Fallon and I both got emails messages the last couple of days that and these
are just things that listen you, anybody who listens to the show or were
public figures you have a right to, you know, complain or find wrongdoing
or whatever. But I'm not gonna give you an example of some of the
things that I got today that I've already gotten today, Oh yeah, that
I don't agree with. For example, I was talking about a guy at
the Chanhassan parade who's probably sixty five didn't have a shirt on, and I
said, you know, you're sixty five. It doesn't matter what age you
are, if you're a man, leave your shirt on in public. You
know what I mean. You're at a parade. It's not nineteen seventy five
anymore. You're not in your backyard. Do you notice anybody else with their
shirt off? And people were actually looking at him like kids especially like gross.
Yeah, and it's not because your body is gross, which it's sixty
five years old. Let's face it, your body is not as attractive as
it was when you're twenty five. But I said he should have had a
shirt off. And of course, this is the kind of thing that annoys
me. Somebody says, Dave, you are wrong. There is no reason
that he couldn't be shirtless. He might be too hot. Health first,
I'm sorry if you have a health problem that makes you have you have to
take your shirt off, stay inside, or stay in the shape, or
you're probably going to be cooler with a shirt on to keep you from getting
sunburned. I don't I don't like when people make excuses for shit behavior in
public. Like, Okay, let's say there's a guy and he's at Red
Savoy Pizza and he's watching YouTube with the volume up. You might go,
well, that's rude, But then somebody will want to make an excuse and
say, well, you know what, maybe he is hard of hearing,
or maybe he is poor and maybe he can't afford I get really tired of
the excuse making for bad behavior. I know you're trying to be like understanding,
but at a point you gotta go, well, yes, you know
what, they did rob a liquor store and he did beat up the way
the lady behind the counter, but you have to understand that maybe they grew
up and it does Shut the fuck up, Shut the fuck up, and
stop making excuses. For bad behavior, and there's a real pattern of that.
And so then somebody else says, Dave, Honestly, it's not an
age thing about the shirtless man. The eight year old boy should have a
shirt on. Two in public? Girls have to suffer with shirts why not
boys. Well, I don't make the rules, but I don't think that
an eight year old boy should have a shirt off either. And I don't
think an eight year old girls should have their shirt off in public. But
I'm less offended by an eight year old boy with his shirt off than a
sixty five year old guy. Yeah, and of course we all know you
don't send your eight year old daughter out with her shirt off. Yeah,
and maybe it's not fair, but that is right now as of today,
July fifth, twenty twenty three. I don't make the standards, but it's
still a standard not to send your eight year old girl out with her shirt
off in public. Yeah, you wouldn't send out I mean Olive's four,
would just send her out without her I mean four years old, who cares?
Right, I wouldn't have all of shirtless out now. I mean,
like, I'll be honest. So my mom took her the other day to
the library, and I don't know if this chance has a library library or
what, but they have some kind of little water spray thing outside of whatever
library it was. And all OF's friends were playing in this little fountain and
she's happened to see him from daycare. She's the random running and they had
bathing suits on. And so my mom let all of getting her little undis
and running it now completely harmless, and she sent pictures. I didn't say
anything, but I probably would not have let Olive run around in just her
undis. I like, don't even post. I mean, it's not like
something people I don't post all of in her bathing suit on my Instagram.
So I do post Olive, but like, if she's in her bathing suit,
you don't see her cute little butt cheeks. You don't see like I
just I don't know why. I just chose that's why, because you don't
want anybody like looking at that totally. That's where I dropped the line.
You can see her in like a big old life jacket and a hat,
but like, I just don't do that. So I'm like, my mom
didn't post it anywhere, but I'm like, I would not have let all
run around on their little bandies. But I also know when they get hot,
Like if it was down at our little private beach, like and I'm
private, I mean my neighborhood. It's not like Jake and I have a
private beach our neighborhood, then I probably wouldn't care as much, but we
would have plan to go down there so she'd be in our bathing suit.
But I also know, I don't know. I don't know where I'm going
with this. I was I grew up on a farm and ran around with
my shirt off into an age that I should not have probably toil. My
mom was like, you can't run around with your shirt off anymore because my
dad always did. And I was like a little girl who just wanted to
be like her dad. But my mom didn't let me go to kmart like
that. You know, so I don't know, you know what I like.
Again, I don't make up the rules. You know, I would
have no problem with women walked around with their shirts off, and men I
don't care. But that's not the norm in our society, in the same
way that it's not the norm too. I don't know, pick your nose
in public, you know what I mean, one is gross and one is
I get it, but I will say, you gotta talk to your mom
about let your kid go to the water spray thing and with her underpants on.
I would not That is like, that's a little bit Indiana to me.
Oh, it's very Indiana. I don't think she would think anything of
it. She doesn't. I know it was because it was very impromptu and
like she didn't plan on any of that happening because she will take her to
the beach and she always asks Jake to pack a bathing suit and talent,
some block and stuff. So I'm like, it's not a regular thing.
So I'm not gonna like say anything. I choose my battles. I am
very thankful for her even taking her to do something. Honestly, she could
just sit in her house and watch TV. So I'm happy she takes her
to do stuff. Tell me what it was that. Now you got some
again complaints And again we're not saying don't ever complain about anything, because we
appreciate your opinion even if it doesn't agree with ours. Guess what, We're
going to have different opinions, but you had if you don't, if you
don't want to talk about them, remove on to email. But you had
something about somebody said, oh, you're ruining small businesses, or she had
a couple of things and they made me feel bad, and I just I
was like, I decided to not respond because I was like, it was
one message for each thing, so it wasn't like it was a majority.
I posted that I was going to do like a no by July. I
did it last year, which just means you make it whatever you want for
me. I'm not spending any extra money in July on things I don't already
have planned. So that means when I get the ad on my Instagram for
an outfit that looks cute, I'm not buying it. I'm not going on
Amazon and buying random purchases. I'm not going to Target. I'm not going
to even veer my cart away from the things I need like I'm not going
to And it's just because we all spend so much money on crap we don't
need constantly, so this is just one way. So anyway, I posted
that, and then someone who owns a small business was like, don't be
posting this and promoting it, you know, because this is like what's killing
small businesses and July is already the hardest one of the hardest two months for
small businesses and blah blah blah. And I didn't respond because I was like,
she's a small business owner, this does affect her. I feel bad.
I don't think my one post is what's causing all of this, but
it's not helping. Sure, But I'm like, I didn't do this to
personally attack small businesses. I specifically actually in my example said this means I'm
not for me. You make it what you want from me. It means
no more grabbing random stuff at Target or online purchasing. Neither of those would
be small business purchases anyway. But it made me feel bad and I'm like,
god, I And then I posted a picture. I went to the
Lobby Coffee Shop and Excelsior and posted a picture of this coffee drink that I
got that I like. And just just for context, the Lobby Coffee Shop
is a very more upscale than Dune Brothers, more upscale. It's it's very
I was there myself this weekend. I went there and played cribbage with Shannon
from my running club after we went for a run, and it was delightful.
But there are two other coffee places in Excelsior. Yeah there, So
the person message and said, you know you need to go to other places
too, you need to be supporting dun Brothers and Red Bench. Those are
the other two because when the lobby came into Excelsior, it took a hit
on those coffee shops and we don't want to end up like Zetta, which
I'll be honest, I don't know a lot about why Zetta. I'm guessing
they've had unsuccessful coffee shops or so. I don't know that. I think
why Zetta is just so it doesn't have that small town vibe, that warmth
anymore. Why Zetta is very fu fou very Why Zetta is full of expensive
stores, expensive little boutique places, and if that's your thing. But Excelsior
downtown, there's a freaking laundry store over here, there's an antique store over
there. It's got a very still water vibe. So why Zetta has got
an expensive project. So I was like so frustrated, and I was like,
I wrote back, and I go, I go to all the places.
That's all I wrote. And then I didn't read their message back,
but I was like, it just frustrated me because I was like, I
just posted a picture of my f and coffee. I didn't say like,
I don't know, just it just bothered me because I was like, man,
I got shit on two days and it made me. It made me
for a second be like, I'm not posting on social media for an except
for my required posts that I have to do through the radio station, because
I just it'll upset me and make me feel bad. And then I was
like, no, fouling, you're being ridiculous. It was two comments,
and I don't even think either of those people meant to be mean to me.
I think that they just were like they want their small business or their
a little town to stay thriving, and they they're so forgetive and they're probably
concerned. You get people who are overly concerned or overly concerned easily triggered about
whatever. My measuring stick is always if I do something or say something on
the radio and one person complains, I say it's one person. If I
get ten comments about it, then I'm like, oh, maybe I should
rethink, yeah, what I'm saying. I had one this morning that really
did just piss me off. And we were joking this morning about it.
You didn't invite me to your party, and you had a party on Friday,
and you're a terrible person for not inviting me because you're like, well,
it wasn't a work party. She invited Jenny and she invited Drake,
and we're joking and I don't care. I mean whatever, you don't care
whether you hurt my feelings. You don't give a fuck. So somebody wrote
in and this is the kind of shit that pisses me off. They said,
oh, look at this privileged, middle aged white guy complaining about something
again. And I'm like, I hope you're joking. They're like, nope,
not a joke at all. And I blocked them. Oh okay,
because it's like, fuck you. Yeah, Seriously, if I say something
and you don't like it, do you blame it on me being a middle
aged white guy. Do I look at another race or ethnicity or gender and
say, well, you did that because you're in ABC? Fuck you.
I'm sorry. There are people who you know what I mean, would if
somebody, let's say that you find somebody who's from, oh, I don't
know, Milwaukee. Yeah, and they complain because they didn't get an invitation
to your party. You go, well, well it's because you're from Milwaukee.
I just get really tired of that. Yeah, because as a decent,
middle aged white guy, not everything is a complaint. That's not fair.
Sometimes it is fair. So I just really hate that at it.
So I blocked him. It's like, you know what, I don't need
your negativity. Last thought on That was a lot of the time, when
we get a complaint or a negative comment, I look back to see whether
they're a fan of the show or whether like there was a guy who would
write in like Jenny's a whore, Jenny's always a whore, and she'll always
be a whore, And we'd go back and look at his text messages and
that's all he ever wrote. So we blocked him. Yeah, but then
somebody will say something like Fallon says the stupidest things, and then I'll look
back and they'll be like three text messages ago. It's like, Fallon,
I loved your weekend in five photos. Yeah, I look, I'll look
at that too, And obviously I don't like, I don't want this podcast
to be like a bitch sash about We're just being real. Yeah, there
there are some times I saw someone post like check in on your entertainment friends
because they have to pretend like they're happy all the time and blah blah blah.
And it made me laugh because I was an out laugh. I guess.
I was like, oh, I guess to see their point. But
it was interesting because I've never seen a post where someone's like, check in
on your entertainment friends. And I was like, uh, I mean,
I get it, but I'm like, that is odd, isn't it.
Yeah? But all right, next one, This is a Minnesota goodbye topic.
It says Dave and the whole morning show. You've mentioned multiple times you
got stacks of games in the studio that you've tried on the radio throughout the
years. I'm taking a bus trip with a group of adults from the Twin
Cities to an event in Chicago in a few months, and I need to
think of games for us to play on the five hour trip. I was
wondering if you have recommendations from your stack of games that would work for a
group like that. Obviously, it's difficult to hand out a lot of cards
have a game board. So far, I've thought to think fast the lyric
game and catchphrase. But I'm drawn a blank at the other good ones you've
played throughout the years. Also you mentioned well let's stop there for a second.
I would say name five game. That is where you say name five
orange things in twenty seconds, or name five cars in twenty seconds, or
putever what time limit you with. Sometimes it's ten seconds. Said snake oils
is it's challenging unless you have outgoing people. So I wouldn't recommend snake oil
necessarily. The Kazoo game if you have like one person playing a kazoo and
the or the humming game Okay, smart ass is basically it's where you say
I am a thing, I am orange, I am triangular shaped, I
can and then people have to guess what it is. So these are all
games that you can buy on Amazon or Target. I don't know i'd play
that with Like, yeah, I wouldn't play that one either. Um,
but that as you get you started, I would say, do this,
Um, look online and see what kind of travel games there are. Um,
there are travel game apps because we used to go do travel car games
all the time with my kids and there's tons of them. I would love
the one, the Heads Up game. It's a it's an app on your
phone, the Ellen de Generous one. It has like lots of different versions
on that game, and I think they're pretty fun and easy to bring along
kits on your phone. Kaylee also says you mentioned having a friend from the
Quad Cities that's in radio. I was curious if it having to either Greg
Dwyer or Bill Michaels from the Dwyer and Michael Show. I grew up in
a tiny town and those guys were my Dave Ryan growing up. Maybe you
have no idea who I'm talking about, but I wanted to check because I
love your show. But Dwyer and Michaels will always hold a special place in
my heart. One of my best radio friends is Bill Michaels, and we
are both magic geeks. We both love magic. I saw him last summer
at a convention and they had a magician there. And Bill Michaels is a
great guy. Love him. One of the most humble people ever, and
he's so successful. And I don't know Dwyer as well, but he's also
very nice. I don't I can't talk a lot about him, but because
I don't know him, but he's also very nice, so hitting to lead
on that one. And here we go last one. I think, yeah,
it looks like it wanted to sharry story with about my dad. We're
because we did for Father's Day a couple of weeks ago. One time my
dad I was a couple of years old. They put me in the car
seat. We were off. Dad was telling mom how skilled of a driver
he was. He was so skilled he didn't have to break on the long
winding road while ignoring the objections from my mom. He was going fifty five
through each of the four curves. Oh my god, he made it through
curves, and now he's coming up on the turn into their driveway. Well,
he can't back down now, so he decides not to break while making
the sharp turn into the driveway. He made the turn, but my car
seat was not buckled in. I went tumbling onto the floor, strapped of
the car seat, landing upside down, head on the floor. But I
was okay, and my mom never let him live that down. Take care,
love you guys. Great story. I'm glad, okay, and that
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