It's the Minnesota Good Bae with Jenny and Drake. That was aggressive. Jenny
started off Monday, I'm excited because it's about to be like so warm.
No, I'm going to have to do some things outside. I think I'm
going to go for like a really long walk after we end today, I
think is what I'm going to do. I think I have like my whole
schedule because I'm a weirdo and I have my day planned already, but it
evolves and involves going to the gym and then I'm going to come back to
the station to record the podcast with Found because we record on Mondays. That
I'm so fun that fallon and I do, and then I have some work
I have to do on something, and then I'm going to go for a
walk around the lakes in Uptown with Andrew later, as long as his schedule
didn't get busy, because his schedule is always all over the place, right,
But my whole day is basically mapped out, including a walk. All
right, let's jump into the email. This one says, hello everyone,
my name is Sarah. I finally had to write in and say how much
I appreciate listening to you all. I am thirty years old and I've been
listening to the Morning show on and off since fourth grade. I remember in
fifth grade my clock radio was my alarm clock. It was set to Katiewb's
Morning show to go off. As the alarm, I would hear Dave's voice
in my dream and not wake up. Haha. I am currently on maternity
leave and listen to the morning show and podcast most days. I am writing
because I have two girls, an almost three year old named Betty and an
eight week old name Ruth. I absolutely love their names. There was a
lot of thought put into the names, as I am a former teacher and
never met a Xander or Xander with a zee or Xander with an x that
wasn't a little stinker. Can totally relate to the name struggle. Thanks again
for making me smile every day. Someone had wrote in one's asking what was
the worst name for a baby girl. I mean, we had just read
the email, and I on the spot said Ruth because I know a Ruth
that I worked with, and whatever, it wasn't pleasant. And then I
felt bad because it hurt people's feelings. And I don't I actually think it's
an awful name. I just was like I wouldn't name my child Ruth because
I have a story. So thank you Sarah for writing in, and I
hope you're having a wonderful maternity leave right now. I think, off the
top of my head, I think like Beatrice would be. That was my
grandma's name? Was that your grandma tres yep oh Man? But everyone called
her b b Love that all right? This one comes from a COLEMs.
This one colms what just happened to my voice? This one super weird is
about a topic that we talked about, I believe, on the show with
tipping culture. It says I had to write in with my perspective on the
tipping culture. I agree with you all that it has gotten out of control.
I find myself spending a larger portion of our budget on tipping every month,
every morning. That's at least a dollar to my barista, than a
few dollars to the person that brings out my grocery order, then a few
more to the guys and gal at the car wash. You get the idea.
The part that is crazy to me is tipping a counter service where I'm
simply purchasing something Deli style and the iPad asked if I want a tip twenty
percent or more. This is where it gets tricky. As a former server
and bartender, I understand the importance of tipping in our culture. The wages
for those industries are set up to need tips to survive. Do the deli
employees make a decent wage? I don't know. Another huge factor is whether
or not they are considered tipped employees. Tipped employees are taxed on percentages of
their sales, So if the IRS considers them a tipped employee, then I
feel obligated to tip because they will be taxed as though they made a tip
off my purchase. This topic fires me up. If you can't tell,
I would love a staff writer sticker if they're still available. All right,
All, all right, I was going to say it wrong. So Dave
was saying you could sign off with that if you don't feel comfortable signing off
with Dartleck, or you don't have to sign off with anything as well.
So now people are like, all right, And that comes from Emily.
I think is your name? I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing it correct.
Yes, I will send this over today to get you a staff writer sticker.
She does bring up a very good point because I was a server for
a very long time, so people always said like, oh, you don't
have to claim your cash tips, like how is the I R S going
to know? And by people, I don't mean myself. I claim my
cash tips, but they always said you had to claim at least ten percent
of your sales, so that would cover your cash tips, because how are
they going to prove that you got a cash tip. It's kind of how
it comes down to you. So what she's bringing up is a really good
point. Are these people who are asking for tips at counter service are they
being taxed based on the amount of sales that are being sold, because then
you do feel an obligation to tip, because that's so unfair if they're getting
taxed on that, or are they simply working their hourly wage and getting tax
like they would normally anyone who works an hourly wage and not looking at sales
at all. So there is a very big difference, and I'm so happy
you brought that up because I've never thought about that before, Like I don't
even know if baristas get tax then based on their sales, because it's like,
as a server, you have your tables, you have Basically, this
print off at the end of your shift just shows everything you've sold for that
shift, So it shows specifically how many sales you did. A barista is
working with four other people sometimes, so how are you dividing that up?
Is it? I don't know if anyone else has more insight on that.
Or maybe you work at subway and you have your tip chart. There are
you getting taxed on the sales that are happening, because then, yeah,
the tips do feel fair in a way for sure. Yeah, maybe that's
a little complicated. I understand understand that as a server, but as a
previous server. But that is a very good point that she brings up.
Can I just say it is still relatively new and a lot of people might
not know this. There's so many people that don't know that. You know,
waiters, waitresses, they get paid differently, like they don't make like
an actual it is different in Minnesota. Minnesota pays a little bit of a
higher minimum. I think they make minimum wage now in Minnesota, if not
more a normal minimum wage. Yes, And but in Wisconsin you get paid
like three dollars an hour. Yeah, so I didn't know that. Yeah,
the longest time, like that is still relatively a new thing that I
learned, and that actually blew my mind and it does change the way I
think about, you know, tipping and whatnot in such a different fashion.
But there's so many people that think that they make a regular wage on top
of like a good wage on top of the tips. Yeah, and that's
just not that's just not how that works at all. So good, I'm
Minnesota for doing that. Everybody should do that. I feel like, well,
there's a back and forth with that because when that came into play where
servers were making more the minimum wage went up or whatever it was. I
was still a server at the time, and some people were kind of frustrated
because they felt like then people were tipping less because they were like, well,
now you make a better wage where they could have made more just getting
tips versus getting paid that hourly. And then also that takes a hit on
the owners of a restaurant or whatever corporate place owns it. There's a lot
that can go into it. I'm trying to look to see how much servers
in Wisconsin make now because I just I don't know, I just wish that
these like, you know, these big corporate people, I just wish tipping
honestly, and this might be a hot take, I just wish, and
don't flame on me for saying this, but I wish tipping was never a
thing. I just wish that we paid everybody a good, fair, livable
wage, that these companies would just pay them so that we didn't have to
worry about tipping at all, because it's so complicated. Just pay people a
good amount of money so that we don't have to do the tipping. Like,
is that is that a hot take or is that? Like? I
don't know. I just think that there's a lot more that goes into it
than just saying that because you are providing a service. But then everyone else
is going to argue that, like, well, nurses provide a service,
teachers provide a service. I don't know, Honestly, I'm kind of over
this topic. We talk about tipping culture all the time, and so like,
I appreciate the emails about it, and I appreciate the conversations when it
comes up with something specific like what you just brought up, Emily, but
truthfully, it gets exhausted. It is exhausted. I think we all Yes,
if you don't have the money to tip, it is frustrating to then
feel like shit because you didn't tip on the iPad and the person standing behind
the counter knows. But it's also like, if you have the money,
then tip. But like I'm saying that as someone who doesn't tip at most
places, like I don't have the money to constantly be tipping, So I
tip at the places that I feel are appropriate, and I tip the appropriate
amount of money, if not a little bit more as a former server,
because I don't know. If you've ever worked in a place where you get
tips, you're most likely a really good tipper. But let's move on to
another one. And you might need a second to think about this, because
I'm trying to think of about it as I read it. But it says,
hello, morning crew, question for you, what did you learn the
hard way? So that's this person's question, And I'm going to read a
story first, so think about that, and then we'll each take a turn
saying what ours is. So it says I learned that you can't just slap
anything on your nipples and call it a day. I'm sure at this point
you're desperate for some context. I'll provide an embarrassing story as my example,
wedding in summer wedding season, summer strapless dress that does not work with any
sort of bra that I owned. The plight of a stylish woman. I
had forgotten to pack my quote pedals, which are basically there. If you
don't know what those are, they're basically to cover up your nipples and they
just stick to you basically so you're not piercing through, or if it's a
little sheer fabric, you got some coverage over the girls. So she forgot
to pack her pedals and was desperate to find something to cover up the blinkers.
God, I love your wording on this. To cover up the blinkers
in case there is air conditioning in the church venue. So my husband and
I take a pit stop at a local Walgreens. Unable to find anything designated
for the purpose of covering up nips, I find some moleskin. I think
my problems are solved nude color, and they solved my problem perfectly. But
my problems were just beginning. I did not know that moleskin is supposed to
be soaked off with water. But my husband and I were troopers. My
whole family was renting a large house Airbnb and the two of us were going
through it in the bedroom after the wedding. He was trying to remove the
moleskin. I was desperately trying to stay quiet. I was literally biting down
on a makeup pencil like I was a wounded Civil War soldier and my husband
was a field doctor putting a musket ball, pulling a musket ball out of
my body. Eventually we completed the task. I was free, but I
learned a very valuable lesson that day. Take care, don't put random adhesives
on your nipples. Oh my god, that was such a good story.
And I can't say their name, but you know who you are, and
I am I. Yeah, I don't know if I probably would have maybe
done something similar to you, because what are you supposed to do? Go
find a bra and pay sixty bucks for a bra? But also you can't
because you said you had a dress that didn't work with bras Basically, so
oh man, okay, do you have one off the time you're at Okay,
you go first son. So when I first got into DJ, I
was doing a lot of weddings and they're one of my first weddings I have
ever I ever did I was like about thirteen years old, and I've never
I've gone to a wedding, but I never had to like really dress up
for one because I was I was a kid, you know. So I
went to this wedding that was about two hours away. Okay, I brought
a backpack with me, and I wore regular clothes and what I brought to
this wedding was shorts and like a dress up T shirt. And that's that's
what I that's what I brought. Big mistake. I learned that you have
to like actually wear pants, like dress pants and whatnot going to this wedding.
But in the back of my mind, I was like, I'm working
the wedding. I'm not like a part of the wedding at all, So
why would I need a dress up? Yeah, So I just brought like
a nice shirt and some shorts because it was summertime, right, Yeah.
And I basically had to go buy like at like a like a store.
I had to go buy pants that didn't match anything, but I had to
get some sort of pants. And that's what I learned is you need to
have you need to wear pants at weddings. So I was super stupid,
You're funny. You're so funny. Okay. My story, I've told this
sort of on the air before is to never pierce your own body part because
I pierced my belly button with a cow needle that was bought from fleet Farm,
not once, twice because the first time I got messed up and I
was like, I could just do it again, no big deal. I
was sixteen, I think at the time, and everyone had like the dangling
belly buttoned piercings. All my girlfriends did. Most of us did own behind
our parents' backs. Some of them had cool parents who took them to get
it pierced themselves. Ye, and it, you know, got in.
It didn't get infected, but it got messed up. And now I have
a scar above my belly button that will live there for forever that I see.
It's like a hard tissue scar thing. And I learned my lesson,
don't do your own piercings. Some people might disagree, because I'm sure a
lot of people have pierce things on their own. There's probably certain ones you
can do on your own, truthfully, but I would definitely suggest something like
a belly button, getting that done by a professor. Sure. Yeah,
So all right, So that's going to be it for the Minnesota Goodbye.
We're a little bit low on emails, so if you want to send us
an email. Like I said last week, it's going to be Drake and
I on the podcast all week long because Dave is on vacation. So if
there's something specific you want to ask Drake or myself or both of us.
You want our advice, or you have an opinion about something, feel free
to send it in at ryanshow at kadiwb dot com.