So Jenny expected to have Andrew proposed to or when they were in Tahiti,
and she didn't. It didn't happen, So you're bitterly disappointed. Did I
sound better today? Is that where you get that from? Was it in
my voice when I just made that up? Just made that up because of
the cliche. And I didn't think about it, honestly, because you just
got back from Tahiti and I know that you and Andrew were in no hurry
to get engaged. It's like, you know, and good for you.
It's like, why buckle to the societal pressure of like, well, you've
been seeing each other three years and you're not getting a younger so much as
we'll get married. Yeah, that's my mom. My mom is very like
wanting us to get engaged asap and have kids and stuff. And I was
like, mom, that is all sitting on the table far away for a
very long time still for us. Yeah. I didn't. I didn't think
about it, and somebody brought it up this morning. So we're giving Jenny
shit about, Oh, you're disappointed you didn't get engaged. Well, Rachel
writes in says, good morning, Dave, Jenny Drake. I want to
share my story about getting engaged on a trip and being completely surprised. Jenny,
the difference between my story and your philosophy is that my boyfriend is the
planner, not me. Anyway, week long canoe trip up in the Boundary
Waters in twenty seventeen. I didn't think he would propose, because honestly,
we never really talked about it, but people kept asking me if I thought
he would, and I started to get excited that he might. Well.
The first day, when we get to our campsite for the night, he
couldn't find his phone. He brought it so we could take pictures. I
spent what seemed like hours going through all of our stuff and bags looking for
his phone, and to this day we never have found it. I never
found a ring either, So I figured out he wasn't proposing, and that
was kind of nice because now I didn't have to anticipate at the rest of
the week, because you know, you think he's going to Yeah, you're
wondering when it's gonna happen. The rest of the trip went well, we
had fun. On the last day, I was so excited to finally take
a shower and get back to civilization. We got to the beach and packed
all of our items into the truck, and he said, hey, let's
go make sure we grabbed everything from the beach. I was honestly annoyed because
I was sure we grabbed everything, but I followed him anyway. There on
the shore of Lake One, despite the layers of sweat, sun's green and
bug spray, he dropped down and shyly asked the question. He was holding
the rint while holding the ring in his hand. I was confused, but
so happy. He turned out he had the ring in the glove compartment in
the truck. Oh okay, Niky sneaky. We are still married and currently
expecting our first child in January and February. Jenny, I'm glad you and
Andrew had a great trip and are doing what is the best for you and
your relationship. One day, when you're both ready, he will extra amaze
you and also pull off a surprise. And I would love a staff Rider
sticker and I will send one to you. I enjoy listening to the morning
show every day. Hope you have a great holiday season. From Rachel,
that's so funny that she brought up the fact that they literally went through all
of his stuff because he lost something, and so she was like, well,
yeah, there's no way it's happening. There's no ring, yep,
Because like I will admit, there was a point zero zero zero one percent
of me that was like what Andrew proposed to me? Honest? Sure,
yeah, yeah, Like there was a tiny percent even though it hasn't really
been a conversation with us. We've had the conversations. We've had those like
long term conversations before, but for us, we're like very happy where we
are in our relationship. But also marriage isn't off the table. It's just
like not something that we're going to do right now. You don't need to
be happy, right, So there was like a tiny part of me.
But then I thought about it. I was like, there's no way,
like I plan everything on our trip, like if he did it, it
just wouldn't be a surprise, like I would figure it out somehow. And
we were sharing a suitcase at one point with like all of our big stuff,
so I was like, I probably would have found a ring at one
point throughout the trip too, So I didn't think I varied. Like I
said, tiny portion was like it could potentially happen, but I really didn't
think it was going to okay good. And you know what, I love
your attitude. That's like, you don't need to get married. Why should
you? You know what I mean? You're together, you live together,
you share everything, you love each other. Can I ask you a question?
I ask people this now all the time. I'm going to ask you
and you can write me an anonymous email and let me know. Here is
my big question. Have you found your happily ever after? You asking?
I'm asking you. Oh my gosh, I thought you were asking like I'm
asking everybody. This is my new question for people, especially people my age.
You're younger, and you know what you've found you're happily for now?
Is it ever after? Yeah? I mean you think so, but you
know, but I ask people that are my age, have you found you're
happily ever after? And the reason I asked that is because I know so
many people who are married but not really happy, but they're not going to
go looking. Yeah. I know some people that have been divorced and have
never looked again and have never found anybody. I know people who I thought
would never ever be happy because they just had no luck in life with love
and they've found there happily ever after. So I asked people like I asked
my friend Curtis the other day, have you found your happily ever after?
Yes, I asked my friend Andrea, who used to work here at the
radio station. And Andrew was one of those people who very pretty and pleasant
and fun and smart, but she had no luck with guys and she got
married ten or fifteen years ago, and she's very happy she's found her happily
ever after. I mean, I would say from my life experience right now,
Andrew and I have like such a good relationship. And we used to
date like eight years ago, and we broke up for a while like five
ish years, where we went off and did our own things and you dated,
yeah, exactly. And so I think that that like time off kind
of really made me realize, like how great of a relationship we now have
again being back together. Like I mean, we're on this trip together in
Tahiti, and I'm looking around and granted, we're young, and I know
we've only been dating for like almost four years now, so like I understand,
we're not in a thirty year marriage. But I look around at all
these couples that are like a little bit older, and they're all just like
sitting on their phones. Y're not talking to each other, and that is
just like not who Andrew and I are. We have great conversations. Even
if we've spent seven days in a row where we didn't have separate life experiences,
we're doing everything together for seven days, you know, we still have
so much conversation between them. I love that, you know what I mean?
Like, I just I hear these stories of people who like they struggle
to converse with their partner, and that that makes me sad because I'm like,
I've never I've been lucky enough to not experience that with Andrews. So
I'm I would say that you're a talking to you just siously, the two
of you. Jesus, shut up nuts. Oh my gosh. I feel
like you if you'd ever dated Andrew, which don't even think about it.
I know you want it's cute, but you would probably die going on trips
with him because he's got the fucking dad jokes. He is the person who
loves to talk to everyone. So our airbnb host, who was already like
overly talkative, we sat and talked to him for probably an hour and a
half. At our check in, he told us all about the Airbnb how
things works. But then Andrew kept talking and talking and talking, and I
was like, all right, like we've got things sights to see, Like
shut the fuck up, let's go. No. I love I've dated people
who are chatty. I actually dated a girl one time. We were coming
home from dinner, and I'll never forget it because we laughed about it for
a long time. She would not stop talking, and I was tired,
and it was dark and it was late, and she kept talking and I
finally I could tell you exactly where we were, and I said, can
you just please stop talking for a minute. I said, I just really
need a break. And it hurt her feelings, yeah, And we laughed
about it later because I was like, you just would not stop talking and
I just couldn't take it anymore. And She's like, yeah, that kind
of hurt my feelings. But we laughed about it eventually. All right.
Next one, it took my two young sons the Target last week. I
almost always do order pickups so I don't have to take the kids into the
store, but I needed a few quick things, so we ran in.
Kids are by my side, laughing in play, and I saw a woman
probably about seventy walking towards me. She came up to me and said,
I was shopping one aisle over and I heard your boys giggling. And I
had to tell you that hearing that was the best part of my day.
I really miss hearing that. She had tears in her eyes and I had
tears in my eyes. I wish I would have thought to give her a
hug, but we exchanged a few pleasantries and we were both on our way.
I got home and I told my husband about this and couldn't even get
through my first sentence before I started sobbing. Raising kids is a lot of
work, but this is really such a sweet and special time in life,
and this was such a great reminder not to take this time for granted.
I've thought about the interaction every day for the last week, and I wanted
to share have a great week, Rebecca. Wow, it's not making me
emotional, but I can get probably where the woman is coming from. Yeah,
if you raise kids, that one inconceivable day will come when your kids
are grown and they're not at home anymore, and you'll look back and you'll
go it wasn't really that long ago. Now I'm gonna get emotional that I
had a little kid around the house. In my Facebook memory, something popped
up from twelve years ago. Carson would have been ten, and we were
at like a one olds is like a mini hon Up kind of a place,
but it wasn't. And they were throwing shrimp into Alison's mouth and Carson
was there, probably ten year old Carson giggling and watching on this video.
And it wasn't that long ago that I had a little kid in my house
and now I don't. And he's got a beard, and he lives in
California and he drinks beer and he's an adult now. So it's impossible not
to take it for granted when you have a kid, it's impossible not to.
And you can sit there and go, wow, I really got a
treasure of these moments, and you try, but you can't hold on to
them. Yeah, And then one day, a few years after they leave,
you go, wow, I can't believe they're really grown all right,
next one, please don't say my name. Oh, this will be for
that'll be for naughty Tuesday. So I'm gonna put a flag on that one
for naughty Tuesday. Okay, Alexandra says, to whom this may concern,
I would like to file an official complaint to the Dave Ryan Show and The
Morning Show, including Bailey. Dave. I think it's rude that you make
all other zaddies feel bad because they can't look as sexy as you. Okay,
Drake, how dare you make me laugh so hard that I farted in
Walgreens waiting for my prescription. I will never forgive you. Bailey. It's
annoying that you're a stupid debate coach and not working on the radio. And
yeah, I'll bet you're all wondering, well, what about Jenny. Well
you thought wrong, Jenny Luton. Whatever the audacity, the gall you think
you could post that sexy little picture of you in some stupid island not thinking.
But we'll say nay, the country wasn't going to see this absolutely unacceptable
dime piece of a body you have. We were talking about your body last
week, Jenny, listen, I am. I don't know what you said.
I am not one to try to like post these pictures of me in
a swimsuit, because truthfully, I am self conscious about my body half the
time. But I Andrew and I just did this little photo shoot and I
was like, fuck it, I'm posting this picture because I want to look
back at this in twenty years and be like, that's what I used to
look like in a swimsuit. Look at that. No, seriously, Well,
we talked about this last week, like Monday or Tuesday. I said
something and it was Bailey and Drake and I were chatting about your pictures,
and I said, I don't want this sound wrong, because Jenny and I
are like, we don't have any kind of like flirty anything relationship at all,
because you're like my daughter's younger. Shit and I are coworkers, were
buddies. We're more like relatives than anything. But I said, Jenny's body
is like, wow, she looks really really good, and you don't wear
anything. I mean, you get the girls out, you have those clothes
that she wears and got the boobs hanging out, and that's fine. I
don't care. I mean why would I. But you don't really dress like
right now you're wearing a big loose packer shirt. You don't post pictures online,
so we really never noticed that you have what they call it a dime
piece of a body, gervacious body underneath this big old sweater. Yeah,
I never noticed that. Anyway. You better put your snowbants back on and
get back to the Dave Ryan Show. Love you guys from Alexandra, Thank
you. I will tell you this one Susan when she was just brand new
pregnant with Alison So thirty two years ago, Susan went out and had the
they used to call them boudoir photography pictures. They still do those. They
still do those. That's still a huge thing. Yeah, she went out
and had the lingerie garters stalking whatever picture see. The photographer said, and
Susan was twenty three twenty four at the time. The photographer, who was
a woman, said, you should do some topless pictures because you've got nice
boobs, they stick straight out. You should get some topless pictures taken.
And so Susan did. And I think one of the reasons is because,
yes, she wanted to be able to look back and go, wow,
that's what I used to look like. Yeah, and I remember we used
to have an intern here. I'm not going to say her name, but
she thought she had perfect, perfect boobs and she said, yeah, I
had a picture taken of them naked, so when I get older, I
can show them to my plastic surgeon and say that's what I want them to
look at. Look like there's something there, all right. Next one,
Hello morning crew from Nurse Alex. My first question is for Jenny related to
travel. I'm passionate about traveling and am the friend family member that sets up
all the trips we go on. I try and do my research on TikTok
and Google, but I'd really love to know how do you decay? Where
do you go for vacations? Your last two have looked amazing, and there's
so many places in the world to choose. I get overwhelmed. Okay,
So I think it has a lot to do with my interests, which is
a lot of like outdoor adventury stuff. So I specifically went with Tahiti because
I wanted to snorkel. I've only snorkeled once in my life before, so
I wanted to do that, and I had researched that Tahiti's at one of
the top places to go snorklane. I wanted to be able to hike and
do some outdoor like activities that were a little more aggressive on like the almost
like athletic side of things, So that was another reason. And then also
I know that like Hawaii offers all that, but Tahiti is definitely much more
affordable than Hawaii is the I mean, the flight might is definitely probably a
little bit more expensive, but outside of that, it's more affordable than Hawaii.
So I don't know, it just it's always based on my interest.
And I also like, I haven't traveled much outside of the United States,
and I want to see different cultures. Like that's why we did Thailand last
year. I was just like so like interested in learning about a different culture.
And I don't know, t heat is not that different. There's a
lot of Americanized kind of things there because it is still like the French Republic,
but it has a different culture there as well. So that's kind of
some of my top reasons. Well, we do admire you for, I
mean, I told Jenny Is, like, I admire you for instead of
going I want to go that you actually go at a young age. I
mean. Next question came to me today is leaving my nursing job six in
the morning, What are the things in life that make it worth it to
live in Minnesota? I live in Wisconsin basically the same weatherwise. The few
things to me are auto started my car, a heated steering wheel, and
the second is being we make the most of our three months of summer and
do not take them for granted. Love you guys. Hope I didn't make
it too long. No, what are the things that make it? I
mean, make life bearable in Minnesota? Indoors, fire places, and the
coming of summer. I just say, I think it's the four seasons in
general, because you get a break. And yes, our winters are super
long, but you do get a break from everything. And I do like
having the four seasons. Andrew and I agreed when we were in ta Heati
we would never live there that like to just be in like eighty ninety degree
heat year round, Like that's miserable. That sounds miserable to us. I
like having the different seasons. But then also I think that restaurants, breweries,
all these places have really like latched on to leaning into the cold weather,
and they've figured out ways to bring you in. Would like pop up
things, you know what I mean. Like there's always something going on around
the Twin City companies in the Twin Cities I don't know where she lives in
Wisconsin, but there's always something to go on, like to go to that
makes you kind of forget how miserable you might be. That's true. There's
a lot of stuff. There's a lot of little extracurricular activities. Uh okay,
not that one. And I think we're just about out of time.
So I think we're going to stop now because I don't see one that's very
short. So yeah, that we're gonna stop for now. That is it
for the minute. Goodbye. There's a lot we didn't get to, so
if you didn't hear yours, don't worry. There's a lot we didn't get
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