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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Welcome to reasonably shady mailbag. Yes, mailbag is in business.
I love me some mail bag.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Oh my god, Okay, getting our hands into the bag.
We're pulling out some lettuce.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Oh my gosh. All right, you've got mail. So this
is from Tiquarius. Hi, ladies. To who this is from?
To Aquarius?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Okay is that a real name?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Okay, all right, what's up to Aquarius?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I mean I feel like, if you're trying to be incognito,
you don't use the name to Aquarius. It's kind of
hard to be incognito with Aquarius. Okay, maybe you should
shorten it to Tony or Query.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, Q TQ. Speaking of cue, you remember Q that.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Does hair, Like oh yeah, so he did Quad's hair. Okay, right,
So for watching Happis, ive hadn't seen him in ages.
He had like I don't know, he had this like
like long braided braids. I don't know, something going on
when he had Listen these guys see cow and they
get so excited. Like he went like when I was out,
(01:18):
you know, doing the show, watching apps live, he was
like he came into a dressing room with Cal and
was like sitting on his lap. They was they was
having the time, but I realized I missed C. Like, yeah,
I gotta I gotta see him.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
In a while.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
But the hair, you know, the hair industry, they're all
they're all buddies, they're all friends. Yeah, they're all buddies, totally. Okay,
I decorate them, okay, Yes, and everyone's like, who the
fuck is cut?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I love you?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Okay, guys.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
All right, So, hello ladies. I recently listened to your
discussion on granting women time off during their menstrual cycle.
As a male who works in predominantly female settings.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I'd like to offer my perspective.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
To illustrate my point, I will share an experience from
my previous role as one of three tellers so bank
tail bank tellers awesome, Okay, okay. When my two female
colleagues became pregnant and took maternity leave simultaneously, I was
left to manage the workload alone. The resulting stress and
pressure on me was overwhelming. As I understand it, women
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typically receive their menstrual cycle on a monthly basis. Yes,
we do, unfortunately, so we are essentially discussing providing women
with an additional twelve days off annually. I'm not advocating
against women receiving privileges, but I do want to recognize
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the potential impact on other colleagues who must assume those responsibilities.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, I think a.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
More efficient approach might be to provide all employees with
more paid time off. But at the same time, this
approach could affect business or customer consumer satisfaction if if
everyone is always off no true, tell me what you
think about my thoughts.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
PS.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I hope my email is not perceived as harsh. As
I have a great respect and appreciation for women. I'm
just sharing my perspective and hope that it can be
implemented without the concerns I have. So bring up a
very good point.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, because we didn't do the math right, Yes, right.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Didn't do the math and didn't really think about, Okay,
in settings where it's predominantly female driven or female staffed,
what happens when those females are gone every month or
you know, three days or whatever at a time. And yeah,
I can see maybe why this is not a policy
here in the United States. Even though it's like if
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that would be nice, that would be nice, I can
see why that would not.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Be it'd be problematic.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, I getch a point. It's fair, it's very fair. Yeah,
this is a fair point. But maybe then we should
do other things like go back to working from home.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Right, but in industries you can't work from home and
you're a bank teller, that's true, or even I think
about yes, okay, yeah, that's what he's saying. He's a
bank teller. And so he's the only male and all
the other ones are females. So when two of them
are on maternity leave, he's like carrying a load, right,
So he's probably working longer hours, probably doesn't.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Have days off, stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
And so I think about in my industry where I'm
where I hire estheticians, most of them are females. I
do have one male esthetician who's amazing. But if all
of my estheticians had minstrel leave and they all in
the period at the same time.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
You're screwed.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I'm screwed. Yes, no, totally, totally, you know. So, or
he could be jealous because there's no like male equivalent leave.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, I mean, what is it, ballsack?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Right?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I mean, frankly, y'all don't need any leave because we
do everything. Ye.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
No, very true. True. Yes, And y'all can't take ballsack leave, right.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yes, so you cannot blue balls.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
They can take blueball leave, but they don't have blue
balls every month.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
No, I'm joking. Yeah, okay, but no, that is a
good point.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
And I guess that is where it becomes problematic and
that's why we don't have it, and that's why.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, but I mean, I think I think something needs
to So what would you what do you take sick leave?
I think yeah, I guess it's on you have. Everyone
has the same amount of sick lead, and it's up
to the female to decide whether she wants to use
her sick leave on a day that she's having, you know,
trouble with her mental cycle. So I guess that is
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what sick leave is for, right, Yes, yeah, right, But
I think people would be a little more conservative with
their sick leave and not use it every month when
they have their period, you know what I'm saying. Like me,
I would have to use it every month, like you
have to totally like because and that's if I had
to work somewhere and I'm required to like be there,
(05:54):
you know, all day, and especially in like a service
industry and be physical like I wouldn't be productive. It's
like I wouldn't be any good at all. Yeah, we
need to It seems to be through Congress. That's that's
called Jasmine Crockett. Okay, let's get her on it all right.
So this is from Alexander. Hello, ladies, love the show.
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I listen on my way to work. Yes, AI is
real bad. There is an AI porn category?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Oh my god? Is there?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
What is AI porn? I am intrigued?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Oh is this like robots heading sex?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
No? No, I guess it's like people, but they're not
real people, like so that's robots. Yeah, an AI porn category? Okay,
what's his name? Alexander? Robin is intrigued, Alexander, Where do
I find this?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I must admit if there were a AI video of
either of you, I might have to view and enjoy it.
Keep up the good work.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Oh there is what?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
No?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I saw this on a show? What was I watching?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
And like the person was their face was in was
put on like a female's body via AI And it
was a porn site. Oh yeah, so oh.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
So I guess it's like there's you can make porn
videos using whomever you want.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah, and people will think that it's real. They'll think
they'll think that it's and that's what that was the problem.
They thought that it was real, and the woman, like
the woman walked down the street and she would like
get trashed because you know, all these men had seen
it and they thought it was her.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Okay, yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, that would be horrible if somebody took my face
and put it on a on a porn lady and
I'm having sex with all these that's not good. Yeah,
and then they think that that's my body, and then
they're like talking about, oh, just he was doing porn. Yeah,
so I'm actually having sex. Yeah, I'm actually not intrigued
by this because that's a problem. If that's what it is,
(08:19):
then you'll know. Yeah, because he said he wants to
see us having sex, he will watch. So hopefully that
doesn't happen. I mean we would I would assume we
would be able.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
To sue, right, But but the thing is like you
don't even know where it's coming from.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Well, Alexander's gonna tell us, he's gonna let us know
he's gonna be watching.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I think it's right, but I think it's hard sometimes
to decide to find out who's creating these videos?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's probably so.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I was. I was at the gym and my psychlo
instructor said, he went to a conference and they were
talking about, you know, new and improved classes, and he's
also a teacher, so noon improved classes blah blah blah.
So this one presentation was a man that got up
and said he used AI. He was acted as if
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he was a student and used AI in the class
to get his grade in the class.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
He didn't read.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Nothing, he didn't know, he didn't participate in any kind
of way. He just put whatever information into the AI
and he got A.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
And he sub So he submitted his work, yes, using AI,
and they didn't even detect that it was AI.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah, and he got a A.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
And he did all the all of the I guess
the test questions were virtual or whatever. He would just
let AI do it.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
You gotta A.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
So he was saying all this to say, like maybe
you got to teach differently if you really want people
to learn, right, because like how stupid is an next
generation is going to be if they just I.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Think what they should do is require more verbal work
in the classroom, Like when you have an assignment. It's
not No, don't just submit it on a piece of
paper or submit it, you know, virtually, because a lot
of the they submit their work virtually.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah, like no, you need.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
To see that person talking and explaining and going through everything.
But that takes a lot of time, Like how do
you have enough time? You have a classroom, especially a
college classroom with one hundred people in it or whatever or.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Even like twenty people, like it's that a teacher. It
takes time to go through all those I can say.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
My children use it, yeah, I mean not to like cheat,
but they definitely use it to like check their work
or job their you know what I mean, like kind of.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Like help them out, like it helps to but they
can't start. They can detect when you're using it.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah yeah, so they don't like copy it it, but
sometimes you can help just jumpstart or jog like you know,
whatever you're trying to do, or it's just good for information, you.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Know, like totally yeah, totally, Okay, Well it's the future.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
It's the future.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
But but when we.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Say, like, oh, are they going to be stupid? No,
because think about I think about everything that I learned
in school and how little of it, I actually remember.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah, but it was massaging your brain muscles.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I guess. So.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yes, So that like my critical thinking skills and my
problem solving skills, it's important.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Later in life, that's true.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
So I mean we'll see, we'll see what these kids
are gonna turn out to be. Yeah, yeah, and not
and it's not even your kids generations like after yeah, yeah, okay,
So I have a question.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
So yesterday we were at Corey's basketball game and Carter's
phone died and when the game ended, we usually like,
you know, wait around for the team to come out
the locker room, blah blah.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Blah, and Carter is like, we have to go.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
We like, let's leave now, and what why are you
in the rest? He's like, my phone is dead and
I have nothing to do?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Like he's like what, He's like what?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
He's like, what did you all do when you were
younger and you had to wait for your parents, you
had to go to the grocery store or wait for
them somewhere, and you didn't have a phone.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
What did you all do? He's like, we talked to
each other.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
We were not addicted to it to a device. He
was so like dumbfound like, I.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Don't what am I supposed to do? I'm supposed to
just sit here? Yes, do nothing? We did it all
the time. Yes, I enjoyed it. I look forward to
those days to be doing nothing. What are you doing?
Just out nothing? Loving it.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
He's like you all would just sit there, yes and
do nothing? Yes, like yeah, I guess so, but like
I feel like life was better yes, yeah, I mean
we didn't. We didn't know it any differently true true, true, true,
But we I I because I do find that if
I'm on my phone that i'm looking, I'm reaching for
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it like fum on my phone a lot that I'm
reaching for it, and I don't want to reach from
my phone. Yeah, I want to just move on to
something else. Okay, anyway, this is here. You read this,
I can't say okay, I guess yeah, okay, yeah, that's
a little all right.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
This is from Billy Barry.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Billy Barry says, hey, girls, I'm sorry I haven't written
in for a while. But I know.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
But no, I never missed an episode. I have an
hour drive into work. Thank you so much for keeping
me company on the way. Well, my shady moment is
the government that's Trump, and I'm sure that is not
a shock. My husband and I created a tradition of
taking a trip to celebrate our anniversary. We were married
on February twenty second, twenty twenty two two two two
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two two two in.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
My Baltimore accident.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Love that accent.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Our first was an anniversary honeymoon combo. We took a
cruise to the Bahamas, which was my first time on
a cruise and out of the country. Is that one, Yeah,
he's going to get the trash Okay, I was terrified. However,
I put my big boy panties on and did it.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Lol, Yes, cruises are scary. To my great surprise, it
was amazing and I loved it. For our second we
took a cruise down the Mexican rear Vieria, again magical
and special. My shady moment is we decided on visiting
Chicago for this upcoming anniversary. We have everything picked out.
We were going to stay in Boystown and just explore
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the city on the days we were there. However, we
decided not to go due to inflation, flights being canceled,
TSA being understaffed, and the overall scariness we feel. Sadden
that we didn't book it a few months ago. But
I digress. My point is life will live. You just
have to do and adapt with the wind. Love you both,
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keep doing you love, Billy Barry.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Thank you, Billy. Yes, Billy, Yes, I love that sentiment.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Billy. Don't let the government stop you guys from enjoying life. Yes,
you should have Listen, it's not too late for you
to rebook your trip. Okay, right, totally rebook your trip.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
It's fine. You're going to get on your flight, you're
going to get to Chicago.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
You're going to enjoy it. We cannot.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yes, things are crazy, things are unpredictable right now, things
are trifling, things are shady, but we can't let that
stop us. We cannot be paralyzed with fear because that's
actually what they want us to be.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yes, and we ain't gonna be scared. We ain't scared.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yes, So Billy, please rebook your trip. And what was
the last thing you said? Live life, love or something? Yeah,
something like that. I take your own advice, live life, yes,
exactly the end. All right, all right, bye, guys, that's turned.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Out back bye, see you next time.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
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