I am not going to read the emails today on the Minnesota Goodbye because there's
an internet problem here in Colorado and I cannot get my email to load.
It's very frustrating. It's as slow as dial up. Remember did you ever
use dial up internet, Jenny? Yeah, I was a part of that.
I remember. You can use your phone. You're like host phone.
Yeah. You had to put your phone plug a little outlet, a little
chord into the back of your computer and you would do dial up and it
would go er and then you'll be connected magically to download porn very very slowly,
one line at a time on I mean, not me. I'm like
telling a friend's story. Yeah, but that anyway. So Jenny has got
the email open today, Jenny's gonna be reading the emails because I can't access
them today. I am okay, and I'm gonna have to make sure I
take pictures of all these addresses for your yes, then I'll send them to
Okay, all right. First one comes from Liz. It says, hey,
Dave and Jenny, I have a couple of times and questions for you
to discuss if you get low on emails. So here we go. Number
one commercials. Why does the morning show podcast have so many? And the
randomness they are thrown in? Is it based on how popular it is?
The Fallon and Zach one goes for an hour and only have the ones in
the beginning, but I could hear eight plus of them cut throughout your show's
podcasts, no kidding? Can we forward that to somebody and like to aj
or to rich and because again it goes back to somebody is screwing it up?
And I don't know who or where or how, but the listening experience
should be a great one, not one where you go ugh, yeah.
And I mean I don't have a for surian surround this, but I do
think it does have a lot to do with popular thaness. I do think
that more ads are placed in ours because this podcast has been around for a
while, so I think that that's probably why. But it shouldn't be It
should not be eight plus in like an hour span like our seven AM hours.
Shouldn't have eight plus commercials. That's well, you know, absolutely insane,
Jenny. That's actually a really good theory, because you know, the
more popular anything is, the more ads they're going to be in it.
Like the super Bowl, they have a ton of ads and they charge a
million dollars per ad. So it could be because we have a ton of
people that listen to the show that there are more ads, they're more expensive.
It's kind of a it's a license to print money, the Dave Ryan
in the Morning Show a license to print money. So yes, it's good
theory. Okayle's goes on and says topic number two road rage. When you
see someone driving erradically on the road, do you try to pass them or
let them stay ahead of you. My husband and I have this argument,
as I say, keep them in front of you and you can call the
cops or choose to stay away from them to your discretion. Hubby wants to
pass them because if they cause an accident and it isn't affecting him and it's
behind him. I always come back and say, but they could hit you
as you pass them or rear end you. What do you do, Dave?
I rarely see that. I usually just if they're driving aggressively, I
just let them get way ahead of me. But I don't, honestly,
I don't often see that. I did call the cops on somebody on four
ninety four North in Plymouth a few years ago, because they were racing and
driving and changing lanes, then slowing down, speeding up, and I thought,
they're going they're gonna hurt somebody. So I called the cops, and
the cops that made the nine to one one dispatcher they're real pros, but
they were they kind of had an attitude like, what do you want us
to do about it? I mean, you know, yeah, we can
send a car over there, but they're going to be gone by the time
that they get there. So really, thanks for reporting it, but there's
nothing we can do. So what about you, Jenny, what do you
do? Okay? So recently, the last like three or four times I
have gone back to Wisconsin, there is a stretch between Stevens Point and Fondalac,
my hometown, where there has been someone who is driving all over the
road, and it's always in the middle of the afternoon, but it looks
like they're drunk. And this last time, we were just home this weekend,
this guy was all over the place and it was stressing me out.
And Andrew was driving. He stayed behind him most of the time because he
would speed up and be like fifteen over the speed limit. And then he'd
hit the speed limit again. So we stayed behind him, and I was
getting to the point where I was gonna call the cops because he was making
me nervous. He was weaving through cars, And yeah, we did stay
behind them. I did not call the cops. We went and veered off
to a different highway like shortly after. But it has been weird that stretch
of that highway. I swear to God, there's someone like drunk on it
every time that it's very weird, the same stretch. It's so strange.
So I don't know if they're really weaving all over the place. I usually
stay behind them because I just want to have eyes on them and know what
they're doing. But then again, if I'm like trying to get somewhere,
I probably do try to speed quickly past them to make sure I'm out of
harm's way. Okay, gotcha, Yeah, all right. Last one?
She has changing rooms. What is your etiquette when trying on clothes? Do
you leave the piles of clothes on the floor? Great questions. I know,
hang them up and leave them in the room, put them on the
rack outside the dressing room for someone to put them away, or put it
back where you found it to. I hand them back to the clerk.
If there's a clerk or a salesperson helping me out, I hand them back
and usually they say just leave them there. That's fine. So I don't
really have a pattern. I just do whatever feels right. If I picked
them out myself and go in the dressing room, I'll go put them back.
I hate trying on clothes. I've always hated to try it on clothes.
I just don't like it. What about you, Yeah, I always
put them back on the hangars at least, and if there's an option to
go hang it outside of the dressing rooms, like before you go back into
the store, I always hang it on whatever rack they have to put things
away or give it back to someone if they're working. But lately when I
feel like I've gone to try and close, no one's ever like actually working
in the dressing room, so I always make sure to put it on the
rack that's still in the dressing room area, but like out of the room
I was actually in. Yeah. So yes, that comes from Liz.
She would like a staff writer stickers. I'm going to take a picture real
quick for you, Dave. Okay, and then send it over to I
sent out like thirty two staff writer stickers the other day, and it's fun
when I see, like where did you stick it? So people stick it
on their yetti bottle, people stick it on their computer. Somebody stuck it
on their wall by their desk. So you don't have to send a picture
of where you send it, but it's kind of fun to see that you're
enjoying it. And you know what I'm going to start doing because I've got
a mention of Dave Ryan Show stickers too, and I'm going to start sending
those out too. So anyway, okay, cool, let's move on to
the next one. I'm sorry I've got distracted by trying to reboot by again.
Yeah yeah, good, all right. This one comes from Brianna.
It says to my dart licking squad, per the usual. I'd like to
start with my pleasantries and thank you. However, because I'm no wordsmith,
I'll just say this. I appreciate you all everything you do and the entertainment
you provide each and every day. You are all such a big part of
my day and I truly look forward to listening, especially to the podcast.
Now to the reason I'm writing I feel stuck in my career. I don't
know if I want to keep doing what I'm doing. I've been in healthcare
leadership for ten years now. In the past couple of years have just been
exhausting. There is such financial pressures these days for our departments to perform without
consideration for staff or sometimes patients experience. It just feels I'm being squeezed from
every direction and don't know how much longer to continue. I'm seriously considering making
a major change of my employment, but don't know where to start. I
make good money now and the thought of decreasing my income is overwhelming as I
am the primary breadwinner for our family. That is exactly what keeping me from
even looking at other career paths. The thought of starting over is almost paralyzing.
Oh wow, Yeah, So what I'd like to know is, Dave,
you've been in radio a long time. Have you ever hit a slump
or felt like you didn't want to do it anymore? Yes? So how
did you work past it? Absolutely? One hundred percent? Many times you
would be surprised, and it turns out that it's usually for different reasons.
I remember one time about twenty five is years ago. I was burnout.
I wasn't happy, and it was when I worked here, Katie W B.
Sorry. I went to a career counselor and they suggested I did a
survey and a test, and they suggested different careers and one of them was,
oddly enough, a chemical engineer. I would have had to go back
to school, yeah, learn engineering, learn math, learn physics, whatever,
but they said, you seem to have the aptitude for a chemical engineer,
and you know, I got out of my slump. I think that
there are books and different things that you can look at if you are in
a slump at your career. And I think usually if you're in a slump
at your career, it's there's a reason why, and you've got to try
to fix it. I think sometimes it can be your workplace, not just
your career, but your workplace, because some workplaces are toxic. And right
now, I've got a really good friend of mine who they love their job
and what they do, but the people they work with are toxic and they
don't show up and they don't do their job. She spends most of her
time putting out fires getting ready to work instead of being productive. So I've
been in a slump. I've got out of it. I remember that I
love radio more than i'd ever love being anything else. What about you,
Jenny, I think definitely, like I will be fully honest. When Steve
was let go and it was the three of us on the show, I
was hitting quite a burnout phase of doing like Steve's job and what I used
to do and all that good stuff, and it was like pretty exhausting for
a while. I mean, eventually I adapted and involved to what the position
was, and so I like became better at it. It wasn't as difficult,
but there was very much like a beginning time of Steve being let go
where I just felt like I was like thrown into so much and I left
pretty exhausted most days. But I never got to the point where I wanted
to quit. I just like I was really just tired and feeling overwhelmingly stressed,
to the point where I remember I was on like a snowboarding trip with
friends and my anxiety was so high on that trip and for absolutely no reason,
and I know it was stemming from like it was a quick trip and
like I was still feeling like the anxiety from work even though I was on
vacation. And you know, so I've definitely been in like slumps for sure.
I think you have to like reevaluate your job, and like I really
do love radio and I love what we do here, and so like sometimes
you have to take a step back and remind yourself while you do what you
do and then make sure that those benefits and the things you love outweigh whatever
maybe negative things you're dealing with. I think that, Yeah, I think
that's true. I think sometimes it just takes, you know, a little
getaway. I mean, like I said, I've been in a slump many
times, but never to the point where I said, I really want to
accept that time chemical engineer Dave. Can you imagine how bad ass that would
be? Yeah, And I'd get to wear a hat. I'd wear a
heart. I'd be a white hard hat with a white dress shirt. I've
had a lot of pens in my pockets. I got a white hard hat.
I got some eye protect your glasses. And on the front of the
hard hat it says Exxon. I would wear that bitch to church. I
would wear that on an airplane because it'd be like, oh, that guy's
pretty successful. He's wearing a hard hat that says Exxon on. Yeah.
Yeah. Can I ask you a question? Ye, do you know anybody
who Susan, who was it that you said was wearing scrubs because they wanted
to look like a doctor. Do you remember who that was? Oh,
Susan. We were within the airport yesterday, and Susan said, wouldn't be
funny to wear scrubs and like walk around like the airport and already thinks you're
a doctor and you get a whold differ level of respect. And I said,
I think I'm gonna do that. I can order his stethoscope online,
get a thermometer to clip it into my out of my doctors don't carry thermometers.
I'm going to get a tethoscope, carry that around, wear some blue
scrubs, and have people address me as doctor. What do you think your
number one sign of knowing that you're a fake doctor is the fact that you're
walking around an airport with a stethoscope around your deck. God, damn everything.
God. I feel like most doctors actually do wear very nice clothes to
work, and then they put scrubs on before going into surgery or whatever.
Meeting with patients go ahead. So I was gonna say, I just don't
think that doctors typically are wearing their scrubs much outside of the hospital at all.
Yeah, you're probably right. I ever tell you about It's a little
activity that I do when I'm sitting at like the airport, I will look
around at the other passengers and determine in my mind whether they look like they
could be a doctor or not, and just think about it. If you
look around, it's like, oh, look at her, she is very
put together. She's got a coach bag, she is wearing nice glasses,
she's got really nice hair, she looks smart. She could be a doctor.
Then you look at like, you know, Larry the cable guy over
here wearing a Cowboys shirt, or you know, you look at Vanessa.
She's wearing a packer's jersey and she's got you know, and it's like,
no, Vanessa does not look like a doctor. And so it's a little
activity that I do. And you can play it silently in your mind.
Look around the next time you're at a crowd and a busy airport or whatever,
look around and be like, could they be a doctor? Could they
be a doctor? So is it the best most fun game ever. No,
that's Monopoly. But it's right up there. That's right up there.
All right. Another email, Jenny, I'm getting so sidetracked. Okay,
medications, You're totally good. I like it. I like a little Lucy
Goosey Davy on a fatday morning. Okay. This one says, dear morning
show crew, re Jenny's story on Naughty Tuesday about getting proposition for money to
have foulon on Weggie Dave, you said that instead of calling her weather girl
Jenny, you were going to call her sex worker Jenny. Yes, I'm
disappointed. It's obviously wedgie girl Jenny. You're saying that's what she said.
Oh, you're right, I missed a joke. But yeah, she says
she's wrote in before and if this is worthy of a staff writer sticker,
I'll include my address, so that comes from Jenna. Jenna. Let me
take a picture of this for you. Perfect, all right. Next one,
this person says, do not say my name, So what do I
do? And this is about a job situation too, kind of similar to
the last demoment we read. I left a job that I loved because they
wouldn't promote me after months of promising. Now I'm at this new big kid
manager job and I just don't like it. I'm new to management and I
just suck at this. I don't have a lot of support. Since I
report to a member of the executive team, I get to work from home.
My boss is great and I make good money. But it has since
made me realize that I just don't want to work in this field anymore.
I've only been here two months, and I'm not sure if I need to
stick it out longer, or if I need to get out now before I
get in too deep. If I'm being honest, I love to go back
to my last company, even if it means I make a little less.
I'm embarrassed and feeling so lost. Any advice. So this is interesting.
This is like the scenario the other girls like considering but hasn't done yet,
and now she's done it and she wants to go back to her old job.
Okay, first of all, forgive yourself for making a bad decision.
Yeah, I think that a lot of time we go. God, I
don't want to look stupid. I wanted that job so bad and then I
got it, and now I you know, be careful what you wish for
because, in the words of Dultery Daughtry, you just not get it all.
We played that song, Jenny, I love that song. Talk about
Chris Daughtry. Yeah, be careful what you wish for because you just not
get it all. Write it down, Jenny, play that song. We
played that song. I don't know if I know that one. And I
thought I knew Daughtry the only song by Dory thought. I was like,
I feel like I know the only song he sings. But it's not Maybe
you're not doing it. No, he goes, I'm going home to the
I think that's the same song, isn't it. I don't know. Sounds
a bit different, but we'll go with it. But I will say,
forgive yourself for wanting that and then going, oh, it's not what I
wanted that. Well, that'll be the step one because a lot of people
go, I'm embarrassed and I get to stick it out. No, you
certainly do not. I would say, if you really feel that, even
if you stuck it out for another nine months, it wouldn't make a difference.
Change sooner rather than later. Go ahead and take action to change,
and if you make a little bit less money, that's the price you pay
for your happiness. I mean, if you're making two thousand dollars less a
year or you know, it depends on what your salary is. You're making
one fifty two hundred twenty two thousand dollars less a year is a drop in
the bucket, yep. If you're making forty nine thousand, two thousand dollars
less might be, you know. But whatever, I would say, make
your change sooner rather than later. Don't look back. If you don't like
it, you're probably not going to like it a lot better in nine months.
Yeah, it's only been two months, so you really probably haven't gotten
full used to like the increase in pay quite yet, unless you just want
ham on buying a bunch of stuff because you did get that big increase.
But don't get stuck in the golden handcuffs is what they call, which is
where you are not leaving something because you are so tied to the financial aspect
of it. So don't get stuck in that. If you are miserable there.
You have only done two months, and I would say maybe be given
a little bit longer another month or so, but I think you're gonna know
your answer. I'm going home to the place it at. It it is
okay, I'm David, happy David. We have to wrap it up,
even though I want to let you go in home. Play that song,
Jenny, I want to hear that song. Okay, well, we'll play
it on the radio, coming up here and like a mom, playcat the
brat in the back seat. I want ice cream, will get ice cream
when we get home. I want to back out. You're such a good
play cater, Jenny. All right, you died. You have to be
live on the radio in ten seconds. Okayy bye.