3rd Anniversary Special: I took an HR Class in College when I Wore Cool Pants

3 year Anniversary special
Cool stats
Warren's Pet Project update
Warren found a friend who also hates solicitors
Sorry for the microaggression ladies
Can you reset my HR Portal Password
Don't worry I took an HR class in college
Patrick and Warren wore cool pants

Transcript

Warren 0:00

Welcome to the third anniversary special of Jaded HR, your podcast by three HR professionals who want to help you get through the workday by saying all the things you're thinking, but say them out loud. I'm Warren. I'm Patrick. You're Mrs. Feathers. Yeah, we didn't practice this. Practice, rehearse, coordinate? What? No. So as I mentioned, this is a really cool, special episode. April 1st was our three-year anniversary of J DHR, and it's just so crazy how things have grown. And honestly, our audience has grown, and it's just completely amazing. I'd love to get more feedback from you all, more reviews. I went, I spent some time the other night. I was up to like one in the morning. I was like looking at every country that we'd had the Apple charts on every country that we've been played in to see if somebody left a review. And we don't have any more reviews. I don't always look internationally. My little app that tells me when we get a review doesn't tell me if it's not the United States. So, anyways, I want some reviews, but uh so I'm going to start off just sort of talking about some fun stats about what Jaded HR has done over the years, our favorites, some just memories of the the show over the last couple years. And then we got a I've got a couple of stories to to put out there. So yay! Yay, but also oh yeah, it's our third year anniversary. I pulled up this just to make it happen. And can you believe it? So, anyhow, but I do want to thank our listeners, especially our Patreon supporter Hallie, our original Jded HR Rockstar. Check out our show notes for all the ways you can support the show. So I was going to go over some really dorky stats, get that out of the way. And just the other night I listened to our two-year anniversary special to see, because I know I threw up some stats out there, and I'm not going to torture y'all by making y'all guess states and countries and things. That was that was actually kind of awful. We could. It's always fun. No, it was kind of it was kind of bad. But just some stats, and y'all can tell me that's enough warren if if you ever get to if we get to that point. We can play hot low. I came up with a bunch of top ten lists for our our experiences. So the top ten countries outside the United States that we've been and listened to in. Number 10, Mexico, number nine, Brazil, number eight, Belgium, number seven, France, number six, India, number five, Saudi Arabia, number four, Australia, number three, Germany, number two, Great Britain, and number one, of course, Canada. So I thought those that was pretty interesting. The the top ten countries. And overall, those are the top ten we've been listening to. And I didn't count countries. Yes, except Antarctica.

Patrick 3:08

Oh, come on, Antarctica.

Warren 3:09

I want to challenge our listeners. Go down to Antarctica and give us a download from there. I want to see that. I actually follow the Instagram of two people who work in Antarctica. So maybe I'll ask them, hey, download my podcast, see if they'll do that.

Patrick 3:21

Let's get them on. Do they have I mean Do they have H HR down there? Like there's got to be someone that maintains policy. I know it's kind of a crazy fest down there, but Yeah, there's a lot of partying, yeah, it seems, out there.

Warren 3:35

So, anyways, that is is pretty cool. Going to the top ten cities we've been looted in. Number ten, Los Angeles. Number nine, Virginia Beach. Number eight, Austin, Texas. Number seven, Seattle, Washington. Number six, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Number five, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Number four, Atlanta, Georgia. Three, Chicago, Illinois. Number two, Chesapeake, Virginia. Thank you, Patrick. And number one, Medina, Ohio. Gonna get doxed now, but thanks, Warren. Yeah, Chesapeake, Maryland. That's it.

Feathers 4:20

Medina, Ohio.

Warren 4:22

I have no idea where I've never heard of Medina, Ohio. That we've been downloaded in. Medina, Ohio.

Patrick 4:30

Well that's gotta be the first live show, right? Sure. We're taking it on the road. Yeah, that's how you do live shows. You gotta figure out where your where your demo is and getting the most downloads there. You can sell out a 15-seat bar.

Feathers 4:46

It's a random suburb between Akron and Cleveland.

Patrick 4:52

Hey, it's our random suburb. Ohio Geography. Do they have a Buffalo Wild Wings that we can host?

Feathers 5:01

Unfortunately, I'm sure they do. There's got to be a better There's gotta be a better bar than that in Medina. Come on, folks. Let us know. I'll tell you what. We'll take the show on the road.

Warren 5:12

I do want to use the money we're getting from the show, the very little bit of money. I do want to get a soundboard so we could actually record in person, possibly one day's without a soundboard. We'd echo all over each other. And you've probably heard some podcasts that do that. It sounds like shit. And I'm not going to do that. So uh, anyways, uh that's on my purchase list. It's on our Amazon wish list, which is uh in our show notes too. If you're very, very, very, very generous, waits are dollars. So top ten cities international other than Winnipeg, Manitoba. We've counted that already. Number 10, Ottawa, Ontario. And I'm gonna butcher some of these names, people, so don't get hurt. Uh number nine, Melbourne, Victoria. Nope. Eight.

Patrick 5:57

Our friends in our friends in Australia will be upset by pronouncing the hard R there. Melbourne.

Warren 6:03

Melbourne. Okay. Melbourne, Victoria. Can I pronounce an R in Victoria? I don't know. Okay. Let us know. Vancouver, British Columbia, Calgary, Alberta. I'm gonna kill this name. Eto B Coke. Eto B Coke, Ontario. Uh, Edmonton, Alberta, uh, Frankfurt, Germany, Toronto, Ontario, Fort Cuapel, Saskatchewan, and number one city we're downloaded in, otherwise than Winnipeg that we spoke of, Rita, Saudi Arabia. Rida, Saudi Arabia, however you say that. So uh yeah, that's that's that's that's that.

Feathers 6:45

Uh state's so what do you think?

Patrick 6:47

We should take the show to Saudi Arabia? Well, I'm kind of wondering where that oil money is is going, Warren. What kind of deal you got?

Warren 6:54

I'm married to a Saudi princess, and I knew it. Betrothed to a couple of Saudi princesses. But I found this interesting. I went down to the top cities in the United States, top states in the United States, number 10, Washington State, Wisconsin nine, Michigan eight, Georgia seven, New York, six, Illinois five, Florida four, Texas, and I messed up these numbers. Texas is four, Ohio is three, California is number two, and Virginia, not by much over California, is number one. Last couple stats for you all, so you don't so nobody hates me. Our top 10 episodes of all time.

Patrick 7:37

Yeah, that's of all the good stuff.

Warren 7:39

All time, yeah. So, and I did give some honorable mentions I'll throw in later. But number 10, when listener Claire takes us on the bullet train to hell, that was our 10th most listened to episode.

Feathers 7:52

Yep.

Warren 7:53

Number nine, yes, you are the asshole. And remember, snitches get stitches from not Sherm approved. Number eight, Sherm, I'd like to speak with your manager, HR Diva, with a baked HR. Number seven, it was supposed to be a shorty shitting on a Sherm with baked HR. Number six, cases the EEOC loses with David Mickless. Number five, baked HR for a third time teaches us there's no crying in HR unless you've been slipped colon cleanser. Number four, smart and sexy AMA with not Sherm approved. Number three, HR is such a wondrous minefield of unicorns and fairies. Number two, human resources are a special kind of psychopaths. And number one, a special guest from a galaxy far, far away, Dolores, the Empire's HR director. So those are our top 10. But 11 and 12, I wanted to throw in their sort of honorable mentions because they're not old episodes at all. They're they're very recent. Number 11 was Things You Can Think But Not Say Are Write. And that was only in January of this year, and it's already number 11 all time. And number 12 all time was from December. John Hyman joins us to review his worst employers of 2022. So with a little more time, those probably well could be in the top 10. So those or the only last thing I want to say in this last year, since last April, our downloads, our average downloads per month have gone up four times, 400% since this time last year. So thank you all. Yeah, all our listeners. It's awesome. It's it's just so amazing seeing these stats grow and grow. It's texting you two because we're coming close to a milestone at the end of last month for downloads, and we hit and exceeded that milestone. So that was that was pretty cool. So we just got a lot of fun things going on. So y'all continue spreading the word, share with your friends, and tell your friends about us, leave us reviews so we can keep growing.

Patrick 10:01

Uh yeah, I did say that on Apple Podcast, we have 18 total re ratings. That's not enough.

Warren 10:08

We need more than that, it's not for three years. Come on, come on, folks. And 17 of those are five-star reviews. We got the one douchebag who didn't leave a comment, gave us a one-star review. So if you leave us a horrible review, I'm still gonna read it. So hell. What's if you think we suck, tell us. I'll still read it. Yep. So, anyways, that that was fun. So I I wanted to go back. I I talked about the the top ten episodes, or plus twelve, I guess I would say, of our history. What what are some of y'all's favorite episodes?

Patrick 10:42

I mean, the top one's gotta be our number one episode anyway, just because we got to talk to Dolores, the Empire, HR, I mean, Sunflower Stardust is probably the best cosplayer. She's still my favorite cosplayer out there. And I've now seeing people cosplaying her, which is amazing. And the fact that we actually got to just have her on and and really twice, even though one of them actually aired, but just has such an amazing experience. I mean, she's very big and had does this really cool thing, and I don't know that it necessarily brings like HR in general into a positive light, but it does kind of have some fun with HR, which I think is good.

Warren 11:27

Yeah. It's it it's fun. It's a great concept. I I like that episode as well. And you suggested it, you forwarded her Instagram or whatever it was to me and said, We've got to get her on.

Patrick 11:38

Yeah, I mean our good buddy Andrew Copa sent her to me, and uh because I'd never seen it, and I was like, oh my god. And I sent it to Warren, I was like, Can't we please talk to her? And then you sent text back like she's coming on. I'm just like, oh my god.

Warren 11:50

Yeah. Yeah. That that was that was pretty cool. How about you, Feathers? Any any personal favorites out there? I've always enjoyed the ones when we have the not shrimp approved on. Those are always fun outside. Okay, Jan. I'm working on some guest lineups. I I haven't reached out to Jan yet. I will be. Jan, if you're listening, I'll uh actually when we get off the air, I'm gonna send you a DM so I can so we can get you back on. Because that yeah, we're we have a lot of fun. And she brought up a topic I do one one of our times on that I do want to cover more detail at a later date.

Patrick 12:24

So yeah, the ladies that picked HR are always amazing as well. So it's there does seem to be a theme, like as far as the amount of Dallas and guests. Have you seen the theme?

Warren 12:35

Yeah, there is. There's a correlation, but honestly, for number three, HR is such a wondrous minefield of unicorns and fairies. That was an okay episode. I did when I listened to, I went back and listened to it again when I saw it was number three all time. I was like, hmm, it's good. Not there's nothing wrong with it, but it's not what it's that catchy title.

Patrick 12:55

It's the catchy title. There's catchy titles. Everyone loves unicorns.

Feathers 13:01

So that's my five. Especially in recruiting when you're trying to find one.

Patrick 13:05

That is true.

Feathers 13:06

Oh, yeah.

Patrick 13:07

There's rock star unicorns.

Warren 13:10

Yeah. Rock stars. I'm still gonna say, no matter how old it makes me look and feel, and and things like that, you can you can mock me all day long. So I like all of those answers. I love when we have guests. Like I said, I don't want to be a guest-centric podcast, but I I think we I want to up our guest game. I've got someone committed that I'm very, very excited about. I've been telling you all about. So hopefully we'll have them on next month. I'm working with the ladies at Baked HR to have them on. We're going to get a date for them. I've got a couple other things in the works. I'm I'm trying to do some new guests. So yeah, I I don't want to be guest-centric, but I think, you know, one, maybe twice a month having a guest will be will be fun as you know how we're just boring dudes anyway. So fair. That's fair.

Feathers 14:00

That's an accurate statement.

Warren 14:01

Middle-aged. We can keep ourselves entertained. Yeah, you're not far off.

Patrick 14:06

I was not the offended when he said middle-aged. I was like, no, you've yeah, kind of there.

Warren 14:11

Yeah. You've tiptoed across the line on the city. Yeah, I'm getting really close to it, at least. I would have to say I still think the you're an HR analyst, Harry, even though its downloads really aren't that high, it was just fun. It was just a fun episode to do. Uh you may notice we don't go in with an agenda or show notes that often. And we went in with a show note and we went so far or astray, and that was just fun. But I did write down all of our guests that we've had over the years, so that I wanted to make sure we thanked publicly once again Baked HR, not Shermaprove, John Hyman, David Mickless, Suzanne Lucas, Kyle Rhode, and then we had some listeners on board, Claire and Ashley, who does Boozy HR, and then a couple of feathers of my friends, Stu and Dwayne, have been on. So if you're a listener and you want to be on the podcast, you think you got a good idea for a topic show, let me know. I'll love to make that happen. You saw Claire, the bullet train from hell, was in our top 10 of all downloads. So those are those are good episodes. So thank you all again. But I do have a couple of uh articles to go over with everybody, if y'all are ready. Well, first, let me give you an update on my pet project. And there's really not much new to to say. I have actually spoken with the dude, and we're scheduled for next week again. And I'm I'm intending, intending to keep his keep his appointments and listen to his full spiel. If life comes up or something comes up, I'm not gonna bring break my back to keep that appointment. But also, I don't want to make this anti-solicitor episode like so many are, but I'm not sure. Yeah. I was talking to a friend of Dawn's, my wife, and her friend is the office manager of a company down here. And she brought it up. I did I don't even know her, she brought up how bad her solicitation phone calls are. And then I asked her, well, who who are the worst companies that are that that call you to solicit? And she said, number one by far and away is office supply companies. You know, everybody thinks you can save me two cents on some Clorox wipes or printer paper or something like that, and you're going to jump for them. And but she says they're very sleazy and things like that. But staffing agencies are also on her list. That's her number two staffing agencies. And I I have a new uh pushy staffing agency guy who he's emailed me a dozen times. He came in unannounced, he brought in a tray of candy, and then he followed up like it was like little Snickers and Reese's cups and things like that. It wasn't, I mean, it was good. I didn't I gave it away, I put it on the break room counter, but I I hadn't even gotten back to my desk and I got a message from I just want to make sure you received my my card and my gift. I'm like, yeah, I didn't even respond to that. But one thing we when we started talking about shyster solicitors, uh, and and this is reason 3,452,083 that women are better than men. Neither of us have been contacted by shyster women solicitors. We have not e and I was like, you know, I don't, I can't, it's all dudes that are just complete assholes. Haven't had any women. I don't know. Have either of y'all been solicited by a shyster female?

Patrick 17:51

I mean, I wouldn't call them shy, but I have had females on like LinkedIn, like recruiter staffing agents. But that's more like personal headhunting and people that want me to like fix up my LinkedIn profile to make it more give me more more of that Patrick Brand appeal. You know, I'm really not repping the Patrick brand, apparently. So I've had some of that.

Warren 18:14

Oh but yeah, I I haven't I've never had a you know a shady female solicitor. So I'm sure they're out there, but I haven't all you shady shysters out there. Give me a call.

Patrick 18:28

This is your challenge for season season four of uh Jaden HR.

Warren 18:33

So, anyways, that's my that's all I had to say about solicitors this week. Just want to give an update and I'll let you know what happens next week as I actually take his actually we'll record. We won't record again before Mars scheduled to uh take his his call, but anyways. So I and I I think I I broke a rule today. I I issued a microaggression I did not mean to say, and it was completely accidental, but either way, this is from our friend David Mickless on LinkedIn on yesterday, April 3rd. Story of somebody getting their offer rescinded for well, let me get into it. Vito Perone was offered a school superintendent position in someplace in Massachusetts. He taught in the school district eight years earlier, and he was also a football coach there. He was a superintendent in another district, but he wanted to take up a $14,000 pay cut so he could return home for this job. However, his offer was rescinded on March 23rd. In an email addressed to the chairperson, I'm going to butcher this name, Cynthia Kino. Yeah. And Suzanne Colby, the executive assistant to the committee, he addressed the email as an ladies at the top of the exchange. Kinowinsky told him that using ladies uh as a greeting was hostile and derogatory, and the fact that he did not know that as an educator was a problem. She further reprimanded him for using ladies as a microaggression. And I'm I'm sorry, Jasmine and Christina, as I said, the ladies from Baked HR, please accept my apologies for this. But in in the comments on this article, not one person thought that this was a microaggression. I'm sort of assuming it didn't say he his letter said ladies and gentlemen, or something common and benign like that. And if you get butthurt at being called ladies, yeah, I'll call you a goddamn stupid motherfucker, and then you can be offended, but don't get offended if I call you ladies. Oh, that that's a trigger for me. Uh ladies might be a trigger for some people. Oh, I I just thought, how fucking ridiculous. You get triggered by other people getting triggered. Yeah. That's what you're saying.

Patrick 21:08

Yes, I do.

Warren 21:08

I do.

Patrick 21:09

Actually, yes. God forbid you people have things that that upset you.

Warren 21:14

But if you have stupid things, if you have something legitimate. If he goes, yo, bitches and hoes, okay, you can be offended to that.

Patrick 21:24

But you actually reminded me. I had something I've been I've been saving. If you want something fun. Have y'all have y'all ever had an experience where you either message like a candidate on Teams or somewhere and you transpose numbers, so you message the wrong person, but they still message you back as if they were that person?

Warren 21:46

I have not.

Patrick 21:47

So we had a situation where we had a manager message someone back saying, Hey Blank, this is blank with blank. HR reached out to you about scheduling your onboarding, but hasn't heard back. Please contact. Contact them ASAP. And this person responded back and said, Hey, it's blank. I've been busy lately. It's been a whirlwind. I have a lot going on. I must have forgot. Um, the manager said, Okay, is this still an opportunity? This is all via text. And they said, Yeah, most certainly. If you guys still have, we'll still have me. And they're like, Oh, great, reach out to HR. And then they started texting back. I hear you guys do the best anal plastics. I'm looking forward to it. Been looking like an armory trash bag back there for too long. Then he said, Oh, didn't mean to send that last one. My apologies. And the manager said, Oh, I figure, no worries. Then he said, You guys do recall what happened with me at my last place of employment, dot dot dot, about the blood. And then the manager's like, I do not. Is this something you need to discuss with HR? And he's like, uh, racism, bastards, really hurt me. And then it just goes, it it keeps going, keeps going. But like we found out that because we thought this person, like, you know, this was a candidate for a job with so we thought this person was maybe texting the wrong person, or just something happened, but it found out that we just transposed two numbers, and this person, instead of saying, You have the wrong number, decided I'm gonna ruin this fucking person's life that I don't know, or potentially, you know, not that serious, but like, have y'all ever had any situation like that where a wrong number or wrong call and this person just went with it and no.

Warren 23:33

But it sounds like some more I I would love to. Well, I told I'll tell you a story. Back in the 80s, you know, there weren't cell phones. I had my own phone number in my bedroom. And I didn't use your phone too much, but oh yeah. But my sister did. No, it wasn't a rotary dot. It was a touch tone, but it was a wired phone. But the it was in my bedroom as my mom did real estate and she was getting tired of me, my brother and sister tying up the phone line all the time and said, We got a second line. Well, the phone number was one number off of a doctor's office and come 30 years later. I'm a patient at that doctor's office, but uh people would call all the time trying to schedule appointments. And my sister, now, granted, I moved out when she was 10 years old. You know, by the time I moved away to college, she's younger than me. But my sister would answer the phone, and if it was someone scheduled appointment, she would schedule them an appointment. That's okay. I just always wanted to know how this goes, these little old people showing up at the doctor's office. I had a two o'clock appointment. Uh no, you don't. I have you confirmed for Tuesday the 13th at 4 30 p.m. So I could I could only imagine how that is. And uh so I I'd have to give props to my my we're a sickened to uh twisted, demented family, we are, and give props to my sister for that. So I have one more story for today. And Patrick, this one's for you. Oh boy. I'm starting to feel some of your pain. Uh now I don't do true HRIS, but uh this year we've launched a lot of trainings and they're done through our HR portal. And I've spent I don't know how many hours since the beginning of the year resetting people's passwords. And even when we launched the training, I did a dare I say, awesome video instructing people how to do it. And I started at the login so that they they would see straight the login. And I explicitly said, and if you forgot your login information, you can click the forgot username password link right below the login. And uh so I've been doing this. Well, there's this one dude who is a is a complete moron. There's no other, there's no two ways to put it. Anyways, he sent an email requesting his uh password be reset because he'd been locked out again, and he CC'd his vice president and the COO of the company bitching and moaning about how he's always getting locked out, how our system sucks, and how we're always so slow to reset his password when he needs it. So I I searched my emails, and the only emails I've had from him since the beginning of the year have been him asking to reset passwords. There were 10 of them. And we're only at the beginning of April. So it's like every week I'm resetting this dude's password. So I took a screenshot of all those and I included it in the email back to everybody. I would have to. And I I hope my my tone came through in the email I was replying. Oh, I'm so sorry you're continually having this issue. I've included the video on accessing the training again for your reference. I also highly recommend using the forgotten username or password link at the bottom of the login screen. And I just I laid it on as thick as I could. I'm hoping this guy's not the brightest, the brightest bulb in the bunch. I'm hoping he's getting what I'm laying down without telling him he's a complete moron. But it it's not that hard. And oh, I also I didn't put in my notes. I also suggested, you know, Google, if you use Chrome, can store your passwords for you, or you can pay for some commercial options such as LastPass, are available as well. So try I was trying to be super helpful for him, but yeah, he's beyond help. I had a rough day with him. So I just know when I and the only emails I've received from him this year are password resets, but I know when his name pops up in my inbox, it's something dramatic. So I do have one more story. I I scrolled past it on my on my notes. Unless you all have something else, or it's just gonna be story time with Uncle Warren here.

Patrick 28:00

Come and sit up on Uncle Warren's lap and let me spin you a yarn.

Warren 28:04

Please don't. So I come back from lunch and laying on top of my computer is a piece of paper. I pick it up, and a manager had delivered a written warning to one of his employees, had the employee sign it, and then he put it on my desk. Now I'd never seen this before, I didn't approve it, I didn't do anything, so I I called the manager up. I said, Hey, can you swing by? Let's talk about this. And he he's a newer people manager, but he's not a new manager. We've talked about this before. I've worked with him on written warnings before, etc. But I I will give I'll be I'll be kind right now. His warning overall was okay. I there was nothing bad. It's just not written the way I would do it. And it another thing, it doesn't match the format of all my written warnings I've issued. So why does Warren's war uh warning look different than Feather's warning and things like that? I wanted to be very consistent to how I do it. So I ask him what's going on, and I I was like doing like I would when he if he were to come to me and tell me he needs to write someone up. What's going on? How did we get to this point? And I give him the we need to be in the loop. I need to be in the loop before we get to this point. And then I start going, you know, sort of ask him the wrap up after he's delivered the warning. Hey, well, how did it go? How did he take it? What was his reaction, etc.? But anyways, and I said, for future reference, just make sure you give me the information, I'll I'll assist you with the this warning, make sure it meets our standards and what we're doing. I said, but this was overall not bad, but you know, we there's a couple things we'd like to do a little differently here. And he says, Oh, it's okay, I don't need your help. I took an HR class in college.

Patrick 29:51

Yes. Those are always my those are always my favorite.

Warren 29:56

Yeah. I was like, okay. Yeah, you can take all the they they the the HR class you took was how Warren likes doing written warnings. What does Warren want to see on a written warning? That's that's what uh like I said, it wasn't bad. It it was you know for being awesome. That was that was my conversation. I thought y'all would get it.

Feathers 30:23

I took a class on economics, but you don't want me predicting the future of the economy.

Patrick 30:27

I stayed at a holiday in express last night.

Feathers 30:30

So you're actually doing better than all of us.

Patrick 30:35

Yeah. Will anyone get that joke? Like, how old are those commercials? It's pretty bad.

Feathers 30:40

I mean, they've been around for they're not that old. Yeah.

Warren 30:43

They're not that old. Uh I don't think at least, but my memory is so bad about what's new, what's old, or what's what's hot, what's not. I I just I do not know.

Feathers 30:54

Yeah, when when when people want to do like pop culture games, I'm like, yeah, I'm just gonna sit out. Bring on the 90s, baby. I got you.

Warren 31:05

Yeah, I'm not even sure I could do well on that anymore. And it's funny, all this 90s stuff is coming back. And it I'm like, That's how it works. It's all sick foot. You can't you can't duplicate the original.

Patrick 31:18

I can't wait till like my kids are in high school and like Jinko jeans are back and they're rocking those bad boys again, just like I did. Like, that's what I can't wait for.

Warren 31:27

I don't know what Jinko jeans are.

Patrick 31:29

That was my generation, like the huge, like super wide, like they covered your whole. Oh, yeah, so the 70s. Oh, yeah. Well, no, not bell bottoms. Because Skater Boy. Because the whole skater boys. Yeah, more skater boy, because bell bottoms kept flared, right? I'm talking like look up Jinko, J and CO. Yeah.

Feathers 31:47

Yeah. I remember those in the uh 90s, probably. Rops and Jinko.

Patrick 31:52

Yeah, late 90s, early 2000s.

Warren 31:55

Well, Feathers, in college, I stole a phrase from you that Dawn and I still use to this day. And I I don't know if I've ever told you this story. I don't know.

Feathers 32:06

But I'm I'm nervous now. I'm like, it was so long ago. There's so many things that I said.

Warren 32:16

In the 80s and 90s, kids would go to the malls to hang out, and then inevitably there would be it then later, and I think this was after we graduated, maybe we were playing fantasy football or something like that, uh, when this phrase came out. But I know I stole it from you, but it we were talking about the little girls at the malls now, and you called them prostitots. Prostatots. The way these little girls uh dress like whorish. Not little girls. Yeah. Uh at the malls these days. I don't know. I still use that, but we do acknowledge that you are the who originated it to me. So yeah. I was looking up Jin Care Jeans.

Patrick 32:57

Sorry, I'm distracted. I only for $200 for a pair of these jeans now. Like, that's crazy. I was just curious. Like, they're still they're still a company, but I can't imagine they're a company for that much longer. Okay. Wow.

Feathers 33:14

Those are those are definitely not something that I wore.

Warren 33:18

Those those legs are bigger down for my waist, and my waist is bigger than both of y'all's combined.

Patrick 33:24

You got a pair of those with a pair of like Etney skater shoes, and like that was it. That was the jam.

Warren 33:31

Uh uh gosh. I can now now I definitely, now that I pulled it up, definitely recognize Deck.

Feathers 33:37

Oh, I recognize him, and I'm still laughing in my head, going, no.

Patrick 33:41

Can you see me wearing those? Because that's where it's at.

Warren 33:45

Was that you in the 90s, mid-90s? Oh yeah, like uh high school.

Patrick 33:52

Rocking Limp Biscuit, I'm hoping. Of course, Limp Biscuit, God smack. That was my jam back in the day. Oh yeah.

Warren 34:00

Uh yeah, I I I missed I missed that. I think so. But hey, I had parachute pants, baby, the original parachute pants, and I had Jimmy Z's uh back in the 80s. So Members only jacket.

Feathers 34:15

I got my first members only jacket.

Warren 34:17

Oh, members only jacket. But my mom worked at a retail store that sold Jimmy Z's and someone on clearance and she picked them up for me as she wasn't going to normally pay for me to have something like that. And I thought I was like the for believe it or not, back then I was a nerd too. And uh, but I thought I thought in the whatever that was, it had to be the 80s, uh late 80s, that I thought I was the coolest thing on world when I got my Jimmy Z pants. Uh, as I didn't I didn't have much of that. But anyways. Well, that was a good fun. We not only did we do a memory lane, walk down uh podcast memory lane. Talked about pants. Just make sure you're wearing them. Uh to work.

Patrick 35:02

That's the great thing about working from home and podcasting from home.

Warren 35:05

You don't have to wear pants. Uh well, if if I get the soundboard and we do broadcast together live in person, pants will be required. Debatable. You say that now.

Patrick 35:17

It depends on the venue.

Warren 35:20

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