Jenny Tella, everybody who's listening. The drama behind today's Minnesota Goodbye Drama is
the fact that we already recorded this entire podcast, twenty minutes worth of it,
and then guess what day went to go export it because that's what I
need him to do. When I loaded and it was not there, it
disappeared. It is like, this is something that so many people have gone
through. You record, or you work on something, or you have there's
a huge paper and you write it, or there's a bunch of photos and
they disappear. Everybody's got a story about this. Well, this is twenty
minutes out of our day. But I've done things for like I think I
used to send out a newsletter to DJ's. It was a printed newsletter with
jokes and show ideas, and I did it on an app called front Page,
which was back in the nineties, and it was you wrote newsletters and
scripts or whatever. And I remember ahead it saved on a floppy disc and
I went back to look at it and it was gone, and it was
probably a day's word of words and all the jokes were written on there.
I didn't have backup copies of the jokes, so I lost all the jokes
and so this is nothing. So we're gonna go back and reread some of
the emails that we covered earlier. Let me scroll and see if I can
find them. All right, we're gonna start off with this from show.
Not what my parents let us do. But when I was a kid,
my brother and I would walk and go and look for snakes to catch.
We would find snakes under rocks, logs, et cetera. I remember one
of my friends caught a three foot black snake by the tail and it was
trying to come up his hand to would bite him. We were around ten
years old. Also, one time we climbed up on this old lift bridge
that wasn't in use anymore. It was one of the old style ones made
out of metal. We would climb all the way to the top, probably
around fifty feet. Oh my gosh, above the river. Good thing.
Nothing bad happened to us. It was the late eighties or early nineties.
Oh yeah, Jenny, get one of those bug ultrasonic plugins and put it
in your basement to keep bugs out. It doesn't work one hundred percent of
the time, but it does help. Oh that's stupid thing. I don't
know if it's a cricketer or grasshopper, but it's a very consistent sound,
and I don't know the difference between the two. And we listen to that
thing chirping last night, and it sucks because we like to binge watch shows
in the basement on our comfy sectional and now we haven't been able to do
it because we don't want to listen to this thing chirping away for like an
hour straight. But I'll look into that. Here's the bad news. My
computer just completely froze up. So I can look at email subject lines,
but when I click on them, it is just going to be a disaster.
I can tell you what we did cover on the last thing. One
thing that we can talk about, yes, we won't be able to read
the exact email. Was someone was emailing in about what to do with their
child if they start school early and they're like the older person for the year,
or if they start a school later and then they're like the younger person
in their grade. Right, So they said that they were they got a
kid that's born like August thirtieth or something, they would either be the oldest
in their class or the youngest. I was one of the youngest in my
classes. I didn't really mind it. I mean, when you're eight and
your friends are nine, you also want to be nine. But you know,
in the scheme of things as an adult, I'm glad I graduated a
year earlier, you know, and got started on my adult life earlier,
rather than being eighteen. Most people graduate when they're eighteen, and you spend
half year senior year eighteen years old. That's fine. I didn't turn eighteen
until the fall after my senior year, but it didn't bother me. I
mean, I got an early start on my adult life and it was fine.
It bothered me when I was eight my friends were nine. I think
the main thing of my friends was the fact that, like the people who
were younger, and this is later in life, you know, they couldn't
senior year you got to call yourself into school if you wanted, if you
were eighteen, like you had the right to do that. Well, my
birthday was in May and we finished school like two weeks later, so I
never really my year got to call myself in, which I wouldn't have anyways.
But then also, like all of these things once again are not really
positive stuff. You are then the youngest person to turn twenty one if you're
like younger for you grade. And that was me and my college years.
I was the youngest of all of my roommates and so that was the bummer.
But those are like silly things to not worry about. But I do
think that my friends liked being older rather than the younger one in their grade.
If you have any preference on that, maybe you grew up the youngest
or the oldest in your grade. Let us know, would you recommend that
she hold her kid back or that she let her kid go in and go.
I'm going to stop the recording right now because we're four and a half
minutes in and I'm going to double check to make sure it okay. Records,
so this is what's going on behind the scenes. I'm going to stop
it and check it right now. Good news, Jenny, it worked.
It recorded, so we can continue and see what happens. Was I shared
the story earlier when we recorded this twenty minutes ago, that I entered kindergarten
early. I think my mom was, you know, she had six kids.
I was the youngest, and I think she just wanted like time away
from kids, and so she got me into kindergarten a little bit early,
and I was telling the story about how I had to take a pre kindergarten
entrance exam and it was an oral exam where I sat there with the kindergarten
teacher, missus Heath, who was not the nicest lady. She had been
teaching kindergarten for one hundred and sixteen years and she should have retired long ago.
She wasn't terrible, yeah, but she was not nice and warm.
Really, I'm kind of a strict teacher. And she asked me an entrance
question to check my maturity and intelligence. I guess. She said, David,
where does ham come from? Which is a weird question to ask a
four year old, because what fucking four year old knows where ham comes from?
No, I wouldn't be able to tell you. My answer was,
well, it comes from the grocery store. That's where my mommy buys it.
And my mom told that story for years because she thought that was so
cute that I didn't say pig that I said mommy buys at the grocery store.
I mean, I think that that's a pretty smart answer for a four
year old. Most kids could have been like I don't know, Pluto,
I like you actually had an answer that makes sense. It was that was
where she got him. I got in trouble once that I remember in kindergarten
from missus Heath. And she picked me up and she shook me, not
really hard, but picked me up. It just kind of like, David,
I told you no that type of thing, okay, because I said
but oh, I said the word but and I don't remember what the context
was, but it was kind of like, yeah, you're a butt.
And she picked me up, held me up to her eye level. I
can still picture her inches from my face and her glasses and her gray hair,
and she was kind of like moderately like shaking me a little bit.
And I said, I met like a cigarette. But because I was a
liar even in kindergarten, she was not stupid. She knew what I meant.
So I remember I had to stay inside from recess, so I had
my mouth washed out because I said, but we weren't allowed to say anything
growing up, which is like when we read that email about saying God in
Jesus Christ. I am surprised how much that is in my vocabulary now,
because I was not saying those things. When I was growing up, I
was not allowed to swear, and then I said, but a couple of
times, and like one time too money. My mom was like, get
over hair, and I got the bar of soap in my mouth. Your
mom did it. My mom did it. And I was old enough to
be a little brat myself, and I was like, I'm called child abuse
services or whatever it's called. Like I was a little brad threatening yes,
yeah, yeah, wow. I ran away from home one time because my
mom did something, and so I literally ran away from home. I got
to the end of the driveway and nobody came looking for me. So I
went back. Did you have a stick with a little bag attached to the
end of it? You know what I mean? I did, And I
didn't want to bring that up because it sounds like you made that up,
But I literally did. I found a pillow case or a scar for something,
tied it to a stick and put something in it, like probably a
hat or a bag of chips or something stupid. I don't know, it's
probably seven. Got to the end of the driveway, kind of hid behind
a tree, hoping that somebody would come look for me, and nobody did.
So I went back home. I feel like, because you're bringing this
up, it's like bringing up a memory of my childhood that I just forgot
about. But I definitely did the same thing where I grabbed a stick and
tried to pack something and like carry it over my shoulder. Really, and
I think I didn't even leave the yard. I think I just like went
to the back of the yard where there's like a bunch of trees and you
can't really see me. And I was like hoping that they thought I ran
away, but I don't think I even left. And you because at that
age, you really don't want to run away. Where are you going to
run away too? Yeah, if you ever ran away, tell us your
story. We also had some stories, and again my emails frozen up,
but we were talking about what you had sex up against and we got some
good stories on that one. So if you wrote in yesterday or the day
before and you're going they haven't read my email, it's because we did read
every email and the computer deleted the Minnesota goodbye and now it's frozen. So
my sister Donna ran away from home. I'll tell you the quick story because
I can't access emails right now. Donna ran away from home when she was
about sixteen, and the reason she ran away from home was because she was
dating a black guy. And back then it was more taboo to date a
black guy. And so my mom and dad, I think especially my dad,
said you are not to date him. But Donna was in love.
She was sixteen, and so she would go to youth group at the church.
The guy would come by and pick her up and they would go on
a date or make out or whatever. Mom and dad are at church.
A couple of months later and the youth group leaders said, hey, friend,
Louise, Donna hasn't been coming to youth group lately. She okay,
and they're like what. So they found out they confronted her and said you
are not to date him anymore. And Donna ran away from home. And
I was too young to really comprehend. I was probably eight years old or
so. I was really too young to comprehend. And I was certain that
Donna did what I would have done, and that was go hide in the
backyard. We had a TP in the backyard. It was set up all
the time a year round, and I thought, where would I go?
I would go hide in the TP. I was certain she was in the
TP. So Mom and Dad said, she's not in the TP. So
I went and looked myself figured and I'd walk in and triumphantly go, there
you are. No, she wasn't there. She ran away and joined some
Christian group home or something downtown. So she was actually gone for a while.
She was Jenny. She was gone for I don't know how long she
was missing. Let's say, yeah, maybe a day or part of a
day, maybe a week, I don't know, but she was missing for
a while. Can you imagine how freaked out you'd be. Oh gosh,
yeah, if your sixteen year old kid goes missing, absolutely that'd be terrifying.
But they, you know, they she lived in a group home in
Colorado Springs, like a Christian group home, and eventually came back home.
But she was always a little, you know, a little troubled, rebellious,
troubled, bad decisions. I mean, you know, I love her
now, of course, but okay, you know what, we got to
cut it short of the Minnesota goodbye, because we do want to read your
emails, but we're gonna have to wait till tomorrow. So there'll be bonus
content on the Minnesota. Goodbye. Anything you want to comment on, whether
you ran away from home, where you went, whether your kids ran away
from home, anything else like that, or especially should you put your kid
in school a year early or a year later. Let us know. Send
your email to Ryan Show at KADWB dot com. Let's see how long we
are in the Minnesota. Goodbye. Oh, we're okay. We're about eleven
twelve minutes, so we're a little short, but that's okay. Thanks for
listening, and we'll look for your email.