HR BESTIES - HR Besties Happy Hour - Do Celebrities Go To Iceland?

Episode Date: September 6, 2024

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Hello besties. Happy Friday. We made it to another one. All the other cheesy Friday jokes. TGIFF. You know, one time we had someone in our HR Besties DMs ask what TGIFF meant. And so I spelled it out for them. I made a video about that, like a Hey Luke video like that, and made a joke that Luke

said that. And I'm like, oh, can't say that, whatever. And people are like, ugh, HR is the worst. Like, you're so lame. And I'm like, I mean, I want to be like, comment. It's a three, like three levels of comments, like slash one, slash two. If you go and listen to my podcast, we actually use that.

I promise I have a sense of humor and just blocked him. Yeah, block it. Hate speech. Oh, I know, hate speech. I hate that speech. I hate that speech. Hate that, block it. Would you coach a leader if they said TGIFF?

I probably would not. No, probably not. Probably not. I'd let it ride. I'd be like, fuck yeah. I'd be like, just maybe be careful about who you say it to. Oh, I know. I'd probably see after the first time, do I get any complaints? And then you have to figure out, is this going to cause more work for me, less work for me? Then that's the...

Oh my God, guys, this just reminded me of a funny story that literally happened this week. Okay. Okay. So I was helping an employee with an issue and it has to do with our benefits provider. So I was on the phone with our employee and the benefits provider. And she wasn't really listening to his issues

and she kept saying, well, you should, you should, you should do this. And so I stopped her and I said, you know, no, this is why we're on this call. We've escalated and that's why we're having this call. He's done all those things and here we are today. So if we could just move forward and try to work on a solution. And she's-

Wait, did you throw a ma'am in there? No. Well, she started to raise her voice to get louder. So then I raised my voice to get louder than her. And then it was just like, it was ridiculous. And I said, well, this is fucking ridiculous. We're not getting anywhere. And she goes, you're not going to talk to me like that. And so I had to leave the call.

But you left the employee. Yes, I did. I did. I chatted him to the side. You leave him at the mountain like that was like our story last week. No, I chatted him to the side and I said, I want you to resolve this. I am here if you want me to get back on. And it was better that I left. But I was like, I forget sometimes because I have such a mouth on me that not everyone...

I'm not everyone's cup of tea. And that really pissed her off when I was like, this is fucking ridiculous. Like, we're not getting anywhere. I'm just trying to bring us back to square one. And then I cried. You cried? Yeah, because I was so frustrated because I didn't help him.

Well, everything you said, all's well that ends well. You played your part. It worked out. It ended up working out. But... You did what you need to do. Yeah. He got what he needed done now and we have a representative, but I was so frustrated.

I cried. Man, that vendor sucks. Oh, man. It's the same thing that I've said. I tell people in HR, when people come to you, you've got to have your listening ears on and you got to know, no matter what's going on, you may have a reaction in your mind of like, they should know this already, but your response has to be one of like empathy, openness, really any customer facing position, especially in things like benefits where someone's

trying to get the answer. Tell me, what have you done today? Well, yeah, and I think that's what was so frustrating. You should call the service center. You should call the service center. I'm like, sure to what I could have, bitch. Him and his wife had a notebook of all the times they called, dates, who they spoke to, and times they were on.

I was like, no, no, we've done this. That's why we're on the call. That's why I asked to be a part of this call too, because you know, for HIPAA reasons, I don't have to join. But yeah, she, I said, I was like, this is fucking ridiculous. And I didn't even say it like you're fucking ridiculous. I was like, this is fucking ridiculous. She was so mad. And then I was like, oh God, that was, I probably shouldn't have said fucking, but I was so upset. But you separated the person from the problem, the person from the problem. You didn't say she was ridiculous.

No, there was a lot of things I wanted to say to her, but I did not. I bet. See, you attack the issue, not the person. I like that. Yeah. It wasn't all bad. That's a first. No, I'm just kidding.

All's well that ends well. Are you banned from participating? From college and... Cease and desist? No, we're good. We're good. That's unfortunate. It would be kind of nice otherwise, but I guess probably not for the

organization, just you personally. No. And he thanked me profusely, our employee. He's like, I appreciate you being just as frustrated as we are, and you actually wanting to get help for us. And that was really all it's about. And I think, you know, this is a really random roundabout because I surprised y'all with this story that I happened to forget about on purpose. But like me crying, I was so upset, not with leaving myself, like I'm disappointed that I said the F word right when I didn't need to, but I was so upset that I didn't get him the help is because we as HR people, we take on all this because we want to help so bad.

And that's why things hurt us almost even more. Or like for me, like remember Carl last week, like Carl's comment really upset me because he has no idea how much we take an issue that isn't our issue and we take it on as our own to help solve the problem or figure out, you know, what we can do to remedy that. I would make a complaint to that vendor about that vendor.

I did. Oh, good. I'm like, because that's ridiculous. I did. But of course I did it in the heat of the moment. But like a Karen, I want to speak to your manager. Well, yeah. So I mean, I literally sent an email with her on it too. I was like, look, you know, I don't appreciate the way the tone that was used with them. We're trying to get them help. There's a reason why it's gotten to the point where now I have to have a call that I had to even figure out how to get ahold of somebody.

But I've let it go now. That's one of those jobs, like this call is being recorded for quality control. Oh my God, yes. So 100%. I'd love to hear it. 100%. Like 100% just like, make that your job. Quality control, really just like make that your job. I would too.

Quality control. Really just like hearing people lose their shit in those situations. And you want to have all good resolutions to everything. But that moment, especially if you know one of the people is just not listening, isn't doing their part, and have them just go at it. I'd listen to those for sure. Oh yeah. I just want to listen to the good ones. I want to be the person they get escalated

to. Yeah, yeah. There's some on YouTube. Oh really? That are real? Yeah. I remember one where it's a Dell commercial. I think The Burt Show would play it a lot. That sounds familiar. That's The Morning Show. It's The Morning Show. It's really funny. I'll find it. We'll post it on our stories. Yeah. Yeah. It's the morning show based out of Atlanta. Yeah. It's syndicated too.

Yeah. It was syndicated to Nashville. I don't think it's on here anymore though. I don't know. I work from home now. I don't have a long commute. I mean, I used to work in terrestrial radio. We need people back in the office for the terrestrial radio. It helps to have people on the road. Damn podcasts like ours are taking up people's ears, but that's fine. Listen to us. We'll take them. Right. Ah, summer with your fave Starbucks drinks. The perfect time for sunbathing in piles of leaves on the beach. Carving jack-o-lanterns from watermelons, playing beach volleyball with a scarecrow, or lounging by the pool with your pumpkin spice latte.

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Yeah. I'm recording a LinkedIn learning course, but I'm not flying to California. Their studios were all booked up, and so I'm filming it at my house. So I had to film locations. I had to do the world's most awkward selfies in different outfits. The camera angle's terrible. Terrible. But then I got to figure out, like, you know, like normally I go out to California, I finish

up, I go out to the beach, chill. This time- Favorite little restaurant? I go to my Potterow Beach Cafe, I take the picture, send it every night to the girls, post it on Instagram. Now I got to think about Rosie putting her in the basement, making her, I'm taking over Dan's office to record from there. Yeah, it's a lot of the things, but I'm recording, of course, one is about empathy, like empathy

for managers, and that's topics. And another is like practical communication, like managing beyond buzzwords, like quite quitting all those things. So those will be out before year end. But Lee, you have something going on, which maybe Jamie and I never asked you about because we assumed we knew what you were doing. Yeah, I know. We feel like bad besties.

Yeah. you about because we assumed we knew what you were doing. Yeah, I know. We feel like bad besties. Yeah. So I'm on vacation. Like while you are listening to this, if you're listening to it on the day it comes out, I am on vacation. I'm on PTO. And what's funny is that the girls, they have no idea where I'm going. I didn't share it because I was waiting for them to ask me because we were planning our schedules and they just never did. And so I'm like, okay, I'm gonna see. That's not true.

I did ask and you said, well, you hadn't asked yet. Today, you asked me earlier today. That does not count. Yeah, because Ashley and I totally think that you were going to California. We believed. I just told someone on a call, on a call before this happy hour, I told someone, oh, Lee's in LA on vacation.

I swore. I thought San Diego. Why? I'm just curious. Like, how did both of you think California? I swore you were going to San Diego to see Bestie Mike. I don't know why. I swear that you talked about that. Where will you be? Will you tell us now? Are you going to be like, are you going to San Diego to see Bestie Mike. I don't know why. I swear that you talked about

that. Where will you be? Will you tell us now? Are you going to be like, are you going to be like... I'm not telling. I'm not telling. So I am going to Iceland. Wait, did we know this? Wait a second. That now sounds... Hold on. I'm looking at my text now. No, she has not mentioned Iceland. No, because I was waiting. I was like, OK, well, I'm going to just maybe surprise them with it right before I leave, I guess. I'll say it on the happy hour. I love that. Oh, my God, I'm so excited for you.

I'm excited, too. Wait, that's so fun. Are you doing like what are you going to do there? I've got a couple bucket list things. I've always wanted to go to the Blue Lagoon with that gorgeous water. I love volcanoes and I've always wanted to see lava. Something is erupting currently that's right near our hotel. I'm so excited.

Yeah, magma. I always wanted to go to Diamond Beach and the Black Beaches and see the Puffins. I mean, all that, right? I'm just, so I'm excited. Yeah. That is going to be so much right now. What's the temperature there right now? Because I probably have about a 60 degree Fahrenheit range of, I imagine it could either be like 20 degrees Fahrenheit or 80 degrees Fahrenheit right now. It's like 20 to, it's like 30 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Okay. Like, you know, so the highs are in the 50s, the lows are in the 30s, so perfect, you know?

Oh, that's going to be a nice reprieve from San Antonio. Oh my God. Yeah. I know. But of course, you know how to buy shit. Yeah. Well, yeah, because you don't own winter stuff. Yeah.

You know, even for that, you know, like just. Well, just pack it. Just keep it in the Amazon bags. Pro tip. Just keep in the Amazon bags. Just bring it with you. Open it once. Don't try it on.

You don't need to do that. Just have it in it. Especially if you have like a puffy jacket, it's real compressed. When you snip it, it'll be hard. You'll have to wear it on the airplane coming back and won't fit in your carry on. I'll just throw it away. She said, I'll just throw it away. But like, I, I don't have anything rain. Because it's the land of fire and ice, right? And it's just like, like, well, rain and it'll start, you know, all that, you know, water, it's an land of fire and ice, right? And it's just like, well, rain and all that, you know, water, it's an island, blah, blah, blah. So I didn't have, I don't

have like shit like wool socks. I had to buy wool socks, you know, or, you know, they dress in layers. This is the sign for layers. I'm doing something with my hand, like I'm putting on multiple jackets. I don't have layers, you know, so I had to buy layers. That's so exciting. So cool. I know, I had to buy hiking boots that were water resistant. I was actually, that was gonna be my thing.

I like Iceland Barbie. I think I'm gonna like Iceland Barbie, Lee. I'm really excited. But she does her like fear spaces, like I can't do those spaces, I've tried. I cannot wait for the stories. Yeah. Lee's Iceland stories, top notch.

Well, that's the thing. I will try. I want to put like a cool video together. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like from the video editing apps, you know, and hopefully I can do something cool, you know, even for my own memes. Where was Frozen?

Norway. Okay. Game of Thrones, Iceland. I never watched it, but I just heard that. So my first corporate job, we would do incentive trips. And usually the incentive trips were for the marketers, like what people would say is like an account executive that travels. But they had one once a year for the BDRs, they called us MAs, there's like 10 different titles, but that did the phone calls.

And when I worked there, it was Iceland. It was Reykjavik. And almost everybody qualified. And I had just gotten promoted into this senior called tier one team. We even had a special section we sat in because I did a good job at cold calling CFOs. But then I, for whatever reason, missed by one or two and they wouldn't make any exceptions. So I had to stay at home. I was so bummed, but we had been at a happy hour beforehand.

And of course, everyone's talking about this trip because they're excited. But the chief marketing officer who I still, everyone's mobile communicate with, he's now CEO of a company. He was hilarious. Like he was so much fun, but we're all drinking and like I had it on this video, you know, it was like back in the day when like a digital camera and he's giving a cheers to everyone and he's like, just wait till Reykjavik, no cars, shots. And so that was our, like, I mean, still to this day, if I were there, probably, I don't

know, 20 people that I worked with, if I were to mess text that, just wait till Reykjavik, they would text back and be like, no cars, shots. And so that was the battle cry. That was the battle cry. That was the battle cry. So Lee, I'm going to tell you, you probably, because this is a bit more of a grownup trip, I'd have to assume you'll be a little more professional. But I guess you'll be Ubering around. I haven't been. No cars, shots. Car service? Are you driving?

No, a car. Yeah. Yeah. Because I'm kind of going all over. Which side of the road are they? Right side. Oh, are they? I hope, because that's the side I'm driving on. because of kind of going all over. Which side of the road are they? Right side. Are they? I hope because that's the side I'm driving on. I mean, we'll see, I guess. We'll figure it out.

I know. I guess we're going to figure it out. But I am excited because like I said, bucket list wise, the Blue Lagoon, lava and stuff like I said, we've got an eruption going on right now. And I'm like, please last last at least a few more days. And Crossing Fingers, I get to see that. And then Aurora Borealis, so that'll be a big one. So staying up late to try and go hunting for that.

How cool. I know. I'm so excited. Snow, California. But it's Snow I'll have to... Snow, Miley Cyrus, LAX, Party in the USA. But still listen to that song as you arrive. Well, obviously.

Obviously, the sound... We're the worst, Ashley. I don't know what... Well, then when you said Iceland, I was like, I feel like I knew... Then I was like, wait, I feel like I knew that. No, I don't... But it's not in my text. Lee's always traveling.

Like, I've never. I definitely don't. But it's not in my text. But Lee's always traveling. Like, I've never, I'm always here. Lee is. Lee from like, Lee's travels. Like Lee literally, like I could be like immediately be like, let's go, let's go travel. Lee would be like, absolutely. Like she's, she can do it. But also then the way, like again, like the way Lee lives her social media feed is so completely unhinged because we've talked about this.

She doesn't follow anyone except for HR Besties podcast. Thank you. She followed me on my birthday, Jamie, maybe yours is coming up here on your birthday in December as well. But as a result, Lee's social media feed, and she will send us things, the things that come up on hers. Who's your favorite these days? What's his name? Kevin's my favorite.

Kevin, what's his name? If you all do not know, we need to have this as a feature. Oh my God. Yeah, so Kevin is a single dad, and he feels the need to do the same fucking dance in every video. It's like, when the sun goes down in my town. Now that lonesome feeling in my door.

Teenage daughter. Yeah, there he is. And he always has some stupid cash in like, hey ladies, I'm single. And I just like imagine his ex-wife,, the amount of joy she gets from his videos. Because wow, Kevin is a mess. He has a link tree. What's his at Kev Train 1.0? Maybe there's a 2.0.

But he has a link tree. What do you think is on his link tree? What's he doing? Probably his Amazon wish list. Business only. Oh gosh. He's just probably asking for a cash app. What's he doing? Probably like his Amazon wishlist. Business. Business only. Oh gosh. He's just probably asking for cash app.

Backup TikTok. Oh God, what's on that? That's 2.0. Amazon wishlist. What's on his? See, I knew it. I said an Amazon wishlist. Probably lube.

You did. Lube. What is that? Is that a stapler. It's a go cart. Oh, oh, get fucked, Kevin. He was a car, a karaoke machine. Yeah. He's just exploiting these lonely ladies on the Internet.

I swear he wants a pool. Jamie, I think he wants to come to your house. No, thank you. I'm all set. He has he has this nice pool that's on his Amazon. He has an American Girl doll. He does have a daughter. He has a daughter. At least I think I.

Look, I don't follow this man. It's just what leaves me. I've started to comment. But not, first of all, the comments are fucking hilarious. People are savage. I'm not super savage. I just say, hey, Kev, it's time to learn a new dance. You can't you do engage. Yes. But I but I'm like, literally, I'm not super mean.

It's why he keeps. He keeps. I mean, the comments like Leo's in these videos. And I'll look, you go to the comments and I mean, people will be like, you would have to waterboard me and you are posting this voluntarily on the internet. Or like, Oh my God. My favorite one was recently there was like, uh, he was at, I don't know, probably a rec center shooting hoops. And someone commented, Hey dad. Cause it was his daughter was in it too.

Hey dad, um, let's go shoot some hoops and you can bring your tripod. And while I'm trying to shoot hoops, you can record videos of doing the same fucking dance. See, so this is what happens. I don't have an algorithm. An algorithm? Like you really don't. So all this random ass shit comes up and it's amazing. No, I get all the trash.

I get all this internet trash that just like comes up ashore. It's amazing. And it is amazing, right? I mean, there's some shit. It's literally, you're absolutely right. It's like we're standing on a beach and it's just trash rolling in and it's magical. It's hard not to share some of the things. No, I appreciate it. No, like I always take it as very serious bestie homework too. Like I'll wake up to like 17 new reels and I'm like, okay. I will comment on most of every single one of them because I need you to know that these are hilarious and I'm doing my bestie homework. You DM Lee Bec? No, to her, yeah, to her.

Okay, I was about to say. I just will be like, LOL, these are all amazing. You know me and my stupid little jokes, I'm very like... Yeah, she's got something to say. me and my stupid little jokes. I'm very like... Yeah, she's got something to say. It is a good challenge. If you ever want to be like Kev and have a backup account just to create it and don't follow any...

Or actually just follow the HR Besties podcast, just like Lee, just follow us. But you'll then just see what the algorithm sweeps, the winds that sweep you. It's amazing. And then the comments. Oh my God. they're so, it's really funny. So yeah, we may need to start, like, you know, those like, I don't know, those people do those like channels, like things like private chat or whatever. Like a few people I sign up for their private chat on Instagram and then I kind of forget about it.

But that'd be a funny one to do one that's like Lee's best of Instagram. So. Oh, we could do that for HR besties. Yeah, exactly. Just share. Well, so we'll start, we'll share some of the ones that Lee's finds. They find her. She does not find them.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't go looking. It's just what comes up when you don't follow anyone on Instagram. It is fascinating. And the comments are stellar. I mean, totally top notch. Yes. The comments are the best part. Like, the video isn't the funny part, the comments

are. And seeing people literally drag these people into oblivion, especially on Kevin's. Oh my God. Yeah. Well, I had to share something with Kevin's since we've given him a shout out. We'll definitely, we'll share him a little bit. Bestie Kevin. Well, now I count on him. Now his dances are like a warm blanket to me. I mean, I, you know, I do get a kick out of it. Oh gosh.

Oh gosh. What else do we have up at bat? Happy hour wise. Well, I think my former alum, co-alum from Yum Brands, Brian Nicol, who was the CEO of Taco Bell and then became the CEO of Chipotle and fairly recently became the CEO of Starbucks, his pay package is slightly higher than mine than mine ever was. But I tell you what, he is making it rain. But he's become the CEO of Starbucks. And there's been a lot of press because he, despite being the CEO of Starbucks, and I laugh because he had lived,

Taco Bell is headquartered in Southern California. I worked for Young Brands, but I worked for KFC. KFC, I lived in Kentucky. Pizza Hut's headquarters is Dallas, and Taco Belled in Southern California. I worked for Young Brands, but I worked for KFC. KFC, I lived in Kentucky. Pizza Hut's headquarters is Dallas, and Taco Bell's was Southern California. If you live Southern California, I guess people love it. I've only visited, people love it. When he became CEO of Chipotle, that was headquartered in Colorado. He was like, peeps, we're going. He relocated the whole corporate headquarters to Southern California. And then now he's CEO of Starbucks.

And so I like when I saw this and I like texted with former colleagues was like, Oh my God, I wonder if the Starbucks is moving to Southern California. But instead they did a reverse uno card. So he will be commuting from Southern California to in their private jet. Yeah. So that's gotten some, I think that's gotten some press. Why everyone else has to work in office, which, aka a store too. Yes, yes. Most, obviously most of Starbucks team, the baristas. Yeah. 110 million sign-on bonus?

Well, no, what was it? I think it was, I think it was a 10 million sign-on bonus, but like a hundred million salary, I think. Trust me. I read that because I was like, what's... I mean, that's unreal. Like on clique the fuck? Yeah. I posted something on humorous like a couple of weeks back. Our friends at the corporate gossip pod, Becca had annihilated him. And so scroll back if

you want to see that. It's pretty interesting. Yes, that was a clip from the old, when we were at, when he was at Taco Bell and he was giving a presentation and was talking about, at the time millennials, which was like the Gen Z 10 years ago, that was like the millennials speak, but he was like, I'm gonna talk millennial. I'm on clique. And I don't know what the translations,

but it's actually on fleek. And so, but he'd said it a couple of times. And so people caught the audio so I did I did see that and again all all leaders can can can misspeak but Yeah on clique one with the people Yeah, yeah Oh, wow Isn't that something if you could pick any place to like work remotely like be your office, no limits to live and be able to work, where would you pick?

Someplace warm, preferably with a beach. All right, Panama City, like your place? No. No, I was thinking something more tropical. Panama City is not my place, but I was thinking tropical. Well, it is. No, Orange Beach, Alabama is my place. I'm sorry, my place. But I was thinking tropical. What is? No, Orange Beach, Alabama is my place. Ah, I'm sorry. My bad. Panama City is my husband's place. No, some way tropical. I don't know.

I like the idea of Hawaii, but I don't like the idea of Hawaii. You know what I mean? More like Antigua or I don't know, like someplace tropical on an island. Lee, I feel like I wouldn't bet a cent on what you might say. Probably like Rome because it's in the middle. See? Okay. Take the trains all over. Yeah. The flights, Fiumicino right there, the airport, that's pretty good. London, something like that.

Central. Yeah. Where the time zones, I can go all ways, somewhere in a city. That's what she said. I know that's what you wanted to say. Yeah. You saw it.

Happy hour. It gave you those eyes, the excited eyes, the excited conference call eyes. Who else? Have you all been on the conference call and someone says that that's what she said and you so desperately want to say it? And so instead you're just kind of like, I'll do like the hiccup kind of giggle. You try to stay employed. Yeah. Where are you going? Where are you working remote, if you could pick anywhere? Sydney, Australia. Take me back. Of course, take me back. Not centrally located

from a time zone perspective, but perfectly located. I would move back to my favorite place of Birch Grove, my suburb of Birch Grove, which is right there, Shell Harbor Beach. Yeah, I'd go back in a second. We need to go to Australia. Yes, we do. We need a speaking engagement there. I know. I would really like that.

So if any besties have, again, we have HR tech coming up. We are doing our first, not just doing a meet and greet, which we are with UKG, but we are also doing our first live happy hour podcast recording in the theater. Yeah. During the expo happy hour. So that's dangerous. Yeah, very dangerous. I'm so excited.

I know. That's going to be good. That's just coming up in a couple of weeks. And then we are in talks with other conferences as well. So we'll be hopefully filling the dance card to use some cringe corporate speak there. Yes. So get on our books now. Yeah, get on the books for real.

Well, and we've had even we've had, actually, I will say this, like, so some people that we've spoken with that have been so helpful, positively reached out and were like, I'd love to see you host some live events in cities. This is how we've done it. And so we may do even just like stand up events, especially in Atlanta, Nashville, San Antonio. And so if you'd be, and we'll put some polls up on our Instagram, because again, it's non-binding, don't worry, but we gotta make sure we're not gonna, I mean, that's fine if we show up and it's the three of us, but no, we're excited about what it can look like

and we'd have some credits for it and all the fun things. But yeah, we like getting in person. It's nice to escape. We are only in our offices or this bar where we're recording our happy hour, so. Right, it's good to get out. But we love the opportunity to come and meet and greets and what is it, kiss babies,

shake hands, kiss babies, all that fun stuff. Does that, it's not funny to think of, like that's an, can you, would you want anybody and like any celebrity, okay, okay, celebrity that you'd want. Like, maybe not even a, like, I'm not gonna say a baby, but like if you were to have a celebrity kiss you on the cheek, who would you want? Or is that a bad question?

It's kind of creepy actually, as I say it. Okay. Okay. Go ahead. Megan Thee Stallion. Well, yes. Aw, yeah. For sure, for sure. Like, but you'd want that encounter. Like, yeah, like just a kiss on the cheek, nothing more, nothing.

Yeah, nothing, I mean. I'm really thinking about it. I'm over here. You can't see me. I'm doing my thinking face. I'm getting real serious about it. Because it might happen. Manifest it. Make sure I manifesto it. I know. Pretty much any. I mean, I take a kiss from anybody for the most part, like celebrity wise with a selfie or a video. Yeah. Like, and I'm talking like a hot celebrity ops. So not like a John Goodman. Oh, I did love John Goodman though. He's the best. He's like a goddad figure, the best.

He's the best. I loved him in Coyote Ugly, actually. Oh, he was good in Coyote Ugly. I'll give you that. He's like the dad, the loving dad when he gets on dances and all those things. No spoilers if you haven't seen it. Catch it in theaters. Oh, right.

It's only been 20 years. What about you? Oh, probably Ricky Gervais. He's my number one celebrity crush. I just think he's so funny. I loved the UK... He is funny. The UK Office. It's my favorite TV show of all time.

I love the US Office, but if you haven't seen the UK Office, it was only two short seasons and then two specials. I've probably watched that a hundred times. It's my favorite, my absolute favorite show. I think he's so funny. You know who? Chris Pine. Okay.

Oh, interesting. Okay. I've interesting. Okay. I've been watching a lot of Marvel movies lately. I'd take any Marvel star for the most part. Have you seen him recently? No, I mean... No, I dig it. He's got like the long gray, like silver fox hair. And his outfits are always like, I don't know, I like them because they're very eccentric. Oh my God. No.

Yeah. See, you're Googling him right now. Am I thinking of the right person or did I say the wrong name? I said the Star Trek guy. Yeah, Chris Pine. No, that's right. No, I meant Captain America. Chris Pratt. Oh, Chris Hemsworth? No, that's Thor.

All these fucking Chris's. Chris Evans. Yes. Evans. Oh, and Chris Pratt. I was about to say I do Chris Pratt, which I Chris Evans. I mean, come on. Yes. Chris Evans. Oh, and Chris Pratt. I was about to say I do Chris Pratt, which I would, but I wasn't trying to say that. But yes, those people.

There's too many damn Chris's. There's so many Chris's, but all of them. If there's an E, all of the above, just pick that one. It doesn't matter. Hugh Jackman dressed as Wolverine, I'm just saying, but with his hands behind his back, if you catch me, because obviously they're claws. Yeah, I don't want none of that. I'm not into that.

Well, I just looked up Chris Pine to see what he looked like and it popped up an article. This poor guy, I guess, remember the OC, which came out 21 years ago, great show. Yes. I guess fairly recently, the casting director of the OC, it was like Chris Pine was going to get the role that Ryan, the Benjamin McKenzie got, but he had bad skin. Rude. Why is that? That is rude.

Oh yeah, that's not my type right there. Jamie's showing a picture of current Chris Pine. I met Evans, my bad. Yeah, no. I love it. I've done memes with him. I liked him as Picard. Like me rolling up on, you know, my fifth day of work or something. Or me when I work from home versus me in office.

Very Demir, very Demir. Exactly. Anyway. Totally derailed. I mean, yeah, totally derailed. Now I'm just like thinking about people I want to make out with all crazy. I start with like, take a selfie, take a kiss on the cheek. Got all distracted. Now, who am I going to, you know, what celebrity would I marry?

You know, what's that marry, fuck, kill or whatever it's called? Hopefully you'll see in Iceland run into a celebrity and be like, here I am. You know, there you go. Oh, put that in. Yeah, it's into a celebrity and be like, here I am. Have, you know, there you go. Ooh. Put that in. Yeah, it's such a celebrity. Hang out. What do you mean?

I mean, what is? You never know, right? It's like LA. Do celebrities go to Iceland? I mean, anybody can. I mean. OK. No, so OK.

When I looked up Google, do celebrities go to Iceland? Their AI says, celebrities have been spotted visiting Iceland for many reasons, including, well, this is dumb, staying at hotels, visiting attractions, and participating in activities. They stay at hotels. Right. Google's like, celebrities may be staying at hotels at their destination. They may even wear t-shirts sometimes. They eat food, may be spotted at restaurant.

Björk, you could see Björk. Isn't she dead? I was going to say... No, I think that's Sinead O'Connor. Oh, okay. Maybe. God, we're terrible. I'm sorry... No, I think that's Sinead O'Connor. Oh, okay. God, we're terrible. I'm sorry.

God, she's very much... She's from Akivik. She's very much alive. Yeah, she's very much alive. Oh, really? That's terrible, Sinead. I'm going to add that to the Google AI. Also to CBOrk. At the grocery store.

Yeah. On that note, I got to go get another drink. Yeah. Jamie needs a refill here. Oh gosh. I don't know if you do. You need bread to feed the swan. Oh man.

That's a Bjork joke. You got to chug somean. Oh man. That's a Bjork joke. You gotta chuck some water. Oh my gosh. May she rest in peace. Oh gosh, well TGIF. Oh gosh. Happy weekends.