Heidi Ho, let's get into the Menasa Goodbye you ready, Jennifer, I'm
ready, all right, here we go. Happy Friday, Dave and Jenny.
I've been meaning to write for a while, so finally doing it because
I want a sticker. But I got a few questions I'm curious on just
one just popped up yesterday, so it felt like the right time to mail
in. I heard you guys won a Marconi Award. Congratulations, curious why
you didn't go to accept it like the Grammys of the like if it's the
Grammys of the radio world, I apologize if you talked about this on Tuesdays
or Thursdays, Minnesota, Goodbye. I had not had time to listen to
that one yet. That is a funny thing, and we kind of laugh
at it because you know, iHeart Channel. Our iHeart Channel almost called them
Clear Channel because we used to call Clear Channel. That was our old company,
Chip Channel. Did you ever know that we called them cheap Channel.
And it's like any business that is trying to trim budgets, and so in
a way, I'm glad that we get to keep our jobs by them trimming
little things like you don't get to go to Marconi's. We're not paying for
your airfare, your dinner, hotel, your ticket or whatever, but you
get to keep your job. Yeah, So it is almost laughable that we
won this award and didn't get to go. I mean, if I would
have paid my way, sure, but I'll be honest with you, I
was okay with not going, yeah, even though I wanted to go,
because going to an awards ceremony like that is not the always the best experience.
And I think we talked about this off the air yesterday. We did
yeah, because I asked Dave. I was like, oh, are you
kind of bummed you didn't go? Because Dave had gone last year because he
was up for a nomination, and then he went in to say why he
was okay this year. Well, when you go to an awards dinner like
that, you're nervous all night and you're like socializing, but at the same
time, you're nervous whether you're going to win, and you're nervous about making
a speech, and so you have to wait through everybody else's awards, which
you're happy for and you know you're proud of them or impressed or whatever,
and then they get to yours. And you are on the edge of your
seat, and at that moment they go and the winner is and it's everything.
And I've been nominated four times, I've lost twice, and I've won
twice. And when they called my name the first time that I won,
I was not expecting it because I sat in the very back of the room,
not expecting it. I sat with Susan on my right and a friend
of mine, a radio friend of mine named Art Volo, on my left.
And when they said my name, I was so shocked. I stood
up. Susan stood up, Art stood up, Susan turned to hug me.
I hugged Art instead, left Susan hanging, went up and made a
speech that I don't remember the only thing about the speech that I remember is
there was a timer in front of me, a red digital timer that counted
down like thirty seconds, like hurry the fuck up with his speech, bitch.
So that's really all I remember. So going to these awards dinners are
not the most pleasant experience. They're a whole lot better if you win,
but it's no fun to lose. Yeah, but you got to be a
good sport and your chance is really of winning. Are about one in five
or one in six because you're nominated with all these other wonderful people. So
they just did it because they didn't want to spend the money. Yep.
And that's fine. I mean it's not fine, but I get it.
Jenny. I'm curious if you wanted the second chair position when Fallon left,
or if you preferred the producer job and just kind of had to fill in.
I remember Falan always saying she wanted to host her own morning show,
but I don't know if I ever heard what your thoughts are on your career
path. Oh, Jenny, this should be good. Okay, So that's
a great question. I got into radio thinking like, oh, I want
to be a co host, and I just like that's what I wanted to
do. I wanted to be on air, and then when I got thrown
into more of like a producer position when I joined Dave's show, I actually
really felt like I grew in that position a lot, and I really liked
the production side of things, but I also liked the on air side of
things. So I kind of shifted my mindset of like I like being a
producer, I still like to be on it, and so I guess I'm
very happy with the position. I don't know that I was like so gung
ho, like I need to do this now, but like you might remember,
you might not a few years ago. I mean, I was up
for a job in Buffalo and I was going to be a co host on
a show, and then Dave and I had many many conversations of trying to
figure out what the best decision was for me, and ultimately I obviously decided
to stay, and I very much am happy with that decision. So I
feel like I'm happy because I was able to grow and learn a lot more
and then understand a co hosting position more by watching Dave and Fallen over the
years. So now I feel I guess I feel better qualified at this point
than I probably would have been a few years ago when I was like,
I want to be a co host. So yeah, I'm hyped about it.
Well good, everybody wants to be a co host on the radio.
Not everybody, but a lot of people, you know this like what they
want to do, or they want to be the host of their own morning
show, and you have stepped in marvelously. The only thing that I feel
bad for Jinny about it is she's old doing most of what she did before.
Yeah, and that is why we are trying to find somebody. And
we got a couple of lines on a couple of people. One of the
things that we've I think we've talked about this on the Minnesota Goodbye. I
was going to open this up to like, hey, if you're listening to
the show, we need an assistant producer, go ahead and go online at
this website and apply. And we talked about this a week or so ago.
That would have been a bad idea because we would have gotten so many
people who were not qualified, and we would have had to root through all
of these people who were not right for it in whatever way. The thing
about being on the radio, but be real honest with you, is everybody
thinks they can do it, but it is not something that really comes naturally.
I wasn't a natural when I first started. I had to learn by
doing the overnight shift and talking just a little bit and only reading the scripts
that they gave me. And then you get a little bit more experience,
you get to come up with your own stuff, and then they learn to
trust you, and you learn how to respond to people and how you you
got to know things like when to show up with a comment and when to
shut up. Ooh, that's good. When to show up and when to
shut up? Write that down. I like that. When to show up
and when to shut up. Jenny has gotten much much better at that.
Fallin was really good at that too, when to show up and support the
other people that you know that you know, if you need me to say
something, they call it yes. And so in the improv business, if
somebody goes, god, you know what I found. I found a mouse
in my kitchen this morning. You go, yeah, And that's really awful
because if you got one mouse, you probably got more. Yeah. And
I put out traps, so you know what I mean. So there's a
yes and and a lot of people don't know that instinctively. But then you
also know when to shut up. So if Jenny's telling a great story,
I don't sit there. I think one of the worst things a radio person
can do when they're to his stories go yep, uh huh, yep,
yep, yep, shut the fuck up and let them tell the story.
All show radio people or anybody in you know in this business, I guess
would would. When you shut up, you let that other person tell their
story. And I remember one time Kate Rattits was on the show and she
was telling a very engaging and touching story about infertility, and Steve, God
love him, he was going, yeah, oh uh huh uh huh,
yeah, well but tell me more about it. And I gestured at Steve
and I said, stop, like wave my hand like stop and let her
just tell her story because it was so powerful without a couple of dudes going
yeah, uh huh yeah yeah. So you get to know when to shut
up or show up. I can write that down. I like that too.
It is a crutch I think of certain people starting in radio and I
do it. I know too. I've pulled back a bit on the yaes
uh huh uh huh, because you just naturally feel like you should be reacting
in some way, but then you are taking away from the story when you
when it's yeah, every other sentence from the person who's saying the story,
you're exactly right because you want to show some support, but not constant uh
huh yeah, uh huh, because to me, that is kind of saying
fucking move your story along, you know what I mean? Yeah, uh
huh yeah, uh huh means I'm not really listening and I need you to
move your story along. But an occasional hm, oh wow or a laugh
is a good response. Right next one old topic, it says, but
since another version of Taylor's version's coming out soon, can you explain to me
the dumbed down version of how this works and how she makes money? I
mean, it's basically the same song with a chord change here in a word
here, But it isn't like sampling another artist's work and the original artist still
gets paid. So Scooter will still make money since he owns the originals.
Makes zero sense to me. That's from Jillian and Fargo. Okay, so
what I know about it is this, when a new artist gets signed to
a major record label, that is a dream. Because the major record label,
let's call it like Universal Records. I don't know what label she's on.
Do you know what label she's on? I have no idea. Well,
let's say Universal Records or whatever, or Capital Records. It doesn't matter.
They have the marketing power, they have the staff, they have the
connections at the radio stations and all the different you know, to get you
on the Tonight Show. So if you're just you know, Jenny's playing the
guitar, and Jenny's really really, really good. Jenny's gonna have limited ability
to get her song on the radio. So if Jenny auditions or sins of
audio to Capitol Records and they go, fuck, Jenny's really good, let's
sign her. They're gonna market you and promote you and get you on KTWB,
get you on the Tonight Show. Have a team of people that does
your TikTok and makes you, all of a sudden amazing. What do you
have to offer them? You ain't got, Dick, You got nothing.
So you pay them by giving them the rights to the songs that you wrote
and recorded. Usually recorded, you don't always give up the songs that you
wrote. So there's the recording yep, and there's the song writing. So
you still own the song writing. But Capitol Records owns the songs, right.
So, and I think, and I'm getting a little bit unsure here,
but Scooter bought her songs, the audio recordings of the song, her
full catalog. Yeah, so he made money on the album sales. He
made my blah blah blah blah. But she owns the song, right,
the written song. So she can re record it and now it's hers.
Yes, So she is making money now on all of these re recorded versions
because she has full ownership of it. It is not owned by Scooter or
the record label anymore. She has ownership of these new versions. So she
is making money now on the tailor's versions of these albums. Yeah, and
well she should. But a lot of people were like, she really got
screwed. She really got screwed. And in a way she did because she
wanted to buy the album from the record company or whoever. Scooter sneaked in
the back door and bought it, and she wanted it herself. It's not
the first time that happened. Paul McCartney, who had all these amazing Beatles
songs Yesterday and Hey Jude and let it Be, he did not own those
recordings. You know who? Did you know? Who bought them? Michael
Jackson? Bottom? Oh, I did not know that. Okay, yep.
So Michael Jackson had more money than Paul McCartney in the eighties. He
bought all the Beatles. They call it a catalog. So Paul McCartney still
owns the song writing, I believe, but I'm not even sure about that,
but Jackson owned the Beatles music, okay, and Paul McCartney was pissed
because he wanted to own his own music. And to this day, I
still don't think he owns his own music. So there we go. Jillian
good questions. Really like that. That was totally different and I really appreciate
that. Uh, clicking on the next one. Let me find a good
one here. Okay, I'm just I'm clicking through. I haven't preread these.
Hey, Dave, Jenny Drake. I've been listening since middle school.
I'm thirty one and live out of state, but I still listen to the
podcast most days. You're my little piece of home. I miss Fallon,
but you guys are doing amazing keeping the show going. I have a random
memory I've been wondering about that I could could be an interesting topic for the
Minnesota Goodbye. I remember, years ago, probably in middle school, the
Morning Show offered a job to Paris Hilton for one million dollars. Am I
making up this memory or was it real? If it was real, do
you have any interesting behind the scenes details from this. I kind of remember
that only because it sounds like something we would do. It totally does I've
never heard the story before though, when Paris Hilton was like on everybody's mind
and she had her dog and she had the Simple Life Show and you know,
her little chihuahua, and I think we did offer her a job,
but I don't think it was for a million dollars. I don't know,
because I think we would have said, oh my god, if she takes
it, we ain't got a million dollars going to say who was kind of
working up that cash, but it was just tending to get get you know.
We knew that Paris Hilton wasn't going to move to Minnesota and work on
the morning show, so I think we thought we were pretty safe. So
that definitely sounds like us Rachel, who is in Seattle, by the way,
But I don't know that it was a million dollars. On to the
next one. No need to mention my name. I'll start by stating my
husband and I have never actually had anyone babysit our boys age seven and ten.
Okay, with the exception of occasional wedding where the kids were in needed
to go overnight to grandparents, we never had anybody watch our kids for any
length of time. So we really don't know how the babysitter thing works.
Well, we decided to get all crazy and buy tickets to a show where
we wouldn't be bringing the kids. My brother agreed to watch the boys for
a few hours or so. We pre ordered three pizzas to be delivered for
the three of them for dinner. Some of the boys are seven and ten.
Fast forward eleven pm. We get home and we're starving for a leftover
slice. But no, the pizza was gone, by god, I mean
gone. We could even find the empty boxes. Now, I know my
brother better than that. There's no way he would walk outside and take the
boxes to the trash. Never we casually talked for a few minutes about how
the night went. I bit my tongue and didn't ask about the missing pizza.
But what the heck? Three pizzas for three pizza people would be more
than enough, especially when it's seven to ten year old boy. I say,
that's way too much pizza for three people, So where's our pizza?
After he left, I went outside and checked the trash and recycling just to
ease my mind. Nope, no empty boxes. He stole our pizza.
Ha haha, who does that? It's patty, I know, but dang
it. Haha. Staff Rider Tammy in spring Lake Park. I think that
your brother probably was justified. And I'm gonna tell you why. Why.
He baby sat your call, He baby sat your kids. He fed the
kids, the kids got to eat pizza. He figured I'm gonna maybe there
was one pizza left, or maybe there was a little bit of each of
the three pizza pies. I don't have a problem that he took it.
I don't think it sounds petty. I think it's kind of funny, and
he probably thought, I'm a young person, I need food in my house.
I love pizza. It's left over, I'm gonna take it. I
mean, I'm not saying he's in the wrong for taking it. I think
it's just weird that he didn't just come up front with them and say,
yeah, I'm taking it home with me, you know, like I would
totally if my sister was like, watch my niece and nephew, I'll be
like, cool, I'm keeping this pizza. It is kind of funny,
honest with them, But I don't know what the relationship is, So maybe
he just felt weird about saying I'm keeping the pizza, but I I'm on
his side, but I get your side. Next one, Beth, and
he says, Hey, y'all, congrats on you're well deserved. You find
yourself using y'all more often I do. I feel like I said to you
guys. I try not to say it on the radio as much because I
feel like it makes this false Southern accent or something that I don't have,
but I do say it. I would have never ever said y'all until the
last year or so, when it's kind of like, you know, if
I go up to a bunch of like you know, if I meet a
bunch of people out of an event and I say, hey, y'all,
you're ready to go get some food or are you all ready to go see
the show or whatever? It sounds better than you guys, because I don't
want anybody to go We're not all guys here, and I just don't want
to start off a conversation by pissing somebody off. I still use you guys,
even if it's women, and most people are totally fine with that.
But I'll say y'all once in a while. Anyway. She goes, congrats
on your well deserved, Marconi, I just had a NERD deep dive on
the Marconi Awards historic winners, and I'm seeing a pattern that there are a
lot of Minnesota station winners. What's up with that? In the past ten
years, no other city or state repeated itself for large market. You mentioned
Chris Carr Show was nominated this year, which begs the question, has Dave
Ryan been the influence to elevate all of our twin city stations? What is
bringing the talent here? Side note, the show Nabisco is on one and
Dave Ryan did give him his start, just saying I never thought about it
that way, but I will tell you a little bit of behind the scenes
information. It is up to the station whether to nominate themselves, because radio
stations basically nominate. You submit a nomination to get nominated for any award like
this, because they don't sit around and the National Associated Broadcasters doesn't sit around
and listen and research every freaking radio station in the country. So you have
to nominate yourself. And the last couple of years, I mean for there
was maybe a many year gap where we just did not do nominations. So
I said, hey, we should nominate Katie wb our show. I think
somebody down the hall said, hey, well Dave's nominating their show. Let's
have Chris nominate their show. So it's not like I said, we're super
cool. I just said, Jenny and Fallon and Drake, let's make sure
our show gets in the running. So you sin in your nomination, which
is what is in the nomination. So there's a piece of audio that's about
two minutes long that kind of just shows the different elements that the show is.
It's different for like different categories, but our show just kind of shows
like the funny parts, the serious parts, the goofy stuff, the improv.
And then that's about two minutes long. And then you send in about
a two to three paragraph description of the show and kind of why they deserve
the nomination, and that's usually written by our program director a Ga Rich,
And that's about public service and like you know, cleaning up the trash and
doing Roger's rescue ride. No, not that stuff is kind of included in
the audio element. Any kind of public service stuff, charity or when we
have like Sharon McMahon or something that shows just the wide range of things we
do on the show. But yeah, that's about it, all right,
get into another email here, I think. Let me uh oh boy,
I hope I didn't just close my email link. Yeah, I think I
did. I close my email link. So it's going to take another minute
or so to get into it. Let me just say you want to stall
for a minute, Jenny, So I will say that I am. I
feel like I'm overly excited for boob Bash this weekend because it's on a Saturday,
and a lot of times with our events, we do it on a
Tuesday or a Thursday or something, and I'm just like really higed that i
can go out enjoy and not be stressed about the fact that I'm gonna have
to wake up super early the next morning. So shout out to the promotions
department for having us have a party on a Saturday for once. You know
what I'm saying. No, that's you're absolutely right, because Booty Cruz used
to be on a Thursday night. Yeah, and then booth Back I'm still
water all the way and still water, and then Boo Bash has been and
Boo Cruz also on a weeknight. So this is the first one on a
Saturday night and a long time. I get a super busy weekend I'm going
to speak at school later on today over in Saint Paul, and then I'm
going to dinner with a friend and their wife tonight, and then tomorrow I'm
probably I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I got a little bit of
a free day tomorrow, and then Boo bashes tomorrow night. So anyway,
we were continuing with this email from Bethany and she says, congratulations day Fallon
Jenny Drake. You are a delightful part of my days. I listened in
the morning most of the morning, then the Minnesota Goodbye, and I've been
enjoying Fallon and Jenny's I'm Still Fun podcast as well. Keep up the amazing
work, Bethany from Minute Trash, I think I should give a shout out
to your podcast with Fallon, the I'm Still Fun podcast. What does this
tell me? When and where and what? So? You can listen to
it on the iHeartRadio app if you search I'm Still Fun with Fallon and Jenny,
it'll probably pull up if you just search I'm Still Fun. But we
have new episodes out on Tuesdays. We do get like some emails, but
it's not as much of an email friendly podcast. Like what the Minnesota Goodbye
is. It's a lot of like life stuff or very inappropriate things. We
I think our first episode was probably the most inappropriate episode we've done. And
we why tell me why because do you know the bug bite thing? The
it's like a suction thing. Okay, So I talked about what we use
that for my boyfriend and I that didn't involve using like having a mosquito bite,
So that was well. He joked about putting it on a certain body
part of mind and I said no, but let's try it on your body
part. And so we did try it on his body part. And so
that's a little sample of what you might get in some of these episodes.
But it's got a tiny little suction area about the size of I can't imagine
that would leave a mark and leave a big purple bruise. It didn't do
anything of that. It left like a little bit of a sensation, but
it wasn't anything that was painful or enjoyable. I think I think it was
just a feeling. I want to bring up an idea, and that's funny.
I was thinking about an idea on The Minnesota Goodbye called Naughty Tuesday,
where it's all naughty emails, Okay, so write it down because if we
do Naughty Tuesday, then that would be an appropriate part for that story.
And then also what did you once make love to? That might be if
we get emails in what did you once make love to? When you were
I don't know, younger and stupid, and maybe that would be a good
thought starter. And I don't know that we would get enough emails to carry
out Naughty Tuesday every week, but it could be like sexual misadventures, like
I'll give you one right now. I was with a woman when I was
probably twenty five years old, and we were on my dining room floor and
I had taken my glasses off to enjoy the lovin and set them on the
kitchen counter. After we're all done on the dining room floor, carpeted,
we get up and she gets up and I see something on the carpet,
but I didn't have my glasses on, so I wasn't sure by put my
glasses on, she had pooped on the carpet, okay, And so I
was horrified. Yeah, because at that age you're horrified at anything that goes
wrong during sex. You're horrified if somebody farts, if somebody burps, if
somebody queeps, and I hate that word because but you know exactly what happens.
So let's just be adults about it. Don't happen. But that's the
thing. When you're twenty two or twenty five years old, you're so shocked
by anything, But when you get a little bit older, you're like,
oh, well, sheep shit on the floor. I'm sorry you're embarrassed,
but I'm not going to make you more embarrassed. I was mortified. She
picked it up with her fingers, went and threw it in the toilet,
washed her hands. She came back out, and I looked like like I
had just seen a ghost. I am just so confused by the story off
her behalf, because I mean, it happened like during the love in,
like while you guys were hooking up. I just I don't know. I
mean, unless she had had some bad Chinese the night before, it was
a solid That's what I'm saying. Now, what's funny When Jenny said solid
that was a few minutes ago and our hard drive got full of audio.
Yeah, so there was a little bit that was cut off and we were
talking about how you know, whatever, like naughty Tuesday, So let's shoot
for that. Send in your stories about your awkward, weird hook up,
Send in your stories about whatever thing that you might have made love to,
whatever you got stuck in your butt and you had to go to the emergency
room. If you want to stay anonymous, and I'm sure you do,
I will not say your name on the radio. Just say Minnesota goodbye,
and then somewhere near the top say naughty Tuesday, and we'll try it.
We'll see whether it catches on. Yeah, So I think people would kind
of like that, I think so. I'm sure there's plenty of stories out
there that people would love to share, and they can do it anonymously,
so we don't have to use your name at all. Yeah, So send
that in to Ryan's show at kadiwb dot com Naughty Tuesday. We'll try that
next week. Have a great weekend, and thank you for listening.