also make that joke about a belt like above the belt and below the belt. Well, yeah, I'm gonna say that's a joke for, that's a happier joke among your non-work colleagues. That silence was loud there. It was so funny, y'all were so quiet. It was almost like the gears were moving. We were all processing, like, wait a minute. No, no, I was legit thinking like, and then I wanted to make a penis joke,

and then I like held back, you know. I never, I'm never going to tell Bestie she's wrong. It was hard. She's right in a different way. She's right in a different way, and in a certain context, you're right, Bestie Jamie. Yeah. Like I can be DeLuLu too, girl. Yes, we can. We can, absolutely.

I will say, yeah, if there's, I mean, honestly, Yeah, like I can be the Lulu too girl. We can, we can absolutely. I will say, yeah, I mean honestly, like I could probably say we could make this a seven hour happy hour because I really love it. So if you're not following us, go to at HR besties pod and and go look and look at these comments because honestly like there's some there's some really good ones I'm about to like you know, stalker like these. Because a lot of these really are like about support or like open communication. Like I turn these into a book, but give credit to everybody. But is one that is from a former colleague of mine, Natalie, that

said coloring in a coloring book with the president of the company, like really chill. And we did this, we had like a coloring books out in the open. This was also at KFC. So we would have like food out in the food and we would bring it. But we'd have these like different like those like adult coloring books that are like relaxation. But the president of the company, he had come from Australia. so I have to mention that, New Zealand originally. And you used to live there, right? You know, it's so funny you say that. It's so funny.

It's so funny you say that. I'm about to take over this app, yeah. I can't believe you remember that, Lee. But he would sit there and like, you know, color was with us in chat. And it is a sign of like, just the levels of like real communication. Oh, I love that. Yeah. and it is a sign of just the levels of real communication. Oh, I love that. Yeah.

I found one I really like here. After working in a very toxic environment for a very toxic boss, same, I was terminated. I luckily found a new job quickly and I was terrified for my first performance review after a year with the new company. As I went into my performance review, I mentioned to her I was a little anxious, and she said, if you have anxiety about this meeting, I'm not doing my job.

And I realized just how awful the experience I had previously was. I'll never forget that she said that. People don't forget that. I actually just found another one, and it's by my real life best friend. Oh my gosh. Well, hold on. We're just your fake life friends. That's fake, exactly.

We're like sims, the sims. Let me go to my... The sims. This is my bestie since college and we have remained literally text numerous times a day. Well, we do too, but that's fine. Well, yes, you guys are my besties too. All competitive.

No, but she will fight you. She will. She has said to me, she has said to me, I see you have fun with your other besties. She's like, what's that about? But anyway, I digress. Amy, I love you. Shout out, Amy. I'm going to read her comment.

I worked for a family-owned business that acquired several competitors over the years. They ended up selling some vacant property after an acquisition and made a huge profit. Instead of profiting it and no one ever even knowing, the president wrote every single employee a check for $500. No big fanfare, no casual dis... I can't even say that word. She's too smart for me. Just a casual dissemination of the unexpected checks made me really proud to work there.

Love. Yeah. See? They actually did something with that money. Give it back to the employees. Mama, there's a first. Well, I just think you really read through these. And I love it. There's somebody in HR, weren't they right in there. I loved it. It was me as an HR girly reading all the comments and making sure we match the vibes within reason. I saw that too.

That's at all things, Lissy. I was laughing. I'm like, that is the most HR of HR comments. And I love it. But it is. But go check that out because it's, it just, it feels good. Like, I mean, you can easily go on social and there's a lot and there are a lot of wrong things at work as we spend time every Wednesday talking about and talking about making them better.

But when there are good things that happen, I think that note of like people do not forget it and the ripple effects you have for people and their family and their friends, that is a real power and privilege. Yeah, we don't remember a lot of what people say or how they act, but we never forget how they make us feel. I mean, that's what the green flags and really red flags too are about, right? It's all the feels, the emotions that they evoke, how they make us feel about ourselves,

our experience, all of this. So yeah, if you do want some feel-good, like Ashley said, you know, look, there's still hope. There's hope, you know, go to go on to our end. So here, I love all of these. And people ask sometimes, like, how do you figure out, like when you're going to organizations, like how do you suss out the green flags and the red flags? And it's not an easy thing.

But what do you know? It's not. A lot of people are like, well, read their glass door. But if y'all saw the meme I posted earlier this week, I was a little distracted beginning of the week. Well, the meme was essentially a man. I'll actually I'll just go ahead and. Oh, I did. I did see that. I did see that. I didn't like it. He was fired from a company. He had a grudge. So we started writing fake reviews on Glassdoor

that were unrealistically positive, like high salaries, absurd benefits, fancy parks. They had trouble hiring for years because candidates thought they were being lowballed. Like that is so savage. Evil genius. Oh my god. Yeah, so maybe don't read class door views. I can't. I mean, let me tell you, that is the most lawyer Ashley's body cringe, my me body cringe reading that, but I had a good juggle. Oh yeah, I laughed, but I was like, do not advise. Oh gosh. I've never done Glassdoor ahead of a job. I've done it once.

Because you're going to have really passionate... You should have listened or what? Yeah, I should have listened. Wait, you've never looked, you've never posted on Glassdoor or never looked at Glassdoor? Same. Oh my god. Yeah, just because I feel like anyone who posts is going to be passionate one way or another and the truth is somewhere in the middle. You know what I mean? So I like to see a horns effect and a halo effect, but you know, but I would suss out like people that have worked there, right? I mean, I want like personal referrals, feedback, people that are working there now. I mean, more neutral. I mean, you know, personal referrals, feedback, people that are working there now, I mean,

more neutral, I mean, you know, but yeah, I personally haven't done that, you know. I actually, it was, it was Indeed because I was applying on Indeed for the company that I ended up looking and they had a low star rating. I think it's, that's what it is on Indeed. So then I went to Glassdoor. And like I said, I should have probably went with that. Listen. I mean, I go deep.

I mean, I... Oh my God. If anybody ever was like, hey, I'm thinking about working here and please don't, I probably should not. I would happily spend my time doing this. This is not where I need to spend my time. But like, do you put together a dossier? I've, I thought about that, let's say 10 years ago, like I was trying to figure out what to do

with life. And I wanted to start a business called Honey Badger LLC, which maybe that's a thing, but to do like deep dives. But then I, then I got all hung up because I'm like, well, I'm not a certified private investigator. Do I get me like, what is wrong with me? But I do. I am a researcher. I get that from my mother and I go deep on the research when necessary. Okay, so mentally noted? Well, not now. Now I don't really. I don't have anything to research because I'm not applying for jobs, thankfully.

I bet mentally noted for me, like if I ever needed a dossier on something. Oh, if you need it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, for sure. I got you. I got you. Yeah, I'll just Google you. Ashley, should I do this or not? You know, there's people, if you have people with your name, my maiden name was very uncommon. I was the only one, but now there is. And so like, someone had once sent me an article.

It was like some crime thing. They're like, is this you? I'm like, no, didn't. Crime in Texas, thankfully. That was Lee. Oh, no, no, that was Lee. That was Lee. But I laughed because there's another Ashley Heard who's a lawyer and we're in some of the same like Facebook groups and LinkedIn. I connected with her on LinkedIn. Of course I'm like, and it makes me chuckle. And so when she comments, I'm like, oh, agreed. And I don't know her, but it makes me smile. That is very cool.

That is cool. On that note, since Jamie's got somewhere to be. It's always Jamie's hard stop. So Jamie's that person in the meeting that's like someone asks a question and she's given that dagger. Yeah. And then I'm also doing this. Yeah, the cut.

Pretending like I'm also doing this. Yeah, they cut. Pretending like I'm cutting. Yeah, cutting their fruit. If you had, let me ask you this. If you were to have a work enemy, would you be more afraid of me or Jamie as your work enemy? Jamie. Yeah. Yeah. You should. That's wise.

Yeah. That's right. That's wise. Yeah. Yeah. Because, like, I feel like, Ashley, you'd be very open about it. Like, you know what I mean? Oh my God, I'd be secretive? Yeah, you'd be more secretive.

Like, I wouldn't know what you were up to. You're kind of squirrely. Yeah. You know, you just give a face, but I, Ashley, you get kind of awkward and you would like verbal diarrhea, how you feel. You know what I'm saying? Like Rose, you know what I mean? And then there's Dorothy, right? So yeah, yeah. St. Olaf College. Look, I'd go and I would be like the Carrie Underwood of like slashing

your tires, writing, carving my name into your, see Ashley, her, not this one. And sing a song about it. This one, not the other one on LinkedIn or Facebook. This one, my, you know, this Jamie would be like slowly letting the air out, you know, over a period of weeks. And I see that. Yeah. You know what I mean? Because I took her creamer. Oh my God. We have that coming up. We have more coming up on that next week. Next week's episode.

We do part two. Oh my God. Y'all buckle up because that shit is, oh my God. I don't, that might be our best episode ever. Really? Next Wednesday. Y'all both have listened to it. I haven't heard it yet. We have. Oh my gosh. And we have.

Shout out to Karlai. Karlai's our amazing, amazing producer. And so she'd sent this week's episode that we did Wednesday early and next week's. And we were like, oh, which one do we do? And we wanted good vibes, good vibes. But next week's episode, I mean, I'm glad you said that.

I couldn't describe it, Jamie. I had tears in my eyes. Oh, I mean, I was crying listening to most of it. Okay, I'll have to. It was hilarious. Yeah. And I was impartial. Well, yeah, yeah, you're partial, but that's okay. Jamie got her creamer stolen yet again. Yeah. And it sounds like, oh, another, how could that be? Sequels aren't as good. This one's better. Yeah. And it's on work travel. Like, oh, how could that be funny? It's a funny, I think it's objectively funny. And so hopefully people agree. Well, that'll be our, if you go on, if you listen on Spotify on your app only, not on your desktop, I don't know if anybody else listens on to Spotify on their desktop. But on Spotify,

the app, there's polls every episode. And so I create these polls and try to think about what to put. But next week's, I think I'm just going to say, is it funny? Yes and yes. And you can comment. You can comment on the podcast on Spotify. Oh, that's cool. Yes, that is cool. And my husband loves to leave comments. Sometimes I block his...

We love a supportive king. We can publish those and they say... Sometimes they say like, Jamie's hot or something. Well, I publish that. Sometimes they say other things and I juggle. I just published one of his. We just pop those through. So if you leave a comment, we probably will publish that. So just know that that's coming. But anyway...

Oh, I love that. No, I that that's coming. Yes. But anyway. Oh, I love that. No, I will listen to next week's episode on the plane because I go out of town tomorrow, Saturday, headed to LA for the week. Nice. So I just, that's my feel good share for this episode. I cannot wait doing a lot of play, my bestie, my real life bestie. Okay, hold on Ashley, go ahead and get offended. I don't have a friend. Rosie, my real life bestie. Are you my friend, Rosie? Rosie's

my dog. But he's flying down from San Francisco to meet up with me. So we'll get in trouble and all of that. So that'll be fun. Y'all do photo shoots too. Bestie Mike. Oh my God. I want to meet him so bad. Man.

He just seems like so much fun. Jamie's going to spend to steal your bestie. No, I'm not stealing. I'm not stealing a bestie. I just want to meet him. I would be, we'd be at happy hour about three to four drinks in and I'd be like, Mike, who do you like better? Oh, he's a good time.

I'm going to make him do cool. He's my best friend. So you know his ass. Yeah, I like that. I like that. Oh damn. But yeah, so I'll report back all sorts of shenanigans. Oh, but I do want to say if you have an LA recommendation, let me know.

Yeah, yeah. I just want to throw that out there. I have a recommendation. I've only gone there for business. Because I've gone out there a couple of times to film the LinkedIn learning courses, plug it, which I have a new one out. I had a new one out this week, Nano tips for a work-life balance. It's like less than 10 minutes and it teaches you things about like how to talk about it at work, but also like how to use it for recipes as a caregiver. Anyway, I'll plug that. That was not my intent. But do you listen to the hop of a plane at LAX?

Miley Cyrus. I think it's you got it. You got it. And I'm down. People in LA are like, oh, my God, that is so cringy. And it is. But that and then rolling to In-N-Out Burger and all the things. Those are your LA recommendations. What the fuck, Ashley? The Miley Cyrus song from 10 years ago and then In-N-Out burger that's like global. Are there any people from Los Angeles with recommendations out there? Lee, you should go to Whataburger.

For real? Fuck. And have you been to a Spurs game? I mean, what the fuck? What about McDonald's? I know. That's genuinely funny, Ashley. That was so cute and pure. Like Rose. That was Rose, right? Love it. Love it. Doing hearts and that is so fucking cute. Do you have any LA recommendations? Yeah. Have you heard that? Got off the plate in LA.

Yeah, I know it. I think it's... When is that song? You know that song from 2000? Thank you. Party in the USA. When did that come out? 2009.

Okay. And In-N-Out. I love it. That's cute, dude. For real. That's cute. Okay. So thank you for your recommendations.

We're going to have a little bit of a break. We're going to have a little bit of a break. We're going to have a little bit of a break. We're going to have a little bit of a break. We're going to have a little bit of a break. We're going to have a little bit of a break That's cute, dude, for real. That's cute. That's cute. Okay, so thank you for your recommendations for LA. Those are good. Can't wait. Report back.

Breaking news, breaking news. Go viral by doing starting a new trend. Right. Like, I'm going to go try In-N-Out and tell them they need to add salt and butter to their fucking shit. But anyway, there's a play. There's a really great unknown attraction. It's a little haunt. I knew you were going to say, I knew, I am going there two days, my top three. I'm not a Disney adult, but I, you know, cause I'm not like always talking about or obsessed,

but I go to Disney, the Disney's a couple times a year. I'm closeted. My feed lately has popped up like the Disney characters, like really dancing, like dancing like hip hop. Oh my god. Yes. I saw one. They're so good.

They're fine. Oh, no, I saw Elastigirl. Oh, with that. Last night. Dump truck. Yes, but the girl in the audience would be me, not me, sorry, audience at the parade is like, yes, girl, give it to me. That would be me. I'd get one beer in me and I'd start yelling.

And she does this spin thing on this, I don't know, I'm going to have to find it. Platform, float, parade. Yeah, whatever she's on. It was a bit of a rousing. Yeah, you got to have her peaches. She lifts her leg all the way. Yeah, I was's on. It was a bit of a rousing. She like lifts her leg all like yes. It's probably like a dude in that costume too. And he's like I'll give

it to you. I know. He comes over real deep voice like shockingly. Elastin dude. Okay. All right. Oh man. I'm going to come up with some others. Yes,, did do. Okay. All right. Oh, man. I'm going to come up with some others. What's your feel good? Yes. Give me some more recommendations, like the Lakers. What's my feel good? What?

Well, I have a feel good. We were doing a week trend. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you were. I forgot the one week trend. Our new thing. Well, it's a positive week. We're trying to be positive, Ashley.

No, I'm trying. I know. I'm trying to. Then I was like, who, Ashley. No, I'm trying. I know, I'm trying to. Then I was like, who would you work in, Amy B? I know, right? I used to go to that dark place. So my parents have been visiting this week and it's been a lot of fun. I've had some fun with my mom, but my mom had this device. I'll actually put it on my Instagram story.

My mom's a Diet Coke addict. She's a huge listener to the pot, so she's going to blast me for calling her out for that. But she's a Diet Coke connoisseur, I'll say. And I go and she has this contraption she's opening a can with, like a hook, like a Captain Hook hook. And she has some arthritis issues. But I was crying, I'm like, what are you doing opening it up?

She's like a talent. She starts waving it at me like a weapon. Anyway, it was very funny. So it's I'll put it I'll put it on the HR best story. Because someone did comment. They're like, wait, that's funny. But like, can you tell me what that is? My mother has arthritis. I was like, oh, mine too. But it helps you to open cans. That's neat, though, if you need it. It is fun. But it is it is very Captain Hook ask and so maybe chuckle. Dangerous looking. Well, you know, Megan Thee Stallion has a song called Captain Hook. Which more on that next week. Oh, there's a tease.

I will real quick before we wrap this up, tell you my feel good because I actually have something to promote. I am emceeing an event in Nashville called 90s Night on July 6th at the Brooklyn Bowl. Tickets went on sale this morning on Friday at 10 a.m. Central Standard Time. If you want to head on down to Nashville, or if you're a Nashville resident, come see us. We have a comedian coming. We're going to obviously have a 90s dance party. Christy from 81, that's her username on TikTok and Instagram. This is all her. I am just hanging on by my coattails, by her coattails really. And I'm so excited. It's going to be so much fun. We've actually been dreaming this up for like over a year. So I love that

Christie's become a good friend. So I'm very excited. And she's done a hell of a job getting all this planned. What time does it start? It is at seven o'clock and early bird tickets, like I said, went on today on sale today. So what's the price of an early bird? 17 bucks. See, not bad. Oh, no, we did it reasonable because we know how times are right now. That's cheaper than Dave Ramsey sweatshirt that we have on our Insta stories. He has a sweatshirt that says debt free that he's selling for $65. Go back into debt. That's what I'm saying. Like, the irony of that man. Literally, there's a shirt that says you can eat at home or you have food at home, but you're going to buy a crew neck sweatshirt for $65? Are

you fucking kidding me? Well, before I called it out, I went to our merch store. I was like, hold on, let me check real quick. But ours is $33.50. No, our shit is not that expensive. Ours is, exactly, ours is reasonable. Thank you. Yeah, we're not living off that. We're not price gouging. No, that's hilarious. That's awesome, Jay.

Oh, kudos, Jayme. That's really cool. I want to lay up there. I know, me too. I know. Kudos, Jamie. That's really cool. I want to lay up there. I know, me too. I know. Come on, please lay in. So I will send you my appearance rate. What a bitch. I'll negotiate. I'm doing this shit for free.

I'll draft the contract. I know. There you go. My name's on the poster, so I'm doing digital print. Oh, man. I love that. Oh my God. That is so funny. Do you have posters and stuff? Are you creating all that?

Yeah. I just posted them on Wednesday to Millennial Misery. Oh, okay. It's official, official. So yeah, please come out. It's going to be so much fun. Christy and I, back in February of 2023, went and saw Rod, JustMeRod here at a kind of a similar event.

And we literally ever since then have, in Nashville. Yeah, he was like kind of touring. Ever since then we were like, we need to do like a 90s prom or a 90s night. And so yeah, so I'm really excited. We need a besties bash, I swear. Yeah. Oh yeah. Sure, next year, I swear, a besties bash. Yes, we're doing it next year. We're doing a besties bash. Yeah, I think that'd yeah. Sure, next year, I swear. Besties bash.

Yes, we're doing it next year. We're doing a besties bash. Yeah, I think that'd be fun. I think that'd be fun. Yeah, I mean, that would be so cool, like where we just get real fucked up after the close of the conference. Or just during it. Okay.

Anyways, yeah, or just during it. And Mike can come. Of course. TGN and Amy and then Rosie. I'll bring Mike. My dog. There, us and our besties. The besties with the besties. Oh gosh. Well, man, on that note, right? TGIF.

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