Dive and right into the Minnesota goodbye and here we go. Are you ready,
Jenny, I'm ready? Okay, I know you guys talked about how
radio is such a unique and special thing. It made me think of a
fun story that I still think back on fondly. It was from Christy Owens.
The year was two thousand and one. My small town high school girls
basketball team had made it to the state tournament. We got to stay overnight
the Twin Cities. How exciting. On the bus ride up, we were
already excited. The bus driver was letting us listen to Katie WB. As
soon as it came on. Our entire team was belting out Miss Jackson buy
outcast. When we looked over in the stop and go traffic and we could
see a car full of other young adults singing the same song at the same
time along with the radio. We all screamed excitedly about how cool that was.
We were jamming out of the same song together and continued to sing the
top hour lungs along with them. Now with both of our windows down,
that sort of thing doesn't happen anymore with most people streaming their music, and
I just thought it was a cool radio story to share. Thanks for the
solid entertainment you crank out twenty one years later, staff writer Christy Oh,
Okay, I love that story. They used to listen to Katie will You
Be on a lot of school buses. I don't know that they do anymore.
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know that they don't, but
I don't hear really people talk about that as much. But I know a
lot of people used to listen to the bus drive and they would say,
like, oh my god, I was eleven years old or fourteen years old
and listen every day on the way to school. I don't know that they
still do. I know it can still happen because people still do listen to
music on the radio. But you're right, a lot of people stream their
music, but a lot of people now listen to the radio not just for
music, but for the company and the companionship. Yeah, and feeling connected.
So with Christie, I love that story. I want to make sure
I've read that one because that is super cool. Then we're CROs scrolling down.
Dave, you mentioned on Monday's podcast that your cop doesn't seem to begin
better even after going to the doctor. What did your doctor say about your
cigar smoking. I vaguely recall you mentioning you enjoy smoking a few cigars week.
I wonder if it's something you considered. Not trying to tell you to
stop, just thought i'd mentioned it. If it hasn't crossed your mind,
that's for Maddie. The doctor did mention that in a very non confrontational way.
They said, you smoke cigars because you write it down in your chart.
I said, yeah, have you considered stopping? Well, of course,
am I serious about stopping. No, But this is something where I
haven't smoked a cigar in a few days because when I do, it hurts
my throat. So I think that has something maybe not to do with it.
But it's definitely not helping right. But I will tell you I'm getting
a little bit more concerned because it doesn't seem to really be getting better.
And yesterday Monday, I really struggled because I was trying to talk with Jenny
and Drake after the show to plan things, and I couldn't say more than
a few words without coughing. And it's definitely gotten better from when you first
had it, but I think it's just like consistently slowing down. And so
that's what's frustrating, because it's not getting like drastically better quickly. You know.
It is really because a lot of the time, like right now,
I am trying to suppress a cough. A lot of the times I talk,
like right now, I kind of want to talk, but I'm trying
to suppress it. Yeah. Remember how we've been talking about how we want
to have a sticker for the Minnesota Goodbye podcast that would say official staff writer.
So last night I got a magical email from Marissa Collins and she says,
this months ago, I came to girls' night out when my pal Meredith
got to meet Dave, and speaking with Dave, I mentioned I'm a loyal
listener of the Minnesota Goodbye and I'd been meaning to write into the show and
contribute to the pot luck, so to speak. Well, here I am
a little late to the party, but I showed up with a little gifty
gift. Attached is a design I put together for the Minnesota Goodbye Official staff
writer sticker. I know your wife Susan's been working on it. You should
be able to love this file to the website and you're ordering stickers from and
Huaila. If you don't like it, or if you have any updates to
request, I'm happy to do it. I just received a graphic design certificate
and I'm eager to put my skills to use, and I need practice projects.
I thought this would be a good way to contribute love listening to the
Morning Show and look forward to new episodes of the Minnesota Goodbye every Day.
That's it, says dart Lick. Dart Lick, Marissa. I'm going to
show this to you, Jenny, let me see it. I'm gonna spin
it around and show and I wish I could show this to you. We
have let me come around. Okay, we got no here you go,
Here you go, tall you look. There it is there. You go
take a look. Oh nice, that's awesome. We got a little iHeart
logo on there, very on brand. The company's going to love that.
It says Minnesota Goodbye. I got the state of Minnesota in there, and
it says official staff writer with the iHeart logo the Dave Ryan Show. I
think the the only thing that might be missing is a kat WB logo in
the top half. If you can, Marissa, I will also email you
back. But if you can put a KTWB logo in the top half,
in that blank spot right about the word official. But that's beautiful and I
thank you so much for doing that. That is amazing. So I think
we are on our way and we have got a sticker for the Minnesota Goodbye
official staff writer. This from Jackie. She said, Oh, that's Jackie.
Is her mom. My name is Lucy. I'm nine years old and
I'm wondering what kadi w B stands for. I hear it on the radio
all the time, and my mom says to email you so I can find
out if it means. If you know what it stands for. My sister
always sings kad w B Minneapolis Saint Paul, Thank you so much. Love
Lucy ps. My mom let her me use her email. I don't.
I will write her back. I don't know that she listens to the Minnesota
Goodbye, but I don't know what it stands for. Somebody back in the
day knows what it stands for. I don't either. All I know that
I was taught was that if you are west of the Mississippi or call letters,
they're called call letters. KTWB is that it starts with a K if
you're east of the Mississippi, it starts with a W. The weird thing
is another station in town does start with a W, so it gets a
little convoluted, but for the most part, like you've got kiss FM in
LA for instance. And then but wait, now I'm getting confused because I
swear there's a kiss in Milwaukee. Also, well, there is a kiss
in Milwaukee, but but it doesn't start with a W. So in the
words, you could be w kis right and still be kissing. That's true,
but you're right if the standard rule is if you're on this side of
the Mississippi, you're a K station. You're on that side, you're a
W. But we straddle the Mississippi, so we have k's and we have
W dg Y and WCCO and kd WB and that type of thing. But
I just looked it up. I don't know what kd WB stands for.
I don't find that, but I do know that we used to be called
WCO W so W cow and we would log on every day with the sound
of a cowbell I'm on Wikipedia. And then we were not successful, so
we transition to another set of call letters, WISK, WHISK, but then
we became kd WB in nineteen fifty nine. So I do know that whisk.
That's weird because that's like short for Wisconsin. Almost. Yeah, I
never thought about that one, but I don't know. Maybe somebody knows that
is smarter than me. But I looked on Wikipedia did not find it.
But thank you next couple here for context. I am a thirty two year
old white woman from a small town in Minnesota. Yesterday, a woman wrote
in about some man calling her a C word, presumably because she was parked
over the line it was difficult for him to back out of his parking spot.
She mentioned that this insult brought her to tears and she was very hurt
by it. Now I understand being yelled at, regardless of the word spoken,
but it made me curious because I've never understood why the C word is
considered so offensive. I even googled why is the word so offensive? And
I found many of the articles very interesting. I won't cite them or out
draw or draw them too much because it doesn't really matter. If this woman
is upset. She was upset, and she has the right to be.
In the end, I wanted to say I don't think the words C is
offensive on its own. I think it is used to diminish a woman.
But I'm sorry this woman thought it was so absurd the man used this and
maybe not bitch her lady instead. I think it's such I think there's a
lot of in the pronunciation that makes it vulgar. Like there's certain words that
just sound like harsher, you know what I mean. The C word starts
with a hard C wordy and it's it, and it ends in a in
a more harsh tone like a. It's got a use sound in there,
so it's got all the things that make it sound harsh. Yeah. I
also will say that it is a little bit more of a societal thing in
the United States that it's such a bad word, because I have some British
friends who drop that word like we drop fuck, you know, like they
drop that word a little bit more frequently. So I think it also is
more of a societal thing. But that is one word that I would never
call another human being out of like anger or anything, even like joking.
I don't think I would, because that's just what that word feels like to
me, Like it feels so mean and evil that it does where you can
call somebody a shit, and or that can be kind of joking. I
got you're such a little shit. You known, but you would never say,
oh, you're such a little C word. But I have I've known
women who've also used that word. And I've also I've heard it used sexually
vulgarly, like used during the sex act. And that's always kind of surprising
when a woman will bust out that word during the loven But it is.
It is a very polarizing word. But I do know you're right that in
like other societies in Great Britain England, they'll be like, oh, you're
such a little sea and it's like not a big deal now, okay,
But it really interesting how that word absolutely is such a powerful word. Moving
down to another one. Here we go, first time writer, but listen
to the show since Lena and when the Minnesota Goodbye started. Thank you Steve
for writing Dave. You now say one hundred percent as much as Drake and
I love it, hundred percent, I do it is true undred percent.
One thing top of mind is being a dad of two young boys, one
and three. Nobody ever told me how hard it is. I work all
day. Then I come home to chaos at night. On the weekend.
My wife works most of the time. I'm watching both boys by myself,
so I never really have a break. Any advice for my sanity when I
never really have time for myself. Thank you, Steve, staff writer Dart
Liquors. Steve, I will say my daughter is going through the same thing.
Got one year old, three year old. It is hard all the
time. Call on the in laws, call on your brother, calling your
sister, calling your cousin Katie to see if they will watch the kids for
you for a day or overnight. It's tough. It is constant. When
we watch the girls, there are two of us, but one of them
always wants or needs attention constantly. One of them mes poop their pants,
they're hungry, they're crying because they're tired, they're crying because you don't know
why. And the other one wants attention because she wants you to play with
her. And it's really it is a lot. The only way out of
it is too I mean, yeah, hopefully they take a nap for an
hour or two at the same time, whatever, maybe, but get help
from family and friends. That's the only way out of it. Yeah,
I don't know how people do it if they don't live near family and friends,
because I've had plenty of people move away after college and they're from the
Twin Cities and now they have kids, and I'm like, man, how
do you do it? My sister drops my niece and nephew off at my
mom so frequently. That is going to do it for the Minnesota Goodbye.
There's a lot of emails we did not get to. Thank you. If
you're an official staff writer, the sticker is going to be on order,
so thanks to Marissa. Marissa, watch your email and write you back about
that one, and send your emails to the Minnesota or send it to right
there. It is Ryan Show at KDWB dot com.