You know, we all have a song with our partner. What is you
and Andrew song? You have a song off the top of your head.
Jenny's eyes got real wide, like, fuck, No, I do not
have a song with Andrew. That's okay, hey, Susan and I don't
really have a song either. Yeah, so yeah, no, yeah,
okay. Well is that how we were supposed to start it? No?
I mean it's fine, because I was going to say, some people have
a song with their partner, but I have a song with my daughter Alison.
And Genny knows about this because this morning, when I walked into the
building in the downstairs lobby, it was playing on the overhead speakers, and
so I got my phone out and I recorded it to send it to my
daughter Alison, who's now thirty two, to say, Alison, I heard
this song this morning and thought of you, and it's I love you always
Forever. Nie ran far always together. Because when she was little, that
song used to come on the radio and I'd say, that's our song,
and so she'd hear it. Then she'd go, that's our song, Daddy,
and she would sing it and get the words wrong, and it was
so cute. So sometimes you get a song with your partner, sometimes you
got a song with your kid. I don't think I would say that love
and who's that? Do not? She's a singer God the Lights, she
did Lights Ellie Golden. Yeah, that is. There's a song that reminds
me of Carson. And then of course with Chase, it's Hamster Dance,
dannc danything. Because when he was a little boy, I'd go pick him
up and go see him in Phoenix and in the rental car we would listen
to Radio Disney when he was like five or six or seven years old,
and he loved hamster dance. So whenever I hear hamster dance, which the
only time I hear it is when I purposely play it, it doesn't come
on the radio anymore than I think of Chase. I don't think I have
one with Beth. But anyway, songs with that remind you of your kids.
All right, here we go, really interesting email, Hello, my
favorite radio personalities. I need some advice. Check this out. Fourth of
July. My boyfriend and I ended up spending the night at my parents' house.
The next day. Anyway, she lost ring. It's not an engagement
ring, just a ring I got when I was twelve. I'll be twenty
nine on Saturday. The ring has no monetary value, but a lot of
sentimental value to me. I spent the next week tearing apart my house,
car, workplace, et cetera looking for this ring, with no luck.
Fast forward to the end of July. So a couple of weeks later,
my parents hosted a pool party at their house for the entire extended family.
Chatting with my cousin when her ten year old daughter ran up all excited and
said, look what I found at the bottom of the pool. Yep,
my ring. I blurted out, that's my ring. I've been looking for
it, and her face immediately fell. She looked at my cousin, who
told her to give it back to me. She tearfully handed it over.
Being the bigger person, I said, you can go ahead and keep it
again, it has no monetary value. She was so excited. Well here
we are seven months later, and I have not stopped thinking about that ring
that I've been wearing for sixteen years. My boyfriend says, the ten year
old probably forgotten about it by now. I should reach out to my cousin
her mom and ask for it back. I really do want it back,
but I think it'd be tacky. And it's very likely my cousin doesn't even
know where the ring is and it has to ask her daughter for it,
which would bring it back to relevance and seem cruel for me to take it
away from her. What should I do? Jenny, Sure, ask your
cousin, because regardless of what your relationship is with your cousin, I'm sure
it might be uncomfortable if you're not super close with them. You are still
thinking about it this many months later, and you had it for what sixteen
years? You said, yeah, yeah, you have every right to ask
for that back at this point, that ten year old probably does not care.
I mean unless it happened to be the one thing that the ten year
old clinged on too, because we all had something like when we were at
certain points in our life that we clung onto. But I say, asked
your cousin. I one hundred ten percent. I agree with you, Jenny.
That's your ring and you've been I mean, the the answer is in
the fact that you've been thinking about it for seven months and it doesn't matter
if it has no monetary value. I mean, my mom gave me things.
My dad gave me things that really don't have any monetary vault value,
but they're special because they're for mom and dad. Yep. So yeah,
absolutely ask for it back, as a matter of fact, insist on taking
it back. And it was very nice of you. But I will tell
you that would have been a good opportunity for that little ten year old at
that time to learn that's not yours. You don't get to keep it.
So in other words, when she came up to you with the pool and
she was crying because she didn't want to give it back, that's tough shit.
I mean, I'm sorry she would have instantly forgotten about it and went
and played in the pool and not. So you're a good hearted person,
but you want that ring back, don't ask for it back, insist on
it back. Yeah, so, because you need to tell your cousin it
means the world to me. That ring is so special to me. Doesn't
matter that it's not worth a time. Love you guys. Listen to the
podcast on iHeart every day and catch up on the Minnesota Goodbye every few days.
I like to bay inge. Sincerely, Anti dart Lick, stay away
from my bumhole. So remember, if you don't want to sign your email
with dart Lick, you can sign it with right, which is the carving
guy from old or you just sign your name. I don't care. I'm
just glad that you wrote in. Then we have one from Molly. Molly
says, hello morning show friends. On yesterday's show, you touched on folks
that asked for money on the side of the roads. For me, I
do give because you never know what somebody's story is, and if they're not
in need, then that's for them to live with. But I get to
know I may have helped someone who actually needs it, just my perspective on
it. I also work with long term homeless single adults who are housed through
a government program known as Housing Support. This covers their gate daily living expenses
and leaves them with one hundred and twenty one dollars for the month. This
is for any kind of living expenses that they may have, not including food.
If they do not want to work, they're required to pay in forty
oh if they do want to work, they're required to pay in forty percent
of their income to the program. So in turn, they really can never
get ahead. So most choose not to work and instead stand on the corner
with a sign. I know you might not agree with that with what I
wrote yesterday, however, I just want to say that maybe there are more
ways to look at the station situation than black and white. There maybe are
lots of gray. I love y'all and listen every day and then they write,
right, dartleg love that, so both of Molly, thank you.
And I think that's a great thing about making a decision. Whether you want
to pay somebody, you do what you want to do, and if you
want to pay somebody at the corner, you can do it. I don't
do it because to me, too many of those people are able bodied,
twenty six year old guys who know that they can get tax free on the
side of the road a few hundred dollars a day that they could go out
and work, just like Jenny, Molly, drake me and you all day,
okay, right? And the next one Dave Jenny love you guys.
A couple of topics for the Minnesota Goodbye. If you need them, we
always do. I saw a Facebook post where people were talking about how they
wear a fresh pair of PJS every night to bed. My mind is blown?
Is this a thing? I've always worn the same pair of pjs until
I change my sheets, which is about every two weeks. What about you,
guys? Am I the odd one out here. I don't use pjs.
I don't like the constriction of like the friction against the sheets when I
move. I just wear. Nobody cares what I wear to bed. I
don't wear pjs. Jenny, well, what do you wear? Do you
wear like sports athletic clothes? I just wear like boxers, box reefs.
Yeah. Yeah, I have like pajama bottoms, like pajama shorts I wear
year round, and then I wear like a sports t shirt to bed,
and then in the summer usually like a sports tank top. But I go
about a week until I switch mine out. It depends if I've had like
some nights of like sweating, because every once in a while I'll wake up
profusely sweating and stuff. Then I usually switch it out at that point I
was sweating through my Yeah, But for the most part, I go about
a week wearing mine. That is, I've heard that before too, people
changing their pajamas every night, and I'm like, wait, what, So
how long do you wear your clothes for well, I guess if you're wearing
box or briefs, might the same ones every I mean different, different every
day. But I haven't changed my sheets in a couple of weeks. I've
told Jenny and you the story before about when I was when I when I
lived at home, my mom washed my sheets, she just did. And
when I moved in my own apartment, I didn't wash my sheets until I
noticed a smell of velveta cheese in the bedrooms and I'm like, why does
it smell like velveta? Oh? Well, And then a couple of days
later, or a week later or whatever, I realized it's the sheets.
Yeah, it's stark. Were the ladies feeling about that or did anyone bring
it up in those moments? You No, I did have the ladies come
over to the apartment, but I don't know they either didn't bring it up,
or the timing was different or whatever. Care my towels When when I
was a kid, I used a different towel every time I took a bathroom
shower, and then I throw it in the laundry. And now I use
the same towel every day for a week until it's laundry day. What about
you. Oh, I'm pretty bad at changing my towels on. I probably
go like two to three weeks. I'm not gonna lie, Okay, Yeah,
Andrew's much better at that. He changes his towel every like five days,
maybe a week. But I am not as good at that. I
you know, you think about what you're wiping off with your wet skin.
You're wiping off little skin particles and little I don't know. Yeah, it's
just I don't know so, but it's my skin particles and my hair whatever.
So it doesn't bother me. So yeah, once a week or so,
I'm gonna give you a little a little tip here. Towel warmers are
glorious. I know that nobody wants to buy a towel warmer. We've had
a towel warmer for probably five years. It looks like a trash can with
a lid on it. You turn it on, put your towel in there
when you get in the shower. When you get out, you got a
warm, amazing feeling towel rather and a room temperature towel. And I asked
on the air a couple or on Facebook, a couple of weeks ago,
I said, what have you heard on our show that made you want to
buy? Do see or try something you've heard on our show? And somebody
wrote in and said, a few years ago, Dave, you talked about
a towel warmer. I love my towel warmer. Thanks for influencing me.
And I get one for bridal showers and baby get with not baby gifts of
whatever. And people always go a towel warmer and I say, try it
and people love it, so highly recommend a towel warmer. Nice next one,
mainly for Dave. Any advice for me to pass along to my four
year old fourteen year old son who will be hiking in Filmont for twelve days
in June with the Scouts. I would say the main thing is Jenny is
make sure they're trained. Make sure that they are trained, trained, trained,
and ready to go. We were overtrained for Filmont and it was easy
for us. There is a place in New Mexico. Yeah, that's the
Boy Scout Camp camp. Yeah, and it's vast. It's probably the size
of Rhode Island. I mean it's wow. Okay, it's vast, and
it's called Filmont because it was owned by phil Lips Petroleum, the owner of
Phillips Petroleum one hundred years ago, and he donated it to the Boy Scouts
and it's a vast stretch of huge wilderness and it's amazing. And make sure
that his troop is trained and goes on lots of training, kind of training
and we're talking about like how to eat in okay and hiking okay, yeah,
hiking for sure. Also make sure that they stick to the dish washing
routine because they give you a specific way to wash the dishes so you won't
get diarrhea or cholera or whatever the hell you would get because boys are disgusting
and girls go there too, and I'm going to guess fourteen year old girls
were disgusting too. And they'll take their dirty plate and they'll wipe it off
and they'll dip it in the boiling water with all kinds of crap food floating
on top of the boiling water. And nobody got sick in our troop.
Knock on wood, fortunately. But make sure they do practice dishwashing thing before
they get there, so they've got it down. And he's doing twelve days,
which is a long one. Other than that, I did that.
I did a twelve day hike. Two. I would say this, we
did a very difficult trek. In other words, there are thirty five tracks.
Number one is the easiest, number thirty five is the most difficult.
We did number thirty one or thirty two, and I was like, what
the fuck, boy, you want to do this one? This difficult?
But like I said, we trained and trained and it was not a problem.
The only thing we had problems with was blisters on our feet. But
if you've got the blister mole skin, you got the blister pads, you're
in good shape. You should be fine. Other than that, I would
say, learn the domino hiking climbing a hill thing, because I'm not going
to try to explain it now, but it's a way to hike up a
hill, keep moving without resting, but everybody gets her rest a short rest.
So look up the domino hiking effect or domino procedure and have your troop
learn that, because it is a really important thing to learn when you're hiking.
Jenny, I got your number or I got your email for your sticker,
so I will get that to you. Mike says, he got his
sticker, and so thank you your question from Mike. When your partner's away,
what do you do during that time? For me, I may take
on a project that I can finish before they come back. Or I just
do whatever I want around the house and not have to deal with the evil
eye, the look that says, instead of just sitting around here, you
could be doing X, Y Z. So when your partner's away, what
do you do during that time? It depends. Because Susan is away so
much of the time with her work, it depends. I mean, if
she's just away for the night, I don't do anything different. I watch
TV, I'll play my ukulele, I'll work on a magic tricker read.
If she's away for a long time, then I'll make plans to go play
cribbage or whatever with a friend so I'm not stuck in the house. What
about you, I just become a very productive human. Andrew and I have
had this conversation since moving in together. We if we see each other like
hanging out around the house, we aren't as productive. I feel like,
well, he says he'll he would play more video games if I wasn't home,
But if he's not home, I just like don't feel the need to
go sit next to him in the sun room and just chill, like I
actually do something on my to do list because there's no one around to hang
out with. So that's me. I have painted a living room once when
he was on vacation on like a ski trip, and then I don't know,
I think, I just the house is spotless when he's gone. And
it's not that Andrew's not clean, it's just I'm very, very clean,
so it's like completely spotless when he's not around. That is funny because Susan
and I, honestly we are not the best cleaners. Yeah in the world.
We we're not. I'll find like stuff on the floor, like she'll
make something and drop onion skins on the floor, not giant ones that are
like the size of the palm of your hand, but like at the size
of your thumbnail. I get what you mean. And she'll drop it on
the floor and she won't pick it up, and then I'll walk by it
several times and then I'll finally pick it up and let there's like, you
know, stuff on the countertop where she kind of half ass washes the countertop
and it's not gross. You would not walk into the house and go gross
and the sink's not full of dirty dishes. But we're just not the best
spotless cleaners like that. Yeah, that's like one of the things that's almost
never clean Ifranches around is our countertops. I try to clean them, but
I am guilty of being less of a clean person when he's around, because,
like I guess I probably take on his qualities then, but I hate
when the countertops are dirty, so I'm always like wiping the countertops down.
He is constantly cooking different meal and stuff, where is like I usually meal
prep and do a lot at once, so I'm not constantly cooking, So
then I clean up after myself where it's every meal he's making a new,
something new, and then the counters get dirty. What about you? Are
you more like me or you more like Jenny? Because you know, I
mean, we're not sloppy and gross. But I will say this, when
when I first met Susan, I went to her apartment and she had an
old glass of milk on her nightstand that had kind of dried up and like
it was kind of curdled and yellow and the glass had like you know what,
it was gross, And I thought this is not a good first impression
of this woman, because Susan is like very great with her appearance, and
she is great in every other well almost every other way. But I was
definitely got a yick impression, but the worst yick impression I ever got.
I've told the story before. I was dating a girl back when I was
twenty, went to her house. Her entire she lived in the basement.
Her entire basement was covered with cat shit and it stunk, and I was
like, no litterbox or the cat just wasn't trained. If there was,
it was full and the cat wouldn't use it. And I will tell you,
Jenny, she was a normal looking, normal acting woman. But I
remember I don't remember much about her at all except going down in the basement
rounding the corner and there were piles of cat shit and a smell that could
knock you over. And I remember thinking, wow, gross number one,
but number two that she didn't even consider I should not have a guy or
anybody come to my house. That's full of cat shit. God, I
was gonna say, but if she grew up with that, that must have
been normal to her, I guess, But I mean, I think I
grew up in a decently clean house, and I remember like if I was
ever dating people, I always made sure the house, specifically the toilet was
cleaned, Like I never wanted a guy to come over and see, like,
you know, the toilet bowl not as clean as it should be.
You know what I'm trying to not give details. Yeah, but we all
know exactly what you're talk't. But as a female, you don't lift the
toilet set up so like the toilet bowl could look clean, and then underneath
the toilet seat you don't know what it looks like as a female. So
I always made sure I was looking underneath the toilet seat if I knew a
guy was coming over, because I was like, I don't know what's on
a good point. Yes, I get it, it's a very good point,
and people forget that. Yeah, and sometimes you lift up that toilet
seat and it's like, oh boy, all right. One last email from
Kevin. This is interesting. We were talking the other day about getting seasick
on cruise ships, so we'll spend a minute on this one. Want to
touch base on your discussion about motion sickness on how cruise ships fare in rough
seas, because we were talking about doing the Drake Passage and Drake Passage around
is around the tip of South America, some of the roughest seas in the
world. And I read a book Kevin you might really enjoy. It's called
The Wager, and it's about a British from one hundred to zero three hundred
years ago, two hundred and fifty years ago that was on its way to
overtake a Spanish ship and get their treasure and blah blah blah, and they
rounded the end of South America and that's when they shipwrecked. And it's a
fascinating story about being shipwrecked and how they got off the island, and it's
just so interesting. It's called The Wager. And so they went around Drake
Passage, which again is one of the roughest areas in the world. As
a frequent cruiser, I have a lot of experience on ships and some rough
seas. However, usually the bigger the ship, the less you feel it.
I cruised with Royal Caribbean, which is known for building big ships.
For example, the ship I'm boarding next weekend, the Wonder of the Seas,
is currently the second biggest in the world, topped only by their brand
new ship by a mere ten feet. My last ship, the Harmony,
is the fourth biggest by a matter of inches. I have friends and family
who said they were scared because of getting seasick, and I can tell you
on these ships you hardly feel it. Thinks to stabilization fins that push out
under the waterline like airplane wings to keep the ship upright, which I find
interesting. We still pack the dramamine and the Pacific Ostin stretch from Seattle sailing
north toward Alaska is very rough, but the Caribbean is gentle, as was
the remainder of that Alaska trip two summers ago. Granted, a ship is
still tiny compared to the vast ocean, so it's not to say you won't
feel some rocking and storms, but it's manageable. That said, you won't
ever catch me in the drake passage, as I know I get sick.
But to each their own. Just want to share this tidbit of knowledge.
No need to send a sticker, as I already have one. Thanks for
keeping me entertained, and I will do my best to keep on the podcast
while I'm at sea for two weeks. Dart Lick from Kevin There was something
he said that I was going to comment on the stabilization. Oh, I
know what it was. Yeah, that's super cool that they can do that.
I also went from Seattle up to Alaska one time twenty five years ago,
and I woke up the first morning and the ship's bow would raise and
it would slap back down, and the ship's bow would raise and slap back
down, and I got sicker than a dog. It was misorable. And
after a while I got better and I was fine, but I definitely remember
getting seasick then. But I think it'd be really cool. And I've been
on some stormy seas a little bit, and I'm the kind of guy who
goes outside on the deck and watches the big waves, I mean, not
monster waves, like you know whatever. But I kind of like that as
long as I'm not getting sick. I think that's kind of adventuresome. Yeah,
I kind of feel the same way. But at the same time,
I have no desire to be on a cruise ship. It doesn't sound my
like you know what you want. This is I admire that about you,
Jenny. You know what you want and you don't want to go on a
cruise ship. So I think that's admirable that you don't want to go and
you're not going to go. That is it. I would love to hear
your emails, whether it's about towels, bed sheets, pajamas, cruise ships,
rings at the bottom of pools, or anything else you want to bring
up. This show is all about your content, your ideas. That's why
we send you a staff writer sticker when we use your email. Thank you
very much for that one. I'm gone all next week, so it'll be
you and Drake doing the Minnesota goodbye. Yeah, so we'll hold off if
you have specific ones for Dave and we'll probably just say those for one Dave's
here. But if you have anyone that you want to send to just Drake
and I, you're more than welcome to do that. Okay, It's Ryan
Show at KDWB dot com. Thanks for listening.