I can start out with a joke and see if you get this joke.
This joke comes courtesy of staff writer Tracy. Okay, here we go.
What is the best time of the day? I have no idea six thirty
hands down? Do you get it? I get it? Yeah, I
didn't get it. Are you reading o'clock? I didn't get that at all.
I was like what. Tracy goes on to say, My eleven year
old son told me that. When I thought it was hilarious. I told
my thirty five year old brother and he didn't get it. It's amazing how
we forget to tell the old fashioned time the old fashioned way now that everything
is digital. So I didn't get that joke. I've never heard that six
thirty hands down because the hands are both pointing to I didn't get that.
I did. I mean, definitely not a joke I've ever heard before.
But I did understand it. But I think I probably was already trying to
think hard because you said that, are you going to get the best job?
Thank you, Tracy. She goes on to say, on to the
question, I wanted to ask in our current society, what is an appropriate
time frame to meet new neighbors. I'm sitting on my deck typing this is
I listened to my husband talk to our new neighbor for the first time,
and the neighbor commented on our Halloween decorations from last fall. Then it hit
me. They moved in mid September last year, and we haven't met them
until today. If you're bad with math, that is eight month. I
feel bad that it took so long, but I really don't even know most
of our neighbors. Just the one to the right and now this one immediately
to our left. Is that typical. I feel like we're pretty social people,
but our circle of friends are outside of our neighborhood. Curious on how
it is for you as well. Keep up the great work. I literally
listened to every day and I have since fifth grade. You keep me entertained,
laughing and inspired. Have you tried the lasagna? It's my favorite.
Tracy, you made me laugh. I think that is so interesting. I
know somebody I don't want to embarrass them, but they have not met any
of their neighbors. I met their neighbor because I was at their house,
went across the street where their girls were doing some sort of an art project.
In the driveway and I went over and I said, hey, can
I ask what you're doing? And she's like, oh, yeah, sure
and blah blah blah blah blah, and I said, oh, that's really
cool. So I went and said, hey, I met your neighbors.
She's like, you did. I'm like yeah. She's like, how do
you meet neighbors? You see him at the mailbox, when you see him
in their yard, you go say him, you introduce yourself. I know
all my neighbors all around me. I'm very close with a couple of them.
There's one diagonally from me that I got to tell you. I don't
even know his name, but we're friendly to each other. What about you?
Do you remember when you met them? Though, because you've lived at
that house for quite a while, Do I remember when I met who?
When you met your neighbors for the first time? Oh, okay, I'm
pretty much right away? Okay, yeah, within a couple of days.
I don't remember. It's been a long time, but within a couple of
days you see him at the mailbox, You're like, oh, you must
be the new neighbor. Oh, I'm Dave, I'm this is Susan whatever.
Type of thing. We only know pretty much the people who are who
are left and right, and then the people who are behind us in the
alley because we don't really go out to the front much, but the alley
is like where everyone usually like drives in in parks, so we see those
people a lot. There's a young couple though, that also moved in the
same day that we did, and they're right behind us in the alley too,
and we've never spoken to them because we never see them. And I
just we just really don't see our neighbors. I think that's part of it.
Though. If you don't see them, then how are you going to
meet them. You don't really want to go knock on the door to meet
them. You just see them out in the yard or pushing their stroller or
whatever, or walking their dog, and you know, you encounter them they're
way And I think a lot of it does depend on whether people come outside
or not. We've had neighbors that they just never come outside. I mean
literally, they're normal looking people with normal looking kids, and they never come
outside, so you never really get to know them that well. Right,
But I tell you the advantage of having a neighbor is you know you might
need them. Yeah, Like, for example, let's say you were trying
to get a hold of Andrew and you couldn't get a hold of him,
and it's like, man, I've been calling him all morning, and that's
really weird. He's not answering his phone. He always answers his phone.
You can send the neighbor over to knock on the door and see if they're
okay. Yeah, if you are going to be out of town for the
weekend and you want somebody to pick up your mail, neighbor can pick up
your mail or like Amazon packages, our neighbor Bennett always takes care of our
packages if we go out of town, which normally we don't have a ton
of packages, but every once in a while we'll forget that we ordered something
and did that just the other day. The neighbor's like, hey, we're
at our cabin, there's a package on our porch. Well, you pick
it up and put it on a garage and so we know their garage code.
We pick up the package, we stick it in their garage, and
you know, it's just kind of nice. There's another neighbor down the street
that we know from boy Scouts that they watch the pets when we are out
of town. So yeah, it's definitely worth it to get you to know
your neighbors, and most of the time they want to know you too.
But I think there's just something in our you know, when I grew up,
we grew up, you know, out in the country, so the
neighbors were hundreds of yards away, sometimes close to a mile away. But
we knew everybody around us because back then it was just a different culture and
some you got along with really well, and sometimes you just said hi to
him at the mailbox, and other ones would come over for dinner, you
know, so you don't have to make friends with everybody. But I think
it's a good idea to get to know your neighbors, for sure. But
I get it. Thank you, Tracy really enjoyed that one. Let us
know about you and whether you know your neighbors. I'm going to go back
to an email from Dan. Dan is ourb buddy who lives in Apple Valley.
We love Dan because he's a smart ass. He's the guy who is
on no phone, screen or Friday once in a while, and he's got
a bit of a speech difficulty. I don't know what the word is that
you use now. But Dan hit a tree head on a four wheeler and
wrapped the tires around the tree, so the front two tires of the four
wheeler actually touched. And he's got some you know, he's had some like
brain damage or whatever. He says, Wishing Jenny a happy twenty first birthday.
I wish I uh okay, let me read you again. Wishing Jenny
a happy twenty first birthday. Wish. I don't remember how many years of
experienced. Sincerely, Dan from Apple Valley. All right, keep on dart
licking, Dave you do you? Thank you Dan. It is Jenny's birthday
today. We can do it for your birthday. That's what we're going up
to luten Is. We're just going up to get away for the weekend.
Andrew's grandpa has a cabin up there and we haven't been in a couple of
years, so we're gonna head up and get away and just be one with
nature. We're going to do with some hiking and stuff like that. I
love that. I love that you both love to go hiking, that you
both want to just get away and go to Lutten. When you feel when
you're in Lutzen. You feel like you're a million miles from anything, right.
It really is just isolated. But at the same time, there's a
holiday station and Carl's Junior down the block. You really need something good for
you. That is super cool. What a great birthday trip, And thank
you Dan for the birthday wish. Yeah, thanks Dan. Dave Jay came
back from vacation in Puerto Rico a week ago. I'm finally catching up on
the podcast. I was too busy laying on a beach to listen to My
apologies if you're getting tired of this subject, but I wanted to commend Jenny
for talking about our anxiety so publicly and bluntly. I can identify my anxiety
is made worse by an unrelated medical condition that has taken away my peripheral and
night visions. So going back to going to dark and crowded public spaces is
really difficult for me, and I probably missed out on a lot of fun
events, which is really frustrating. But I started taking medication and it's been
helping. I have also had depression for years, but I didn't recognize or
want to acknowledge it until it got really bad last year. And I asked
for help. What Dave mentioned about physically feeling the effects of the drug happened
to me too, and it was weird but comforting. Now I'm just more
level. When I took klonopin twenty minutes or half an hour, fifteen minutes
after I took it, whatever, I could feel it change my brain.
I could feel it just like things that it just slipped away. It was
just And I don't like drugs. People are like, oh man, You're
like this high is so good or this whatever is so good. I'm like,
I like to feel real, like in reality. But when I was
on the klonopin, I needed it because I was so I could not stop.
I said, it was like a bonfire in my head. So how
are you doing? Give me an update with your if you want to no,
PRESI sure I don't. Yeah, no, I'm totally fine with it.
I just met with my psychiatrists. We did like a month's check in
this week, and we're going to I'm on like the lowest dose you can
with mine of medicine, and we just checked in about how it's been going.
So we're upping it like a tiny bit. Because she just says that
she thinks that'll be a little bit more helpful for me, and so I'm
going to give that a try and just see how that goes. I'm not
starting that for like a week, but it's been good. I mean there
have been days where it's been a little bit harder, but I will say
that the medicine has definitely put me back into a more normal headspace. And
I guess it's just the thing with anxiety is it creeps up out of nowhere
and you just like never know how your day is going to be sometimes.
And honestly, I had like a rough day I think either Tuesday or Wednesday
this week, and I think it was Wednesday, and it was such a
bummer because like, I can't enjoy certain things right now because it only heightens
my anxiety. So I stopped drinking over a month ago, and that's fine.
I don't really care about that, but coffee. I can't even really
consume coffee right now. Because I asked my doctor about it, I was
like, I don't get it, and she's like, well, your body
is in like fight or flight right now. That's what's happening with you because
your anxiety is so heightened when you add caffeine to it, it basically doesn't
register that it's just caffeine. It's just registering that something is happening to your
body that's accelerating your heart rate and you get into an even worse fighter flight
mode. So it's kind of like some things in life that I really enjoy
I can't do at the moment. But it hasn't been like it's been good
for the most part. Uh. It goes back to you know, I'm
looking at you now as you tell the story, and I'm like, you
know, Jenny just seems chill, not chill, just seems normal Jenny.
And I think that's the thing that I learned about this one and we all
know, is that you look at somebody and they might seem like they're fine,
what's your problem? You don't have any problems. And you look at
Jenny and you can go she lives a charmed life, she's young, successful,
in a happy relationship, got her own house, all these things.
But then you never know what somebody is going through, even if they look
like they have a very charmed life. Yeah, so be easy on the
people that might that might even seem normal. I don't know, there's a
lot of people who reach out to me, like some people who also work
in media after I talked about it and said that they deal with the same
thing, and just other people that I wouldn't have expected it myself from,
and I was like kind of shocked to hear from them too, saying like
thanks for talking about it, because I go through the exact same thing as
you do. I think it's really important. She goes on to say,
not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but having a healthy gut also
improves mental health. When I eat less dairy, sugar and processed foods and
limit alcohol, I do feel better. Love you all. I'm enjoying the
Morning Show just as much as ever. I've been listening off and on since
ninety eight, and that officially makes my relationship with the Morning Show the longest
one I've ever had. Laugh emoji, laugh emoji darting off now but not
licking. That is Annie from Roseville. Annie, Just to let you know,
I will be in your neck of the woods tomorrow, Saturday the eighteenth,
doing a book signing at Barnes and Noble on Snelling from noon until one.
So if you're up that way and you've got a kid, or you
want to buy one for your niece or nephew. It is called Little Dave's
Amazing Day, and it's gotten good reviews and I think people really like it.
It's full of fun pictures and the pictures tell just as much of a
story as the story does. I think people really like it for that one.
Uh, Okay, we're going to delete the next one because it's an
ad. Here's one says random thought for you from Stephanie. Sometimes when I'm
on the treadmill, there's a pit Bull song that comes up. There's a
line in the song that says every day above ground is a good day.
That really resonates with me and sometimes lists me up when I feel like I'm
having a crappy day. Another lyric that always stands out from Pitbull is quite
a different type. It's in the song Fireball, and pit Bull says,
I came I saw I conquered, or should I say I saw I conquered?
I came? I don't know that one? Oh God, really,
Pitbull. Pit Bull has so many good lines, Like I'm sure some people
think that he's just like one of those fun party kind of artists and stuff,
but honestly, if you actually listen to his lyrics, He's got some
really good motivational ones. He's got lines like that one I came, I
saw or whatever. It was, like, yeah, no, I like
that one. And you know what, there is a pit Bull song that
I've heard. It's like, oh, I like that one too, but
I can't remember what it was, But I think that he does. He's
he's I think he is what he is. I met put pit Bull at
jingle Ball a couple of years ago, and he was just chill and friendly
and so fucking cool. And he walks in the room and you just like,
know, pit bulls in the room. He's one of those artists.
Yeah, and he I just I'm I'm not the biggest pit Bull fan of
his music, but I like him. Mister four oh five is that what
it is? Four oh five? Yep? Three h five? No,
yeah, five five five is mister worldwide, Mister three five five. He's
got so many nicknames. I think, thank you, Stephanie loved that one.
Next one is a delete because it's an ad. We get a lot
of ads that I have to kind of pluck through because we people write to
us and they want us to do interviews with somebody who's from the like I
don't know, some dairy Farmer's association or whatever, and it's like, well,
we don't do interviews like that. But there's companies that are PR companies
that they send out press releases like Jennifer Smith is going to be in town
and she is the expert on dairy cattle. If you'd like to talk to
an expert on dairy cattle, Jennifer Hudson's available all next week. And I'm
like, why did how are we on your list? I always I wonder
that too, But I did work for a PR agency. I worked for
Minneapolis or I interned for them, and so I was the person who was
like updating our media list constantly and doing all this stuff. And I never
understood like how much we were probably spamming so many people with press releases.
Yeah. No, And it's true. And I feel bad because I always
picture some twenty five year old, poor little not intern but a newly employed,
recent college grad who's got their first job, and they have to write
up these press releases on Jennifer Smith coming to town with the Cattle Association and
they just mass email it kind of like any kind of a spam where if
you send out a thousand spam emails and you get two returns, then it's
worth it. And we get a lot of those, and I hit block
on usually when we get things like that, and it'll say block sender,
so I'll never get an email from them again. But they are plentiful,
Jenny. They're like mosquitos. You can swat a hundred mosquitos and it's not
going to make a difference in your backyard. Yeah, they're still coming,
all right. Next one, I got a story of drinking at a work
type of event. Because we talked about somebody getting drunk at the work type
of event. My boyfriend at the time was invited to a happy hour with
old coworkers and I his girlfriend at the time, was invited as well.
We had a great time. We were at a brewery lo and behold,
a female previous co worker got hammered and professed her love to my boyfriend right
in front of me. Wh okay. It was so weird and uncomfortable for
everyone. He's now my husband and father to my beautiful little girl. I'm
honestly so surprised at how many women over the years have had crushes on him
and he has never known about it. At the time. I'm actually his
first girlfriend. Moral of the story, please don't get drunk events you may
proclaim your love to an unavailable man in public. Wow, all of that
woman, That is a little bit crazy. That it's weird that people let
themselves get so drunk. And I think it's a matter of, like being
an experienced drinker. I was going to say, I think there's a maturity
level too. I think that when I was younger, you know, we
talked about last week or earlier this week, I don't know when it was
last week, getting drunk at work events, and the only one that I
thought about that I really I was probably twenty three and we were doing a
big work party and I was doing the morning show in Columbus, Ohio.
I was twenty three years old, so I was pretty immature and I had
too much to drink at a staff party. So I got up in front
of the room and I think they said something like Dave's beech speech speech,
and I'd been drinking, and I remember I got up and I said,
we're going to kick ass. We're gonna kick fucking ass. And I remember
looking at one of the sales guys named Eric, and I'll never forget the
look on his face. He was standing there. He had like curly hair,
like an afro, and he had a drink in his hand. He
had glasses, and he was kind of looking over the top of his glasses
at me, like what the fuck, But he was kind of smiling,
like I'm trying to play along with Dave, but he's being so fucking weird
and drunk. And I remember right away realizing I should not have said we're
gonna kick fucking ass in front of all of my coworkers. And we did
kick fucking ass. We did, so I was right, So that was
validated had you not been drunk, though, that wouldn't be too far off
from something that might be said in a meeting in radio. Honestly, we're
like, we're not so button up to here, we're not corporate. We
can say let's kick some fucking ass. We can say that to like,
well, maybe that's a little aggressive, but it's just like, I don't
know, had you not been drunk, I don't think it would have been
as bad. You know, probably, I think if I hadn't been drunk,
I wouldn't have said fucking ass. I would have said, we're gonna
kick some ass. Yeah, but you know, I had no idea how
to get up in front of a room and make some sort of a speech
or anything. So I just said the first thing that came to mind.
And it still embarrasses me a little bit because I was in front of like,
you know, the the spouses and the general manager and his wife and
that type of thing, and nobody gave me any shit for it. I
mean, if the thing is, if you're successful, people will forgive you
for a lot. Remember what I just said, If you're successful at work,
people will forgive you for a lot. In other words, if Mark
down the hallway in sales is the number one salesperson and sells the shit out
of your product or your service, Mark can get away with a lot of
shit. Mark can come in late. Mark can be an asshole. Mark
can be a little bit rude. Mark can bang the you know, the
receptionist or whatever. Well, that might be crossing the line a little bit
if there are some rules. But yeah, I mean, I but I
but I've seen it happen in radio too, where if somebody is successful,
they can treat other people like shit. I will not name names, but
I've experienced it here a couple of times. We had somebody who was a
big figure at the radio station and they were successful. They treated everybody literally
like abusive, just literally like abusive. But they let them get away with
it. Number one, because they were successful. Number two because it was
a little bit different of a time. But they were almost frightening sometimes because
they would like turn red and like get in your face and scream at you,
and it was it was not pleasant, yeah, but they got away
with it. I mean somebody, let's let's say Carol Anne is like the
she organized the company. It's her company, and here's an interesting development.
So we recorded the Minnesota Goodbye, and I looked at the waveform and we
have trouble with this sometimes, and it stopped. And it stopped when we
were mid sentence about Carol Anne and being the boss and whatever, and so
we kept talking for a few minutes after that. Then I looked at the
waveforhim and realized it wasn't recording. So it cut off at a really shitty
part that we don't know where to pick up on it because we don't know
exactly what we did not say anyway, I want to thank you for being
here for the Minnesota goodbye. It was kind of an abrupt ending. Jenny
is. This is a few minutes later, like five minutes later, and
Jenny is down the hall recording Weather because she's weather girl. Jenny, but
I think one thing that I just want to wrap up with, Like,
you know, we we did talk about it, and I don't think we
got to it on the podcast, but maybe we did. We were talking
about Jenny or somebody said something shitty about Jenny, and then we talked about
how Keanu Reeves said, and Jenny brought this up. Keanu Reeves said,
if you've got a problem with me, call me. If you don't have
my phone number. I don't want to hear it. In other words,
and I'm paraphrasing, but it's like, hey, listen, if you don't
know me well enough to have my phone number, I can't let it bother
you me what you think. And I think it's good for any of us,
because you know, we all have people that like are jealous of us
or dislike us or whatever. And Jenny and I agreed that if somebody doesn't
like me or Jenny because we're good people, and I'm pretty proud of the
fact that I'm a good person. And I can sleep at night because I
don't backstab or manipulate. And I've known a lot of people in radio who
that's what they do. And I can sleep at night because I've never screwed.
I've never screwed anybody over in radio ever, and I never will and
I don't have to. And I've gotten this far by not having to screw
anybody over. So Jenny and I agree that if somebody doesn't like us,
they either don't know us or they're jealous. And I would say the same
thing for you. If somebody doesn't like you, they either don't know the
real you, or they're jealous because you have a better relationship, income,
house, kids, partner, hairstyle, whatever it is. So if somebody's
if somebody doesn't like you, unless you're an asshole, I'm going to give
you a benefit of the doubt that you're a wonderful person. Then it's because
they're either jealous or they don't know you. So anyway, that is it
for the Minnesota Goodbye kind of an odd ending, I know, and that
is what we deal with with some of the equipment that date back dates back
to the Carter administration, and that is going to do it for the Minnesota
Goodbye. So as we say at the end of every Minnesota Goodbye, thank
you for listening, and send any emails with anything that struck a chord.
Maybe you met us and you say, Dave, you really are an asshole.
Or maybe you met Jenny and said, you know what, she was
not the nicest person ever. If you caught her on a bad day,
you never know, all right, send your emails to Ryan's show at KDWB
dot com. Thank you for listening.