So I missed the last couple of episodes of Minnesota Goodbye, and you talked
about Mike or not Mike Ted, who works here at the radio station promotions
director. He was on the Minnesota Goodbye yesterday he was transpired. Well,
we got an email that was like, does anyone have any funny Valentine's Day
stories? So he started telling us a story about how when he was in
college, he was dating someone and then his friend was dating this other girl,
and on Valentine's Day, they all went out and did some stuff together,
had some drinks. They were back at his girlfriend's place, and while
his friend was in the bathroom, his friend's girlfriend came up to Ted and
his girlfriend and asked if they wanted to have a threesome with her and not
including her boyfriend at the time, and just asked Ted. I was like,
well, what did you do? He's like we just kind of stood
there and we were like no, like whatever. He didn't tell his friend
though about that until years later because he didn't want to get involved in like
whatever, and so, but then it turned out that that was a pretty
toxic relationship between those two, and so his friend was like, man,
it doesn't even surprise me that she did that. Like, all the years
later when Ted told them that story, interesting that she yeah, that she
propositioned a threesome while her boyfriend was in the bathroom. Bathroom, Yeah,
I've never had that exactly happen. I think one of my most proud moments
was when I was twenty one. I got a new job in Las Vegas,
and I went over to one of the DJ's houses with some other people
and then people started to leave because it's getting late, and then I was
the last one there because he had to go to work at midnight on the
radio, and so he left and it was just me and his girlfriend,
and his girlfriend totally hit on me and she's like, yeah, me and
Pat aren't going to last that much longer, and let's hook up. And
I wouldn't do it because I wasn't going to do that. That was my
friend's girlfriend, right, And I regret it to this day. That's a
joke, Jay, Wait a, SE's a joke, Joe. You've read
a good person there for a second, and then you're like, and I
really felt. I mean, it doesn't take a great human to turn your
buddy's girlfriend down for sex. But I remembers like I could have free and
clear, but it just is like, no, of course not. Yeah,
all right, Le's move on to the emails, and there are several.
Let's see what we've got, Dave, I know you're watching Suits.
I stumbled across the fact there are nine seasons, only eight on Netflix.
I thought it was nearly done, but there's one more season. Do you
guys know that? I guess the ninth season can be found on Prime.
I haven't verified that love listening to you guys probably twenty one or so years.
If this deserves a staff writer sticker, I would love it. Jessica
in holding Ford, Minnesota, which I don't know where that is, but
it sounds lovely, and I will send you a staff writer sticker. I've
said it a dozen times. I'm so done with Suits. I can't wait
for it to be over. I an't going to still watched to that.
We'll watch at the end. Susan likes it. We finished watching Fargo season
five, which is so good, and a limited series is better by design
because it doesn't drag on and on and on. Right, So when somebody
says, oh, you got to watch this new show on Netflix, I
look at it and it's like series of season one, season two, season
three. I'm like, no, I'm not going to get involved in a
show that runs for seasons. I'm just not just not going to do it.
I mean, it's it's hard. I'm on a show that's four season
long, and usually Andrew and I fall off after season two for most shows,
but we've stuck it out with this one. But like ted Lasso was
in one where the first season was great, second season we were like,
started it and now we fell off midway through because we were like, it
just doesn't have the same of what the first season did. And that's only
I think that only has three seasons. Yeah, a lot of people said
the same thing. So thank you, Jessica. Let's move on to the
next one. BFF, Mike, let's he says, I am marry thirty
one years. I have not and will not cheat. What advice regarding sex
or intimacy would a millennial like Jenny give a gen xer or a boomer Jenny,
this is all on you. What advice would you give, as a
millennial give a sex advice or intimacy? Okay, I think there's a lot
of factors that come into play here, Mike, like how long you've been
with your partner, so I know that like when you're with someone for a
long time, like Dave says, like sex is kind of cheese pizza.
At some point it's good, but it's it's cheese pizza. So for me,
I would say, try to still learn something new that your partner might
not. You might not know that your partner likes, and you might think,
after I don't know, twenty years of marriage, you know everything your
partner likes. But I can guarantee you that like you might find out something
new about them. So if you can have an open conversation about sexual preferences,
sexual things you like in the bedroom, cool. But I know a
lot of people don't have that relationship with their partner or it's uncomfortable for you
or something. So I just think like open communication is a big thing.
And I also think that people's sexual desires can change, whether you believe that
or not. I think there's not to get too personal here, but there's
things for me that I liked in my early twenties that I don't like as
much anymore, and I like different things now. So you got to find
what the other person likes, and then I think that that helps with intimacy
in the bedroom because then you're excited again, You're excited to do something new
versus like the same old doggie style. I'm just kidding, you know.
It's funny. It's funny because as you bring that up, there's like a
it's such a cliche that it's like a woman will swallow until you get married,
and then she doesn't swallow anymore. I mean you've maybe heard that cliche.
Yeah, yeah, And I think there is something to that. There's
certain things that Susan maybe did when she was younger that now she's more like,
do you really want to? And I'm like yeah, But I certainly
don't have any advice for you, Mike. I will say only that you're
not alone. I will say there are a lot of people who in their
marriages that have been around for a while that the sex life is really like
I knew a couple that hasn't had sex in like ten years, and then
another couple that hasn't had sex in two years. Yeah, and it it
just does happen. And it's not that it should it's not that it's okay,
but it does and it sucks because you want that intimacy, you want
that physical connection, and you don't want to have to go find some side
piece, but sometimes people do. Right. My other recommendation, and I
know that this might be uncomfortable for some people too, but it's easier than
just flat out communicating things is take like a sex quiz, because Andrew and
I did that recently, and we learned a lot about each other of things
that we didn't know the other person was into, and things that we mutually
were into that we didn't do because we didn't know the other person was into
it. So that was like an easier way to communicate with someone because you
already had the questions in front of you and could compare answers instead of just
being like, Hey, I love it when you stick a finger in my
ass. MO, Yeah, just kidding, I don't like that. I'm
just saying like, can you imagine like go up to your partner all of
a sudden he's like, Hey, can you start sticking a finger in my
ass? That's a weird conversation, you know, if it's out of nowhere,
if you're nowhere, you know, it's funny you say that Because I
was friends with a young female news anchor back in Ohio. And it's funny
because she is on like network news now, And I'm going to show Jenny
a picture of her whole time. Lad, we'll find the pig, wait
mee. And and she's old ish now, I mean she's probably fifty five
or seven. Oh okay, I'm going to show you her picture. Jenny's
I spind the computer around this woman right here. She used to be a
news anchor in Columbus, Ohio. Now she's a big national news anchor.
And she asked me one time, we were just chatting and having lunch,
and she was very funny and outward and disgusting and inappropriate. She said,
why when a guy is banging you from the back, why does he always
want to stick his finger in your asshole? And I said, you know
what you got me? I said, don't. I don't know that I
do. But that was definitely her observation. And so whenever I hear her,
and I do hear her on a podcast or on a newscast once in
a while, I think of that discussion. That's never her. She was
a lot like you. She was a lot like Okay, you're way too
much information. So that's really all we have for you, Mike. There
are some interesting and unusual emails that we got to kind of sort through a
little bit. I'm gonna I'm gonna this is what I'm gonna do. I'm
going to clean out the email box if we haven't read your because it's a
mess. Yeah, it is a mess. We're not sure. And also
when Dave's on vacation or I'm on vacation, like one of us has to
sift through things and we're not entirely positive if one of them was covered on
a Minnesota Goodbye that we weren't in. I tried to delete all the ones
that Drake and I did, but I know that there's still a bunch in
there that I was like, well, I don't know if they read this
or not, so I didn't read it. I'm gonna go ahead and delete
every email in the email box because I spend too much time going let me
see, is this is this? So I'm going to throw out something totally
new off the top of my own head. Okay, I think there are
three, possibly four, maybe five tenants to success. Do you want to
hear what they are? Absolutely? Okay, talent, ambition, integrity are
the big three. Talent and ambition and integrity. So I would also say
affability. So affability integrity in other words, people like you. So you
can be talented and ambitious, but without integrity and affability, you're not going
to get very far because people don't like you. We worked with somebody here
at the radio station. They had talent and a lot of ambition, but
they didn't have integrity, and they spread rumors and lies and they stole things.
So I think that if you have talent but not ambition, not going
to get you far. You can have a lot of ambition and no talent,
and you're also not going to get far. You need integrity and affability.
But I also have a fifth one fourth one attractiveness because let's face it,
men and women that are more attractive get more attention and opportunities than people
who are not attractive. Would you agree? I it's hard to say because
I'm thinking specifically of our industry, and I have seen that shift in more
attractive females and males too being hired because now social media is a thing yep,
So it's not like, oh, you have a face for radio anymore.
It doesn't matter. You need to like, some people are being hired
because they have this big following on social media because they're attractive and they're also
talented, but they might have not gotten their job because they like if they
had not had this following on social media because they're attractive. So in radio
I would say yes, attractiveness definitely does help because we have a social media
aspect to our job. Now. In other industries, I don't necessarily know.
I don't think in it it matters. I think if you have ambition
and you're intelligent and you're good at your job, I think you're fine.
This good point. I mean in certain fields it doesn't matter. You can
be one ugly IT woman or guy and you're right. I will only say
that if you are going in with seven other people all applying for the same
IT job and you are extra attractive, they're gonna pay. That's just human
nature. They're gonna pay a little bit more attention and possibly look for a
reason to hire you over the people that are unattractive. There was an opening
on our radio station thirty years ago and two people appli I've told the story
before. Two people may be more applied, but I remember two people applied.
One was a very ordinary and I say ordinary in the best possible way,
attractive woman. She wasn't a wow, but she also wasn't unattractive.
And then there was a woman who looked like a movie star. She was
gorgeous, and the radio station dudes wanted to hire the woman who was gorgeous,
and I said, no, she's not as good. So we hired
the woman who was much more ordinary looking, and to this day she still
works on the radio in Phoenix. And the other woman, about two weeks
later, got hired to do traffic or news or something on one of the
TV stations because she was gorgeous. So we have talent, ambition, integrity,
or at likability looks. And the last one is opportunity, because you
can have all of this, but with no opportunity, it's not going to
get you anywhere. So I'll use an example. If you want to become
a great dancer and you're in Minneapolis, good luck becoming successful. There's not
a lot of dance opportunities here, right. What would a dancer do if
she's the best dancer at her college and she wants to go on to be
a professional dancer. What are her opportunities do you know? I mean I
don't I don't to continue dancing. No, I think opportunities in Minneapolis involve
coaching like the Timberwolves dancers done at that point or something, and like where
it's a job and you're still dancing, but you might not be the actual
performer performing in front of people. But no, you're right, I don't
think that there's much I mean, you could perform. I've never been to
the chan Hassen Dinner theaters, but I know that they do musicals there,
I think every once in a while, so that that could be. But
that's probably not what you're looking for when you're trying to be this big professional
dancer. So I think my point is you've got to go to New York
or LA for the opportunity. So if you are a model, let's say
you're a great model, you're ambitious, you're gorgeous, you're talented. People
like you. What is the opportunity to be a model outside of being in
a cohles ad? What are you going to do to be a model in
Minneapolis? There's just not a lot of operateinary there's still some opportunity there it's
about a level of like what you want to achieve. Because I know some
girls who are models and in the Twin Cities, and they model for a
lot of local companies, and I see their faces on all these things.
But if that's not what you're if you're looking to work for a high end
fashion retailer, you're probably not going to get that in Minneapolis. Yeah.
Same thing with like Carson in the music business, and we'll wrap up,
is like Carson wants to be a tour man or an artist manager or whatever.
And right now he's working with God, what's the kid's name, the
one he's been going there's a new one. His last name is Burns,
and I can't remember what his name is, Cameron Burns. I don't know
anyway, But Carson had to move to LA to have the opportunity to work
in the music business because yeah, you can work at you know, you
can book Hairball and you can book other bands here in town. But it's
not going to be Conner Burns is the kid's name, Okay. Connor Burns
is the act that Carson is going to be working with. And because Connor
Burns is going to open for Lannie and Lanny is coming to the armory.
So Carson's doing a lot of the hotels and flights and things like that.
Okay, but you wouldn't have that opportunity if you didn't live in La.
So you got to go to where the opportunity is, right, Okay,
So once again to summarize, let me know what you think. And I
bring this up not to say that I got all the answers, but I'm
missing What am I missing? So it's talent, for sure. You need
that. You need ambition. Ambition, You've got to have people like you
and trust you, which I think go hand in hand. You got if
you don't have to be attractive, but it certainly helps if you are.
And then you have to have opportunity. What did I miss? Love to
get your comments, there's something for you to chew on. I'm going to
delete every email that we haven't read to clean out the email box. So
if you want to read another, send another one in. Then please send
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