Okay, Minnesota Goodbye. We're gonna start off with one quick dart Liick reference,
And dart lick, of course, is all about eating ass and so
it's funny and it's shocking, and it's vulgar, and it's funny and it's
inside and so dartlick is kind of the unofficial catchphrase of the Dave Ryan Show.
The reason I bring it up again is because we have Dartlick shirts at
the fair yesterday in my weekend in five photos. You can still see this
online on Dave Ryan show dot com. Under the Dave tab is a picture
of a woman holding up the dart Lick shirt. And I talked a couple
of times. I said, she has an angelic face. She's probably twenty
five or so, and it's weird to see somebody who's got such a sweet,
innocent face holding up such a vulgar shirt, knowing what it's all about.
Guests who wrote in, Guess who wrote in? Who the Dartlick shirt
holder? Yep, angelic face girl, he said. Having Dave mentioned me
like twice on the radio and on the Minnesota Goodbye podcast has been the highlight
of my life. I've been listening since sixth grade war the Roses got me
hooked. I haven't missed a Minnesota Goodbye podcast since it began, and I
remember listening to the original dart Lick episode the day it came out. Ha
ha. I listened the morning show every day and if I miss parts,
I usually catch up on the podcast as well. Just want to say thank
you today for taking the time to talk to me and my husband at the
fair on Saturday. I agree with the previous listener about how crazy it is
to listen to Dave's voice in real life. I was absolutely starstruck. Like
the listener mentioned, I have seriously been replaying the scene of meeting day for
the first time since it was one of the most important days of my life.
That is so sweet, and I find that difficult to comprehend, and
I don't think it is. If you're married, then obviously that's a bigger
day of your life, but to even think of it as a big deal
is hard for me to comprehend. So Brooke, I'm sorry, not Brooke.
I don't know where I got Brooke Morgan. Thank you. She goes
on to say Dave asked if I was a model before asking me to hold
up the dart Lick shirt. I laughed, and I said no, and
he said, well you should be. And then thankful for all the hard
work that you, Jenny and Drake do and Fallon did. Can't wait to
hear all the great things that will come with the changes. Your angelic faced,
loyal P one listener that is Morgan. Morgan, I brought you up
way too much on the show, so I'm not going to bring you up
ever again. Now let's move on to the next one. Here. I
want to try to put them in some sort of semblance of order. We
talked about anxiety and medication on the show the last couple of days, and
people have been very kind to share their story about whether medication worked and what
did not and that type of thing. This one says, I was struggled
with anxiety my whole life. I did not realize as a child that I
had anxiety and probably should have been to therapy or medication as a child because
it affected my attendance in school and me branching out to do things like go
on field trips and join clubs, etc. Once I was an adult,
I was diagnosed with a generalized an anxiety disorder I started on zolof and it
was amazing my brain didn't go to the dark place as it used to.
I was on it for several years. Then they weaned off and I was
fine. Then my mom died in twenty seventeen and I went down that hole
again. This time I had to have a fast acting anti anxiety medication like
klonopin, but it was called larrazapam. I've heard of that one too.
I think they might be the same thing, but I'm not sure. I
literally couldn't get myself to drive to work because I was so afraid of dying.
My mom passed at age forty nine. I was thirty one at the
time, married with three kids. I was like paralyzed in my fear.
I couldn't drive myself or go anywhere alone. Once on the medication, it
helped me to turn off that dark thinking and get through my days until I
got to a point with therapy I could go without medication. I am a
full advocate for medication and therapy, as medication can only help the symptoms,
but therapy helps the deep down causes and helps you retrain your brain to help
stop the runaway train of anxious thoughts. Any who, thanks for listening.
And I won't say her name because maybe she doesn't want me to. I
like that a lot. I think that some people have experiences with medication that
works that doesn't work. But I think the thing is with her story,
she's learned to handle it. And to lose your mom at the age of
mom is forty nine years old, that's horrible and sad and awful, and
I'm glad it has gotten better for you. I'm going to bring up something
that is not really an official advertisement, but this is something that you know.
I'm not getting paid to do this, but I want to mention there's
a website that I endorse called betterhelp dot com and they basically do therapy with
a therapist there online. So if you go to betterhelp dot com slash kt
wb, you can get matched up with a therapist and it's not free,
but if you're The reason I bring it up is because I think it's a
good idea, especially for people who don't want to go in person to a
therapist, because I think a lot of people are like man, I don't
want to sit across from a stranger and I don't want to leave the house
and go park and sit in a waiting room. And but this is a
way to do it without that, So just a different way, all right.
Next email, this one says, I know you're all very against drunk
driving. I'm going to share a crazy quick story from this past weekend.
Here we go. We were staying at our friend's cabin in Wisconsin playing cards
outside on Saturday evening when we heard what sounded like a crash on the road
in front of our house. It was a sound like no other, like
metal hitting a tree. We drove about a half mile down the road to
find the power poles snapped off in a pickup truck in the ditch. We
pulled over to see if the people in the vehicle were okay, and a
man in his mid thirties maybe stumbles up to the side of the road and
immediately says, in drunken, slurred speech, he wasn't driving. He proceeds
to drunkenly stum pull up to our vehicle to call for help on his phone.
He wasn't calling nine to one one, He was calling for someone to
come get him. Meanwhile, we are calling nine to one one to report
the incident. We proceed to ask the man where is the driver, but
he wouldn't tell us. A short while later, a vehicle pulls up.
The druck man gets in the vehicle, and a man gets out of the
driver's seat and walks over to our car. The man tells us he appreciates
us stopping, but he's going to get out of here. We tell the
man that he's leaving the scene of the accident and the power pole is snapped
in half. He proceeds to tell us that he is being a helicopter parent
by protecting his kid. He walks back to his car with Minnesota license plates
and sits for a while. The man then comes back and says he is
leaving and he will call for a tow truck. We ask again if there's
another guy in the truck, and the dad simply responds with we're good.
So the dad and drunk son then drove off. As we're waiting for the
officer to arrive, the horn of the beat up truck and the hanks a
couple of times, as if someone was using the key fob to lock or
unlock the vehicle. We also see a light on in the vehicle, so
there must have been another person in the vehicle. The officer showed up,
we gave him the information we knew, and we left. The next morning
the truck was gone. We have no idea if another person was picked up,
or if the police contacted the drunk, dead, the dad and the
sun. I am still in disbelief at the appalling behavior on the part of
the dad. I understand he's trying to protect his son from a DWI,
but fleeing the scene of a crash and having no regard for the person left
in the vehicle is absolutely disgusting to me. I hope this is a very
good lesson for the guy that claims he wasn't driving, and he should thank
his lucky stars he didn't kill himself or someone else or the other person in
the vehicle. I hope the dad faces some sort of charges for leaving the
scene, and I hope his conscience eats at him about his poor decision making
that night. Thanks for reading this as from Christy. Wow, so many
thoughts. First of all, I wondered, Christy, and I know you
have a reason why you didn't go to the pickup truck to see for yourself
if there was somebody else in the pickup truck. I don't know if it
was a long way away or down the ditch or what, but I was
curious about that. I don't think the dad's going to have any guilty feelings.
It sounds like the dad has been making bad decisions with his son for
a very long time. If I got that phone call from my kid,
I would be like, what in the fuck were you doing driving drunk?
I've told you before a million times, you call me whatever. Apparently Dad
was not that far away, but he couldn't call Dad for his sober ride.
He decided to drive drunk on his own. I'm going to also guess
it wasn't the first time that he drove drunk. No, I was gonna
say not. By the sound of all, that sounds like this might be
something that Dad helps him out with quite often. This is my punishment for
drunk drivers who take a life. Drunk drivers who take a life should have
their arm cut off. That way, not only will they get punishment that
lasts a lifetime because they took a life, they took somebody's son or daughter
or mom or dad or sister or brother. Get their arm cut off,
they will then have to walk around the rest of their life with the stigma
of everyone looking at them and knowing they killed somebody. If they get another
DUI or DWI after that, cut their other arm off. Now I know
this sounds like some sort of awful judgment from some developing country, but I
just hate drunk drivers so much because they have done this selfish thing of driving
drunk. We all know you're not supposed to, and then they took a
life. If they take a life, so there should be more of a
punishment, because what I've heard about drunk drivers is the first they don't care
about the person who died of their family. They worry about getting out of
jail time or serving as little jail time as they possibly can. And I
think that's such bullshit. So, Jenny, am I being too harsh with
the cut the arm off if they kill somebody, cut the other arm off
if they get another DUI? Not at all. I completely agree with that.
I think that trunk driving is awful. And I don't understand the concept
of why you think that paying for an uber is like too much money versus
take the potential of taking someone's life, Like, how can you even remotely
put those two in the same category? And Honestly, it's even if you
don't even if you don't hurt anyone, even if you get in an accident
on your own and you get a DUI, that's still a lot of fines
right there, especially if you hire a lawyer so pay for an uber.
It could be one hundred dollars uber, and you're still not paying for as
much of what you would pay for if you got a DUI. I think
one of the problems that I've learned with all the dui thing and being a
little bit educated on it, is that everybody knows not to drink and dry,
but after three cocktails you lose your judgment. You start to go I
can make it, and all of the don't drink and drive stuff goes out
the window, and then you try to do it anyway. But then there
are the people who do it regularly, like I know cops who have pulled
over somebody who's got their tenth dui. They just don't care. Another email.
I found this article interesting. I thought Dave might like it too,
headline Dick Van Dyke learns to play ukulele at age ninety seven. I haven't
read it yet, but Christie, I will read it. Thank you.
Dave. How did you come into your interest in the ukulele? Do you
still have the Ukulele Club? I was in Hawaii and went to a uku
latele store saw banjo laile, which is basically a ukulele that is a banjo,
and I thought that's cool. That's how I got started. Do I
still have the ukulele Club. Yeah. We still meet a couple of times
during the year, maybe four or five times during the year, and we'll
probably do another one before the end of summer. Jenny, do you have
any new fun new things that you've tried out as an adult, like Dave
and his unicycle? Jenny, any new fun things? Oh gosh, I
don't think so recently, but I will say that I kind of am looking
into probably not the summer anymore because it's almost not, but my boyfriend does
the mountain biking, and I really like doing activities like that with him,
like snow boarding, and so I'm kind of thinking about next summer, looking
into getting a mountain bike and joining him because I like to bike, just
like road bike in general, and so I do kind of want to see
if I would enjoy mountain biking and we might actually go this. This coming
weekend, we might go mountain biking and give it a shot. I think
you would love it because you're athletic, you like adventure, you like to
bike. I really think that you would love mountain biking. I've never done
it myself, but I've seen people on trails in Colorado, like serious mountain
bikers, and it's like they're on rugged trails and you know, going over
stumps and I mean not stumps, but you know, rugged trails. I
think you would love mountain biking. I fully encourage you to try it.
Hey, we're gonna have to wrap it up. We're run a little bit
short on time. That is the Minnesota Goodbye, supported by you and your
emails. Seriously, they mean the world to us. So if you've got
anything that you want to bring up, and you're going, I don't want
to ride in, they won't read mine. No, we probably will write
it in about anything you want to bring up. It's a question about ukuleles
or mountain biking, or anxiety medications or something completely new. You're going,
God, I really wish they would bring this up because nobody talks about this.
Send that into Ryan Show at KDWB dot com