Already here we go with the Minnesota goodbye. By the way, I'm going
to the doctor later today. Two o'clock is my appointment. And I've been
coughing for like three weeks in a weekend. I said it's not better.
In a few days, I'm going. Then I put it off, and
now I told Jenny, I said, like, the farther we get into
the show, the more I talked, the more irritated my throat is,
and the more I want a cop. But I'm at home, and if
I'm alone and there's nobody to talk to, then I don't cough. So
I'm not sure what it is. But I ran five miles yesterday and it
doesn't seem to be a lung issue because I could run without like you know,
heart lung problems. So we'll see doctor Jenny. What do you think
it is? Honestly, I would say it's probably syphilis. Syphilis, yeah,
is a nasty cough, so it probably you'd be an oozing penis and
a nasty cap. Do you think that oozing genitalia is one of the signs
of syphilis? Yeah, I don't want to ask you that question. Actually,
I was about to ask you about was a symptom for you too,
But then I wanted to take it back as soon as it started coming out
of my mouth. An awards, what about any awards? I think that's
normal. That's normal. Yeah, a lot of people have those. Okay,
good Carly Rites in love you all. Thanks so much for providing me
daily entertainment, both through the Morning Show and the Minnesota Goodbye. I always
wondered what happened to Gary Spivey. He was our psychic for many years on
the show. It seems like a few years ago or more he was a
semi regular on the show and now I can't think of the last time he
was. I remember when he always said Fallon would have a baby, and
she was in her first marriage and always said she would, and she always
said that she wouldn't. Now she has a beautiful girl. I'm so interested
of you guys believe in that sort of thing or not? Thank you.
A short story is yes and no. I am not a believer in psychics.
I am not a believer in astrology. I'm not a believer in tarot
cards all that stuff. But I will say that Gary had something because were
several times my favorite story, my best story was when my dad was dying,
Susan went to Colorado because my dad and her just loved each other.
And she sank by his bedside and she stayed up all night because he couldn't
sleep. He was, you know, miserable, and he's in the hospital
and she sang Christmas carols with him because it was around Christmas time, so
they sang, or she sang to him Christmas carols. And then a couple
of days later I was there and then he died. Okay. So then
fast forward a couple of weeks and Gary Spivey's on the phone and we're talking
to Gary Spivey about you know, the future and love and relationships and people
were calling, and I said, how's my dad? And he said,
oh, he's good. You know, he told me the usual what you
would. He's good. He's happy. He's like, you know, out
in the wilderness and he's fishing and he loved and I'm like, okay,
whatever, So we hang up, have a good day, Gary. And
then five minutes later he calls back and he said, Dave, I gotta
tell you. I gotta tell your dad won't leave me alone. Your dad
won't leave me alone. Why he says he's got to thank Susan for what
she did. What does that mean? He's got to thank Susan? And
I'm like, wow, Yeah, Gary did not know that. But if
my dad could have said something, that's what he would have said. Yeah,
So I think there was something to Gary, but other times. So
the reason we don't have him on anymore is because people complained. Honestly,
you either kind of loved Gary or you really didn't like to listen and you
turn the radio off. And we don't always we like to have some polarizing
things on the show, but it became a little too polarizing with Gary,
I think. And I think that you know, in twenty twenty three or
we probably stopped having him on five years ago. We had reached a point
in our society where people were disgusted with psychics, and people didn't want any
psychic on the radio, you know, and when somebody would call and say,
yeah, I lost my son, and you know, what is he
doing? And people and people found that disgusting that Gary would, in their
thoughts, pretend that he was reaching out whatever. Yeah, and they thought
it was just disgusting, where other people find it really comforting. We got
a little bit more complaints than we did positive. So we said, Gary,
it's been a good run. You were on the show for twenty or
twenty five years. He's and I had to fire him over the phone.
Yeah, And I said, Gary, you know what, I'm really sorry
whatever. He's like, no, Dave, that's fine. It's been a
good run. And I'm like, you're right, it has been a good
run. But we do have him back occasionally, and we might have him
back for Halloween. Yeah, we almost always have him back in October to
do kind of more of your like spooky, like you have a haunted something
in your house, and we kind of have them on for stuff like that.
Write it down, Jenny, I got it in my calendar, okay.
And we love Gary. I mean, Gary is just a he's just
a good person, So we love having him on. Super nice, Dave
and Jenny. I wanted to redress one of the topics you spoke about on
Monday's podcast, regarding the airplane seating quandary. The writer shared how she had
paid extra to have an aisle seat so she would have easy access to the
restroom and more space in general. Totally valid reasons and very much in her
own right. However, when she recounted her experience with the elderly woman who
kindly asked to switch seats so she could be closer to her husband across the
aisle, I felt she missed the mark in both interpreting and reflecting on the
situation that took place. While I commended for switching seats even though she didn't
want to, I wish she would have been able to view this encounter in
a positive light. Was it ignorant of the old woman to ask to swap
the seats, No question about it. Was this old woman likely cognizant of
the fact in doing so, she was taking a seat that somebody had gone
out of their way specifically to select and pay extra money for. Doubtful.
What I'm trying to point out is this, we could all benefit from a
little less selfishness and a whole lot more self lessness in our world. The
writer should look back on this experience and feel good about what she did.
Whether she realizes it or not, this was an act of kindness and selflessness
toward the old woman. As irritating as it probably was in the moment,
to the writer, it was only a temporary sacrifice. To her comfortable,
and the old woman likely appreciated the fact that she was with arms reach of
her husband. Kindness really does go a long way. How do we change
the world one random act of kindness at a time? Morgan Freeman, thanks
for listening to my take on this from Maddie. Thank you, Maddie.
I would only say how far does it go to be kind Let's say that
you are walking out of McDonald's, You've just bought a big bag of burgers,
and somebody comes up and says, man, I don't have money for
McDonald's. Can I have your McDonald's. Well, the very kind thing to
do would be like, yeah, sure, here you go. But if
you don't have a whole lot of money yourself, then you're probably gonna go.
I'm sorry, I don't so I think there's a limit on kindness,
especially where there's an expense involve I was going to say, I think that
when it makes you not feel so happy, then there that's kind of where
the limit is. Like, that's a really good way to put it.
Yeah, probably was then a little bit more unco Bill sitting in the middle
seat because she had at the bathroom. I like this email or this listener's
email about looking at it as a different way once it actually went through.
But I do think that she could have drawn the line ahead of time and
just like spoke up for herself. But I do like the point of view
of thinking like you did something very kind and look at it that way,
versus did I do the wrong or right thing? Yeah. I do like
that kind of point of view. No, it's totally true. I mean,
she did make the woman's life a little bit easier. But I have
a problem when it becomes if you don't want to for a reason, if
it costs you money, for example, your downtown and somebody says, hey,
do you have a few dollars, most of us walk right by those
people because even though the kind thing to do would be to give them a
few dollars, Well, now it becomes an expense and you don't want to.
Yeah. So I don't know. It's a good debate, but I
think that Maddie, I appreciate what you're saying, and I think just this
is what I thought about this on the way in. I thought, in
last few years of our society, we've really talked about being kinder to each
other and nicer and for example, I'll use our show for an example.
When Fallon left the show, we got so many text messages that are like
encouraging, like Jenny, good for you, Jenny, good for you,
Jenny, good for you. And I still love the Morning Show and yeah
it's different, but I still love it and whatever. And some people actually
prefer it because there's not four people all grabbing for microphone time. There's three
people grabbing for microphone time. So we've gotten some very positive comments from people
who actually prefer it with three people rather than four people. My point is
people have been kind, and people will write in and go, Jenny,
you're killing it, or I love Drake's energy, or I love Drake's laugh
or whatever. And I think we've taught ourselves in the last few years to
be kinder. But my thought is kind kind people have become kinder. Mean
people have become meaner. And by that I mean if you look on Facebook
or if you look on any commentary or on Instagram, kind people are being
kind. Oh man, I love that video. Your dog is so cute,
and then the mean people will say something I would never do that with
my dog. My dog does not get to go to the beach and swim
in the lake because that's in that whatever. So mean people to become meaner,
kind people to become kinder. I do feel like I agree with that.
I think that social media has a huge part in it. And I
don't know exactly why, what the science is behind it, or however you
want to evaluate that, but I think that it's probably just because people are
hiding behind their phones and they think they have the right to be meaner.
Yeah, but I do, Yeah, I very much agree with that.
Would you say that the same mean people were a little bit mean. I
mean, we've all known people who have a mean streak. I've worked with
a couple of people on this show who had kind of a mean streak and
they had a chip on their shoulder and they were just waiting for you to
say something to trigger them then they would launch. And I think that even
but I think you're right. It's social media. I think that has made
us aware of nice versus mean, So I think we're all trying to be
a little bit nicer. I saw something unrelated but related on Instagram the other
day and it said there can be very smart people that are quick to anger,
so they can be talented. They can be smart, they can be
competent, but if they're quick to anger, people won't like them. So
you can be like really really good at fixing computers, you can be really
really good at designing brochures for your company, but if you're quick to anger,
people won't like you. And that is the number one thing of friendless
people. And they talk about little kids who are like quick to anger in
second grade or fourth grade or eighth grade. If they're quick to anger,
they'll probably not have a lot of close friends. Does that seem true?
Yeah, I would say probably, because especially when you're young, you get
scarred by stuff like that. But also when you're young, you probably forgive
much easier. So yeah, I don't care that Lucy just said this to
me. Next email, David Jenny, It's not exactly what you guys were
talking about. Along the same lines. You were talking about people watching your
house, dog, babysitting, and everything that goes along with it. This
summer, my husband and I had a nanny a few days a week for
our one year old. It was seriously awful. I had to keep checking
myself to make sure I wasn't the one with two high expectations. Our nanny
was a very nice girl, but absolutely clueless when it came to kids and
just overall house stuff. She insisted she knew how to change a diaper,
but we had to show her several things after the first few days of diapers
being put on backwards. She had good interactions with my child, so there
was never any concern that she wasn't taking good care of him. But it
was just coming home to a mess every day that drove me crazy. There
would be chip crumbs smashed between the couch cushions from her our baby doesn't eat
Rito's yet, dishes all over the kitchen, not even in the sink,
water spilled on the floor, food stuck in the high chair, sippy cups
of milk under the couch that I'd find three days later, microwave splatters.
It was awful. We battled against ants the entire month of July thanks to
her. She was twenty as years old and a few years into college,
so it's not like she was still in high school or something. I will
never have a nanny again, or if I do, they need to be
over the age of thirty ha ha. And finally totally random, but I
was scrolling on Instagram and randomly came across Nabisco's account and I learned his name
is Adam. He just simply cannot be an Adam. It doesn't fit him
at all. Nabisco is what we call Chrisco. Chrisco worked on our show
for ten years, and then he crossed the street and worked for another radio
station, and he did it in what I believe is truly an unfair and
unprofessional way. And so we're still friends, but I've had to get past
what I think he did, which was I think a slap in the face
to me. But I don't want to lose a friend over it, so
we don't call him by his name on the radio. I call him Nibisco,
which is an inside joke. But yeah, his real name is Adam,
and we used to get mad at him. I would call him instead
of Chrisco. I'd call him Adam, like Adam, do you really think
that was a good idea? Blah blah blah. Oh, I'm sorry,
dude, really good human, but I did not like the way he left
this show. Okay, what's what's our time here, Jenny? Two minutes?
Two minutes? Let me check our time here? I will wrap it
up. We're gonna ahead and wrap it up and save some emails for tomorrow,
but we always need your emails. I'm having Susan design a sticker because
she's really good at this, a sticker that is like a membership sticker of
the Minnesota Goodbye. So if you write in an email and we read it,
I will mail you a sticker that says one of two things, Official
Dart Liquor Minnesota Goodbye or Official staff Writer Minnesota Goodbye. Which would you would
you rather have Official staff Writer or Official Dart Liquor. I think Dart Liquor
is going to be more popular. That is just like that when you think
Minnesota Goodbye, you have branded Dart like to be a part of the vocabulary
for this podcast. So I like that is better. The staff writer things
brand new, you know what I mean. It hasn't caught on quite yet,
so I think you got to start working that into more podcasts and then
eventually you can switch to that. Okay, because basically the whole podcast is
based mostly around your emails, and it's always fun and it's so different that
that's really all we do is read emails. So if you write an email.
You are now an official staff writer of the Minnesota Goodbye. So we're
gonna make a little oval computer sticker or a yetti cup sticker that says either
Minnesota Goodbye, official staff writer or official dart liquor. I would love your
vote, so send me an email to vote on which one you like and
why, and also send any emails to Ryan Show at katidb dot com.
By this time tomorrow, I'll have gone to the doctor about my cough and
my throat, so hopefully I'll have some information and be on my way to
feeling But I feel great, but I sound like garbage that bad. It's
just I know how frustrating it is to be in the middle of a sentence
and then all of sudden you're like, oh, it's the worst, all
right, We'll see tomorrow here on the Minnesota Goodbye. Thank you for listening.