I was thinking on the way into work this morning that doing the Minnesota Goodbye
is actually one of my favorite parts of everything we do. And I don't
know why. I think it's because there's no time schedule, there's no buttons
to push or things to monitor. There's no worry. Also, if something
does bad, you know what I mean, because it's kind of like we
just read emails and move on to the next email. Yeah, it's not
like a bit we created where if it bombs, we all know immediately because
no one called and it's like, oh God, get out. And I
think it's fun because we really kind of get a good reaction. Every day
we get a dozen or so emails on the Minnesota Goodbye and we try to
read every one of them. So let's dive in because we got a boatload.
Here we go. Good morning. Quick email for Fallon, you mentioned
that you think your hands are aging. Girl sunscreen on top of your hands.
I use it every day. Also, I have some arm length UV
protecting gloves that I keep in my car. I know it's a little ridiculous,
but I also use those to protect my forearm tattoos. Sunscreen all day
or a day reapplied to or so our every two or so hours when in
the sun, especially in the summer. I'd like to say I'd do it
for skin health, but I'm really just not aging gracefully and will extend my
youthful looks as long as possible. Love you all, Thank you, Lisa.
I definitely could do a better job of putting sunscreen on my hands,
for sure. I mean, I try to use sunscreen as often as I
can. I'll admit the past couple of weeks, I've been doing a lot
of walking and I have them putting sunscreen on because it's you know, cloudy
and gloopy. But I know that they say that's like when they get tricks,
So I got to start wearing it next one. Hello all, I'm
so glad you all exist. My world is better with you all in it.
Anyway, I need podcasts. I'm looking for some without the stupid twenty
minute musical, boring, dumb intro, any kind. I love all subjects
from Stacy. The only one that I regularly listen to is and it's not
your thing, but you say you love all of them, so I'm going
to throw it out there. It's called Take to the Sky. The Air
disaster podcast, and it's two women, Shelley and Stephanie. They're probably thirty
five, they're both moms, they're both married, and they love travel,
and they love aviation accidents and the reports and the how and the why and
the stories of the people behind the scenes and whatever. And it's not your
thing. I get it, but that's my That's the only podcast that I
regularly listen to. And even wrote to them and I said, hey,
I've been doing radio for a really long time and I actually coach radio shows.
I said, you two are naturals. You're just great. And they
wrote back and I was like, I got a little starstruck. That was
kind of cool. Okay, I have a handful I can recommend, so
let's start with. My favorites are National Park after Dark and be There in
five and Scrubbing in Those are the three I listened to very regularly. Obviously,
my podcast Right Person, Wrong Time, shout Out, Not Skinny but
not Fat is all celebrity stuff. It's just so. I mean, if
you don't arn into that, that's not it for you. Armchair experts.
A great one that's the dak Shepherd One Second Life is she talks about a
lot of famous people, but they're people who started out in one career and
then they found huge success in a totally different career. If you like unbiased
news and you're looking for that, Breaking Points is my top recommendation. Smartness
is a funny one. It has actors Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, Will
Arnett. If you like as astrology stuff, my friend Ravens podcast Astro Candy
would be a good one. And Norah McInerney, she's from here. She
has the terrible things for asking, but now she has a daily one that's
really quick and it's terrible. Thanks for asking. Yeah, And then that's
great and it's the super successful podcast. It's like national, worldwide, huge.
But she also has a new one which is like an every morning short,
positive kind of podcast, and I honestly can't think of what it's called,
but maybe that will help. There are ten that I listen to.
Next email, it says, love you all, thanks for working so hard
to bring us so much entertainment and laughter. You can use my name if
you want to thank you. Melissa. I've lived in downtown Minneapolis for the
last twelve years, and I deal with people shouting things at me, it
just comes with the turf. I now have a two year old. Then
I'm pregnant, but like to think I still have my quote city edge,
winky face, smiley face. Somebody hollered something am I two year old and
I this afternoon, and I didn't say anything back. But I found myself
later wondering if I could come up with some sort of all encompassing comeback that
would be appropriate to shout back to people in a variety of situations. And
while I'm with my kids, something like cool your jets, Brah, can
you please help me come up with an all encompassing, pithy, reasonably appropriate
comeback. This is what I'm gonna do on the spot. No I can't.
I'm gonna save this when I'm going to forward it to Jungle po flag
on it. Where's the flag icon there? It is, I'm gonna flag
it. That would be good for the radio show, and we could actually
people would come up with one for you, because this is something that I
don't understand. In twenty twenty three. I'm embarrassed for other men, and
I'm ashamed of other men. And this is why men get, you know,
we get lumped in with all the doughheads. We'll say something like you
look, you know, I mean that ass is fat or whatever they yell.
Jenny used to go. They had. My favorite one was Jenny got
yelled at, damn girl, you're thick. Yeah, And to me,
it's like, God, you know better than that? What do you well?
They should well not if that's what they're accustomed to being acceptable and growing
up around. Um. I also would like want to I want ideas too.
I mean that would be like, I think it's important too in front
of your kids to show like a way to stand up for yourself, like
that's not acceptable behavior. You don't get to talk to me like that.
You know what he's gonna say, though, bitch yeah well or worse yep.
And that's why it's like I wish all guys didn't get and I don't
think they do anymore. I think everybody realizes not all guys are like that.
Nearly all of us are kind and respectful, But when you walk downtown
and you get damn girl, you're thick, it's like God, just that's
that's awful, all right. From talking about the most beautiful song, I
started listening to some older songs from people like Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston,
Celindi on, etc. And I came to a conclusion in my opinion that
Whitney Houston is probably the goat. I agree with that absolutely. I think
she's the best singer of all time. There will never be anyone like her.
I would agree with that when the only person that comes close, in
my opinion is Leona Lewis from the songs like a moment in time, I
have nothing, I will always love you. Oh, so the case I
see, they're not listening Leona Lewis songs, they're listening Whitney Houston songs A
moment in time, I have nothing and I will always love you. Yeah.
I think that she was an amazing singer. It's just amazing. It's
just such a shame that she led such a troubled life. And you look
at a life like Whitney Houstons and you go, even if you were addicted
to drugs, you could hire the best rehab, the best people to be
around you. But I think that Whitney Houston's character was a little bit flawed.
I think she had a beautiful face, she was famous, and she
was ultra talented, but that doesn't ever mean that she was a quality,
good decision making human being, and I think we give her credit for things
that she was not right. And also a lot of people obviously can hit
Whitney Houston notes. It's just the tone, it's every bit about her voice.
It's hard to explain because obviously Selene Dion can hit Whitney Houston notes.
You know what I mean in Selein Dion's a phenomenal singer, but there's just
something so comforting to the ear, especially with Whitney. Next one, I
was on vacation last week, so I'm getting caught up. Last week,
my five year old son was wearing swim shirts almost constantly, and one day
he told me his pimple hurt, and I asked him and asked me to
look at it. He meant nipple, so we had a giggle about that.
Out of the mouths of babes, his swim shirt rubbed his little nipple
raw. It popped into my head that I'm pretty sure that Dave talked about
putting band aids on his nipples when he ran to stop bloody nipples. So
we kept band aids on for the rest of the trip, and it stopped
hurting. I just want to say thank you. It's funny how the show
weaves itself into listeners lives and maybe a new record for number of instances the
word nipple was used in an email for me at least love you guys,
upside down smiley face. That's from cammy true story. I don't run distances
like I used to. But when I was training for a marathon, there
are times when you'd run ten, fifteen, even a twenty mile training run,
and I was in the several times, and I'd learned pretty quickly that
your shirt bounces up and down on your nipples. And I was out in
the rain on the Excelsior Trail one time, and I think I ran five
miles out, five miles back, and I had blood streaming down the front
of my shirt from bloody nipples on a yellow shirt. I'll never forget it.
And then I heard about nip guards. If you're a runner and you
run distance, you already know what nip guards are. Are you going to
title this nip guards? And they're little. They looked like tiny little round
band aids that are meant specifically to stick on your nipples, and they're a
must. I mean men and women. They're a must if you run distances,
band aids come off and sweat a lot of the time. Yeah.
So a great picture of Jake running in a white top when he was training
for his I think he had half a marathon and yeah, bloody nipples through
a shirt and I was like, stop, let me take a picture.
I was super pregnant, got my picture of him, laughed, drove off.
There is a we're kind of out of emails now because there's something I
want to say for the actual radio show, including embarrassing moments for kids,
and then servers court and then the Minnesota Goodbye about living in downtown Minneapolis and
people shouting things. There was something that I was going to bring up.
I brought it up to you the first thing that I came in this morning.
It's dicey, even for the Minnesota Goodbye. Should I bring it up?
Sure? Why not? Okay? So I have a friend, and
I don't want to give too much information because I don't know who listens to
the show, but I think it's safe. They live in an another state.
Yeah, and it's not even my friend, it's her friend. So
her my friend went for a walk with her neighbor, and for context,
they're both in their fifties. And my friend's friend told my friend, who
repeated it to me, she said, I just never thought I'd be at
a point in my life where I'm so unhappy. And they started talking,
and again, she's fifty five ish, I don't know, and she's married.
She's like, I never thought I'd be at a point in my life
where I'm so happy at this point in my unhappy at this point in my
life. Or her marriage is not going well and I don't know how long
or why exactly, but you know, marriages get to be very stale sometimes
and then you go, do I want to start over? I'm fifty five
years old, Do I want to start over? And it turned out that
her friend had found on her husband's electronics, his tablet, her phone,
evidence that he was hooking up with younger men. And I don't mean probably
eighteen year old. I don't know. I don't know exactly, but I
knew, you know, they were doing oral I don't know if he was
giving or receiving. But she found out that she was that her husband was
hooking up with younger men for oral sex. She doesn't know for how long
it's been going. She doesn't know for how long, and she didn't confront
him about it, And the reason that I gather and I didn't say,
why didn't she and why? But I only know she didn't confront him about
it? Why? Well, probably because what do you say, I know
you've been having sex with men and I'm leaving? Or what do you do
with that information? What do you do with that information? It depends on
the person. I think. If you find out your partner is having sex
with men or their same sex or whatever, and you didn't know this and
you're not okay with it and you're not planning on leaving, what do you
do with that information? Do you? I think she just is going to
pretend she doesn't know, and their crappy marriage will continue on being crappy.
If she's that unhappy, I understand because they've obviously been together for a long
time. But I hope she doesn't think like, oh, I'm in my
fifties, I'm too old to start over. Because that's not too old to
start over, No, it's not. I mean, I firmly believe that
you should be at least moderately happy in your life, and so I feel
so sad that she wasn't happy to begin with, and then she finds this
out. I could never not say anything. I just couldn't. It would
It would eat me alive. Well, it would not, you would.
They wouldn't even seem like the same person anymore. It's like, it's like
the truth. It's like, in a way, I would be like,
if I found out, for example, that my partner was attracted to other
women and was hooking up with other women, I wouldn't blame her for having
those desires. I wouldn't at all. It's like, hey, you know
what, you have your desires. After a while, you're going to act
on those desires. But cheating is cheating, but cheat but cheating is cheating.
But not only that. To find out something that was a truth about
her that I didn't know, It's kind of like finding out that your husband
had been a family, well another family. But I was going to say
something like they had been in the nineteen eighty four Olympics. I'd be like,
are you kidding me? Yeah, I didn't know that you were in
the nineteen eighty four Olympics. Oh yeah, I mean I meant. I
meant to tell you but it's like, I don't know who you are,
but I'm gonna guess that it goes both ways. I am certain that there
are plenty of men who have desires for other men, but they're in a
straight, supposedly monogamous marriage and a cup of other men. I am also
going to guess that there are plenty of women who are in a straight monogamous
marriage that it's like, you know what, I've always had a thing for
women I'm gonna go hook up with. I think my big question is where's
he meeting these guys? I mean, where do you meet? It's got
to be online? Is he paying them? I mean I could tell you
stories, but I know some of these people listen, So I'm not going
to share stories of people that have like cheated and had mistresses and dominatrix people
in that type of thing. But I don't know what what do you do
with that information when you find out your husband is hooking up with other men
and you're fifty five. I'm going to guess that anybody who writes in would
say I would leave him immediately, he's out of my house, etc.
But I don't know that that's the truth with everybody. Yeah, so weird
topic. I know it's a weird topic, but if you have any thoughts
on that, send him in to Ryan Show at KDWB dot com. That
is the address for the Minnesota Goodbye. And thank you for all the emails,
whether you've never emailed, or emailed once, or you email every week
and some people do. That's what we do. The whole show around is
emails and stories that our friends told us that we shouldn't tell on the Minnesota Goodbye.