Let's get on with it. The Minnesota Goodbye, and we're gonna start off
with some e mails. I will just take a quick pause to say,
it's kind of funny how you know the radio station sounds spectacular and the voices
and the music comes punching through, and we adjust the audio so the bass
and the treble is just right, and it's loud, but it's it's not
like crunchy loud like you know when you're talk. It's just perfect. But
you'd look at the equipment in this building and it is. It is the
oldest equipment that is still functional. And the board that I'm in front of
right now, I would say is probably thirty years old. So if you're
in your twenties, this board is older than you. And other radio station
DJs will come in once in a while because they want to come in and
watch our show or whatever, and they'll look at our board and they'll be
like, that's your board, and we're going to modernize in the next few
years or the so they say. But we were in Chicago a year ago
for a radio convention. We went to the iHeart Building in Chicago, and
I was the thing I heard building in Boston last spring or a year ago
spring, and it is gorgeous with all kinds of flashing lights and numbers everywhere
and slider electronic touch sensitive things, and this one has I don't know that
why there's a vice. There's an actual vice in an anvil attached to our
board right now. I think it's because we are going to horseshoe part time
or something. Yeah, but fouls bitching a little while ago because your computer
doesn't work right, no, and it like, I have this continuous issue
where I don't have access to our shared drives. So when I go,
I'll like go to upload the podcast to the like podcast website and it'll have
little x's next to my shared drives and I have to restarts, have to
restart my computer, make sure the little blue ethernetti chord shit whatever it is
is plugged in super tight and it might work. And it's just like it
just takes an extra five five minutes every single day. It drives me insane.
That is frustrating anyway, So I'm not complaining about it. I mean,
I've worked at radio station in Las Vegas that truly had the worst equipment,
and I don't know why I think it's because it was owned by a
couple of brothers, and the brothers wanted to make money, not spend money,
so they wouldn't spend money on new equipment. And I remember one time
I was working on a Saturday and I was talking on the phone to my
girlfriend while the song was playing, and somebody called said, we can hear
you talking on the phone because all of the buttons and microphones and switches were
off, but it was bleeding through anyway, and you could hear me.
And things didn't work, and so finally they had to sacrifice and get a
brand new, shiny studio. I hope you weren't saying weird stuff to your
girlfriend. Well that was the thing. I didn't remember what I was saying,
but apparently nobody heard me say anything too weird. Good like no,
no, no, just you know what. All right, let's move on
and see what we get here. A guy is first email. I want
to say, I've never heard the You're Gonna miss this, You're Gonna want
this backsong, But because Dave brings it up a kind of a lot,
I find myself randomly getting in my head in Dave's voice when I hear my
four year old daughter. When my four year old daughter is doing things,
I had to share because it's too ridiculous. Not too There is a song
that goes You're Gonna miss and it describes the situation about how they're crying and
you're tired and you haven't had a bath or whatever, and then it's a
country song, you're gonna miss this, You're gonna want this back, And
it's like, that's so true because I remember when my kids were little,
and I'm gonna tell you something, it is mind boggling that the kids are
all grown up now. It boggles my mind that my last kid is grown
up in twenty two years old, because it was just a short time ago
he was a little cub scout sitting there at the kitchen counter, you know,
eating chicken McNuggets. It boggles my mind. I had this thought yesterday.
I was watching just watching videos on my phone, and I had that
video of like Jake throwing all of up in the air, you know,
like you do with a little kid. You catch them and they always are
like again again because they want to do it a million times, and eventually
you're like, my arms are going to give out, and I just I
don't know why, but in that exact moment, I started tearing up because
I'm like, it is not in a very short amount of time, we're
not going to be able to physically do that with her. And then I
started thinking of all the things, and I'll tear up, and it's like,
just like you know the things that when you're a parent in the moment
you're kind of you're tired or you're getting a little annoyed because they want to
do it a million times. I just like, I just what, I
like, try to remember that, but you forget in the moment when you're
getting frustrated. Well, I would sit there and I would look at Carson
in the kitchen, specifically sitting there in his little cub Scout uniform eating chicken
minkdongs. I said, remember this, Remember when you were the parent of
a young boy. I didn't do it with Alison because she was not my
last one, and you know, it was like, oh, there's always
another one coming. So I would try to take a mental update, not
a photograph, but a mental memory of what it felt like to have a
little boy. And it was very conscious of the fact that he was getting
older. And then The funny thing is, it's like you're talking about how
you know you get to a point where you can't lift them, Well that
there'll be nine years old, or ten years old or twelve years old.
You can't lift them, but there's still things ahead, you know what I
mean, Like when they're twelve years old, you still got their sweet sixteen
to look forward to, and their driver's license in their high school graduation.
But there gets to a point where there are no more nexts we think are
like the last. But you get to a point with your kids where there
are no more next skates except adult stuff like getting a job, getting their
own apartment, getting married, that type of thing. So it is a
journey, that's for sure. Thank you Emily for that email. Appreciate that.
By the way, thanks everybody who is recommending different things for because I
said we're in a I don't know a limbo right now as far as like
what we should stream, and people are so good at recommending things. My
number one recommendation, says Rachel, is Severance on Apple TV. We started
watching it when it was new and we lost track, so she says,
so good, I found the show a month ago. We've already rewatched it,
already gone down the rabbit hole on redd at asking other people what's happening
on the show. It's science fiction, psychological thriller. The show followers Mark
and employ a lumin Industries who agrees to a severance program in which his non
work memories are separated from his work memories. So when you're at work,
you don't remember your home life, and when you're at home, you don't
remember your work life. So people say, oh, I want to separate
my work in my life. Well, it totally does, to the point
where you don't remember anything about the other one when you are plugged into the
other one. Yeah, The Righteous Gemstones, dark comedy, crime Girl five
Eva on Peacock. You heard of that one for Eva? Oh? Girl
Girl five Eva, Okay, I get it, I'd heard of it.
That's the one about the late nineties early two thousands girl group that gets back
together. That sounds really funny. I'm going to save your email, so
thank you. This one I really kind of hesitate to read because it's just
gross, But out of respect for the person that wrote it, she attached
a photo and I'm not going to scroll till I can see the photo and
you'll see why. Okay, she said, I want to share something.
First of all, she starts off very nice. Dear favorite human, says
Jessica. First want to say, appreciate all of you and your incredible efforts
to make your listeners days amazing. Personally, I listened to you guys from
six thirty to nine as I commute and start the day and a job.
But I kind of hate anyway. I want to share something with you that
did make me laugh. And yes, I entertained myself and laugh all day
at the office. Keep my sanity in our office. I'm in charge of
our guest and client experience, whatever that means in corporate terms. Basically,
I stock a killer snack bar and maintain general office upkeep. About a month
ago, noticed the presence of boogers in the middle stall of the women's restroom
that had been smeared on the toilet paper holder. It's only noticeable if you
PLoP your booty on the toilet and you can't leave until you're finished. You're
left staring at the boogers. My option includes stalking the bathroom users or leaving
a note. Due to hr I chose the note route and use chat bt
chat gpt to write a poem that I wrote on a post it note and
stuck on the booger crime scene. See the attached photo. The note is
longer there, but neither are the boogers. Did it work? We shall
see and I'm going to scroll down really quick. Okay, now I don't
see any boogers on it, but I'm gonna read it. Chat gpt wrote
this, And though it may seem a trivial chore wiping boogers into Kleenex,
we adore for in that simple act, kindness prevails and the world becomes one
bit less snotty without fail. Number one, boogers are probably grosser to me
than poop, p or vomit because they are deliberate. You deliberately pick your
nose and wipe it on something. To me, that is, you know,
if somebody goes to the bathroom and they forget to flush, that's just
sloppy, but it's not necessarily deliberate. But somebody who smears their boogers is
that is As an adult, I don't get it. It's disgusting and it's
like, use there's toilet paper right there right, wipe it on the fucking
toilet paper. That's the most mind boggling part. Toilet paper. Everyone's had
a booger in their car or something, and you'll like, let's be honest,
flick it out the window or something, because I don't have like half
the time, I don't have napkins, and I'm not going to rub it
on my car seat or something. So you've had the flick situation, like
when you're outside or something. But I'm like, yeah, you're right next
to the toilet paper. Why what is the excuse. Well, I'm not
going to crack on you for picking your nose, but I don't pick my
nose. I find it disgusting, so only would if there's a genuine,
you can feel large object in there. I actively do not have a nose
that fills. I don't have allergy. Is there any of those issues.
But once in a blue moon, when I'm super sick or something or out
of nowhere, you'll get one and I'm like, yeah, I got to
go have lunch with someone and have a book. I just blow it.
I just blow it. I don't always have like tissues. That's gross.
Okay, this one is a little bit of a group therapy. So Kevin
I'm gonna skip that one im possibly save it for a group therapy. Ryan
rides soon says, Dave just heard you on the radio today and you're talking
about bikes and how you'd maybe like to get a fat tire bike. Well,
I work for a local bike shop Now Bikes, and I lead a
fat tire group ride. If you're interested, I have fat tire bikes that
you could take on the group ride and it doesn't cost anything. Let me
know if it's something you're interested in, and we can go over the details
and get you out there with us. You'd fit right in with our group.
Have a great day. That's from Ryan. Ryan. I'm going to
check out your location and see where you are. And I really really appreciate
that because I think it'd be kind of fun to thing to do. Yeah.
I love trying different things and I would love to try the fat tire
bike I've tried. I was talking to yesterday. I went on a boat
with a friend of ours and I was talking about He's like, um,
what did he say? He wanted me to try an activity? He's a
rollerblader. Oh, he wanted me to try snowmobiling. He's like, man,
we got snowmobiles come over. We got and we take him out of
the lake all winter long. And I don't want to go snowmobiling. So
I didn't say I don't want to go snowmobiling. So I kind of changed
the subject a little bit, and I said, you know, when I
came out here in the lake couple of winters to go to go kiteboarding,
and I say, he's like, oh, how'd you like it? And
he let me change the subject, which he was very socially like, astute
and aware to get that, and so we talked about that. So I
tried kiteboarding a few years ago. It was miserable. It was cold.
I never got the hang of it. I hurt my knees really bad.
The kite whipped me forward, landed on my knees on hard bare ice,
which landed on kind It was like landing on concrete. So I do like
to try different things. I'm going to check into your location to see if
you're like on the west side somewhere, and I might do that. So
Ryan, thank you very much. I want to try anything. Yeah,
I would do the electric bikes. Electric bikes isn't hard to try. That's
easy that's just spending the money on it. Electric bikes are glorious. I
wish I had an electric bike. That would be so great to like pull
olive on, because then you're not dying, and when did you still can
get an exercise. It's just when you hit the big hill you aren't going
like so slow, you almost like you grow backwards and dying. It's it
really is like and it's fun. It's almost like a little bit thrilling.
I want now, I kind of want to try it. I love stuff
like that, Christie writes in She says, I want to say thank you
for the recommendations you gave me to the Black Hills we have had in the
list of things to do when we go next week. I do want to
get feedback if you can, you know, if I think I recommended everything
from Cosmos to Bear Country, USA, Reptile World or Reptile Gardens, the
Keystone Alpine Slide. If I miss anything, let me know. But I
think, you know, there's so much to do in the Black Hills.
There's a lot of Janki Jankie water parks that I think Chase and I went
to a couple of them, and you know, they're just it's just fun.
It's very simple entertainment. I canna tell you the story about my husband
and how we met in nineteen ninety nine in an AOL chat room. I
was fifteen, he was sixteen. We lived five miles away, but we
went to different schools. We have now been together ever since. Neither of
us have ever had any other relationships. Twenty four years together, and we
have been through it all, even me having breast cancer. What's even crazier
is that he's got four siblings, and two of them also married their high
school sweethearts. Thanks for reading. I have so much I can talk about
with you, guys, and I swear I could fill an entire show,
so I'll just keep emailing. Love Christy, Christie, thank you very much
for the email. Is there anything else? I think we got a couple
of minutes to fill if we want to, but not really. We're at
fourteen minutes, so I think we're pretty good. I want to recite your
poetry. Fallon wrote a poem about four July, and she's been kind of
revising and scribbling, and I'm going to give you a chance right now to
read your poem about fourth or July. Thank you, Dave. I'm so
happy you gave me this opportunity um our country and land of beauty, the
red, white and blue hot dogs and burgers and checks mix. I salute
you out on the boat on the lakes with friends, hoping these memories never
end. Thank you America, the land of the Free, to all of
my friends. Let's get a pack of beer or three, and I think
you know, and that was beautiful. I mean seriously, she's been working
on that all week and she's like, I want to read it, but
I don't want to read it. So really good, really good poem.
Yeah yeah, nice job for weeks then not well, not not recited on
the made up on the weeks and weeks and when it takes it to exactly
fifteen minutes on the Minnesota, goodbye. That