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This is just a small taste of the show overall, the bits and bobs that I found interesting, funny, insightful and relevant. To hear everything that happened, check out the podcast of today's show. However, if you're looking for a quick read along with random self inserts and my personal thoughts, you've come to the right place.
Call in Point:
(This is the broadstroke canvas on which I base my call, obviously these notes are going to be longer and more detailed.)
Well, it's apparently Tuesday here in Hell where the heat is so hot, you're likely to melt the moment you step outside. Unfortunately, some of us have a job to do and have to go out into this sweltering swamp that is Chicago. One section of those people is teachers, who are the technical target of today's Daily Discussion Topic. You see, now that school is back in session and even though it's only been two days, teachers have a few things that they wish they could tell parents. Some examples included "you should have read your kids bedtime stories." These tall tales encourage reading and create empathy and just because a book has a chapter, that doesn't mean that it is time to put it down. Now Angi understands this and was guilty of skipping pages sometimes because she was tired but do we really want to encourage anything Angi has done or does? "Tell your kids no," this will not traumatize them like you assume it will and it should help facilitate creating boundaries within the confines of school. Angi is one board with this and honestly, if I was told no here and there, I'd probably have been less of a brat myself. "Parents need to make the hard decisions because a teacher is there to teach, not be a parent for the kid," don't expect your child's teacher to pick up the slack you're clearly allowing to happen in the homestead. "You are raising a future adult, please stop babying them," and this should not be an issue, kids who are babied turn into just the worst kinds of adults (first hand experiences in this one with a few people.) "Laziness is learned at home," which translates to what is your child doing at home for 90 minutes because if it's a lot of nothing, school will be problematic for those time slots. Now, since none of our esteemed rocket scientists in the studio are teachers, we got some of their experiences (which also opened the floor to branch the topic to parents calling to say what a teacher said about their kid.) For example, in 3rd grade, Angi was referred to as "boy crazy" because she was always sitting on boys' laps. This ironically hasn't changed much in 40+ years and tends to be the reason HR is always looking at the studio every day "just in case." So yeah, everyone else in the studio was an angel so let's go right to the Request Line. Starting with Mike, he explained that during the pandemic he took the family to their summer home in Florida and because they "weren't from there," the teacher seemed to always be picking on his son. Matt called saying if he was a teacher, he would tell parents some of their kids need to be put in straight jackets. Apparently, this triggered a memory from early onset Angi who explained she used to go under the desk and moo because she was the class clown (sure you were.) Big Rich's son is mildly autistic and so when he went to a parent teacher conference and was told his kid was "acting up," Big Rich intimidated the teacher with a dirty look (and an essentially brutish behavior in a desk lean.) Sam is a teacher and suggested that if you don't spank your kids, you should start. He was spanked and he turned out fine but Angi added she was beaten and is still traumatized (same.) Marris suggested that maybe don't hit your kids but definitely discipline them. Lastly, Lisa said to just acknowledge and accept that your kid acts up because being a teacher (which she is,) the last thing she wants to do is have to call or email you. If you are looking for more roadie thoughts or have your own, hit up our Facebook group (Angi Taylor Show) and drop us a comment.
Other Stuff from Today's Show
Moving along from one bad thing to another, a hot (get it, we're dying here from the heat) new trend with companies is passive aggressive removals aka layoffs. Instead of firing people, companies are now just laying people off and that hit 80% this past year (cough cough cough cough.) The thing is even if there is cause for firing and a paper trail of receipts exist, these corporate entities have now dubbed the lay off as the way to bypass hurt feelings. Reality is a bit more based on the concept of keeping the other workers from staging a mutiny, letting those workers get a severance and to keep the workers from going off the deep end. A lay off gives a chance for unemployment so in a way, they are opening the door for their let go workers and not hitting them in the ass with it. Obviously a standard email could also be done in this situation to avoid hurt feelings (or a rampage) but let's not call layoffs one thing when in reality they are something else. More from the story revealed that 75% of lay offs are not actual ones but just attempting to be nice when there is absolute cause to fire. What we wanted you to pull from this is that if you were recently laid off, consider if you actually did something worthy of being canned for and boom, you are now a statistic. Obviously, if this happened fairly recently, maybe don't contemplate it but you should at one point try to consider what you could have done better that put you in this position. Marris, who is a boss himself, is pretty unphased by the idea of being hit with a lay off because if you got to that point, you're probably already checked out. Luckily for us, when Angi gets fired one day, it won't be a layoff, it will be a blaze of glory burnout where she runs out of the studio and just reads everyone to filth.
Right, next up, we've come to the common sense section of these notes. Here's one that should be pretty easy to follow, don't lie to your friends. A woman's Tiktok is going viral because her friends made dinner reservations and told her to be there at 8 P.M. The thing was, the actual reservation was for 8:30 P.M. but because she was known for being notoriously late, they moved it over slightly and didn't tell her. Ironically, she arrived at 8:23 P.M. and was the first person there but that just showed she would have been late had it actually been at 8 P.M. The question here was in this instance, was it okay to lie to the friend. Angi said yes because she has plenty of friends who are notoriously late arrivals and that is not how she rolls. In fact, Angi is always early because being late gives her anxiety and so she usually ends up being the first to arrive (and last to leave if my opinion and interactions count.) The thing is lying might be something you don't really want to do but at the same time, confronting someone on the issue can be viewed as controlling. Funny enough, Angi had an experience just the other day at the Jamaica wedding when everyone was told it started at 1:30 P.M. and to be out in the sweltering heat box that was the 8 million degree island only to find out it actually began at 2 P.M. Funny enough, if the wedding had started at 1:30 P.M., Angi and Jay the Straight would have been the only people in attendance. Marris has an even better way of dealing with it where he will make friends give an ETA (that stands for estimated time of arrival Yaz) and when he gets that, Marris will leave himself. Mike though was the outlier who would have just started digging in if people were late because honestly, why wait, that is on them. The point of all this is to respect people's time and just be on time.
Finally, we insert a silly story at the end to leave you feeling good after digging through this mess and well, we had one about a stuck ride at Six Flags Mexico but a better story got stuck in our heads. In a real head scratcher, we had to wonder how a dude in Lincoln, Nebraska ended up wandering around with a pair of scissors stuffed into his head without noticing them. He was finally alerted to the literal head poke when he went into a vape shop. Apparently, the 29 year old had gotten into a fight with his girlfriend and she "struck him in the head." He had thought in the moment it was with her fists but surprise surprise, she had scissored him instead (Max Caster would be thrilled.) While we pondered how someone does not notice a pair of blades rending flesh and because we came up with no logical response, we wandered down the question road. Like, if someone punches you in the head and it hurts, don't you think to look in the mirror, question why you're bleeding or guess why your head suddenly feels heavier. Mike insisted the whole scene smelled of white trash and the assumption is the guy was high so he wasn't feeling pain. As for the wound, it was not life threatening and the girlfriend was charged with second degree assault though we figured she would probably be up for attempted murder. Weirdly enough, Angi realized had she seen this on the street, she would not freak out because this is Chicago and it would just really be another day.
Request Wars 4.0
Theme: Top Guitarists of the 80's
Current Champion: Mike (2x)
Marris' Song Choice: "Eruption" by Van Halen
Mike's Song Choice: "Paradise City" by Guns N' Roses
Winner: Marris
10 O' Clock Toast:
Toastee: Matt Barr
The man with the world's largest penis (14.2 inches) now has receipts to verify and Angi saw them. The wang literally hits his knees and when he tries to become erect, he almost passes out. He has to have special clothing made, has been asked to do fetish nonsense like clean houses nude and even though he is 40 and the clock is ticking, he is not looking to milk his fame on OnlyFans. Angi would kill for a Fans page just to see how he lives and then we got into the real questions like how does he not tip over when erect and are his arms jacked from jerking. Maybe we'll find out when his book, A Long Story, is released soon. (There is a lot of good stuff in this toast, I suggest listening to the pod.)
Show Quotes and Tidbits:
"I just know one day I'm going to be fired here and it's not going to be a lay off." - Angi
"Marris is out here telling me to dick this shark up." - Angi
"People brag about my baby arm." - Marris