This will be an extended version of the Minnesota Goodbye, because we have gotten
enough emails lately that I want to get to as many as we can,
So without further add let's jump in. Stephanie says, I woke up super
sick, and I jumped on Amazon and got same day delivery for day Quill
and Niquill. I apparently didn't read it very well got the gel pills instead
of the bottles. Although it's not a big deal, I'm frustrated trying to
open these stupid little things that are incredibly difficult to open, and when you're
in a stage of being super sick with the fever, the task is near
impossible. Why do companies have to do this? Why can't they just sell
them in a bottle like all the other liquid gels. Stop using clamshell packaging
on other products and any products it's annoying. Stop it. There are other
products that are nearly impossible to open. And I know, Dave, you
did a segment a while back on Easy Open or No, and that was
the one where I did the Land of Lake's Mini MOUs creamers. And because
there is no possible way, that's my favorite brand of little Tiny creamer little
containers and it says push thumb here, lift up up. No, it
doesn't work, and I've tried it many times so that I was inspired to
do a segment called easy Open or no everything from Kraft mac and cheese to
different containers and some are impossible to open. You're right, so right,
Stephanie. About the Nike will little tabs. I don't know why they make
it so hard, but I think it's probably because they don't want kids or
whatever to break into them. But even an adult has trouble getting You know
exactly what I'm talking about, Yeah, I do. Okay, let's delete
that one. Next one, This one is from Emily. Did the nearly
seven listeners slogan come from somewhere or just a funny made up thing? I
actually thought there were only seven live listeners for a long time. That I
believe is what it says on the podcast. When you listen, it says
the Dave Ryan Show now with nearly seven listeners. I don't know where it
came from, but our company wanted us to say something like music fun and
I don't know, music fun and games or something like that, and I
said, that's so boring. But if we say something that people think is
clever, they'll listen. And so many people have gotten hooked on our show
because the now with nearly seven listeners, sent out a vibe that says,
this show is funny and makes fun of itself. So that's been really effective.
Dave, when you fly to Colorado, do you have another car at
the Denver Airport or nearby? Do you uber there or so? No?
I just rent a car. It's not that interesting a story. How do
I get around once I get here? I get a rental car and a
motorcycle. Does Jenny have a weather degree or meteorologist degree? Why are you
called weather girl Jenny? Jenny? Do you study clouds? What is your
favorite cloud? Jenny jamil els, thank you for asking. And I do
not have any sort of degree of that sort. I have your basic bitch
journalism degree. And the weather girl Jenny thing came because when I started on
the show, everyone that was in that position that I started on and was
always still called either producer so and so or intern so and so. Yeah,
and we were and Dave was like, let's not do that, let's
do something different. And I started doing the weather reports. So Dave was
like, let's call our weather girl Jenny instead, which has confused people for
many a year's because they thought all I did was a ten second weather report
and they had no idea what I actually do on the show. But yeah,
that's where it all come from. It's funny because we don't really call
you weather girl Jenny that often anymore, because now you're so much more than
that. But yeah, that's how I remember it too. Next one,
don't say a name. In response to your comments, Dave about faking it
with a hypnotist. I'm in complete agreement with you. I don't think it's
real. I just had to tell you about a situation I went through in
my life. I had anxiety. My husband says, get some counseling.
I said, okay. The first counselor and I went to wanted me to
try this crazy tapping method. I think it's called eft. Anyway, the
guy made me tap on my cheek and then I think it was on my
forehead and in this weird order, and was convinced it should instantly resolve my
anxiety. Every time he had me complete this weird style of tapping, he
would say, you're feeling better now. I said no, do it again.
Finally, after three times, I felt bad for the guy and I
said, yep, it's feeling better just to get out of the appointment.
I left with all my anxiety and found a better counselor that did help.
However, twenty years later, my husband still thinks it's hilarious to tell me
tap on your cheek when I get mad at him about something. I'm curious
if anybody else listening has had success with this EFT anxiety treatment. Love the
show again, and I am too straight laced to sign off like your other
listener's smiley face. They mean, they're not going to say dart lick,
dart lick. I don't know that that tapping thing even exists anymore, but
I think that there is such a big placebo effect that if you're convinced that
magic beans or your lucky rabbit's foot are responsible for your wealth well being,
you're going to really believe that. And I think that really can be a
helpful thing. It wouldn't work for cancer. You wouldn't want to, like
try to get cure somebody's cancer with tapping or the placebo effect, but I
think it might work for something like anxiety where if you believe you feel better,
maybe you feel better. Mm hmmm. I would say, yeah,
maybe it's helpful in that aspect, but I'm the person who emailed inside.
I don't think that that would help me at all. Well, and I
think that's you're you're such a practical person like me. I know somebody who
I had lunch with the other day. She I think I told her she
applied for Falan's job, and we're still friends. I haven't seen her in
ten years, and she's wonderful. She says she takes a daily cocktail of
klonopin and some other things and they have changed her life because she's so normal
and witty and smart and intelligent. But she said she could barely function without,
you know, the anxiety medications. So medications for most people really work.
So tap not really sure. This one says, don't say a name.
I've been a fan since Carson, my son was about three years old,
and you would gush about him on the radio. Been wanting to write
in to get my staff writer's sticker for a few weeks. Dave talked about
Susan and her ingrown hair on her lady parts and how he tried to help
her out. She'd showed me this ingrown hair a couple of weeks ago.
I got out a needle, tweezer, some rubbing alcohol, and I went
to work. It did not work. Lo and behold. A week later,
I got to the bathroom after waking up in the morning, and as
I wipe, it hurts, and I think, Susan, I can't believe
it. I've got an ingrown hair on the same spot Susan did, for
the first time in my forty plus years of life. I proceed to get
a needle and mirror. I was able to take care of it myself.
I thought it was funny that Susan was the very first thing I thought of
sitting on the toilet that morning. Laugh emoji. Hope you guys had a
great day. Dart Lick, your favorite staff writer from southern Minnesota. She
wanted a sticker, and I'm going to take a picture of her address.
So that is what I'm doing right now, and it'll be a couple of
days till any of these go out, because I'm in Colorado, the stickers
are in Minnesota next one. Like I said, we're getting through a bunch
of these it's an extended version. Staff writer Demante Matthews writes in from Wood
Beary, I listen to the Breakfast Club Show every morning as well, and
it's pretty funny funny that Jenny's jail birds are a lot of the same story
that the host, Charlemagne the God uses for his Donkey of the Day segment.
In case you don't know, the Breakfast Club is a big syndicated morning
show and they're on here in the Twin Cities. Don't listen to them because
we would lose you. Hey, Charlemagne the God is a legendary radio host.
Yes, And basically I'll tell you how it works. There's a source
that we get Demante that uses that basically gives us the same stories, and
he is on this source and we are on this source. I'm actually surprised
he uses that one though, because of anytime I've seen him do Donkey of
the Day. A lot of times he's given it to like celebrities. It's
not like you're silly Florida criminal, you know, Oh really yeah, it's
normally like he's done Kanye And that's why he's so he's he's one of those
radio people who's really good at what he does, and he's allowed to talk
shit basically about other celebrities and that person will still maybe like them or they
start beef and then that makes it even more interesting. And so he often
for Donkey of the Day is talking about a different celebrity. That's funny because
you know what he's going to staff of writers. Jenny and I think that
he has people that can go research their own celebrity Donkey of the Day,
and we don't. We have a source that basically it's kind of like getting
an email blast or a magazine that's got all these stories in it, and
we pick stories and it comes out every day. So that's probably why we
hear some of the same ones. Okay, next one. Aaron writes in
let me start off as saying, I'm a longtime listener the Morning Show and
the Minnesota Goodbye. I equate listening to you to the warmth and comfort of
my favorite cozy blanket. I get all wrapped up in your lives. I
laugh with you, and yep, I even right to It's just not the
same when I miss a show. So thank goodness for the podcast. Okay,
onto the talking points. It may require a bit of vulnerability. I
was wondering, if I could get each of you to go back in time,
what moment would you change with a friend, with a family member,
at work, or with a coworker. This could get a little bit longer
than we really would have time for, so I'll just give it to Jenny.
Jenny, is there a moment you would change with a friend, a
family member, or with a coworker? Ugh? I mean, yes,
there's definitely things I've said that I would take back, but like those stories
are probably kind of boring, I would say. So, there was a
time on the show where we needed something like to fill a break, and
basically you guys called me into the studio because this is when Steven Follmer stall
on the show, and you're like, hey, like, do you have
a story? And I brought up something that had happened over the weekend and
it was about a friend and it was just like a part of her life
that she wouldn't have wanted on the radio. And I didn't say anyone's names,
but I told the story and a lot of people had heard and knew
that it was her that I was talking about. But did the Twin Cities
in general know who I was talking about. No, but she knew and
other friends knew, and it really hurt her feelings and I felt like garbage
afterwards, Like I felt like I kind of felt like I sold out in
that moment to like entertain and I have content on the show. I remember
that, Yeah, And I didn't tell her about it. She found out
from friends and then she listened to it and then she confronted me, and
I will forever like feel bad about that, and we like squashed it and
whatever. We're not really friends anymore, but we squashed that moment. But
I learned a big lesson from that moment, and I wish I could take
that back because it just was like a hard thing for her and it was
unfair for me to be putting her personal life on the radio, even though
I didn't say her name. So I would definitely take back that moment for
sure. I can only play out that by saying I totally get it.
That's the thing, that's the fine line that we have to draw on our
show. Something happened to me and I asked Jenny a little while ago,
I said, should I talk about it on the radio. And it's not
anything that is scandalous or shameful to do with me. It is something that
I encountered with my family. And I said, Jenny, I think I
did the wrong thing because there is somebody in my family that I'm worried about.
And I wanted to say because I gave them a hug the other day,
and I wanted to say, are you okay? Because I'm worried that
they are not okay, that somebody in their family is controlling them. And
I asked Jen. I told Jenny the details, and Jenny and I kind
of both agreed. I would never want them to hear it. I would
never want them to think that I'm accusing them of anything. I don't think
my family listens to the show, but I know that some of them do
sometimes, and I'm talking to my extended family. Got Carson er Allison.
But my point is, we tell you ninety eight percent of the things that
happen in our lives, but there are two percent that we just they're too
private. They're things that we're maybe not proud of, and but you get
ninety percent of our personalities. But once in a while we go, Mum,
I just can't share that story. Yeah. So, and I think
I've still made the right decision, but it is interesting and I would like
to know should I have said are you okay to this person as I gave
them a hug because I don't see them often and I do worry about him.
Hey, Aaron, thanks for that one. She's from Big Lake.
I appreciate that. We're going to hit delete on that one and move on
to the next email. Let's try this one. Actually, I'm gonna skip
that one because it's kind of something like we just read a little while ago.
So let's try this one. Dave. You mentioned your childhood friend Scott
often when telling stories. Are you friends still? Where is he now now?
It would be entertaining to have him on the show and sharing some stories
about you. Just a thought from Emily in shortview, My friend Scott was
basically my very very very best friend when I was a little kid growing up
from kindergarten until high school. Then we kind of drifted apart after high school,
and then he moved away when we were both about twenty nineteen or twenty
years old without saying goodbye. And that's just kind of Scott. He was
just done. He moved away, moved away with a woman that he was
cheating with, and he married her. They are still married, they have
kids, and so it all turned out well. I called him maybe ten
years ago. I looked him up, found him, we talked. It
was a little bit awkward, and we have not spoken since then. But
we were the best of friends. We would cover for each other, we
would lie for each other. And my favorite story was Scott, and I'll
tell it really quick, was I got kicked out of the first grade Christmas
musical because I acted up. On day one, I was dancing in the
little you know the choir little stands where you have different tiers of choir kids.
I was in the front row because I was short, and I started
dancing and the teacher said, you are out. And so every day while
they rehearsed, i'd sit on a bench by the principal's office. Scott was
such a good friend that he purposely got kicked out so I wouldn't be sitting
on the bench alone. That is a good friend, Holy buckets, And
that kind of represented our friendship all the way through school. And it's a
shame because, you know what, we don't really have much to say to
each other now. So yeah, all right here we go with the Mega
version, the extended remix, the Minnesota Goodbye to knock out a bunch of
the emails that kind of been stacking up in the email box. Because I
appreciate everyone, Nick writes in, says Dave, It's quite obvious you take
tremendous amount of pride in your work and it shows on the morning show.
You surround yourself with talented people and help them grow as well. Keep it
up, I do. This is my life. This is my one thing
in my life that I have been good at, and that is the radio
show. So yeah, I'd really definitely take a lot of pride, and
I always beat myself up when the show doesn't go very well or we do
a bit and it's like that didn't go out the way we went it wanted
to. And we get really happy when something goes off really well. So
thank you, Nick. You mentioned that iHeart is short staffed. I hear
that from everyone, and it seems to me this is really avoidable by simply
paying better. Hah, Well that's the problem. Do you think that iHeart
is being cheap or is there something that I am missing? I'll be flat
out honest with you, radio has a lot more competition than it used to.
So we are now where it used to be. There was like just
a couple of mediums. There was TV, radio, newspaper you could also
say magazines. And now there is streaming, there is podcasting, there's Apple
Music, there is YouTube, there is Spotify. There is all kinds of
competition. If we had the money to spend, we would do it.
We don't have the money to spend. I mean, it's a really simple
answer, let's get more people by paying better. Does it really worked that
way? So? I mean, our show and KATWDB is still thriving,
but there's a lot of radio that is really I mean there's a lot of
radio stations that are struggling. We're doing fine, but the money doesn't exist.
I mean, if it did, they would be like, oh,
well, let's spend the money. I got to explain to some friends what
dart Lick means. Everybody was dying, and I ended up finding all the
episodes that mentioned the act. Each one of us had was rolling laughing.
Then I went into some of the great bits. The consensus the HR bit
was that Dave You're a Bitch was our favorite. On a related note,
please bring back Carson calling in stoned. And every time I hear that you
have nearly seven listeners, I chuckle. But I have a thought, what
if you reached updated that to reach a milestone of ten listeners? Lastly I
met Fallon at the State Fair and made my day. I hope to meet
the rest of you guys next year. So thank you Nick. All right,
here we go with another email, this one from Amanda. Hello,
Morning Show. My husband and I had a marital dispute. We need some
advice. Is this gross or is my husband being a weenie? Oh?
This sounds interesting. Recently we bought a blanket from Costco. When we got
home, I unpackaged it and tossed it on the couch with horror. My
husband gasp and immediately threw it in the laundry. Now I rarely wash clothes
or blankets after purchaots in them, underwear, best sheets aside, But because
I feel like things aren't that dirty. Do you immediately wash things when you
bring them home or start using them right away? I always make sure I
wash new dishes and utensils, but blankets in clothes don't bother me. I
tell my husband I'm saving the planet by using less water. He says,
I'm gross in the most loving way. What are your thoughts, please discuss?
And that is from Amanda. I do not wash clothes or blankets before
I wear them. I never would do that. Sometimes I'll rinse out.
If I buy a picture for iced tea, I might rinse it out,
but sometimes not. What about you, Jenny. Definitely not clothes I have,
like your sheets, Betting, I do. But a blanket. I
don't think I've ever washed a blanket, like a thorough blanket. No,
I haven't done that. Yeah, I don't really. I don't really feel
like the need to never occur to me to wash clothes or even underwear.
You buy new underwear, Jenny, you go down to coals, you buy
new underwear, Do you wash them before you wear them? No? Because
they're clean. I don't think there's anybody at the underwear plant that's like,
hey, I got an idea, let's roll these around in some dirt and
let's spit on them. They're made in a pretty much hysterile factory. I
think, maybe not sterile, but clean, right right, And I'm kind
of assuming that the Costco blanket that you're talking about had a smell to it
because it was probably in some plastic packaging or something, and that's maybe why
her husband was like, no need to wash this first, because there's definitely
been things where you open it and you smell like some kind of plastics the
best I can think of right now, But yeah, I don't know to
answer your question, I don't think that most people do. But I think
that's some people when they get like a new I don't know, any utensil
or spoon or something. Maybe next one from Aubrey, Davi and Jenny want
to say, I love hearing more my girl Jenny lately, and I love
that I still have my Mornings with a Dave Ryan show after twenty five years.
Writing to you today on my thirty fourth birthday with a question situation.
Have you ever been in a relationship with a friend that was mostly one sided?
How did you finally realize that and how did you move on? I'm
struggling with this lately and having a hard time letting go. Keep bringing on
the funny that's Aubrey in Ramsey. I'd never have had a friendship that was
one sided. Since junior high school, there was a guy named Mike fabian,
and he was really interesting. His dad was later on a Space Shuttle.
So because I went to the Air Force Academy high school and I really
liked Mike, and I really wanted to come to my house, and so
I would ask him and he'd be like no, or I would call him
a couple of times, and then he would pretend that the like the phone
got disconnected, and after a while, I was like, he really doesn't
want to come to my house, so I let it drop. Since then,
no, what about you, Jenny, I don't I don't think so.
I think when you get older in life, did she say she's thirty
four or was that okay? I feel like when you get older in life,
you just start to become so so busy. So like my main group
of girlfriends, we have a group checks and some of us don't respond for
a week, and it, you know, it's just kind of like what
we all expect from each other now. So some people might view that as
one sided if someone's like texting a bunch of stuff and nobody's responding for a
while, but that's kind of just how life got busy for us. So
other than that, now, I feel like most of my friendships are very
both sided, okay good, And Jenny's very social, so she doesn't need
a friend who would not pay attention to her. If you had a friend
that you didn't feel that they reciprocated, you'd be like, that's okay,
Yeah, I mean, I got plenty of other people. I don't need
to be like needy around you. Next one all the way for Rocky Point,
North Carolina. This is Lauren, and Lauren writes in Jenny love the
fact that you're getting more airtime. Nice to hear your dynamic with Dave now
that you're on more. You said in the past that Andrew that your boyfriend
doesn't drink. If it's not personal, or you'd be willing to share,
why doesn't he drink? I don't care either way, just a curiosity.
Do you want to move on or do you want to answer it? I
mean, I can't speak for him, but he actually does drink again in
he'd never stopped drinking because he had like a severe problem, but it just
drinking wasn't like always the greatest for him, So that's most of the reason.
But I guess everyone defines problem in a different way, so you can
look at it however you want. But yeah, he didn't drink for like
seven years, and he did start drinking about a year ago, and you
know, it's it's different to have him drinking again because the first three years
of our relationship he didn't drink, and it was so it was so weird
for me because drinking was a pretty big part of my life back when we
started dating, and it's not so much anymore. But now it's just like
if we have an event going on, we have some drinks or I don't
know, we had a gopher game party. We were out a few weekends
ago and we were drinking and playing drinking games at that and stuff now,
but yeah, that's the gist of it, Okay. So it's not like
he had a problem and said I better stop so just for whatever reason.
I mean, I know a lot of people who they just don't drink.
They just don't like to, or they'll maybe have like a glass of wine.
I grew up in a non drinking family. Mom and dad never had
beer or wine around the house. Mom had a bottle of gym Beams she
kept under her bed, but I never They just didn't drink. It was
just not a thing. So some people. That's just the way it is.
Yep. Next one. Okay, this is interesting. This is from
Jessica. I love our Midwestern culture, but was definitely culture shock when I
moved here seventeen years ago. For example, here's some quirky vocab larry differences
examples below. Designated driver equal Minnesota calls it a sober cab. Somewhere else
we call it a cast role. Minnesota we call it a hot dish.
Sledding Minnesota's call it sliding. I don't know that that's true. Is that
true? I don't I've never heard anyone call it sliding. Here, parking
garage, Minnesota's call it a parking ramp. I think we call it either.
Yeah. Lottery tickets we call them scratch offs. Would you agree with
that? I guess, But well, no, not really, because scratch
offs I feel like we clarify when we're talking about scratch offs versus a lottery
ticket that has numbers on it. You don't you don't call like the jackpot
lottery like. You don't call that a scratch off at least I don't.
Yeah, I don't. I don't know. I'm definitely can agree with when
I moved here. Hot dish was a brand new thing to me. What
the hell is a hot dish? I've never heard of that before. So
we're gonna wrap it up that that is the kind of the extended version of
the Minnesota Goodbye as we try to knock out some of these emails that have
been piling up. Thank you, thank you, thank you. And if
you don't hear your email read on the Minnesota Goodbye, it could be because
it was too long, or it's kind of a redundant kind of thing we've
talked about later. Or there are definitely people writing in just to get a
sticker, and I can't give you a sticker just for writing in. It's
got to be something that we will read on the radio. But I love
that you're writing in because I appreciate it so much. I do not look
forward to sit in my kitchen counter and hand addressing all of these, isn't
there There is? Obviously, you can buy a sheet of mailing labels,
right, Jenny, and then type them in and send them and stick them
on the envelope. Right. You totally can do that. I mean,
we have mailion labels here you can use too, I think, but they
might be too big, honestly, because we've got like hundreds of Minnesota goodbye
emails now. Yeah, So all right, that is it for the Minnesota
Goodbye. Thank you for sending in your emails. Thank you mostly for listening.
Even if you never send an email, we still love that you're here
and we'll see you next time.