Latest / Podcast - Big 98.7 / First Day of School Horror Stories

Transcript

First Day of School Horror Stories · Podcast - Big 98.7

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: And today is a big day for a lot of
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: kids and teachers as they head on out to their
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: first day of school. Fargo area schools off and running
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: at any moment here. Some teachers probably in the building already.
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 0:18
  Speaker 3: Mikey's been at his school since like 530 this morning.
• 0:22
  Speaker 3: He was really nervous. And I know the kiddos are
• 0:25
  Speaker 3: really nervous to start school. My kiddos. that are getting
• 0:30
  Speaker 3: ready right now. I've been checking in with them. Aiden
• 0:33
  Speaker 3: is a little nervous. He's going into his sophomore year.
• 0:37
  Speaker 3: Liam loathes school until he doesn't. So it takes him
• 0:43
  Speaker 3: a bit to warm up.
• 0:45
  Speaker 4: And get in the rhythm and all that. And get
• 0:47
  Speaker 4: in the rhythm.
• 0:47
  Speaker 3: And yesterday he was saying he was really not looking
• 0:51
  Speaker 3: forward to it. He goes, I already know I'm going
• 0:53
  Speaker 3: to hate it. I was like, I need you to
• 0:56
  Speaker 3: not go in With such a negative attitude. I stay positive.
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: The possibilities are endless. Like, it's going to be okay.
• 1:04
  Speaker 3: I already know from the meet and greet night that
• 1:07
  Speaker 3: his desk is next to his literal best friend from
• 1:09
  Speaker 3: last year.
• 1:10
  Speaker 4: Oh, he's got a buddy.
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: At least he's got a buddy. So I'm trying to
• 1:14
  Speaker 3: tell him, you know, it's going to be okay. The
• 1:17
  Speaker 3: first day is no big deal. And then it had
• 1:20
  Speaker 3: me thinking, well, but I didn't tell him this because
• 1:23
  Speaker 3: this didn't happen to me until I was in high school, but...
• 1:26
  Speaker 3: In high school, I had a really bad first day
• 1:28
  Speaker 3: of school horror story.
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: If you have a first day of school horror story,
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: let us know about it at 701-280-1987. We don't mean
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: to make anyone nervous as they head on into that
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: first day, but maybe you can laugh at us and
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: then relax throughout your day.
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:45
  Speaker 4: Because what happened to us probably won't happen to you.
• 1:47
  Speaker 3: Probably won't happen to you. For me, it was the
• 1:51
  Speaker 3: first day of junior year. And I got to rewind
• 1:54
  Speaker 3: a little to the summer after sophomore year where my
• 1:58
  Speaker 3: mom took me on a trip to Cuba. My mom
• 2:01
  Speaker 3: is from Cuba, first generation Cuban-American here. And she was like,
• 2:04
  Speaker 3: I'm going to take you to the motherland to meet family,
• 2:07
  Speaker 3: you know, whatever. We were gone for 11 days, came back,
• 2:11
  Speaker 3: and I grew up in a household. If you had
• 2:13
  Speaker 3: fun one day, you couldn't have fun the next day.
• 2:16
  Speaker 3: You weren't allowed to have fun two days in a row.
• 2:18
  Speaker 3: I don't know what the parenting style is there. But
• 2:21
  Speaker 3: it was like, no, you had fun yesterday. You got
• 2:23
  Speaker 3: to stay home and be miserable.
• 2:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you got to go through some adversity.
• 2:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. So I had just gotten back from this
• 2:28
  Speaker 3: 11-day trip. And a girlfriend of mine who was waiting
• 2:32
  Speaker 3: for me to come back home, Christina, she drives to
• 2:36
  Speaker 3: my house to surprise me. And I was like, get in.
• 2:38
  Speaker 3: We're going to go hang out. And I had to
• 2:40
  Speaker 3: be like, I cannot. I'm not allowed to leave my
• 2:43
  Speaker 3: house now. I just got back from a huge trip.
• 2:45
  Speaker 3: I have to be bored for the next week, minimum.
• 2:48
  Speaker 4: You can't have too much of a good thing.
• 2:49
  Speaker 3: Exactly. So this upset Christina, probably because she was a
• 2:54
  Speaker 3: high school kid and she used her gas in her
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: car to drive 30 minutes out of her way to
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: come surprise me. But I had to say no. So
• 3:03
  Speaker 3: Christina went ahead and threw a huge party with everybody
• 3:07
  Speaker 3: we knew. And then had which included my ex-boyfriend. She
• 3:12
  Speaker 3: had my ex-boyfriend call me during the loud party in
• 3:16
  Speaker 3: the back so I could hear and had him explain
• 3:19
  Speaker 3: all of the ways that I was terrible and why
• 3:22
  Speaker 3: he's so glad he wasn't my boyfriend anymore. Super hurtful. OK,
• 3:27
  Speaker 3: just because I couldn't go just because I couldn't go
• 3:29
  Speaker 3: hang out with her. So this party happens. And apparently
• 3:33
  Speaker 3: during the duration of that party, she turned every single
• 3:36
  Speaker 3: person against me. Fast forward to my first day of
• 3:40
  Speaker 3: junior year in high school. Come lunchtime, quite literally, it
• 3:44
  Speaker 3: was like a scene from a movie. It was like
• 3:47
  Speaker 3: I was going to different tables like, can I sit here?
• 3:51
  Speaker 3: And everybody just shaking their head, no. And I had
• 3:55
  Speaker 3: to eat lunch on the very first day of school
• 3:58
  Speaker 3: in my world history classroom by myself.
• 4:02
  Speaker 4: Poor Angie.
• 4:03
  Speaker 3: Not even the teacher was in the room. He was like, well,
• 4:05
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go have lunch.
• 4:06
  Speaker 4: In the teacher's lounge. I'm going to have lunch with
• 4:08
  Speaker 4: the cool kids. Poor Angie.
• 4:10
  Speaker 3: And so if that's not happening to you on the
• 4:13
  Speaker 3: first day of school, I think everything's okay.
• 4:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you probably had a pretty good first day.
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: I just realized I should have gone first in this
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: scenario because mine's not that.
• 4:21
  Speaker 4: Bad compared to you.
• 4:23
  Speaker 3: What happened to you?
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: My first day of junior year, I was walking up
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: these steps to go to the third floor of our school,
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: and this girl that I had a crush on was
• 4:31
  Speaker 1: in front of me. And, you know, once you turn 16,
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: you get a license, you start being able to hang
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: out with your friends a little more outside of school.
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: And so over the summer, you know, we had hung
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: out in groups, and the first day of school was like,
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: I'm going to talk to this girl today. And I'm
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: going to see what the vibe is about, you know,
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: being maybe maybe a little couple. OK, and we're going steady. Yeah,
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: we're walking up the stairs and I'm on. It's like
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: a long stairway. I'd probably like 12, 13 stairs. I
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: get to stare like seven somewhere right in the middle.
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: And I fall tripping up these stairs.
• 5:04
  Speaker 3: You fell up the stairs.
• 5:06
  Speaker 4: She is right in front of me.
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: And I fall down like six steps, get to the bottom.
• 5:13
  Speaker 4: And of course, everyone hears it. It's how do you quietly? Yeah, no,
• 5:16
  Speaker 4: you can't.
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: And she turns around and she seemed concerned and was like,
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: are you all right?
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: Blah, blah, blah.
• 5:23
  Speaker 4: I basically was like, I'm just going to go home today.
• 5:26
  Speaker 3: That's way worse than mine.
• 5:27
  Speaker 4: My first day of school didn't really happen.
• 5:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's way worse than mine. I don't care what
• 5:31
  Speaker 3: you say.
• 5:31
  Speaker 4: 7012, you're right. 7012801987, first day of school horror story.
• 5:33
  Speaker 5: Drop it, drop it.
• 5:34
  Speaker 4: Big 98.7.
• 5:40
  Speaker 5: Celebrating life's little victories.
• 5:42
  Speaker 2: Victory.
• 5:44
  Speaker 5: Every morning we practice gratitude on Big 98.7.
• 5:46
  Speaker 6: If I could, I would keep this feeling in a
• 5:49
  Speaker 6: plastic jar.
• 5:50
  Speaker 5: Bust it out whenever someone's acting hard. I just really
• 5:53
  Speaker 5: needed a win, you know. Share your little victories with
• 5:56
  Speaker 5: us at 701-280-1987.
• 6:00
  Speaker 4: All right, Angie, do you have a little victory for
• 6:02
  Speaker 4: us today?
• 6:03
  Speaker 3: Today is the first day of school for all three
• 6:06
  Speaker 3: dudes in my life.
• 6:08
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, you do have an extra one, I suppose.
• 6:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so my kiddos, obviously, they're heading off to their
• 6:12
  Speaker 3: first day of school today. And my boyfriend, Mikey, is
• 6:16
  Speaker 3: heading off to his first day of school because he
• 6:19
  Speaker 3: is a teacher at Roosevelt Elementary. Last night we got
• 6:24
  Speaker 3: everything prepped and ready for the first day of school.
• 6:28
  Speaker 3: Packed the lunches for the little one and for Mikey.
• 6:33
  Speaker 3: And then Aiden was like.
• 6:35
  Speaker 4: He's got his own little lunch box.
• 6:36
  Speaker 3: A lunch box, yeah. And then Aiden was like, I'm
• 6:39
  Speaker 3: just going to buy lunch at school. So that's fine.
• 6:43
  Speaker 3: But everything is set, ready to go. I steamed, like,
• 6:45
  Speaker 3: the clothes for the first day.
• 6:47
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 6:48
  Speaker 3: I hate that I can't. I love doing this show, obviously.
• 6:51
  Speaker 3: But one of the few times it's when it's first
• 6:53
  Speaker 3: day of school. I hate not being there for their
• 6:56
  Speaker 3: first day. But everything prepped and ready. And we even
• 7:00
  Speaker 3: procrastinated on the school supply list and didn't go until, like,
• 7:03
  Speaker 3: late afternoon to go pick the stuff up. But I
• 7:06
  Speaker 3: really appreciated that while we were going through the aisles,
• 7:09
  Speaker 3: all of the other procrastinator parents were there, too. And
• 7:12
  Speaker 3: kind of, you know, we were nodding at each other like, yeah,
• 7:15
  Speaker 3: we messed up, but we're going to get through this together.
• 7:17
  Speaker 4: We're in this together.
• 7:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 7:19
  Speaker 3: So it was really nice. I just I really love
• 7:21
  Speaker 3: since I was a child, I really loved the night
• 7:24
  Speaker 3: before the first day of school because there's like a buzz.
• 7:27
  Speaker 3: There's an excitement. It's like, ah, new adventures, new beginnings.
• 7:32
  Speaker 3: So that's my little victory. Loves it. Happy first day
• 7:34
  Speaker 3: of school.
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: I have two little victories. One is very quick, very short.
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: I didn't realize this, but we are very matchy matchy today.
• 7:41
  Speaker 2: We are.
• 7:42
  Speaker 3: This is cute.
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: We have been kind of, you know, just working hard
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: here this morning, getting everything ready. Obviously, a big day
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: talking a lot about Dolly. And I really haven't.
• 7:50
  Speaker 4: Looked at you yet this morning. And we sort of match.
• 7:54
  Speaker 4: So that's kind of fun. We got to take a picture.
• 7:55
  Speaker 3: We got to take a first day of school picture together, Gabe.
• 7:58
  Speaker 4: And then my other little victory. I apologize.
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: A lot of my little victories are very baby based
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 8:04
  Speaker 3: Don't apologize for that.
• 8:06
  Speaker 4: But yesterday, I.
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: Finally got on video my daughter who is almost 40
• 8:11
  Speaker 1: days old.
• 8:11
  Speaker 4: I can't remember exactly.
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: I think it's almost 40 days, but she has started
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: making a lot more noises that aren't just crying. You know,
• 8:20
  Speaker 1: babies really kind of sit around and don't do a
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: ton and they or they cry.
• 8:25
  Speaker 4: And that's sort of it.
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: Well, she has started to make noises that are not crying.
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: And I finally got one on video and sent it
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: to Angie yesterday.
• 8:34
  Speaker 3: Yes, it was so cute. I was like, yes, girl,
• 8:36
  Speaker 3: keep yapping. It's a lot of like the little cooing.
• 8:39
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to try to recreate it. A lot
• 8:41
  Speaker 3: of coos and caws.
• 8:42
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 8:43
  Speaker 3: So cute. And she's only going to get louder and
• 8:46
  Speaker 3: yappier and you're going to love it.
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: Maybe at some point today I can try to play
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: what I caught, but she's been making these noises and
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: every single time Corey and I are like, you know,
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: Can we just get one of these on video?
• 8:57
  Speaker 4: You never have the phone ready. Of course.
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: And so I finally got one. I kind of sat
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: there for a good 48 seconds until she made another noise.
• 9:06
  Speaker 3: That's the other thing you'll learn is when your kid
• 9:08
  Speaker 3: does something, your kids will make a liar out of you.
• 9:11
  Speaker 3: The second you try to show somebody else, that's when
• 9:13
  Speaker 3: they're like, I don't actually do that.
• 9:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this isn't real at all.
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: So Germany just held its 65th annual Finger Wrestling Championship.
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: And yes, this is a real sport where two people
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: link middle fingers with a leather strap and try to
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: yank each other across a table.
• 9:35
  Speaker 4: And you might think like, oh, what?
• 9:36
  Speaker 3: I've heard of thumb wrestling, but finger wrestling?
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: I've heard of thumb wrestling. I have never heard of
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: finger wrestling. And you might think like, oh, what are
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: 10 people good at this? No, 150 competitors took part
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: in this. And one guy said the pain was excruciating.
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: Which did kind of get me thinking. Is there a
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: mundane task you're really good at? Because I can't think
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: of any time... other than this competition you would need
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: to do this.
• 10:03
  Speaker 4: At any point, do you walk around to finger wrestling? No.
• 10:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, arm wrestling, maybe. I'm good at a lot
• 10:11
  Speaker 3: of things that are inconsequential and stupid.
• 10:15
  Speaker 4: Like what?
• 10:16
  Speaker 3: I'm an expert at cutting the hair out of the
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: roller in the vacuum. You know when you vacuum and
• 10:24
  Speaker 3: it picks up hair? I know exactly what you mean.
• 10:27
  Speaker 3: And then when you notice like, oh, it's not picking
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: anything up, you have to like flip the vacuum over
• 10:32
  Speaker 3: and it's usually that there's a bunch of hair in
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: the roller.
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 10:36
  Speaker 3: I am so good at cleaning that out. Like so
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: good and it's weirdly satisfying.
• 10:44
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: And I get asked to do it at like my
• 10:47
  Speaker 3: sister's house or my mom's house It's like, cause you
• 10:50
  Speaker 3: just do it better and you get all of the
• 10:52
  Speaker 3: hair out. And I feel really proud of that, but
• 10:55
  Speaker 3: that is a dumb thing to be really good at.
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: Corey always says I am the best at making the popcorn.
• 11:03
  Speaker 3: Oh, you probably are.
• 11:04
  Speaker 4: Well, I really think it's just so I'll go do it.
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: It's like a, Oh, Gabe, you're so good at it.
• 11:11
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 11:11
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, oh, yeah, okay. I got it.
• 11:14
  Speaker 3: You are, though. There's something about.
• 11:16
  Speaker 4: You know what it is?
• 11:17
  Speaker 3: It's when someone else makes the food for you.
• 11:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it tastes better. Yeah, no, I just... I have
• 11:21
  Speaker 4: a really good popcorn to kernel ratio.
• 11:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great.
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: The other thing that I'm really very stupidly good at,
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: if I am eating, like, some sunflower seeds, right?
• 11:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: And there's a garbage or whatever you're spitting the sunflower
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: seeds into a cup.
• 11:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 11:37
  Speaker 4: I'm like.
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: Kind of good at, from a distance, being able to
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: spit the sunflower seed in the cup.
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 11:45
  Speaker 4: Is that not ridiculous?
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: That is ridiculous, but I am impressed because there is
• 11:49
  Speaker 3: a good, I go through these like little spurts where
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: I have to have sunflower seeds for like days in
• 11:54
  Speaker 3: a row, but I don't want to eat them all
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: by myself. So I always bring you some too.
• 11:57
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 11:58
  Speaker 3: And I've never witnessed that. I've never thought to look.
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just, I guess, years and years of being
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: on the ball field growing up.
• 12:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, that makes sense.
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: Years of T-ball, Little League, middle school, high school baseball.
• 12:12
  Speaker 4: So I have just developed a knack to have a.
• 12:17
  Speaker 4: A strong uh accuracy rating yeah.
• 12:20
  Speaker 3: I love that for you i mean it's pointless.
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: But i love it yeah 701-280-1987 as we celebrate uh
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: germany's 65th finger wrestling championship we want to know hey
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: what dumb task are you good at let us know
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: this morning anthony what do you got man.
• 12:37
  Speaker 7: I try to make dinner fun by cutting their food
• 12:40
  Speaker 7: into silly shapes and giving everything funny names. Sometimes I
• 12:44
  Speaker 7: tell them they're on a secret mission to finish their
• 12:46
  Speaker 7: veggies before the food monsters arrive. If all else fails,
• 12:50
  Speaker 7: then I just bribe them with dessert.
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: I kind of like that. Anthony's good at cutting foods
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: into shapes or.
• 12:56
  Speaker 3: He's good at getting his kids to eat.
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: Making dinner time fun, yeah.
• 12:59
  Speaker 3: And that's actually a very impressive feat.
• 13:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, 701-280-1987.
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: Do you have an everyday task, a mundane activity that
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: you think.
• 13:09
  Speaker 4: You might just be a little bit better at than
• 13:11
  Speaker 4: the rest of us?
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: Now I need to transition to one of the most
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: disgusting acts of love I've ever seen in my entire life.
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: Our girl Angie refuses, I think at this point, I
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: think it's a bit now at this point, but refuses
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: to fill her car up with gas. If you don't
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: know this about Angie. Her sweet, awesome, loving boyfriend, Mikey,
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: who is a buddy of mine, would drive Angie to
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: work every day. He was retired, and now he is unretired,
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: getting back into teaching.
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: Yes, it's his first day of school.
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: So he doesn't get to drive Angie to work anymore.
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: I know, and he really loved it, and I loved it.
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: I love the fact that you have to drive to work.
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: I think it's good for you to go through some adversity.
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: You need some practice on the roadways anyway, so why
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: not practice when no one else is on them?
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: That is fair, actually.
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: 4.40 in the morning.
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, if ever there were a time for me to
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: be on these streets, it would be that early. But
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: the thing that came to my attention is that, great,
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: I'm going to have to get my own gas now,
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: which I hate because I had not pumped gas since
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: June of 2025. Which is gross to me. For over
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: a year because Mikey always did it. I just want
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: to say, by the way, statistically... A woman pumping gas
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: after dark, like, that's when she's most likely to get murdered.
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: So it's a safety thing.
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: Oh, you're trying to guilt trip me this morning.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a safety thing. Well, that's not going to work.
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: I know when you leave work for the day. And
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, it is bright. It is bright
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: and sunny.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: Okay, well, I will say this, and I knew that
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: this was going to upset you, and I knew this
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: was going to come up today, because I had asked Mikey,
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: not yesterday, but the day before, I was like, The
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: gas is getting low. Will you go get gas for me?
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: And he said, well, no, because this was at like
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: 7 p.m. And he was like, no, but I'll do
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: it tomorrow. I'll go on my lunch break and I'll
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: drive to your work and pick up your car and
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: fill it with gas and drop it back off. And
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: I was like, I am literally with an angel. So sweet.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: So then yesterday, Mikey rolled up to the parking lot
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: to get, you know, the key so he could go
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: fill it up. And I left Gabe and I share
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: an office and I left the office for like a second.
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: And then I came back and then I left again
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: and then came back and it was like, where were you, Angie?
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: And I had to share with Gabe. Well, Mikey came
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: to fill my car up with gas. I've never seen
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: you look so disgusted and disappointed.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: This poor guy has a 30-minute lunch break or an
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: hour or whatever it is, and he has to take
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: time out of his little break during the day to
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: get our sweet little princess, Angie, gas in her car.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: He chose this life.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: I better never hear one complaint about this man ever again.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's fair. That's fair.
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: This is Am I the Problem?
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: We'll hear one side of the story and with your help,
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: decide if it's right or if maybe you're the problem.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: I'm hardly the problem.
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: On Big 98.7.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: Would you apologize to her parents if you were Alex?
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: Hi Gabe and Angie, this is Alex. I can't believe
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: this is a real thing I'm going through, but here goes.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: My girlfriend is mad at me because I cursed in
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: front of her parents and they did not like it.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: Important to note that we are 28 years old and
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: that I was helping her dad mount a TV in
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: his house when I dropped an F-bomb, which I only
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: did because I got my finger jammed between the TV
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: and the mount. Her dad said language like I needed
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: to watch mine. That annoyed me, but I didn't say anything.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: But I got an earful in the car from my
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: girlfriend because her parents don't swear and she doesn't swear
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: in front of them. She wants me to apologize and
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: I think that's ridiculous given the context and that her
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: dad already said enough. Curious your thoughts on this. 701-280-
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: One nine eight seven. We also have this posted on
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: our Facebook page. Would you apologize if you were in
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: Alex's shoes? I don't think Alex should apologize. I think
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: that is silly. He notes that they are 28 years old. Yes,
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: you're adults. The parents are adults and maybe they don't
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: like swearing, but like, be so for real. He hurt his,
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: it was a knee jerk thing to say and then language.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: And then he didn't keep swearing.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: So I think like, We Gucci. And I think that
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: that is so ridiculous for his girlfriend to be like, well,
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: I don't swear. My parents are like, you need to apologize.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: The moment passed, honey. Like, you got to let it go.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: I think this is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: I feel you.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Well, I think in this moment, Angie, in classic Gabe fashion,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: you are both completely wrong.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: The moment passed. That's exactly what I was going to say.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Just let it go.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Who cares? We never need to bring it up again.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: He knows now, you know, if you break your entire
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: arm in their kitchen, say shucks.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: But also, dude, this is not a hill to die on.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: You know, easy to be, you know, just be like, hey, sorry,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: that slipped. It won't happen again. That also could be
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: a quick three-second thing that bypasses this entire moment. And
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: it's not something I'd want to, I don't know, get
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: in an argument with Corey about.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: As someone who uses tons.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Of colorful language off.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: The air here. There is a time and place to swear.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: That's what I was always taught as a kid and,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: you know, in front of my wife's grandmother.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: Not maybe the time.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I don't necessarily know how old these parents are, but
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: there's a time and a place. So if you got
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: your finger jammed, you let out a little colorful language,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: I get it. I wouldn't mind at all. But this
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: also could easily be just as remedied by you being like, hey, sorry,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: that slipped my bad.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: I grew up, so I still don't swear in front
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: of my mom. Like we were not allowed to swear.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: My mom, I mean, hardly ever swears. And if she does,
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: it's in Spanish. So it feels like it doesn't count.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: But I have never.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: That seems like a free cheat code.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: But I have never thought to be mad if like
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: a friend accidentally like swore in front of my mom.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: The thought has never come. And my mom does not
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: like swearing. but the thought has never crossed my mind
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: to be like, you should probably apologize to my mom. Like,
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: everybody is a different person, okay, just because you don't
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: like it, but in the grand scheme of things. things,
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: what really does a little swear word do? Like, I
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: feel like this is dumb, and I know... I get
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: where you're saying he could just apologize and make it quick.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: Just move on.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: And it's not a hill he should die on, but
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: sometimes die on that petty hill. I'm team Alex on
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: this one. Don't apologize.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: And I'm team neither.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: 701-280-1987.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: What do you think this morning? Let us know what
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: you think Alex should do for Am I the Problem
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: on Big 98.7.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: Drop it. Drop it.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Big 98.7.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Alex wants to know if he should apologize to his
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: girlfriend's parents for dropping an F-bomb in their presence. They
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: don't swear. His girlfriend doesn't swear in front of her parents,
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: and she just wants him to apologize. She's mad. He
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: dropped the F-bomb because he hurt himself when he was
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: helping the dad mount a TV, so it was like
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: a knee-jerk F-bomb. He doesn't think he should have to apologize,
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: but he wants... Your thoughts, because, you know, I don't
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: think he's trying to lose his girlfriend over this. He
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: did note that they're 28 years old. So I think
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: he's trying to make the point like we're adults. We're
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: not teenagers. We're adults. Should he apologize? I think absolutely
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: don't apologize. That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: But a lot of people in the comments, we have
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: this up on Facebook, are saying he shouldn't have to apologize,
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: but do apologize. Julia said it's not a hill to
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: die on. Maybe just apologize and let it go. Dawn said,
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: it's a little thing. Just apologize and move on. I
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: cuss like a sailor. However, my mother-in-law never said a
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: curse word in her life. So I was always mindful
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: and respectful to her and would never curse around her.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: I'm curious about this. How long have they been together?
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: I think at a certain point, you know, or you,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I would like to think if you know them fairly
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: well that you know, they don't like swearing.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: So I feel like this relationship is somewhat newish.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: I just also think, though, it was a knee jerk.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Thing to say. Let me tell you, I've stubbed my
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: toe and said some ridiculous phrases that included colorful language
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: that would get me fired. And it's not that I
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: meant to. It's just what came out. So I feel
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: like holding him to the fire over that is pretty ridiculous.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: And that's why I don't think he should apologize.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: It's just buried deep inside you. You had to let
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: it out.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Yes, I think that. No, seriously, I think that because
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: of the context. I don't think he should have to apologize.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: If it was that they were in conversation and he
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: just kept dropping bad words, every other word or whatever,
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: then maybe it's like, oh, my bad. I did not
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: know that y'all were so uncomfortable. You know, my bad.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: But the fact that it was literally because he jammed
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: his finger, helping her dad mount a TV, like, please,
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: be so for real.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Angie feels a way about this.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: I really do. I'm team Alex. Jackie said, no, you
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: shouldn't have to apologize. She said a lot of things
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: after that, but that's the part I'm going to focus on. See,
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: you shouldn't have to apologize.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: To me, they're just both wrong. Dude, just apologize and, like,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: It'll be over in three seconds.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Okay, but then doesn't that.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: It's too breezy to just be like, hey, my bad,
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: I didn't know.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Doesn't that set a precedent then that he's going to
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: have to apologize for all kind of stupid things when
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: he shouldn't have to?
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: I don't know. What's that old saying?
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: It's, you know, I'd rather have a happy life and
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: be in love than be right.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: What's that saying?
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: What is more important to you, the relationship or being right?
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: That's what my older brother always says when he... Stops
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: himself from commenting something rude on someone's Facebook page.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just apologize and move on. Also, girlfriend, by the
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: time you got to the car, you got to let
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: it go.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you got to let it go.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: It's over.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: It's long gone.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: We got to adopt, who says that?
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Elsa?
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Elsa mentality, yeah.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Let it go. Drop it, drop it. Big 98.7.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Today is the first day of school for a lot
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: of teachers, a lot of kids in the FM area.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: And we were wondering, you know, what is the kid's
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: outfit on the first day of school? And I'm kind
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: of wondering, what is it compared to what we used
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: to wear back in maybe the 2000s, the 90s, even
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: the 80s?
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: There's this picture that we have.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's still on my parents' fridge of
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: me on my first day of first grade.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: I had jean shorts on.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Okay, some jorts going.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Some jorts, a braided belt.
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I had this navy blue with, like, you know, white
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: and other striped polo.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: I had on, like, a kid's watch.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: And my brown backpack with my buzzed haircut and it's
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: basically bleach blonde.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: I had super, super light colored hair as a kid.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: And I look at that every day and I'm like,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: who dressed me? And my mom thinks that that picture
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: is like a flex.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: Oh, really? She's like, I had the best taste back
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: in 1996. Is that what the kids wear today, too?
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: No, I think that there was this, like, skip in the, like,
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: Gen Alpha, I think we're in now, or Gen Z,
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Gen Alpha, where they don't have those awkward years of
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: wearing weird crap because your parents made you.
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: I had.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Very questionable first day outfits. And it wasn't until I
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: was in high school where I really had full control
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: of like, this is what I'm wearing. And even then
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: I just so many years with no sense of style
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: that I don't know that I ever nailed it. I
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: don't know.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: And there might be some kiddos today.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: You know, I think you see this a lot more
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: and obviously nothing wrong with that. If this is what
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: you want to wear to school, this is what you
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: wear to school. But I think like a lot of
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: kids these days, a lot more comfortable going, I just,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Let me get some basketball shorts and a t-shirt.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: This is where I'm at with my kids.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: It's still hot. Let me go to school comfortable.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: So my... Because I'm not there, Aiden, who is starting
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: 10th grade, he was in charge of making sure to
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: get the first day of school pictures, right?
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: And so he sent me the pictures. Aiden looks like he...
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: I don't... He looks great. I have a very attractive son. Like,
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: my genetics really did the damn thing there. However, he...
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: For the last, I don't know, like five years, his
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: vibe is NPC. That's what he says. That he dresses
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: like an NPC, like a non-playable character. And so he's
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: just some joggers and a solid color tee.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: I like it.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: And that's it. So that's what I got for him.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: And then Liam wants to be like his brother. And
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: so he's like, I am like an NPC too. However,
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: he does like to dress it up and I feel
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: like he doesn't want to admit that yet because that's
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: not cool.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's definitely not cool when you're nine.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: So he did go monochromatic. He's like blue from head
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: to toe. However, he did decide, let me have a
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: color on my shirt. So he's in a polo. And
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: I mean, they both look great. Obviously, I'm biased because
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: they're my kids. But there is something about I don't
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: know if it's just because I'm a boy mom. If
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: I were a girl mom, I feel like maybe there
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: would be more flair to it, right? There would be
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: more like picking out the exact perfect outfit. And I
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: literally have never had that with my boys because they
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: don't care.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I guess I'll let you know in
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: six years.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh. You have a daughter. It'll go by
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: so fast. I can't wait to see what she wears
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: on the first day of school.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: So let us know.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Hey, is the polo still cool for boys on the
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: first day?
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: That's what Angie's son's rocking.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: That's what I rocked on the first day.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: In 1996.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because when you are a young man.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: You know, a polo is fancy. A collar is fancy.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: That means you put in some effort to this outfit today.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: So let us know your thoughts. 701-280-1987.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Do kids still care about their first day of school outfits,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: or are they, as Angie's son would say, an NPC?
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Drop it, drop it. Big 98.7. I need some gold.
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: Starting off the day with something good. This is Gabe's
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: Good News on Big 98.7. Today's good news is a
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: big one.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: We've talked a lot about this today, but one more
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: time here. Happy first day of school to all of
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: our Fargo area students, teachers. staff, the entire faculty, everyone
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: in every building at a school today. Backpacks got packed
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: this morning. Alarms were possibly set for the first time
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: this summer. And somewhere out there, there was a parent
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: who maybe just teared up taking a first day picture
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: on the porch or maybe a last first day picture
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: on the porch. Whether you are walking into kindergarten for
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: the first time or it's your senior year and it's
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: your potentially last first day, today is a fresh start.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: To all of the teachers and faculty gearing up to
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: shape another year of young minds, we thank you. This
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: community is lucky to have you. Here's to another great
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: year ahead. Good luck, everyone, and welcome back to school.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they always say it takes a village, and the
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: biggest part of that village for a long time is
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: the teachers and staff who are with your kids during
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: the school year. Shout out to them and shout out
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: to all the kiddos ready for a new year.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: The world is full of nice people. If you can't
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: find one, you got to be one. And broken crayons,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: they still color.