Minnesota. Goodbye, welcome back, Jenny, thank you for being here.
You're on the good microphone. So well. I think we fixed We were
supposed to fix this one. The engineers came in and worked with mine.
Seems to be working, okay. I'm looking at the waveform as you speak,
and it seems to be working. Okay. Nobody cares about that.
Let's move on to things that people do care about, and here we go.
Alli writes in my friend asked me this the other day, and I
figured it was perfect for you all. If there was a freaky Friday moment
and your mom and dad and your partner switched bodies, mom or dad and
your partner switched bodies and you had to have sex with one of them to
get back to normal. Would you rather have sex with your parents' body but
your partner's mind, or have sex with your partner's body and your parent's mind.
I don't like either of these. The good news is you don't have
to do either. So that's that's the good news. Is I mean?
I mean, in reality, I would definitely have sex with my parents' body
but Susan's mind, because there's no way that I would have sex with Susan's
body and my mom's mind in there with no way that would be so I
would definitely do Yeah, I know, Jenny, but at least it be
Susan, and I'd be explaining, like I have to do this Susan to
get things back to normal. I just, man, I don't think I
could do it. I think I'm on the other side of things. I
think I would still stick with my boyfriend Andrew's body and as fortunately Dad's mind,
because hopefully Dad'll just fall asleep yep, and he won't be present and
I will just I feel like I could never ever ever look at my dad's
body the same. I would know too much about it at that point,
once everything switched back, it just would be too hard to Yeah, I
can't. I don't want to do either. I'm not doing either. No,
you've got to do one. No, and I trust me. There.
It's an ally from Berkeley, California. Thank you for a horrible question,
something to think about. There is no good answer. There's just one
that's less awful. Did you see mom and dad naked often when you were
a kid or at all? Jenny es not often, Probably up until I
was like maybe eight nine, ten, Yeah, probably like going in and
out of the shower. But once I got to teenage years, I think
there was a little more privacy from everyone in the house, you know.
So I mean yeah, and I mean I showered with my mom as a
little kid, so I feel like, oh yeah, okay, sure,
yeah, So I feel like that was something that I saw my mom.
I definitely saw my mom more often than my dad. Okay, I saw
my mom a couple of times. I had four sisters, so I would
see them naked, like once in a while. My sister Vivian, who
was always my favorite sister and has nothing to do with it, she didn't
care. Yeah, if I was like five years old, then she was
like fourteen or eighteen years old, whatever she was, she didn't care.
Yeah, and I didn't care either. I remember, though, the first
naked man that I saw, I'll never forget it. We were in a
swimming class at the Air Force Academy, because we live right by the Air
Force Academy, so that's where we went swimming class. And after class,
you know, the boys would very discreetly and shyly chain they dry off and
put their pants back on, and you'd try not to be naked in front
of your buddies and because you were embarrassed or whatever. And I remember there
was a full grown cadet, probably twenty twenty two years old, taking a
shower, standing there naked, with the hairy body parts and everything, and
all the boys were standing there going because none of us had ever seen like
a full grown naked man before, and we thought it was funny in the
same way that you think of fart is funny when you're eight years old.
And so we stood there and laughed. And I remember thinking, this poor
man, I didn't think of it the same at the time, but I
think now it's like this poor man must have felt so stupid standing there trying
to take a shower while all these eight year old six year old boys going.
Probably, but he also probably realize you guys are young kids, and
it's like they're seeing a naked man. Right. Yes, I can still
picture that in my mind. Okay, Next one, Thank you, Ali,
appreciate that one. I'd love to know how you found us all the
way in Berkeley, California. Next one, Amanda writes in Longtime Listener,
has anybody brought to your attention that there are so many commercials while streaming the
show. It'll be a minute and a half of commercials, then the show
starts back up, then more commercials in two minutes. Not sure if something's
wrong with it, Please help h I just wrote to the boss, the
bigger boss and the big regional boss, and I copied your email, Amanda,
because it is a problem, and I don't understand why it's something that
is an audio company that they can't take care of. Yeah, here's another
one. It says no name, please, not one to complain. I
know it's such a ridiculous complain in the grand scheme of things, but holy
hell. The commercials on the Pot podcast continue to get worse and worse.
On the twelve nineteen podcast, during the six am hour, after a commercial
kicked off the show for the first thirty seconds, Dave went into talking about
Susan and her checkup. After about two minutes and the middle of the story,
a minute long ad kicked in. During the seven o'clock hour, around
the twenty three minute mark, there was a sudden minute long commercial, followed
by ten seconds of dialogue, then another one and a half minutes of commercials.
Wow. Not to mention the random commercials that pop up during Christmas wish,
which completely ruins the vibe of what is happening. I know it's not
an issue with you three, but it's insane how bad it's gotten. Not
to mention this cannot be helping the advertisers, and commercials like these only hurt
the brands that are being promoted. I have no interest in listening to the
commercials nor considering the brands they sell. I imagine that others have issues too.
Honestly, if this gets you on a rant about iHeart I love it.
But it's so annoying to see this company spend crazy amounts of some money
on celebrities and cells, but they cannot fix the simple thing that draws people
to the platform, the listener experience. I could not have said it any
better myself. Yeah, how can an audio company that is the number one
audio company in the world not figure this out? Or that there's somebody who's
organizing and running this that doesn't give a shit about the listener experience. And
I think that's one thing that we are always conscious of is making it a
good experience. Like if I IF I, if I'm the president of Southwest
Airlines and I'm like Okay, we're gonna get you there safely from point to
point, but we're gonna have We're gonna carry a bunch of live pigs in
the back of the airplane. It's gonna smell like pig shit. You're gonna
have to listen to the pig squealing and oinking the entire time. You can't
get to the bathroom because there's pigs back there, but it smells like pig
shit. And uh, but you know what it'd be like, why would
I fly on Southwest anymore? Because even though they get me there safely,
I don't want to fly in a plane full of pigs. Yeah, and
it's like that's that's part of the experience. Yeah. I wish that we
had a fix it all. I wish it was truly like our fault at
this point that like me or Drake is like fucking up and it's our fault
because then we know how to fix it. But unfortunately, like it's above
us, and yes, we forward these emails on but it doesn't seem to
be fixed ever. This is kind of ties together. We had a presentation
yesterday from a new senior vice president or something, and she was really wonderful
and very impressive. And she was talking about how audio has more of an
impact in your mind because when you hear audio, you paint a picture in
your mind. So when you watch TV or watch streaming, or you're watching
your phone or whatever, you don't form a picture in your mind because the
picture is already there. It's kind of like when you read a book and
you get a mental picture. So audio creates a picture. So she gave
us this challenge, Jello in the Grand Canyon. Think about it for a
second. Jello in the Grand Canyon. Yep, what are you picturing?
When I say Jello in the Grand Canyon? And she went around the room
and pointed to different random people on the staff yesterday and said, Jello in
the Grand Canyon. And I was hoping that she would call on me,
but she didn't. And the first person she called on is like, I
don't know, and she's like, well, you gotta be picturing something.
What are you picturing? So, Jenny, Jello in the Grand Canyon.
It will conjure up an image in your mind. What is it conjuring up?
My first image was a mold of jello, a circular mold with a
hole in the middle. Sure, okay, so that's like one plate of
that sitting in the vastness of the Grand Canyon. And then my brain started
thinking, no, what if it's like a pool of jello of a bunch
of cubes that actually take up the entire thing. So I went in like
two different directions fascinating. Yes, seriously, mine was what color is?
Your jello? Was blue? Okay, blue jello? It was blue with
the mole that was red with the pool of it. Okay, mine was
green jello filling the Grand Canyon up to the rim with banana slices in it.
Oh, okay, that's what mine was, she said. Hers was
red cubed jello filling up the Grand Canyon. And other people had answers like,
you know it was halfway full and what color whatever. So you don't
have to write in about this one, but if you want to when you're
looking for something to write in about, let us know. When I say
jello in the Grand Canyon, what image does it conjure up in your mind?
Yeah? And the point is audio is very powerful in that you are
responsible your brain comes up with you don't even probably think about it. Your
brain will conjure up an image. So if you say Jello in the Grand
Canyon or a spooky spooky house, what does it conjure up? You don't
have to answer that one. But if you're hearing a podcast and they say
it was such a spooky house, it was the creepiest house I've ever been
into, well, what is that conjure up? So anyway, I thought
that was really interesting. All right, thank you for that one. I
will push delete on that one so I won't read it again. Next one.
Hello, Since listeners are doing amazing old school request songs, I was
wonder if you guys could locate I Want a Pack of Marble Lights for Christmas.
My coworker and I always look forward to this song during the Christmas season.
Sincerely, the one who danced to blame Jared at her wedding reception,
that is Stephanie. Is there a song called I Want a Pack of Marbor
Lights for Christmas? I wonder if it was one that I wrote that I
write today. I feel like it was maybe one of your old ones.
I don't know that I know that one. It's definitely was way before my
time. But how do you spell Marlboro m A R lbo R. Yeah?
That's when I'm typing in and I'm not kidding. I think I wrote
that song myself back in the nineties and I don't remember it. Yeah,
I want to pack Marble lights for Christmas. Only a pack of Arboro lights
will do at eight eight eight. That sounds like something that I would have
written. Isn't it awful that if I wrote that song, I don't remember
it. I know, but you do. You create a new show every
single day of content. You're allowed to forget things. You know. What
I worry about sometimes is, you know, we'll come up with a really
good idea and we'll do it, and I'll go, like, Jenny,
that was really that worked out really well, and then I worry that we
won't keep track of it, and then we'll never do it again. I
usually when we do something that works out really well, I put it into
So this is my organizational system. I put it into Google Calendar on a
monthly basis, on like a Sunday. That's where my miscellaneous things sit on
a Sunday, and then I like go back to it. So one of
them that we haven't done in a little while, but I see come up
monthly as like how what was it. I think it's like, how do
you know Dave Brian or how did you meet Dave Bryan or something like that,
because we got really good stories and it went super well. But then
another one is I don't want to go, Like Dave Brian's I don't want
to go. That's always a fun one. We do that every right right
right right now, my cousin's third part whatever it is, Yeah, I
don't want to go. So yeah, I try to. I try my
best to keep track of everything once we say, oh, that was a
good one in a somewhat organized format. Yeah, And that's because we come
up with the ideas and sometimes they go well, and sometimes we go,
huh, well, we don't need to do that one again, And Jenny
will say should I save that to replay later? Or should even say?
We don't want to replay that, do we? And I'm like, nope,
we do not. I think my two proudest parody songs ever were the
Hollister Song because it worked out really well and Alison sang and she did it
great, and she was fifteen or so when she did it, so she
sounded like the Hollister demo, and you know, it's totally dated now because
kids don't shop at Hollister anymore. But you know, people around Jenny's age
thirty one, thirty two thirty three, they did shop lived for Hollister,
Hollister and Abergromi and limited to but that kind of away before Hollister and Abercromby.
I was really happy with the way that one came out. Was the
biggest parody song. We used to keep track of requests with a basically a
pen and paper and make tally marks, and I think one day back when
people call the radio station request lines constantly, we got over fifteen hundred requests
in one day. It was like, Hello, hello, Kata would be
Hi, can you play Hollister? Yeah? Sure, will Hi katab Can
you play Hollister? Yep. The other one was the Fallons fight song from
her school because it just turned out really funny and I still know every word.
Hey you guys, but down your Smokeshoe guys, be down your beer.
I won't sing the whole song, but that's probably my second favorite parody
song. I don't remember a pack of Marlboro lights for Christmas. You've done
so many so I don't know. Obviously, before I was on the show.
But also I feel like an honorable mention needs to go to p because
even though Fallon's sang that one to Taylor, supposed to me, you wrote
that and that one was so good. Thank you. Yeah. I like
that one too. It didn't get as big as like some other ones,
but yeah it was. It was a good one. Thank you. Jenny
hit delete on that one. Here we go, Dave Ryan Team. I
recently took a two week vacationed to Thailand. Shout out to Jenny for answering
a couple of my questions where I went. My friend and I had a
wonderful time, but there were two instances where there were very unruly children that
interrupted our relaxation time. The first we were at a floating luxury resort in
cow Sack National Park. You could actually feel your room floating in the water.
Very small, very beautiful resort, but the water is fifty to eighty
or fifty to eighty meters deep, so I'm not sure if it's kid friendly.
The kids, every evening until bedtime were so loud we could hear everything
through the walls. We could hear him bouncing around and throwing toys. We
almost complained but decided to try to ignore it. A few days later,
we went to a beautiful Marriott resort in Pouquette, Yep, Okay, and
we were at the pool, which again not a kid friendly pool. There
was one particular child amongst a few that scream for about two hours, the
kind of scream where children is so excited they can't contain themselves and they turn
into demons. I just couldn't believe the mother was blatantly across the other side
of the pool sunbathing. Is this just a new normal? Is there a
compromise when it comes to kids. I'd like to think it's understandable when kids
get overly excited and loud, but it's not there. Is it not the
responsibility of the parent to teach their children how to behave in public? Jenny,
I do think it's their responsibility, But I feel like it's hard for
me to answer this. I'm not a parent. I don't know how I
would handle these situations as a parent. I want to go on a vacation,
I take my kid to the Marriott. Marriott. I can't control if
they have a two hour tantrum, but I know that you can control like
it being in a public space. You know. I was at the airport
the other day and just waiting in Denver for the plane to board, and
somebody had a couple of kids, like five years old, a boy and
a girl running around the rows of seats, screaming and yelling and screaming and
yelling, and I thought, it's not bothering me that much. You know,
it's the holidays, and they're excited and their kids and they're traveling.
But I thought a good parent would be like, hey, come on,
you kids, please stop right now, right instead of just letting them run
wild. But you know, that's me. That's it. We're out of
time for the Minnesota Goodbye Emails. Ryan's show at kadiwb dot com. Jello
in the Grand Canyon