Minnesota goodbye, and let's get started with an email from Chris in Northfield.
Chris says, hello, fellow Dart liquors, listen every day from six point
thirty to ten religiously, and then go to the Minnesota goodbye right after.
And I was thinking, is there someone in the building twenty four to seven
running the board or is there a preset show for the night hours? Does
someone have to be live working at three am? Would love a staff writer
sticker to add my garge. Oh I thought it said garbage garage fridge.
If I make the cut, Chris, you got it. PS keep Naughty
Tuesday going, even after the disgusting Naughty Tuesday that we had earlier this week.
Jenny, do you want to answer that one? Yeah. So we
did use to have somebody called a boardop who kind of just monitored all the
radio stations. But we have such good technology now that it's very unlikely that
anything is going to happen that it won't just automatically run on its own.
Every once in a while, something weird goes wrong and dead air happens,
and it'll just start going on its own somehow. But we do not have
anyone overnight anymore. But we used to. Isn't there somebody in the building
though, if something crashes that somebody know? No, really, I mean
it's so I didn't know that. To be fair, like Vaunt his show
goes to eleven PM. A lot of morning show people like ky fans are
as much earlier than we do, and so they're in a little bit earlier.
So there's probably only a few hours of time that are unaccounted for of
nobody in the building. But no, we used to have board ops that
were here probably from like midnight to five am every day, and we don't
have those people anymore. So board op is short for board operator. Yes,
okay, so the board is what we call our console, but it's
called the board. But I used to I until right now, I thought
there was somebody, one person in the building all the time in case one
studio crashes, they can run in and fix it. No, No,
when did that change? I want to say it was probably during COVID when
no, shit, are you serious? Lots of layoffs happened, and so
it's just one more thing. That's why when we have when we want to
like do something fun where we maybe want to be on location for somewhere.
We don't have these people called board ops anymore to help us back at the
radio station so that all three of us can be on location. We just
don't really have those people anymore in the building. Okay, well, I'll
take you back even further. So the reason, you know, the all
night show they figured out years ago with computers, and computers made it easy
to broadcast all night without it without a live DJ. And they do a
thing called voice tracking where Drake it seems like Drake is on live at the
middle in the middle of the night. He's not. He records it the
day before, but it sounds close enough to a live DJ that you know,
people are satisfied and they don't know, and some people they know and
they don't even care. Like I listen sometimes to Sirius X him and I
know they're not live. They record that stuff two or three days in advance.
And I'll listen to like, you know, the eighties channel or whatever,
the nineties channel, and it's like, I know they're not live,
but it's still comforting to hear another human voice. Yeah, but I really
miss the joy or the feeling of like I'd come in in the morning and
there would be kind of a sleepy overnight DJ that had been working since midnight
or two in the morning that I would take over for. But with computers
starting ten ish years ago, there's no need for me. Yeah, there
isn't so but we are still live. We absolutely We never record anything on
our show unless it's a best of bit. So if we do something really
funny and we go, oh, let's replay that, then it won't be
live. But then I think people kind of expect that that's okay. Next
one, we were talking about Jacqueline. So Jacqueline continues to be a theme
of the show, and it really hit a lot of people in their heart
because yesterday, in the day before, we talked to Jacqueline, who's thirty
four and lonely on the holidays, want to know what she should do.
I talked to a co worker yesterday. She said, Jacqueline is just like
me. I'm not married, I've got no kids, i don't get along
with my siblings. I'm going to spend Thanksgiving alone and I don't really like
it. And she's like that really hit me in the heart yesterday hearing that
story. Emily says, I wanted to write in and say that. I
suggest Jacqueline to remove social media from her phone for the week before the holidays
and maybe the week after. There's plenty of days she probably spends alone,
myself included. I'm thirty years old, single, no kids, But I
think what could be part of the angst of the day is not actually spending
time with herself, but seeing post from everybody's happy gatherings. It could be
detrimental and add to the FOMO. Just an idea, remove social media for
days before and after the holidays, protect your peace of mind. Okay,
not a bad suggestion. I personally took up a retail job on weekends and
holidays. Although I don't need the extra money to survive, it's become my
social life and the extra money doesn't hurt either. Plus, when I work
on holidays like Thanksgiving, I get time and a half, so I get
it. That's your social life. It's kind of like this is my social
life here at the radio station. Jenny and Drake and the few other people
that I see. You're kind of a lot of my social life. Yeah.
Sadly to say, if I was Jacqueline, I'd find a craft to
do. Like I'm a Dodger paint by number, pick a recipe to bake
and maybe bring your cookies to a neighbor and cook yourself a simple meal,
take a bath, clean your house, go for a walk at a state
park, enjoy the day to yourself, and don't think about what everyone else
is doing. Emily some good advice. Yeah, it is all right.
Next email about circumcision. I was born in the late seventies. A doctor
did a circumcision on me without my parents can sit. I am the only
boy in my family who has it done. My parents were against it and
it was hard for them to deal with as they never took care of a
baby boy who was circumcised. When I had my son, I chose not
to get him circumcised as I didn't want other people in the family to have
to deal with it as they have no experience on how to take care of
it, etc. If they ended up watching them. I have another son
and I would not choose to do it. Also, well, I think
when you get a baby circumcised, there is a after care kind of a
ritual where it's like probably cleaning and putting on neosporin or whatever. But I
think there's more care for an uncircumcised penis with cleaning, and I don't know
all the things that you get to do. Yeah, I think you gotta,
like, you know, take a toothbrush to it once in a while,
you do. I made that up. Can you imagine definitely something I
have zero, absolutely knowledgius, so I have no idea. I understand.
Okay, Next one as always, thank you for what you do. You
really do bring joy to the folks who listen to your show. Thank you,
you bring us joy too. Seriously, random thought number one, and
Bailey does great filling in. I remember when Fallon went on maternity leave,
everybody was worried the show wouldn't be any good until she came back. Dave
made a comment along the lines of, this is my show. I've been
doing it for a long time. The show will be fine. I've always
got a plan. He did have a plan. Lena was back and was
awesome, just like Bailey covering for a few days where Jenny. It's awesome.
Although I really wouldn't mind David Drake being two bros on the radio without
a female voice. You're both very talented. Of course, I missed Jenny
when she's out. I don't all always succeed, but I always have a
plan. I never walk in here going, well, let's see what happens.
I mean, we joke about that. But anytime, like when Fallon
went on maternity leave, I knew what to do. I remember when Steve
left the show. He didn't leave by choice. He got laid off about
two ish years ago, and it came out of the blue because the company
did layoffs and they had to find salaries to cut. They said, well
Steve by and people freaked out, and I said, I know what to
do. You keep going. You don't throw your hands up and go,
oh my god, it's never going to be the same. You keep going.
You know, when Fallon left the show, it's a good thing,
but we didn't throw our hands up and go, oh my god, what
do we do? And I'll be honest with you, it's different. But
I don't feel like we've missed a beat. We still have a lot of
fun. We still get people calling and texting and showing up at Boo Bash
and showing up for the coat drive. And sure there are going to be
a few people who say I don't like it without Fallin, but that's been
very minimal to be honest. So you know, we all I always know
what to do. And that's not patting myself on the back. It's like
I believe in myself, you know what I mean, There's one thing that
I know how to do well. I can't dance, I can't sing,
I can't build furniture. I can't do any of that shit. If you
had me to build a bird house, the birds would never move into it,
Jenny, because I can't build shit. But this is the one thing
that I know how to do well. So and I mean, I have
been one of the very few lucky radio people who started radio here and am
still here. A lot of radio people move around a lot, so I
don't have a lot of experience working with like the bad side of radio where
there's lazy people or whatever. So I don't have anything to compare you to.
But I do know that, like Dave works so hard on this show
every single day, Like there is never a day Like there's days where we
are trying to plan something and we just can't come up with anything, but
we don't give up in that moment. We're just like, all right,
we got to keep thinking, Like this idea wasn't good enough. So like
Dave will never just sit and be like, Okay, I don't know,
I'm kind of done for the day, good enough. It's never ever like
that. He's just constantly coming up with new ideas. We don't understand how
his brain works because the creativity inside of it is just out of this world.
Fallon said, it looks like the inside of a toilet, like you've
like flushed a toilet and you swirl it's also and she's like, you know,
it was spray shit. Spray shit, That's what it was. Yes,
She's like, if you lift it up the top of your head and
looked in your brain, it looked like somebody spray shit in a toilet.
And God, I missfallied sometimes anyway. Random thought number two. I grew
up in a middle class home in Minnesota. We never got anything we want.
We never got everything we wanted, but we never definitely never went without
anything. I'm thirty years old. We shared bathwater with my mom, oh
as I did. I remember not liking it as a kid, but we
didn't really have a choice. My mom would bathe, bathe, save the
water, my sister would use the water. Then I'd get in yuck.
I remember always yelling to my mom from the bathtub before I was done,
do you want me to save the water, and she would say not unless
you want the dog to bathe in it, drain it. The joke between
my sister and I is now that my mom would shave her legs in the
water and we get in all the dead skin and hair yuck. I'm surprised
not many other people have admitted to this. I totally thought everyone shared bathwater
until I was probably about thirteen fourteen. I don't get what the point is.
I think, if anything, bathwater is warm water and it needs to
be heated. So you're saving one quarter of one hundredth of a cent to
heat another tub of bathwater, even if it costs a nickel to heat up
another tub of bathwater. Fucking do it. I don't know what my mom
and dad were trying to save back then. It must have been gas asked
to heat the water. Yeah, I can't imagine what else it would be.
We didn't do that, but we did have the rule that like,
unless you poop, you don't need a flush to toilet, like it's like
the whole like if it's yellow, lud it mellow. Yeah, yep.
So we had that rule because that was like supposed to save us water.
In the end, how much water does it save? I have no idea
right exactly. I mean, really is it worth it? Because when you
think about it, when you're a kid, you get into mom's dirty bathwater.
You would never get into your mom's dirty bathwater as an adult, and
she wouldn't get into yours. That's gross. That's my mom always went first.
But happy Thanksgiving. She goes on to say, dark dart lick lick.
You got to change up the rhythm sometimes or it gets boring. Wink
wink, So instead of dart lick dart lick, it's dark dart lick lick.
I get it, and I'm a supporter. I'd love a sticker if
you got any. Also, here is my address. Thank you, Courtney
in Saint Cloud, Courtney, Excellent, Minnesota. Goodbye staff writer, thank
you. Let's move down to this one. Jenny in the morning, Zoo,
what up? You're the best? I want to start by saying I
received two stickers, so I'm good. I'm the mom of three girls two
or teens. Topic. What is a lesson you didn't learn or understand until
you were a parent. I spilled my cup of milk every time we sat
down. I always said I didn't try to. His response was, but
you didn't try not to. I never understood it until I said it to
my kiddos. Makes perfect sense now, I didn't try to spill my milk,
but the response is, well, you didn't try not to. I
get what you're saying. Dart lick and say my name that is Stacy.
Thank you, Stacy. I have a story for you. I'm not a
parent yet, so I don't know that I have anything I can bring to
that. I don't really what's a lesson I learned until that? I didn't
learn until no, honestly, except probably don't make your kids eat shit that
they don't want to eat. My mom and dad used to make live for
once or twice a year, and I was forced to eat it. It
was miserable, it was horrible. I did not learn anything or gain anything
by eating liver, and there is no point in me eating liver. I've
never made my kids eat I've made them I'm not made, but I've strongly
urged them to try things. But I'd never be like, hey, guys,
here's the part of a cow that strains its blood. It tastes like
iron and it's fucking gross. Go ahead and eat this because your dad insists.
I would never do that. Yeah, my mom did a split piece
soup that was the most disgusting thing growing up that I could not eat,
and it was Yeah, it was a rule in our house. Whatever was
made and on your plate, you eat it, or in your bowl,
whatever it is, you eat it. And I see like the other side
of things with parents nowadays who like just let their kids eat whatever they want,
and then that builds really unhealthy habits because if your kid only likes sugar
and they have literally no vegetables in their system, that is only going to
affect them later in life. So I don't think you just like, let
your kid kids eat whatever you want, but don't force them to eat nasty
shit like split pea soup. I would make them try the split peace soup,
and that actually sounds good. I like split pea soup. It looks
like vomit, that was what it was, and the texture was so yeah
to me, So like, was the flavor really that bad? Probably not.
But I also hated vegetables growing up. So Timmy, it probably was
really bad, but no, I think it was more like the color of
the texture, the look of it that really got in my head. I
can see that, yeah for sure. Uh, let's see what else we
got here. I'm still looking Okay. Here we go super random, but
could make for good content. Looking through some home videos last night, noticed
something interesting about myself. I was inquired and show choir did all the things,
perform solos and duets at are school's programs. I noticed that I was
so insure of myself and intimidated by the crowd for so many of the early
performances. I was concerned about making my parents proud and scared of being criticized
or made fun up. My hair was pulled in front of my shoulders and
used as sort of a sh to hide myself. My head was face down.
You could see the uncertainty. Then my junior year in high school,
you can physically see a change. I was confident and proud. I was
no longer worried about the thoughts of others. I enjoyed singing and dancing on
stage, and I owned it. My hair was pulled back, my head
was high, and I did it all for me, Who cares if my
parents were proud? Who cares if people didn't like it? After watching these
performances, I reflected on my adult life and realized that so many times I've
reverted back to the insecure young girl that I was. But I want to
be that brave, proud, confident woman. I saw those last performances,
and I'll try harder to be more of that person. I'm curious if anybody
else has similar stories. I would say, not that comes to mind.
But you got to own it. I guess if you're going to do something,
you got to own it. Like I'll tell people, like I'll take
a picture of them after I take somebody flying. I took a guy named
Brett flying the other day and I said, okay, Brett, you're gonna
picture of you with the airplane. And I always tell people you put your
elbow up and you lean on the hood of that airplane like you own that
bitch. Because you don't stand there by the airplane and look like you know
the airplane is all powerful and you're lucky to be standing next to it.
You put your elbow up on that motherfucker like you own that son of a
bitch. Yeah, and now you look like you own that airplane. So
I think of just own it because I think confidence, even if there's not
a lot of competence, is really impressive, you know what I mean.
Would you ever want to go to a surgeon who's going to go over your
new breast implant surgery or your appendectomy and they're like, well, you know
what I think? Huh not sure, but I think we'll probably numb you.
Uh yeah, we'll give you a general Nah, We're gonna give you
a local. And you're like, what the fuck? He No, you
want a surgeon who's gonna be like yeah, So here's what we're gonna do.
You're gonna get here on time, get here about twenty minutes early because
you're gona got bla blah blah blah blah. And we're gonna do this in
general anesthesia. You'd be out for about fifteen or twenty minutes. You'll have
some pain at the NSTHESI blah blah blah blah. That's what you want.
Yeah, absolutely, Oh yeah, thank you, Ranita. And I'm going
to take a picture of your address to send you a sticker. Let's see
what time. How are we doing for time, Joe, we just got
a few minutes here. Okay, I'm hitting the lead on that one.
Let's see. Uh Okay, I like this one a lot. This is
from Teresa in Rogers, Minnesota. She says, love the show. I'm
thrilled to tell you the story. My son's in college came home for the
weekend recently. He had plans with his high school buddies on Saturday night.
The plan was to play a drinking game. One of the games was going
to be a joke game where everybody was supposed to come prepared with jokes.
When it was your turn, you tell a joke, and the others were
would try not to laugh. If you laughed out loud, you had to
drink. Sounds fun to me. We had taken my son out to dinner
before he was heading downtown for the night, and we were googling jokes together
and coming up with all sorts of good ones and having a great time.
Most were highly inappropriate, which we thought would get the most laughs in this
college dude setting. I told him to keep the Wail joke in mind.
Course, rolls his eyes and moves on. After dinner, he went on
his way with his friends. He came home the next morning, I asked
him how joke night went. He couldn't stop laughing. He explained to me
that all the jokes he researched and delivered got zero response. He was getting
desperate, so he moved on to the whale joke. And guess what everyone
else had to drink because everyone laughed. Lol. That made my day.
Had to share it with you. I love that stupid joke. Staff writer
Teresa in Rogers. I love that, and I love that I got it
from a boy Scout camp. Yeah, and it's so family friendly and it's
so stupid and memorable. I've heard a million jokes in my life and I
can't remember any of them, but that one I remember, and it's it's
it's do it do it Somewhere. Everybody that I've experienced that told the whale
joke, they're like, people love it, and I love doing the whale
joke. I think somebody came to the State Fair into the whale joke this
summer. Get nay, Yeah, all right. If you don't know the
whale joke, will save that for another time or google the whale joke.
But it is one of our favorites. Teresa, I'm so glad it worked
out for your son. That is it for the Minnesota Goodbye,