All right, here we go with the Minnesota Goodbye, and we have not
pre read the emails, so we're gonna make sure that well, we'll see
what happens. Safest bed is click on one that says Minnesota Goodbye. That's
a good start. Yeah, please don't say my name. I'm listening to
the old Minnesota goodbyes. And I stumbled across Jenny's last Christmas parody song.
It was hilarious. Which one was it? Jenny? It was about when
I was single and I talked about like swiping left and right on Tinder and
how like last Christmas I hooked up with someone because of Tinder and now this
Christmas I'm lonely. Kind of based on like the premise of the actual song,
but it was very inappropriate. It was about like getting it in and
yeah, I could only play it on the Minnesota Goodbye. So I played
it for you two and that's the only time. It's a well they said,
I know him late to the party, but I've never heard so many
bleeps in a song before good thing. I was working from home because I
was busting out laughing. Any who. I was watching the documentary about the
Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared about ten years ago. It made me wonder,
how could a big ours plane disappear off the face of the earth. Dave,
I was wondering, since you're a pilot, what do you think could
have happened? I think that they turned off the basically anything that let radar
follow them. I think the pilots deliberately turned that off. And I think
they deliberately flew somewhere where people didn't expect them to go, and they ran
out of fuel and crashed into the middle of the vast probably Indian Ocean.
And they looked in the wrong place for weeks, and when they finally looked
somewhere else, all the wreckage had sank. Wow, there was a piece
of wreckage that washed up on the shore somewhere. But people now are so
mixed up in what the truth and lies are that people think the piece of
wreckage was planted. What's a conspiracy theory and not? Because that something like
that creates so many conspiracy theories. Well, and there have been pilots,
absolutely that have purposely crashed their own planes. It has happened more than once.
I'll give you a famous example. There was an airliner called German Wings
five or ten years ago, where the co pilot waited until the pilot walked
out to go to the bathroom. Then he locked the door, wouldn't let
them in, and he crashed the plane full of people into the mountains.
So there definitely are times when when the pilots will crash their own plane.
Thankfully, it is not very often. Yeah, I get a sneeze.
That's okay. Do you want me to throw a little pepper in your Yeah?
I thought no, no, no, okay, next one, Minnesota,
Goodbye, here we go. I'm an English teacher, love reading,
I believe passionately and keeping books on shelves for kids to read. This stems
off of yesterday when we talked about the book that was at a sixth grade
librarior class that had the F word, asshole, dick, dickhead, shit
some other words in there, which, by the way, the original emailer
did email back and she did clarify the two things I asked. It is
not required reading and it is available in like the school's library. Okay,
so that you'll see that email coming up, And that's all she clarified.
Basically, she goes on to say, this teacher goes on to say parents
have every right to have a say and what their children ord. However,
they should not get to determine what every child reads. Also, these same
arguments could be and have been made about a plethora of classic novels. Nearly
everything you read in school or your kids will read the been banned or challenged
at some point in history for language or content, and they're very highly respected
books, Shakespeare to the Great Gadsby. If we took all these away,
kids would miss out on so many excellent and timeless stories. Finally, I
think the school board in the case mentioned is a pretty as pretty astute to
note that kids are hearing this type of language often from their peers. It's
not great to know, but the reality is that your kids are being exposed
to a lot more inappropriate language and mature ideas through their peers, their devices
and social media, and even their parents, much more likely, much more
so than from books. Probably you think about what he'd see their phones.
M Ultimately, I think you need have conversation with your kids about what they're
reading and use your own discretion to make those personal decisions for your family,
but not for others. Sorry for the long email. I get very passionate
about the removal of books from libraries. Thanks for what you guys do every
day. I would only challenge you English teacher to say, is there a
line? I mean, what about pornography? What about Should seventh grade kids
read pornography? Should they write there's like like written erotica? Should they be
able to write that? I mean, they're exploring their bodies and they're learning
about sexuality. Should they be able to read erotica? I guess my point
is I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying is there a line? Yeah?
And also, if your kids want to read erotica, they can read
it, but it shouldn't be available to the library. I don't care what
your kids read, but I don't think that that should be available at the
middle school library. So is there a border line? That's my challenge.
You know what's interesting? I thought about this. So we had a book
band we were in the middle of reading it in seventh, sixth or seventh
grade, called The Giver. It's a very popular book, and it was
banned because by one friend's mom. She was she is an avid reader,
so she was the kind of mom that read every book we were going to
read like along with us or whatever, and she hated that book because she
was a stay at home mom. And if you remember the giver, the
person kind of tells you what your profession is going to be, and the
professions are lined up from like, you know, respected to the lowliest.
The lowest level profession was like this day at home mom, caregiver, and
that, for obvious reasons, really upset her and so she fought the school
on it, and we didn't get to finish reading the book. We had
read like half of it. And I remember kind of being annoyed as a
student because I'm like, just let us finish the book. Like, it
doesn't make this book was weird. It doesn't didn't make me think any less
of a stay at home mom. But I understood where she's like, I
don't want my kids reading that. I'm like the lowliest level. So,
um, that's the only time I've had a personal experience with something like that.
Well, it reminds me when Carson was in third grade, they did
a career day and every kid got up and said, you know what their
mom or their dad did. And the kids would stand up and say,
yeah, my mom is a you know a sergeant in the Air Force,
or my dad is an architect, or my mom is, you know,
a dentist or whatever. And I guess Carson was embarrassed for what I did,
and he didn't want to say I was a DJ, so he stood
up and they said, what does your dad do? And and Carson said,
he plays piano in a horhouse. Okay, because he was embarrassed,
yea, that I was a DJ. It was an upgrade. Then you
understand it was better better? Yeah, playing piano in a Horrseuse, I
wish I could play piano. Imagine, Okay, next one, I'm write
in response to yesterday's discussion of the Minnesota Goodbye. I'm not familiar with the
book. However, I would venture a guest that neither is she except for
the handful of selected words she took issue with. Unfortunately, I feel like
it's not a coincidence that this book she's taken issue with is an LGBTQ novel
for teens, as Fallon said when she googled the premise. The focus on
inappropriate language, specifically LGBTQ premise books, is often used for a scapegoat for
parents to disapprove As a parent, I believe the kids need to be exposed
to different kinds of viewpoints, language, imaginative writing. That's the whole point
of books and education. Obviously, there are boundaries for certain ages, which
is more of an issue to debate. If you ask me, I feel
this parent is naive to the exposure their children or teen has the real world.
Come on, you're telling me there's no other books in the library that
you swear words if they chose to. Parents can monitor what books their kids
are reading and use that as an opportunity to us share wisdom, educate,
same with access to television shows, internet, video games, etc. Simply
wanting to remove access to a book from a library and a whole community kids
because a parent doesn't agree seems a bit wrong to me. I'm sure there
is more value to this book than the handful of inappropriate words that she highlighted.
Thanks for giving their listeners an opportunity to participate and interact with each other
like this love listening to you all. Thank you. I will give the
other amen the benefit of the doubt and say that I would hope that it
has nothing to do with it being that kind of book and that hell you
know it does. Oh, I think it does because it's LGBTQ. Oh
well, not with that listener in particular, but I think with some parents,
Oh, with some for sure. The one that wrote us, Do
I think that she's read the book? No, But I mean maybe I'm
wrong what the initial person who wrote, but it was they the number of
honestly, Fox and Dicks, it was a lot. But I also,
I guess I see both sides because I know for a fact, even without
the Internet, I was using the F word in middle school for sure with
my friends, so that wasn't unique to me. And my mom didn't use
the ffford in front of me. I think my dad did, but my
mom never used the F word and she never used GD. But I also
understand that doesn't mean that we need to offer it two kids in libraries.
So I guess I see both sides. But I do think it is naive
to think your kids haven't seen or heard this from their friends or on videos
online. So it's so interesting. Oh, absolutely, next one? Oh
boy, do I have feelings about this book? Fan? Oh, it's
triggered everyone. Well, now, remember we have a rule, it's the
two day rule. Yea, So today and tomorrow, today and tomorrow.
Then we dropped the book thing or any topic that seems to generate more and
more emails. I'm a sixth rate English teacher. Our middle school has six
seventh and eighth graders. Here's the deal, kids, worlds are smaller than
they've ever been. In ninety five of my parents didn't swear, and I
didn't read a book of swear words. I wouldn't hear swear words. These
days, they have absolutely everything at their fingertips from their phone. They don't
even have to search to find new information, and they are curious. I
think that they misspoke. They said kids, worlds are smaller than they've ever
been. I think what they might mean is our worlds were smaller back then.
But maybe you mean something that I don't understand. Heart Stopper is one
of the most popular series in our school. It swears, but it's not
authentic to middle school kids. Even if you think your child would never say
fuck, it's probably their favorite word at school and age appropriately makes kids feel
seen, especially queer kids. At our school, we always tell students this.
Libraries for eleven to fourteen year olds, you pick up a book and
are uncomfortable with what you read, get another book. And if you're wondering
if it's okay tat to your adults at home. Words in subject matter that
a family deems questionable in a book are opportunities for growth and communication, not
outright banning and then getting mad at the school board and to beyond his most
school board members are only in school buildings once in a bloom in anyway.
Sad fact is that I've taught queer kids who feel their lifeline as these books,
and they're scared to take it home and get yelled at. I,
for one, will always be a safe adult who encourages them to feel to
read what feels comfortable for them. And I think it's sad when adults let
their fear of a swear word get in the way of them seeing the value
of a book that kids cherish. I could literally go on forever, but
these are my initial ramblings. Love you guys from K, Thank you K
initial K. By the way, in case you're wondering, Oh David,
your Instagram post had me in tears. The old woman talking about I'll be
glad when this or that don't postpone joy. Find your joy in what's happening
today? Just for fun, I'm going to pull this up and see if
I can play it, because I think I think I can. And I
just found these things on Instagram and I just recently realized that you can post
to your own story. Yeah, so I'm going to see if I can
find it, and hold on. When you turn my volume up, hold
on a minute story you know, you know, and it might have disappeared.
Oh darn, hold on, let me try one more time, because
I think it's worth trying one more time. Yeah, here we go.
As just realized I've reached the last years of my I'll be so glad,
queen, I wasted so much time on that. I'll be so glad when
they're out of DIP or so be so glad when they starts. Okay,
guys, I just well, if you click on the video you shared,
it'll play the full thing. If I put on what if you click on
the video you shared, it'll take you to the full video. Okay,
I get the jets yet. It though, And basically she's probably a seventy
five eighty year old woman and she's going. I missed out on so much
going. I'll be so glad when the kids graduate. I'll so be glad,
so glad when we retire. Basically, her message is what we all
know, you're gonna find your happiness now, because we all say when this
happens, I'll be happy. When this happens, I'll be you know,
whatever you feel like that do you do you have that? I've been guilty
of that. Yeah, I've been guilty of that. Sure, Yeah,
I'll be happy when the weekend rolls around. Ye, I will say that
I've been a whole lot happier during the week once I realized if you're miserable
five days out of the week, that's too much. You can't just spend
two days of your life being happy. You've got to figure out a way
to be happy during the week. And if your job makes you that unhappy,
you're in the wrong job. You know. I'm finding more and more
my stupid phone is getting in the way of my joy, especially with my
two young kids. I'll be on my phone dealing with the work issue or
just scrolling and missing the joy happening right in front of my face. So
tonight I asked chat GPT to write me a voicemail explaining that I will not
be answering my phone between the hours of four thirty and seven thirty so I
can focus on my family. I love that, I love what it came
up with, and I really hope I can stick to this plan. Switching
gears. I love no phone screen or Friday. It's funny, cringe,
informative, and I love it. Please keep doing it. When Jenny and
are actually screening the calls rest week, what percentage of the time do they
not let a call through have a good one? I would say it's hard
to say, but it depends. I mean, there are some people who
are not good at storytelling, and we ask for their story and if they
really can't get it out within a brief amount of time, and sometimes they're
nervous and we try to be patient. But the number one consideration we have
is for listeners who are listening to the show, so we have to keep
them in mind, not the one person on the phone who's excited to call
and tell us about their new puppy. While that story is very important to
them, we sometimes have to say I'm sorry, can you try another time,
Or we don't have time for your call right now, or a good
lie is Okay, great, I'll tell the guys about that. Thanks for
calling. But we try because it's important and I always I am a big
believer. And if you're a big enough fan of the show that you know
our phone number and you're caring enough to call in, then you deserve to
be treated with courtesy and respect. Yes, And I have to balance that
with the entertainment aspect of the radio station. Yeah, And I would say
Jenny and Drake do such a good job with doing that because there are all
the people that are going off on them and yelling at them and disagreeing with
something we do, and they both have like are the kind of people that
remain calm and like just listen to their complaint or whatever it is, and
don't like just hang up on them or something. So yeah, we try
to be really courteous to everyone that messages are called the show. Kane.
Next one, I have a two comments regarding the Monday episode to the woman
who doesn't feel at home yet in her new house. I get it.
I just moved into my dream home and I was so annoyed and frustrated the
first week I moved in because nothing was where it was supposed to be,
and I felt annoyed the kitchen wasn't the same as my old kitchen, even
though it was a million times better. Get some three hangers and put art
on the wall, and try to really live in the place instead of trying
to treat it like a museum. Go to home depot, pick out some
plants for the yard, get some newer use pieces of furniture. Don't overanalyze
the design. You can change it down the road. Start to feel more
at home, and make the place yours. My second thought is about the
selection of books at schools. I'm going to skip through this a little bit
because again it's getting a little bit redundant, and I think that they basically
agree with you know, whatever it is. The last few people were saying,
all right, last one subject line weather. Okay, first, thank
you for always being a bright spot on my day. I'd love to say
something more creative than that, but it's midnight and I'm only up to nurse
my baby, and well, my brain is tired. Yes it is.
So. It's no secret that this spring has brought less than awesome weather,
no doubt, But I try to remember that in January I would have given
my right foot for this weather. It is true also, if we're waiting
for perfect weather to go outside, we won't ever get outside. There's a
phrase that goes something like, if you can't find joy in the snow,
all you'll have is a lot less joy and the same amount of snow.
That's a good one. Yeah. I try to remember that you can substitute
snow for wind, rain, or whatever scone else is going on. But
remember to try to find joy in whatever mother nature gives us, even if
she's been a real bitch. I hope you can find some more joy and
whatever weather we are given, because even on the so called shitty weather days,
it's still good to get outside. Life isn't lived indoors. Nobody remembers
their best day of watching their screen. Your bestie Anna ps dart lick dart
lick, someone like you, you won't remember your best days watching her screen.
It's so true. I the other day I thought about because I love
watching TV, I've I've always loved TV, and I had a friend asked
me to recommend a couple of shows. I couldn't think of one show to
recommend because the one she said she just finished is the one that was top
of my mind. We go through so many good quality shows now because of
streaming, none of it's memorable to me. I'm sure like in a month,
I won't even remember Jerry Duty, because that's top of mind right now.
I won't even remember it. And it's just so interesting how I give
a lot of time to things like that that really have no impact or relevance
in my life. It's just interesting. The same one go with phone and
scrolling and screen. I think that's true. I think I said years ago,
I realized that when you're sitting there watching a show or watching I think
I picked on reality shows. I said, you're really watching other people live
their interesting lives or their fictional lives while you are literally sitting motionless on the
couch. So at least I try to when I watch TV almost every night,
I do thirty second thirty seconds, yeah, thirty minutes. I'm my
stair stepper, so I can at least like be entertained and feel like I'm
getting exercise, which I need anyway. But yeah, your life. You
can't live your life watching other people act out fictional zed comedy or drama.
You really got to go out and do something. And if it's too cold
to go outside. Then get on the floor and make a puzzle with your
kids, or color with your kids, or buy some sort of like I
don't know, some art set and do art. I read this, I'm
never not going to get it right. But an artist an author talking about
how it's so important to do creative things, even if you suck at art,
to still do a little bit of art or drawing or sketching or singing
or whatever it is. Because it write a poem that sucks, and don't
read it to anyone, because it's so important for you to do things like
that. No, absolutely, Okay, that's gonna wrap it up for the
Minnesota good Bye, thank you, and emails to Ryan Show at KDWB dot com.