All right, let's do the Minnesota Goodbye and see if there's anything that we
had to clean up or talk about. Was there anything that we said we
need to talk about in the Minnesota Goodbye? Now, yesterday's Minnesota Goodbye was
a disaster. Yeah, it was me and you looking for emails basically the
entire podcast. So there's no way it can be worse. And there's nothing
We were like, oh, we would have to wait for tomorrow for that
one. It was more like, hopefully we find anything for tomorrow. Yeah,
well, there are a lot of emails for today, so I've not
got a chance to preread them. The first one that scares me is it
comes with an audio component, and I'm not, Oh, you don't play
it. You don't have to play the audio component. That was just her
showing us that these people are funny. It's a podcast she listens to that
she's recommending, so you'll be fine just playing it. I think, let's
come, let's come back that one a second. Let's let's let's do that
one in a minute. Here I was listening to April eighteen show, and
I have to say I've never been so sad to hear a bit this goes
on with you know, Jenny and the chewing, which we attract yesterday.
And we're not going to spend a lot of time on that one because I
Number one, we did not know that it would trigger so many people with
the chewing and the sound, and so we apologize. Number two, Jenny
was not upset or offended. Jenny would have told us if she said no,
I'm not going to do that. We would never ever make fun of
somebody for a condition. So we're going to kind of move past that one.
I appreciate you writing in and I appreciate you understanding that we weren't trying
to rattle anybody. We were just trying to have some fun. And will
we do it again, No, Probably not a little late to the topic,
but this is too good to share. A few years ago, my
wife and I were driving home from northern Minnesota and just chatting, just killing
time. At one point we saw a billboard for second wind exercise equipment with
Dick and Rico, the guy with a mustache, and people used to make
fun of his mustache whatever. I commented about how it's so weird that a
guy has become a local fixture for selling you treadmills. We stopped talking about
that and passed the car in front of us, and I look up to
my right and who's driving the white suv? Dick fucking Enrico. You cannot
make this up. I don't think I would recognize him, but I don't
think it's because I'm not from Minnesota. Yeah, he was. He was
all over TV for a long time for Second Wind exercise equipment. And he's
like a guy probably fifty years old, with like um like dark hair,
glasses and a mustache. You could not mistake Dick Enrico. Are they still
open? They are? They are, but they don't call them second Win
anymore. And he got very wealthy off of those, I believe, And
they were all over like this part of the state and part of the country
and maybe an Iowa. That type of thing. You cannot make it up.
We didn't believe it. So I slowed down to let him pass us,
and the license plate said second Wind. Unreal, Ben, that is
so far my favorite email of the day, but it's the first email of
the day, Ben, so you know you have some competition. Yeah,
let me delete that one. The reason I say that out loud is because
if I don't delete it. Then I'll come back the next day and fallon
and I will go, do we read that one about Dick and Rico?
I know we read it off the year? Do we read it on the
year? All right? Next one from Chow, Chow says, so true,
Dave. Age is only a number in a way. When I was
younger, I always look at old people like they don't get it and they
aren't hip, etc. As I get older, I realize that I'm still
the same person, just wiser and more aged. You'll always look back at
when you are twenty thirty or forty and say to yourself, I wasn't that
old. You're only as old as you make yourself feel. I'm currently forty
four years old. Chow, I'm so happy you listen to the show because
a lot of people think that Katy. It's changed over the years. Katy
able to be used to be definitely the younger leaning you could say teen station,
because we were the ones that all teens listened to for many, many
years. And so the funny thing is is people got older. I'd run
into somebody who was like forty two years old old and they haven't listened.
And since they were fifteen years old since the Eagles were big, and they'll
bow Katie WB is that teeny bopper bubble joun station. And I would say,
dude, we are not that anymore because we've expanded from just appealing to
eighteen to twenty four year old people to appealing probably to eighteen to sixty four
year old people. Yeah, for sure, and we get a lot of
people that are younger. And I guarantee you we get people in their seventies
and possibly eighties that listen to Katy BB two and yes for the music,
but also because of the fact that in the morning we do much more besides
music. So but I always tell people you're younger than you think. And
I think it's even actually a chapter in my new book. I was getting
the elevator with a woman who works I think her name is Haley, and
she helps out with the morning show over at Kathan and I'll write up on
the elevator with her once in a while. And a couple of years ago,
she's like, it's my birthday and she's like, I'm thirty, And
I said, you know you are a lot younger, Haley. Then you
think I know thirty sounds old, but when you get when you get to
be a little bit older, you'll be amazed that you ever thought thirty was
old. So I think that's kind of the lesson. So one day,
Falon, you'll look at yourself at thirty nine and go, God, I
thought I was old at thirty nine years old. So yeah, I know,
okay, ready for another one? I think so yeah. I've been
binge of the podcast sitting at work, so crap is following through the noggin.
I think they mean flowing. I normally want not one to be sensitive
and I'm not on the bag in the PC. Everybody else's feelings matter.
Blah blah blah. I wish I could remember the day. But you guys
were talking about an award show and they made a joke about everybody on ozempic.
Jenny, you made a comic about comment about a friend who has taken
it for their weight loss, and you openly said you shamed she shamed them.
Ozempic is who's the girl from the office and she's failing And I can
tell you, I can tell you where. I know where this email is
going to go. And you weren't here the day, Genny and I talked
about it on the podcast either, but we talked about how if you haven't
heard of it, it's like what people are using, and the upsetting part
is that people that need it are having a harder time getting it, and
it's like causing the prices to go up, especially for people people that are
diabetic. I pre read this woman's email, so I know like she's saying,
like, obviously, if you need to lose weight, it is used
for that as well. But the people that I won't speak on behalf of
Jenny because I don't know about her friend. But I think that people like
Mindy Kaling were not super obese and needed this to lose weight to like live
basically, you know what I mean. A lot of celebrities are missing and
people in general are misusing it to be extremely skinny, not because they were
obese to begin with and needed to lose weight, because I know that like
actual like getting the sleeve or what's the other one where you get the full
surgery that's a gastrica, very expensive surgery, So this would be obviously a
much cheaper alternative to that if you need that. So I think that maybe
it was just worded in a way. That was upsetting because I got a
couple of emails that day two saying, hey, it's not just for people
with diabetes. It is used to help people who need to lose weight.
I get that. I think what we were saying was it's upsetting to see
people like Mindy Kaling who don't need to lose three hundred pounds, two hundred
pounds, even one hundred pounds. Mindy Kaling probably needed like and I'd say
needed, wanted to lose twenty or thirty pounds. You know what I mean.
Very different. Yep, totally get that. I'm going to finish up
their email a little bit. They say coming from an overweight person who has
tried everything and anything to the point where it is becoming unhealthy. I was
ready to sign up from one of those surgeries that cost thirty thousand dollars not
covered through insurance. So when these drugs were coming back with benefits of weight
loss and can be even covered by insurance, just wanted to point out that
some of these medications aren't just for one specific purpose US. Yes, lots
of famous people who started taking it have created it to be a fad,
but it's a lifestyle for some of us that are similar situations of health problems,
whether it is diabetes or obesity. Sidebar, but connected medications have side
effects that are sometimes desirable. I think, Okay, I do one.
I take a medication that is called finasteride, and finaster ride was originally and
I take finasteride because it helps with hair loss, because some guys they if
they're losing your hair genetically whatever, some people will respond like me to finasteride
where you get to keep your hair longer and it doesn't fall out as fast,
and so I've got a decent head of hair, especially for somebody who's
my age, and I will attribute it to finasteride. Finasteride was not invented
for hair loss prevention. It was invented I think for like varicose veins or
something like that. I don't remember. But then they noticed a side effect
was because they do mounds of research, they noted that men that had been
losing their hair stopped losing their hair. Interesting, So there are side effects,
and that is not the only one. There's got to be a ton
of drugs that do that. So I think the problem is just exactly what
Falon said. You said it perfectly it's for people like Mindy Kaling. And
then that's a whole other discussion. Why does Mindy Kaling feel the pressure to
lose ten or fifteen pounds? Well, we all want to. I loved
I've lost weight with Livia, but not because I had to because it was
a health issue. It was just because I wanted to, you know,
I wanted to look a little bit better. I told Falin, I said,
I don't want to be the old guy with the belly. You know,
you know what it is. It's the skinny old guy. He's got
skinny arms, moderately thin legs, he's got the belly. I said,
I don't like being that guy. I get that. Yeah, So I
thought I'd work up and have all of me for you fast, starting with
the neck. All right, what I want is the neck that goes from
my chin right down to my nipples. Neck to nipple. Yeah, I'm
gonna call the episode next to nipples. Thank you for that. Thank you
for coming up with names of these episodes. Okay, here's one, totally
random and short. It says, besides listen to you guys daily on the
podcast, I started listening to the Copycat Killer podcast on iHeartRadio. It is
so addicting and so good if you like true crime stories. I love podcast
suggestions, so thank you for that one. I don't know for sure that
I'll remember to check it out. I don't really listen to those anymore.
I used to. I went through a phase where I listened to, like,
yeah, true crime podcast, and now I don't. The closest I
get is that one. I've talked about a lot. The National Park after
dark. Sometimes they'll talk about sometimes they'll talk about a crime that happened in
a national park, but it's not like what the base of the podcast is
about. Okay, this one says another podcast one. Since we're just talking
about podcast, Hi, guys, obligatory. You guys have the best been
listening for twenty years. You guys get it, but seriously, love you
guys. I'm sure either Jenny or Fallon, but I've heard it, but
I want to share it with you guys. It's a podcast called I've Had
It. I originally found it on TikTok so. I attached a video if
you want to check out a short clip. These ladies are I've had it.
These ladies are freaking hilarious. They sometimes remind me of you guys when
you go off on a rant. They go off about gender reveals, stick
people, bumper stickers, people going slow and the self checkout lanes and tons
more. Can I say that I love when you guys go off on rants.
It reminds me that you were three normal people with normal lives, and
your lives aren't perfect and things do piss you off. I'm a mom of
three boys, and it's so refreshing when Falin goes on a little rant about
olive. Another reason I love you all. Piggybacking off your talks about dogs
peeing in the house. Do you guys get your dogs anal glands squeezed out
or emptied? Yes? One of my dog's been going NonStop licking his ass.
I don't know how much Falin. I know how much Falin loves that
sound. And now he's been scooting his nasty ass all over the rug in
the living room. Our vett, of course, is booked out for weeks.
Animals are freaking disgusting. Sometimes I think you can get that done at
the groomer, but probably call down and ask about that. You can also,
honestly, you can do it yourself. I tried it with Josie one
time. You get the rubber gloves. You watch the YouTube video. It
did work, but not well enough that I didn't still have to get it
done from the vet. You said the other day, you're gonna stop filon
responding to every DM. Totally understandable. I'm sure you get a ton of
them. I have to say, I've sent you a couple of dms and
you've replied. I screenshot that shit, send it to my friend. It
was a listener, and we think it's so cool. We're in our late
thirties and that shit makes us so excited. So even though you can't respond
to all of them, know the ones that you do respond to make our
day all right. Taken up enough of your time. Goodbye, longtime listener,
Shay, Thank you, sh Shay. I appreciate that I do try
to respond to every single one, So yeah, I do too. Is
because you know, I just feel like people think it's really nice when I
do respond, and people are surprised when I respond, because you know,
it takes me a couple of seconds. If they're like if they send a
picture, or they go, oh my god, I can't believe you did
that. Or oh my god, I heard that funny. That was funny.
It just takes a couple of seconds to tap respond and say, hey,
grat glad you love it like I'm glad you like the show, and
you know. To me, it's like I try to do it, but
there are some I don't think. I probably get as many as you do,
but I try to respond to all of them. Last one four now,
and I'm scrolling so I can open the whole thing. Here we go,
Dave Fallon, Jenny Drake, you can say, im a n aim.
It's Candice. I was catching up on the podcast. On four ten.
You read an email about someone's shit grandma. Yeah, David mentioned maybe
the grandma had a traumatic past, and while he didn't promote the concept of
don't let it bother you in regards to trauma, it made me think how
much education is still needed for us humans to understand what trauma can do to
a person. I am a licensed marriage and family therapist with therapy and registered
play therapist and trauma of the areas I specialize in. So here's a book
recommendation. The body keeps the score by and I won't say their name,
but it's a long name The Body keeps the Score. It's a heavy read,
but really great and talks about the potential outcomes of trauma. I also
recommended researching on YouTube for the video titled how childhood Trauma affects health across a
lifetime. Trauma gets stuck in our bodies and brains and can have lasting impacts
if it's not worked through, treated, healed from, etc. I'm always
trying to spread the word about trauma so there can be more empathy and compassion
in the world. Anyway, thanks for the read. I don't know,
I don't. I will say I never had any childhood trauma. My childhood
was very typical standard fine, I don't have any child My mom and dad
were great. Not all the time, but they were great. They may
be very happy and felt me made me feel safe and loved and appreciated most
of the time. I had some trauma go down a few years ago that
Falin knows about that I never talked about on the radio, and that's still
to this day keeps me from getting close to certain people, and it makes
me not want to trust somebody who wants to be my friend and so try.
That was probably the most roy it was. I used to tell Falin
it was the most traumatic thing I've been through other than the death of my
parents, and it was very traumatic. And still to this day, if
somebody is acting a little bit suspicious or odd, it absolutely triggers me.
So I believe you understandably. So now Dave and I both we both know
each other's traumas, and now we're such good friends that we can bring them
up in a joking manner, and that's the best we've gotten to the point.
Like, I think it's interesting because you have to test it out early
and you can tell real quick if someone's like, oh, they're not there
yet, and then after you know, a few years, we really could
just give it to each other and even some days will be like Nope,
not today, and that other one's like okay, yep, yeah, because
we get it. I think that's really and you know, it found an
ideal with a lot of things through humor. Yes, Whereas if I were
to bring up something with like, I know have friends that would not subscribe
to that at all. And well, here's I'm gonna give you one more
thought about trauma and fouling. You want to add anything to it, absolutely,
but a lot of the time we don't know about somebody else's trauma.
You don't know, Let's say I don't know. Let's say that you were
sexually assaulted when you were seventeen. You're not going to go around wearing that
on a shirt. So most people don't know. So if somebody brings up
something about that, they're not going to know that that still is affecting you.
If you've got robbed at knife point on the UFM when you were a
senior, holy shit, that's got to be very very traumatic. Yeah,
even though you walked away safely, but you probably aren't going to tell people
that, So that can come up somehow in a cod versation or a TV
show, or you'll be sitting there fifteen years later on the couch with your
new husband and somebody will get held up at that knife point and you're like,
holy shit because it comes back at you. But your husband might not
ever know that that was a problem. Right. So a lot of my
point is we don't go around broadcasting our trauma, so people aren't aware that
maybe they need to be gentler around you about certain things. Yes, for
sure, I don't have much else to add to that. I think that
you Yeah, you're right. Okay, thanks for all the emails. We
appreciate that. Send more emails to Ryan's show at KDWB dot com.