I got a really nice email from a guy who's got a really cool last
name. Taco is his last name Josh Taco Tcko, but it's pronounced just
like Taco. So let's start off with his email on the Minnesota Goodbye and
here we go, he writes, and he says, Dave, I know
you're tired of hearing this, but you have affected many people over the years,
especially me. I feel you are the OG influencer before influencer was a
popular term like in today's society. In short, I've been listening to you
since you came to Minnesota in ninety three when I was fifteen, and have
ever since. I've enjoyed you your show, along with your life and family
stories over the years, ones that hit home to me as your pilot adventure
stories. It is what got me into aviation for myself. I started as
a hobby and then progressed through certifications. I became an instructor and now it
is my career. Two years ago I started flying for a small regional airline
and now for a big airline. Let's just say it's the one painted like
a big banana. Want to guess which airline that is? Jenny Oh a
big banana spirit. Yeah, Okay, I was like, okay, I
was thinking about the frontier has like animals on the wings, So I was
thinking like just a banana was painted, Not like that. It looks like
a whole bunch of Oh I get it. No, it's yeah, the
big yellow one. Such an advancement from the small planes we started out in.
Without your influence, I wouldn't be where I am today flying The quote
big metal, I guess is what they call it in the airline industry.
Thank you. Please never discount even however small you think it might be the
role you play in others' lives. Okay, I'm gonna get cry. I'm
gonna tear up here, Josh, with your reach over the years on the
airways for what for that? It deserves a Lifetime Achievement award. Curious how
you feel about people whom you've inspired or affected over the years. In closing,
I want to do a sticker trade. I'll give you my address for
a staff sticker, and I'll send you a pilot one my fiance and I
created. That is he lives in Texas. Now. That's Josh. Taco
Goods and good tail Wins and a dart Lick for good luck, and he
shows him in the cockpit of the It looks like it seven thirty seven,
but I'm not really sure. So, wow, Josh, that is so
cool. There's a picture of Josh and I had my book signing a few
years ago. As far as like being, you know, having an idea
that our show or some of the things that I might have said or talked
about over the years had an influence on people, I can't be more flattered.
I mean, how could you you know, It's it's like having a
kid tell you, Dad, I really appreciate that. I really when you
told me this, this, this, I really appreciate that. Josh,
God love you. I'm so glad you've done well. And if I had
a little teeny tind of bit of inspiration in your life, it's an honor.
I will say, you would have done wonderful things. Whether you ever
listened to katiewb or not, I have no doubt. But it is really
gratifying and humbling to hear that something that we said or did on the show
made a difference in somebody's life. Yeah, super cool. I had a
little speech with Carson the other day, and because you know, he's my
main goal. All my other kids are doing great. I always have you
know, if they need to, you know, to talk or whatever.
I'm always there. But Carson has had an interesting up and down last few
months. So you know that he was touring with Love and he was a
tour assistant and he went to Asia. He was in Asia for five weeks,
trip of a lifetime. He went with Lou to Florida. He went
to with Love to Mexico. He toured with Lou. They did a show
in Salt Lake City. He has worked on videos. He had to stand
in for Love when they measured all where the lasers were and everything. So
they said, Carson, stand on the stage. We're going to measure what
the lasers need to be. So he was supposed to go to India with
Loo's tour in a couple of weeks, and long story short, they canceled
it and he didn't. There are him going okay, yeah, And I
said, Carson, in your business, they're going to be ups and they're
going to be downs, and this is a downtime. But I said,
this is not the end of the path. If you never worked with Love
again, you've got experience you'll go find somebody else to work with. And
he was very down, very down, and then he called the other night
and he said, guess what, I'm back on the Love Tour. I'm
going to be going to India with Love. And I took that moment to
say, there are going to be times in your life where you're down and
you don't think it's going to get any better, and then all of a
sudden, boom, it does. Yeah. And that's not just in your
life, Carson, that's in anybody's life. And I said, I've had
my moments where it's down and it's like, oh, whether it's a breakup
with somebody that you love, or you lose your job, or you get
this scolded at work or unfairly treated by something, there's going to be And
I said, Carson, remember when I said that in my book, No
Hill Goes Up Forever. And of course he didn't remember it, but it
was my lesson back in boy Scouts when we were high, and I said,
God, when is this hill gonna fucking stop? This hill just keeps
going up, and you'd get to what they call a false summit, and
you'd be hiking toward this summit you know what a false summit is, right,
And you think the summit is like the next till you're looking at you
get to the top and you realize, oh my god, I'm only halfway,
but no hill goes up forever. And I said, it's the same
thing in life cars, And so I'm glad that there's things that we can
say on this show. And Jenny says them too, and sometimes you don't
even know you're saying them or doing them. But I always said the DJs
are the original influencers, and I think especially on a show like ours,
where we tell stories about our lives. Yeah, and a lot of DJs
don't do that. A lot of DJ's talk about how cool they are,
and a lot of DJs do silly, silly, wacky stuff. Well,
we can't talk about how cool we are because we're not cool. I'm just
kidding. No, it's true, we're not We're far from cool. I'm
going to a Magic convention in two weeks, so we're far from cool.
Thank you, Josh. Moving on to the next email, This one serious.
Hold on, I'm gonna scroll around here a little bit. That is
a naughty Tuesday, So we're gonna save that for another time. This one
basically reiterates the story that Jenny was sharing earlier this morning about the woman who
had a nine year old daughter who got a Walmart version of the Stanley thermos
for Christmas and she took it to school and the other girls immediately let her
know that it was not a Stanley Thermos. So she bought her daughter the
Stanley Tumbler. And basically this is the text message, Facebook version. I'll
read it to you. My daughter is getting bullied at school because she has
a knockoff Stanley tumbler. The other girls at school all have real ones,
including the new pink one. They're making fun of my daughter because my husband
and I got her a generic bottle from Walmart. I told my husband we
should go and buy a real one so the teasing will stop. He says
we should not. My husband thinks our daughter needs to grow thick skin.
He says, our family can't be intimidated by a bunch of nine and ten
year old girls. I think buying my daughter is real Stanley will make things
easier for her. He says. She needs to learn that life is sometimes
not easy. What would you do if you were us? Good question?
I decided I would have bought her a Tumblr because let her be part of
the cool crowd, you know, let her enjoy that and show off for
Stanley Tumber Tumblr. And I told the story when I was a kid,
I couldn't afford Adidas and some kid pointed out that I wasn't wearing Adidas and
I felt really stupid and small and I never forgot that. That was in
ninth grade. So let your daughter enjoy that. Yeah, I struggle with
it just because like I didn't have the option to get that. My parents
had no spare money. Ever, Like when I wanted anything in life,
I had to get a job, which is why I've been working since I
was about eleven years old. But so I like struggle with that because I
think I learned a lot from the way I was raised, and to just
give in even though you have the money is like hard for me because you
know, I didn't have that option growing up, and I think I became
the person I am because I had to work for everything that I got.
You know, yep, true, No, that's it's a very good lesson,
there's no question. But sometimes it's like, yeah, you want to
give him a little short cut. I don't know. My kids were so
spoiled. It's like Carson always had, like, you know, the cool
sneakers, and Alison always had the Hollister top or whatever. So but you
know what, I could afford it, and I was very blessed to be
able to afford it. Not all, not all families can remember the other
day we were talking about awkward job interviews. Well, Renita writes in and
she says this. She says, I was in a job interview and the
creepy old guy interviewing me literally asked if I was Hispanic. In the middle
of the interview, I said no, WTF. Apparently he only called me
in for the interview because he thought I was Hispanic due to my last name,
which I got from my amazing Mexican husband. But I am a super
white Minnesota accent and all. He then proceeded to tell me how the person
previously in the role was an Hispanic women woman and she did everything for him.
I started to feel so extremely inappropriate with this, and he went on
and on about this woman, and it became a parent that she was servicing
him in ways that went beyond work duties. Gross. Oh, the woman's
husband made her quit and they moved out of state. How do I know
this because mister creeper told me he went on and on about her so sadly
like he was lost without her. I walked out of the building with my
head spinning and also slightly concerned for the woman who moved away because this guy
was clearly obsessed. Wow that they had to move away to get away from
this creeper. Yeah, amazing. Wow. Yikes. I'm assuming Rinita didn't
get the job and or didn't take it. If she did get it,
apparently not. No, apparently not. Dave, listened to yesterday's show.
You were talking about what you were dared to do. Didn't your morning show
broadcast live from a strip club one time? And have Chris Go lick a
stripper pole? Yes? Yes, it was back in the intern John days.
He went down to the voo and he licked a stripper pole because we
got in early and there was a couple of strippers that came in early,
and Chris Go licked the stripper pole. Rachel, your memory serves you right,
and his tongue fell off. Eh, it's not true, Jenny,
really far off. Sometimes I think you're not even listening to me. I
heard, but I didn't know if there was more of a punchline, so
I was waiting for it. No, that's as funny as I get.
Next one needs some advice. I'm a regular writer. I am forty five
years old. I've never been married. For contacts, I've been with my
boyfriend for about four years, lived together year and a half. My boyfriend
said, I am never gonna get married. I don't want to get married.
He's never been married, nor is he a child of divorce. His
parents are still married. Now, I'm not sure if this is a relationship
I should stay in. Remember, she's forty five, never been married.
I'm not sure if I should marry If I would marry him now, even
if he asked me, but I know it's now not a possibility. I'm
wondering if I should stay in the relationship. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I'm confused she wants to get married or she doesn't care anymore. No,
she seems to want to get married, but he says we're never going
to get married. I would dig a little bit deeper and find out why.
Is it? Because he's got his eye on somebody else as he doesn't
take you seriously because he has money and he doesn't want to lose his money
if something goes wrong with the marriage. And that's a good point too,
so I would say try to dig a little bit deeper and say why if
he really deeply loves you. A lot of people don't get married because they
don't feel that they need to. There's advantages in being married, for sure,
but I think that you know, maybe if you've got some experience with
this one and you are not married and you're perfectly happy. I know somebody
right now. She's about my age. She found what I thought was her
soulmate fifteen twenty years ago, and she got married at about age thirty five
or forty, and she seemed very happy. We don't talk that often,
but she texted me over Christmas and she said, I am so tired of
fighting about things. I wish i'd stayed single. I was very happy single.
And I'm like, wow, that's really interesting that she wishes that she'd
stayed single after twenty or so years of marriage. I mean, yeah,
it's hard to say. I feel like I can't ever com on like marriage
of twenty years because I don't have that experience under my belt, and I
have no idea what can happen? You know, it's a good point.
This one is, well, that's for off the air, so I will
read that one off the air. It's about something we did yesterday, Dave
and Jenny and Drake. I get a bit idea of and listening to the
I really loved listening to the day's old sushi bit all week, even though
Jenny chicked out at the end. It gave me an idea for a twist
that you could do on this bit going forward. You could spend a lot
of time building up the idea that Jenny or Drake could earn money by eating
old Culver's or Taco Bell, just like the sushi bit, but this time
Jenny and Drake would immediately pocket the ten dollars or the lowest money value on
day one and enjoy the delicious free meal, thus foiling Dave. Day would
be out ten dollars in the cost of the meal. If the bit were
recurring, but Dave never figured out he's being had until it was too late.
It could give the audience a chuckle. Sonya just a thought, she
says, Keep up the good work. Sonya, I will say, you
should have sent that email to just Jenny, and he's going to say,
because how he knows? Now we know, but that's really creative. You
should be a morning show producer. So I thought about eating it the first
day, just to like guarantee I got that ten dollars, But me being
greedy, was like, I can wait till Wednesday. I'll at least get
thirty, and then I got in my head about it and didn't want to
do it by Wednesday. That was the most asked question yesterday. I answered
probably thirty different text messages, DMS, and phone calls texts from friends.
Did Jenny eat the sushi? Know? Tell the story about in case you
don't know it, Jenny was going to eat sushi and get paid for eating
three day old sushi. Yeah, but you decided no. I decided no
because I think it was Tuesday afternoon. I just started thinking about it and
all the things that could go wrong, and thirty dollars was not worth making
thirty dollars from eating bad sushi versus me potentially ending up in urgent care because
I have food poisoning or other kinds of sickness. And then I really because
I have anxiety, my brain goes to like the worst possible scenario. A
lot of times I thought I would get some brain parasite and it would literally
like kill me or something like. That's how far my brain went at that
point that I got too scared and I texted Dave and I said, I
don't think I can do this and mentally yeah, And I told Jenny,
I said, that's fine. I said, I'm not gonna pressure you to
do anything. I mean, we'll peer pressure each other a little bit,
but we're you know, I'm not gonna ask you to be like, come
on, Jenny, it's just a flesh eating back to her. You don't
worry about it. Yeah, next one, and Sarah says, hey,
there, love the show. I write in occasionally and text a fair amount
too. I appreciate that Sarah. I wanted to write in about the people
complaining about the ads in the middle of the podcast. I'm sure you need
to promote the iHeartRadio app, and I do use that to listen to the
show, But for the podcast, I listened to it through the Apple podcast
app, and I have no issues with the podcast. The commercials play at
the beginning and the end like normal. I'm not sure if there's something like
this for Android users, but hopefully this will help some people keep up the
great work Dart Comma Lick period. Thank you, Sarah. Yeah, I
mean, we definitely love the iHeartRadio app, and well, of course we're
encouraged to encourage you to download it. I think it's a great app.
But if they can't get their shit together and they have that jump up in
the middle of the podcast, then I say go to the Apple podcast app.
You know, seriously, if they if they start to see that effect,
then fuck them. They got to figure out how to get their act
together, because if Apple has figured out how to do it, then certainly
Iheartradios has got to figure out how to do it because we are I mean,
seriously, the iHeartRadio app is so huge and people love it because there
are radio stations on there, so we not only have the music in the
podcast, we're the only app that has radio station podcasts. So you can
listen to this show. You can listen to Elvis Duran, you can listen
to Mojo, you can listen to John Jay and Rich. You can listen
to e White, who does the morning show in Salt Lake City. Don't
I mean, don't listen to any of these people sell it, but you
could if you wanted to. So it is a really cool app Another one,
no to that one. Okay, here's one that says Minnesota Goodbye.
It goes back to the other day. I was talking about Chase, my
son, and visiting him after he has the baby. And you probably heard
this conversation. But I want to go see Chase and his wife Matti when
they have a baby in March, and should I go immediately, like the
day after, or should I wait a couple of weeks? And there were
strong arguments on both sides. So this text goes It's a long email and
I probably won't read all of it. I probably spent way too much time
thinking about this story while I was shoveling, But in my defense, I
do have a long driveway. I love that. I think you should wait
a few weeks to visit them, and take the money that you were going
to spend on a flight in hotel and send them a big grub Hub door
Dash gift card. Here's why all the things that you did to help Allison
with her babies, Maddie will have her own people down the street that can
provide that kind of support. She does have her parents there, she will
be breastfeeding every hour or two and may just want to have the baby napping
on her skin, chest, skin to skin, even when not nursing.
I felt trapped in my room when my mother in law came to visit because
I couldn't sit on the couch with my boobs out, especially like when I
was getting the hang of nursing, which is hard by the way, I
felt self conscious how my mother in law get constipation, pills or whatever else
I needed to take care of my body. Compared to even five years ago,
almost everything can be delivered right to your door within an hour or two.
Chase can do drive up, so they don't need me there to run
down to the I don't know the Perkins did get breakfast, yeah, or
to Dunkin Donuts. They may feel more protective than they even thought they would
with the germs that people bring in. Also, it's not super fun to
have people hold your newborn. There really isn't anything to talk about for the
first week or two other than the birth story, which Mattie may or may
not be comfortable telling details. After a few weeks. They can tell funny
stories about a diaper blowout or other things when you visit. That makes fun
conversation even if you're not holding the baby. Babies have unexpected timing to plan
visit gives everyone something to plan on and look forward to. Are Mattie's parents'
first time grandparents That might affect how they are feeling interacting Giving birth and postpartum
makes you super emotionally and physically vulnerable, and I felt the most comfortable with
just my husband around. Maybe make a video story with a video message about
how when Chase was born or something. You can send it as here as
you as soon as your labor is started. When you visit, be prepared
to COVID test the day you fly, and wear a mask from the time
you leave your house to the time you get into rental car, even just
to ease their mind. Imagine any kind of respiratory illness in those tiny little
navel pat nasal passages really is great. You want to be there for Chase.
New dads need support too. I hope that you have a joyful and
healthy delivery. Thank you very much. They'd said, don't say their names,
so I will not. Those are really good points. Yeah, very
good points, and I think that's what I'm leaning toward. I asked Chase
what I do and he said, whatever you want, Dad, which I'm
like, that's so Chase, but I think I probably will wait a couple
of weeks. We got to wrap up, Dave, all right, well,
wrap up, We are done. Send your emails to Ryan's show at
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