All right, here we are the Friday day edition of the Minnesota Goodbye.
I would say, on a scale of one to ten, excitement level for
going to the fair tomorrow, I'm about an eight because I'm pretty excited.
I'm gonna get there early. We our show doesn't start until noon. I'm
gonna go put all my stuff in vacati w B booth, and then I'm
going to walk around by myself and just I don't know, probably not overeat,
but just look at a lot of the things that you know, people
want to look at before we start the show. Do you plan being out
there? I mean, I know we're out there next Thursday as well,
but do you plan on going out there just for a day for yourself at
all? We probably will. Yeah. You know, Carson's not here,
and he loves going to the fair. He is right now. He's in
Bangkok, Thailand with the Lave Tour and he was out at a smoothie booth
and he's sent a picture because right now it's like eight o'clock at night over
there, and he was probably out this afternoon. The time change is really
weird. But he has a day off, so he was out, you
know, But to answer your question, Yeah, we probably will. We
love the fair, yeah, I think, because we're going out of town
next weekend. I don't know that we'll make it out there besides the times
that I have to work, but I'm there all weekend. And Andrew is
going to go out there Saturday, and probably I might hang out after we
get done working on Saturday with Andrew and like his friends and stuff, So
he loves the fair. He'd go like every single day if he's agree too.
Oh yeah, I mean they have a big work event. He works
for a dining realty and like the whole a dining realty community of the Twin
Cities goes and has a meeting there because one of the people owns the ballpark
cafe that works for a dinah wow. So they have a meeting there that
every Tuesday of the say Fair, and then they all just hang out all
day long at the fair afterwards. So he'll be out there Tuesday for sure,
and I'm sure a few other days. That's cool, you know what,
Some people just love the fair. I think some people go every day
to the fair. I know there are people who like have a camper on
the fairground because there's a campground there, and I think there are some people
who go there and they go every single day. Hey cool, good for
them. Totally different subject, Jamie writes in with an email. The emails
are the heart of the Minnesota Goodbye. They are always great thoughts, starters
for us and give us something to talk about, Jamie writes, and she
says, there, I was listening to the Minnesota Goodbye podcast in my car
on the way to Rochester two attend a funeral. I realized I was starving,
and I knew that if I didn't eat something, then I wouldn't have
another chance for several hours. So I went to the McDonald's drive through and
that's when I experienced my very own Minnesota Goodbye synchronicity moment. And Dave,
you can thank me later. She attaches a photo and outside of McDonald's is
a Nerf display. It says nerf playmore games at happymeal dot com. So
it is all about Nerf balls. And you know my background with a NERF
ball, because years ago I should have never brought it up. But it's
now funny that when I was probably fourteen years old or so, and I
was full of four moans, I know twelve, thirteen, fourteen. I
don't remember. I had a pink nerf ball and I cut a little hole
in the nerf ball. It's about the size of a soccer ball, and
then enjoyed myself with the hole in the nerf ball because I was fourteen years
old, and I talked about this because I think we all do a lot
of dumb things when we're kids that we would never want anybody to know.
When you're an adult, it's like everybody did something like that, So who
cares. Thank you, Jamie for remembering me. Whenever you see a nerf
ball, appreciate that. Next one, Okay, this is about endorsements.
They say, Dave, Jenny Drake love you and I about ask about endorsements.
How do you decide to do them? And do you actually love them?
I'm curious. So that's a really, really good question. There's kind
of a policy here at the radio station and in our company that we have
to use or like the product that we're endorsing. So in other words,
I couldn't say I couldn't do a product of endorsement for feminine hygiene products because
that would be stupid. I don't use them. I don't know, I
don't know about them. I don't like whatever. But everything from sleep number
I got sleep number bed, I've been on Olivia, I frequent the UPS
store, I love Treasure Island Resort and casino. I always use zero rez.
So I think anything that we endorse were either big fans of it,
we might not use that specific product directly. Yeah, but I think that
if we're fans of that business, then yeah, of course we're happy to
endorse them. Yeah, I don't have I don't have as many endorsements,
So most of the ones that I get that come my way, I do
say yes to, but I do not say yes to ones that I don't
think align with who I am as a person either. So for instance,
like, yeah, you make more money with endorsements, but I said no
to a liposection company because I wasn't going to do liposection. Did I don't
feel the need to do liposection, And I didn't want to endorse something that
I didn't feel like aligned with me. So like, of course, what
I have liked that extra money, Yeah, of course, but I don't
want to be like a fraud that like endorses something that I don't do or
believe in or whatever myself, and nothing against lposection. Great if you get
liposection. I just personally was never going to so I knew that it wouldn't
work for me. I think that's kind of ethical, and it's kind of
a good thing for the company to where I think. There was a couple
that I turned down. One was a hair regrowth lotion that you put on
your head to regrow hair for male pattern baldness, and I said, listen,
I don't believe that stuff works. I don't think if you've got proof
that it works, I'll consider it. But if it's just I think a
lot of those things are like money back guaranteed. So you buy the hair
regrowth lotion, it doesn't work, but you're too lazy to send it back,
so you decide just to forty ninety nine down the drain. And I
said, I'm not going to do that because people listen to the show and
they trust me. And there was one company, and I don't want to
get into too many details, but they offered a service, and I was
a big fan because I thought it was a great service. But then people
started calling complain and say it wasn't a great service. In other words,
when they got this service, it's nothing that's on the air now. It's
been years since it's been on. When they got this service, it wasn't
as good as they thought, and they were disa pointed, and they were
disappointed in me that I was recommending them, yeah, to use this service,
and I said, I'm not going to do that anymore. Yeah,
So you can guess what it is, but I can't tell you. Let's
see, this is interesting. Robert writes all the way from I think it's
Sanoma, California, that's where he is. Yep. First of all,
Hughes, congratulations both Jenny and Fallen on their promotions. I've been listening since
before they both started on the show, and being able to witness their growth
and progression really makes me your proud listener. Thank you both for all your
hard work. So if now that Fallon is in the afternoon show, where
can I listen to her? Will this show also be a podcast I can
access through Apple Podcasts or on the iHeart app? Aren't they? Are they
saving their podcasts just like ours? Yes, I think they didn't post like
the first day or two because they were still figuring out how to do that.
But I'm pretty sure they're up now just on the iHeart app. If
you search Fallon and Zach you should be able to hear the show the replays.
Yeah, they don't talk as much as the Morning show does, so
it is a little bit smaller of podcasts and stuff. So I think they
might just have like one full podcast versus like an hourly one like what we
do, because I think, honestly, in total they're one, Like their
four hours almost equate to one hour of our show of talking, So I
think it might just be one episode a day that you can look for.
So, okay, Fallon and Zach on the iHeart app. Yeah, and
they definitely should be on there. Remember a lot of people, you can
listen live to our show anytime if you find kat WB or listen to Dave
Ryan Show on the replays, and basicallyly the entire show is on replays.
And then a separate channel is the Minnesota Goodbye YEP and another channel is War
of the Roses. So this they going to say. Robert says, I
find myself listening to the Dave Ryan Show over again during the week when I
run out of content to listen to and I'm not gonna lie. I got
excited at the idea of maybe a new podcast cropping up featuring Fallon. Yeah,
it should be there, and I'm going to guess they're probably gonna and
after the show podcast two, kind of like the Minnesota Goodbye. I'm not
sure about that, but probably maybe eventually. I know they just started this
week, so who knows what's going to be a lot of things are still
in and flux, as you might say. Robert says, all the best.
Thank you, Robert, I appreciate you listening Again. I'm fascinated by
people who listen in other cities because I don't know how they found us.
And a lot of the time people say I was listening and I heard this,
and I really like this. So I've been a listener ever since yesterday.
We talked about anxiety medication. So this person writes in I won't say
her name, I have had severe anxiety as far back as I can remember.
She says, it gets so bad I literally have trouble breathing. After
college, I started having panic attacks. My doctors gave me a prescription for
Xanex, which is similar to klonopin, but shorter acting and therefore more potent.
I started one milligram daily, but after a while it wasn't enough to
get me through the day. My doctor kept increasing the dose until I was
at one milligram four times a day for ref rents. A normal amount of
Zanex for somebody to take would be point two five to half a milligram as
needed, and definitely not every day. I was addicted within a couple of
months. When my doctor cut me off called turkey. I went through severe
withdrawals. I had no choice but to find another doctor who would continue prescribing
me the medication. That's frightening and awful, because remember I talked about That's
why I was very careful with the klonopin because I know it's very addictive.
I spent the next twelve years. They go on to say addicted to benzodiazepines.
I hope I said that right, and also at van and Valium.
I've been through multiple treatment programs and I've lost months of my life due to
the memory problems caused by these medications since in his high doses they can make
people black out. My addiction stories long, so I won't go into it,
but I highly discourage people from relying on benzos to manage their anxiety.
While painkillers like opiates can addict people almost immediately, benzos do so over time.
People can become physically dependent on these medications after two weeks of regular use
without even knowing that they're becoming addicted. The withdrawals can be deadly, so
it's nearly impossible to stop without sort of some medical intervention or treatment program.
Currently, I've been off Benzo's almost four months, which is a huge amount
of time for me, good for you. I'm learning to manage my anxiety
in other ways, like exercising, finding fun hobbies, and going to therapy.
If I could go back in time, I would never have taken that
first prescription. It wasn't worth losing so much for including most of my twenties
and the first few years of my thirties. I'm sorry this email is long,
but I want to share my experience perhaps provides some useful information. Thanks
for reading. Oh, she says, you might use my name that Jacqueline.
Thank you. I think that is really a profound lesson. That she
had anxiety, got addicted, and it ruined her life for a while.
She says, exercise, hobbies and therapy, which I am a big believe
in that, not therapy my personal experience. I believe in it, but
I'm not got experience with it. Yeah, exercise on motion equals emotion.
If you are anxious, it definitely helps to get up and stop thinking about
it. I have found that when I'm out for a run, there's not
enough blood in my head to think deep thoughts. My blood is in my
legs and it's in my heart and my lungs or whatever my limbs. So
when I'm out for a run, it's great therapy because my blood is not
allowing my brain to think deeply. Yeah, no, I totally agree.
But also just like even hobbies. Yes, but if you also work at
a job, that helps you out. Because when I was in the peak
of my anxiety era, which was in college, I was working at Bubba
Gumps, and I would like pick up shifts just because I was like super
anxious that day, and I knew I could go into work not only make
money that was a perk, but I was friends with everyone I worked with.
I was nice to be around people, and so I became such a
workaholic because I mean I was kind of a workaholic, but I was even
more so when I got anxiety, because it helped me get my brain off
of things. Like you just you have to like sometimes just distract yourself.
And I'll be honest, like I said yesterday, I was prescribed things that
I was supposed to take only when I was super anxious, and it didn't
really work for me. But I was also so fearful of taking them because
of the fact that I don't I didn't know if it was going to become
something I needed to rely on to like fix my anxiety all the time.
Like I was so scared that I was always going to be relying on pills
then. And but like I said, I do believe that there are anxiety
medicine out there that is totally worth it, that's not addicting like that.
But it was a fear in my mind when I was prescribed those pills.
Well, and that's kind of what the next emailer says, is that there
is a time for anxiety medications or some sort of medications. So well,
let's read the next one. I've been on anxiety depression medication for ten plus
years of my life. I started when I was in high school at sixteen,
and I am now almost thirty. Without medication, I experienced debilitating anxiety.
I don't feel like myself and I can't enjoy life. Throughout my life.
There have been periods when I slowly came off the medicine, including for
an entire year recently, but I found I still need the medication to be
able to live life. I am not somebody who typically says to turn to
medication as a solution, but in some cases it is necessary. I eat
extremely healthy, I am a small and fit person. I exercise daily,
I got a job. I enjoy family and friends that support me. Sometimes
lifestyle and circumstances are not enough, and our brain chemistry is off in those
instances. I am grateful for modern medicine and the options we have available,
and I think that's great. I mean, if you are not able to
manage anxiety or depression, I don't want to sound like I think I know
what I'm talking about. With exercise or hobbies or friends or distractions or whatever,
then yeah, talk to somebody. Because I was telling Jenny yesterday,
I said ten ash years ago when I had anxiety, and even up until
five as years ago. Sometimes even recently, I'll stand in the kitchen or
whatever, and I'll just be like, ohh and I feel like I've had
a bunch of Monster energy drinks and I am just hyped up for no reason.
And I walk and it helps, and I'll walk around in circles in
the house. There's like a little area of in like I can walk around
the house and it helps. But if that doesn't help, then yeah,
medication. So there's two sides to that one. Moving on, Drake or
Dave and Jenny, I hope you're both doing well, and I hope Jenny
has not burned out yet with two weeks of Fallon being out, Drake,
if you don't step it up and help Jenny, you will get many angry
fans coming after you. Anyway. You said you need emails. So with
a change of family moving the afternoons, I've been curious to know is Dave
providing guidance to their show? As we all know, Dave is a legend
in the radio industry, So I wonder if you plan to do some coaching.
Mentoring is Fallon and Zach kof their new show. I do coach other
shows. There's one that I'm working with right now in Florida, and they're
wonderful, great young people, but they don't get a lot of coaching.
So I was on the FaceTime within the other day saying, hey, try
this, and you know, for example, I say, these two they
get along so well that they chat sometimes aimlessly, and they'll chat for like
three or four minutes about kind of nothing because they're having such a good time.
And I said, that's great because it sounds like you guys get along,
but it can get boring when you guys talk endlessly about Like we were
talking about Koli the other day, and how about they couldn't afford pop when
they were kids, so they drank Kooli And I said, that was great,
so relatable, but it went on a little bit too long. So
that's kind of what I do, is like help other shows. I have
not coached Fallon and Zach. I don't think that they need it, but
if they asked for help, I would give them help. Like e White
when he was working on getting his own morning show. He would send me
audio of him doing a mock morning show off the air, and I'd be
like, well, what do you think And I said, okay, Well,
for example, don't laugh so much because he's such a friendly, happy
person that he'd be like, Man, I went for a run today.
It was crazy. And then I came home and I had I had spaghetti,
and I'm like, don't laugh at everything. Yeah, So it's just
little things like that that make a big difference. I did send them an
idea when a couple of days ago, I said, you guys are gonna
be at the fair, you should get a mister, like at a restaurant
and how they have misters. Get a mister to put by the Katie B
booth or a couple of them, because it's gonna be so hot. People
would think that's funny. And Fallon said, that's a great idea. And
then they checked and there was no hose that they could run out of the
booth or whatever, so it didn't pan out. I've been tuning in on
my commute home and noticed that Zach and Fallon there're st it says, working
through their first show jitters. Well absolutely, I mean anything new like that,
a new job. If you're a new painter, you're gonna probably have
your first few days of jitters. She says. I think we can all
understand. I'm anxious to see how this develops and we'll likely add Zach and
Fall to my daily routine. I hope so. Well. That's the reason
we did it, is to become you know. I came up with the
phrase the other day and I told the boss, I said, here's a
great phrase. A great radio station just got even better because now you have
a I don't know what the word is, a big morning show and a
big afternoon show. Not that Zach wasn't big, but now I think it's
bigger. Ye Okay, see what else we got here? This one says
State Fair Food. Bailey writes in she wrote in the ridden the other day,
she said, what was those fish fries that you found at the fair
that you love? I said, they're called smelt fries. They're in the
food building near the Haunted House, in the same building they'll sell cheese kurts.
They're down the walk away a little bit and there's like a fish booth
whatever, and they have little fish that are about the size of a French
fry. They're fried and they're called smelt and you dip thement harder sauce.
She said, thanks for the info. I did try them, and honestly,
they were okay, they were good, but nothing special. I probably
would not get them again. Thanks for the recommendation, Bailey. Thanks for
getting back to me because I really appreciate it. As like I said,
let me know what you whether you like them, and she tried them,
so you know what good for you? Okay, I think this will be
the last one. Don't say my name. I really hope you read this
email on the podcast. Hello, first time emailer, long time listener here.
I heard the episode today about writing and regarding anxiety meds, and funny
enough, I've been meaning to for the last few weeks. Six weeks ago,
I was prescribed a middle dose of lexipro for anxiety and panic attacks.
This is an anti to present used to treat many things such as anxiety depression
OCD, PTSD, etc. I was terrified to start taking it, but
six weeks later, I can say it definitely helps. I feel noticeably less
anxious day to day. But I will say I feel like my personality has
dulled a little bit, not really happy or sad, which I suppose is
Okay. I was experienced horrible panic attacks for absolutely no reason. Couldn't even
sleep. I spent three days in a row awake, and I knew it
was time to get it under control. I was also given xanex four times,
oh four times when it's less severe. I use these to sleep for
three weeks and couldn't sleep without them. I no longer have to take them,
though, as the lex of prose seems to be working. I was
going to ask if anybody on the show has had experience with ssryes and into
presence other meds. I faintly remember Falon talking about them, but I couldn't
remember anyway. Would love to hear if you guys or even Drake have taken
them. I don't know what other than I took. What was them?
It was twenty five years ago. What was the one? It started with
a P Prozac. I took prozac, and I don't think they even really
normally regularly prescribed prozac anymore. I noticed no effect at all. The Klonopin
was the only thing that I remember taking. I think there was an option
to take something that you'd take steadily daily, and I didn't want to do
that one. Jenny, you don't have to talk about it if you don't
want to. Well, the only thing I don't remember what it was called,
But like I said, I always prescribed something my senior year of college,
and it was only to be taken when I was having major like anxiety.
And the few times I did take it and never did anything for me.
But I don't I honestly don't remember what it was called. So that
was the only thing for me. There are other points in my life that
I wish I would have been prescribed something that would have helped me. But
yeah, I just that was it for me. Okay, Drake is in
the other room and he's busy, so I'm not able to ask him right
now about that. I will say, we've gone longer than we usually do.
But thanks for the emails. I thought that was very thoughtful. And
there's there's so many people who are, you know, probably walking a line
between do I need medication or I just need to like get out of my
head? Do I need medication or I just need to like stop worrying so
much. I think there becomes a time when you go, I've tried,
and I still can't get out of my head. I can't stop worrying whatever.
Talk to your doctor, talked to a therapist about that, because it
is it is helpful and it is important. But I would say, if
you are depressed, not have depression, or anxious, not have anxiety,
try exercise because it is I've heard this years ago, and I love this
phrase, this saying if exercise were in pill form, it would be the
most prescribed medicine in the world because it is so helpful. Motion equals emotion.
You know what I heard yesterday from my trainer, Motion equals lotion.
Have you ever heard that before. No, It's like it loads up your
joint so the more you move. They had me doing big shoulders stretches because
my shoulders are really tight, and so they said, yeah, they had
a band and I'd swing the band back behind my head and do this,
and they said, motion equals lotion. So if you're having trouble, it's
kind of like when you wake up and you're really really stiff, but you
walk around the house for five minutes and now you're okay. Yeah, motion
equals lotion. That's all. I've got anything else to add it. All
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