Jury Duty, Jenny is Bad, Hey a song for me? Hey?
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Jenny Hi. We talked a lot about your jury duty on the beginning
of the show this morning. But is there anything that you that stands out
for the podcast that that you want to share? And Jenny doesn't really want
to talk about the case at exactly what the charge was and the guilty verdict
or the not guilty verdict or whatever it was, but is there anything that
you want to share? I would just say that I think I had like
a little bit more unique of anexperience than what the actual process is because of
having issues with like the ac and technical difficulties and stuff like that, Because
honestly, a lot of people were like, well, it's a lot of
waiting around. Well, it is if you're not being picked for a jury,
But like for me, it was like I got in, I was
already like we did a quick orientation and they literally called almost everyone in the
room, like twenty four of us to sit through a jurors election, and
that portion of it I'll get into a little bit. So the judge goes
around and asks all kinds of questions, and it's like, have you or
someone you've been related to, like ever been a victim of a crime,
And so every single person who's been a victim of even like a kind of
like tiny robbery or something has to go around and talk about it. Okay.
So that took so long, and I just honestly had kind of anxiety
during that point because it was like, is she gonna ask a question that
I'm gonna have to answer that I feel uncomfortable answering in front of all these
random strangers. And there was one woman in there who I think went through
some unfortunate stuff with her husband. And you can request privacy, so if
you have to answer a question, you can request privacy and just talk to
them specifically about it, so like go in another private little area or whatever.
Okay, But I mean one of these women, like she was crying,
and one of the jurors was crying having to answer some of the questions
and talk about her past and stuff, and it like that part was pretty
like anxiety written for me. I didn't feel very uncomfortable or very comfortable during
that. And then the defense lawyer was a bit comical himself. He even
admitted in it that he's been told he was glib before, and so he's
like, I don't want you guys to think this is lighthearted or anything.
I just like, I know this is kind of stressful for people, so
I just try to make it a little bit lighthearted more and whatever. But
the man is like the person in the meeting who asks a million questions,
and it's like, you don't need all this, and I understand he's picking
a very specific jury, so hopefully his client is found not guilty. But
he said he's like, does anyone ever work in like a group setting?
And it was like, okay, cool, and so finally, like I
just started taking the microphone to answer questions because nobody wanted to answer these questions
and we weren't moving along, ye, and so but I'm telling you it
was like very worthy questions. People kept being like, I don't understand what
your question is because he just was like picking people at points to answer questions
even though nobody had answers. And I know he was trying to get to
a point of what he was looking for in the jury, but his questions
lasted like two hours on top of already two and a half hours from the
judge and the prosecutor ten minutes for her. It took ten minutes for her
to ask her questions of the jury. That guy took like two hours.
I wonder if that is his strategy, because I've been watching a lot of
suits. Yeah, Jenny, and everything is a strategy, Like you're doing
something because not because you really care what the answers are, but because you
want to fuck with somebody or you want to manipulate something. So I'm going
to guess if that's like a legal defense strategy. I know you don't have
any idea, but yeah, guess. But would you guess that he was
a court appointed attorney or do you think that he was a paid, high
powered or not even high powered, but like paid attorney. Eh, hard
to say, don't know, it's hard to say. I don't want to
make that judgment based off of only doing that with him, but I just,
yeah, I'm sure that there are plenty of times where it takes even
longer to find a jury and the defense layer asked even more questions, But
in this particular case, it seemed very drawn out, and you could tell
that all of us were getting frustrated. And one woman next to me who
was not selected. She started getting snippy, and like there was there's people
who, of course, like try to purposely get out of it, like
they answer the questions to know that they're biased whatever. But the thing is,
the judge told us ahead of time, this case should not last more
than a few days, and if you don't get selected for this case,
because it's a pretty simple yes, guilty or not guilty. It wasn't like
a murder trial where we were going to be hearing evidence in cases and witnesses
for days. So it was going to pretty much like maybe last the day,
depending on like a day or two, depending on how long deliberations were
going to take. So she kind of said it in our head ahead of
time that like, don't answer the questions to be biased one way or another,
like just to get out of it. She didn't say that specifically,
but I know it's what she was meaning, because if we don't get picked
for this jury, we'll get put back into the pool of jurors and we
might be on a different case that could a couple we could last. So
I of course, like there were moments where I was getting frustrated and I
wanted to do what the lady next to me was doing where she just started
getting snarky with the defense lawyer, like she was just such a bits to
them at one point. But I didn't want to get picked for another case
if I didn't get picked for this one. I understand. But then of
course in the end everyone was dismissed who did not get picked, like they
were done with their series. They're all done. So you were kind of
with it. But you know, but you don't know, you know what.
I will only tell you number one. I know it's been stressful.
Yeah, it has been stressful for a couple of weeks leading up to when
last week you were worried about going in and then you make the phone call
they don't need you. Every night you make a phone call. Afternoon you
make a phone call they don't need you, and you were thinking you were
done, like they're not going to call you. Then Tuesday night you call
in. They said you're going in. You missed Wednesday, you miss Thursday.
I was you know, of course I care about you because you're a
stress monster anyway. You you like, you're very busy, and this was
one more big thing on your right. So I was like concerned for you.
But at the same time, I'm looking at the show going what are
we gonna do on the show? Yeah? I think the thing about the
show is is that this show has seen so much, and I've seen so
much over the years. It's like, oh, it's just another little story
of like, you know, Jenny could be out for a couple of weeks,
but I am so glad that you're done and you're off the hook for
four years. Four years me too. The next thing is is Jenny will
probably be crossing the street get hit by a bus, and she'll be in
the hospital for six weeks. Yep. Yeah, I am very accident prone,
so careful Jenny. All right, let's get into the emails and see
what people have to say, David Jenny. This one says, I'm sure
I'm not the only Disney fan writing in after Monday's podcast. Space Mountain at
Disney World is not closing next year like Jason said. However, Space Mountain
and Tokyo Disney will be closing in twenty twenty four to be reimagined into an
new Space Mountain. We are big Disney World fans in my house and keep
up with all the podcasts and news and didn't want to freak people out that
have trips. Planned staff writer Aaron, thank you. I really didn't know
that that was some misinformation that we had not known. Let's see next one
Minnesota goodbye, and this one says long time and listener of the show,
love you guys, Dealer dearly. I've always been interested in radio and thought
I have a personality that matches the vibe of most As we know, not
all show hosts are great, but I matched the vibe of most radio people.
I've recently been throwing around the idea of starting a podcast, and I've
had several people mentioned I can hear you on the radio, which intrigued me.
Needless to say, here we are. I applied for the part time
morning show producer position through iHeartRadio, and I have some questions I am hoping
you can help me with. Now. This is not meant for the podcast,
but it's interesting. We do have, believe it or not, a
position open on this show. It is a part time assistant producer, kind
of like a Drake that will ease a little bit of the load on Jenny
and also let Drake do more social media stuff. But at the same time,
this person might be really good at social media. Yeah, and a
lot of radio is social media. I mean a lot of the They say
that they judge us on a couple of things, and one of them is
our social media. And god damn it, Jenny, I'm stuck at forty
six point one followers on Instagram. No matter what I could do, I
could raise the dead, I could cure migrain headaches, oh care, and
I would still be stuck at forty six point one thousand. That's big.
I'm not complaining. That's a lot of freaking followers. I am stuck.
So I'm not so good at social media. I do the best I can.
So they go on to say they've for this job. Obviously, they
say it's nearly impossible to show my personality through an online application. Is there
any advice you can offer regarding how to get somebody on the phone to have
a chat with me? Regarding my credentials on paper doesn't allow or reading my
credentials on paper doesn't allow the reader to get the feel of who I am
and what I can offer to the listeners. What advice do you have for
someone with zero experience in radio to encompass what it means to be a radio
personality and portray that through the interview process. Okay, I would say do
what nobody else will do. That is send me Dave Ryan at KJWB a
link of a video of you talking about yourself and what you can bring to
the table. Yeah, because there are I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings,
but everybody thinks they could do a great job on the radio. Everybody
thinks that they would do great on the radio, and it is a skill
set. It is definitely something that Yeah, you can tell wacky stories that
you're barbecue and you can tell fun stories and be the life of the party
at the bridle the bachelorette party. But it doesn't always translate to radio because
you have to know when to tell your story. And that's one of the
things that people learn is because we'll have people in and God love them,
and I love people who listen to the show, and I love people that
want to be on the radio. So we've had some people in for like
fallin for a day or we did lean it for a day and they're like,
I'm so fucking funny and I crack my friends up and you're gonna love
me, and they will. They'll come in and they don't know how to
banter on a radio station. So I'll be like, yeah, so tell
me that story about how you found a cat that didn't belong to you and
you cat whatever, and they'll be like, yeah, so I found a
cat. And I'm like, fuck, you're doing a terrible job. And
it's because it's kind of a learned skill. Yeah, and some people have
it very naturally and some people don't. So anyway, I would say the
best thing that you can do make a YouTube video. Send me the link,
load it up. Don't send me the video because I'll have trouble downloading
it. But make a YouTube video, put it on YouTube, send me
the link to it that talks all about you and why you're funny and why
you want the job or whatever. Because we are going to hire somebody,
but I don't know whether we're going to hire somebody who's a lot on the
air or a little bit behind the scenes, or more like Steve or more
like Tina, you know what I mean. Right, So last question,
I know I'm going to out on a limb even applying because I have no
experience, but the passion is there to be a positive influence that you and
the Morning Show have been in my life for others. What advice would you
give someone who is looking to potentially make a career change into radio in their
early thirties. Thanks for everything you do. That is from Danielle and Danielle,
you know what I'm going to tell you this, that you even took
this step to go the extra mile is a really good sign because a lot
of people will not. Yeah, but the fact that you took this step
to go the extra mile is very telling. Anything to add to that,
Jenny, I mean, I also think that it's important to kind of have
a social media presence of some sort already. So if you aren't posting on
social media at all, start posting, because it's just very much as much
as we talk on the radio, social media is almost just as important now
at this point. So if we can see that you know how to do
it, you might be a little funny on social media, or we can
I don't know, I hate to call it like someone's brand, but we
can kind of understand who you are by seeing like what you have on social
media. I think that that's like very helpful. If you have no social
media presence. I think that that's going to be a little bit of a
turnoff almost because we feel like maybe you don't have as much experience in that
area, and that is something that's pretty important now in radio, you know,
I will say this though, we as much as I say that you
need radio experience or it's very helpful to know when to banter and when to
stop and when to start and whatever, and when to you know, yes,
and like when you say something like, Okay, yeah, I kidnaped
my neighbor's cat, can you believe that, you don't go uh huh,
You go yes, And now you got a cat that's gonna you're gonna need
to get a litter box and you need to get shots, and you know,
you had a yes and that type of thing, so you got to
learn that. But also I will say that when Lena got this job,
she had no radio experience. She had never been taught how to banter,
but she did take improv and that really helped her learn to support other people
when they tell a story and not just go uh huh. So it's it's
not impossible. I think it's really interesting Danielle that you're interested and I think
Jenny, we should read this story on the radio, because I really would
like to get out to people that there is a job opening on the Dave
Ryan Show. At the same time, there's going to be a lot of
people that apply that just they're not going to be in the ballpark, to
be honest, because it's kind of like a place. It's like going to
an open audition to be in a Campbell's soup commercial. There's a lot of
people to go. I can be an actor, but it's a little bit
trickier than just standing up there and pretending you know what I mean. Anyway,
Thank you, Danielle, good luck. Send me to Dave Ryan at
KWB a YouTube video, not a video itself, but a YouTube video link,
so I can go watch you and see what you are all about.
A couple of other wess Okay, I'm poking around here a little bit and
I'm gonna find some Here is one for you. My husband, Ron has
worked at the same place for almost twenty six years. A coworker, Justin,
is getting married. He's been there twenty three years, so they've known
each other for a long time. Justin invited many people from work to the
wedding. A while ago. The wedding is one month away. We were
not in to the wedding at that time. Ron, my husband, came
home from work today and let me know that we were invited to the wedding.
Today Justin told Ron that many of the two hundred people invited to let
him know that they are not coming. So now there is room to invite
us. Ooh ouch, I don't like this. Is this a thing?
So now the original people can't or invited can't or don't want to come.
I guess Ron and his wife can be invited now. I've never heard of
a second tier of people be invited to a wedding last minute and others say
they won't be coming. Would you go? I'll let my husband decide since
this is his coworker. But I think it's laughable and lame as hell.
Thanks for your input. That is from Kelly. I think that's really rude,
and it's like, Okay, a lot of people said they don't want
to go, they can't go, so now there's room. I got to
figure, you've known this guy for twenty three years and it doesn't say they're
friends. It just says they worked together. Yeah, it is possible that
they just said, oh, well, we don't have room for Ron and
his wife, but now we do. What would you do? Would you
go to the wedding? No, I've been in this situation before. Yeah.
So one of my high school best friends. We were very very close
in high school and middle school, but then after like college, we just
kind of parted ways. We went on different paths and we didn't really stay
very close. And she got married fairly young, so we still kind of
talked here and there, but it wasn't like we were texting each other.
It wasn't that kind of relationship. So she was getting married about a month
before her wedding, she reached out and she's like, I'd love to have
you. I don't even know if I was only invited to the reception.
Okay, No, I think I was invited to the dinner and the reception.
And it was only a month before I was living in the Twin Cities.
It was back in my hometown, and I was like, you know,
I appreciate the invite, but I'm unable to attend, and so I
think it definitely is a thing. In my situation. I wasn't offended because
we weren't very close anymore. I think it was like, Okay, well
I do have some openings. Maybe I will reach out to some friends who
I think would have maybe come, And so like, I wasn't offended because
we weren't very close and I barely ever saw her. I probably hadn't seen
her in like a couple of years. But I said no because I was
like, nah, this is definitely a last minute invite to phil seats.
Okay, but that's interesting. You said you weren't offended, but you didn't
go because I wasn't close with her anymore. Okay, we were very close.
So that's why I was like, I'm not going to go all the
way out of my way back home to my hometown. Had it been local,
I probably would have gone. But no, I wasn't going to drive
all the way back to my hometown for a weekend to go to a wedding,
and that I was last minute invited to who with a friend that I'm
just not close with anymore. Weddings are tough for people that you don't know.
Well, if it's your friend or your sister or your cousin Bobby,
then you probably want to go. But I've been invited to weddings where I
really appreciate going, but it's like, man, it's a night. It's
what you know some people. Isn't it true that you get invited sometimes to
the wedding and the reception, sometimes just the reception. Am I right about
this? Which I've been I've done that before where I've only been to the
dance portion of it, Okay, and that's a little less of a time
commitment. But when you don't know somebody, well, the problem is I
don't even know. I don't even know. It was a friend of my
ex fiance. It was a day long thing. We drove to still Water
at like ten o'clock in the morning and there was like the pre reception,
then there was like the web blah blah blah blah, then the wedding.
Then there was several hours where we sat on the dock at the deck at
the freight house waiting for the reception to start. And it was a day
long thing and I didn't even know her. But you know, whatever,
it is, what it is. What do you think would you go to
the wedding where you were like, oh, yeah, well some people didn't
RSVP, So you're now invited to the wedding. Would you go or would
you be? Like, I'm not going to be your second choice. I'm
like saying, hey, yeah, Brooke, Sandy wouldn't go out with me
tonight so she couldn't make it, So will you go? And then Brook's
gonna go like, fuck you, I don't want to go. Yeah,
yeah, I'm not gonna be your second choice. All right, let us
know what you want to talk about. Send me email to Ryan's show at
KDWB dot com. Welcome back, Jenny, Thank you for listening to the
Minnesota Goodbye,