Speaker 1: And here we go with a Minnesota goodbye. With a
Speaker 1: lot of quality emails today, so think you've heard much.
Speaker 1: This one's from Kelly, and she says, I've been listening
Speaker 1: back to past shows. June seventh, somebody asked about donating
Speaker 1: or selling their wedding dress. She says she didn't feel
Speaker 1: right about donating it, but didn't know about selling it
Speaker 1: and wanted to know what to do with it. I
Speaker 1: recently heard about donating wedding dresses to a program that
Speaker 1: makes outfits for babies that are born with their wings.
Speaker 2: Yes, I've heard of that.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it's called, so you'd have to
Speaker 1: look into it. But they make outfits out of the
Speaker 1: wedding dresses so the parents don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: picking out an outfit for their angels, as most of
Speaker 1: the time they don't make regular baby clothes small enough
Speaker 1: for them. Just thought i'd leave that out there for
Speaker 1: everybody else wondering what they can do, but still still
Speaker 1: feel good about it.
Speaker 2: Yes, I've heard of that too, and I can't remember
Speaker 2: where I saw it, and I know I saved it
Speaker 2: because I thought it was fascinating. But they it's essentially
Speaker 2: kind of like a communion not a communion dress. Baptism dress. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that they make out of wedding dress. It's very sweet.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think if you have a wedding dress and
Speaker 1: you're divorced and you have no sentimental value for that dress,
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, what can I do with it?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: So now there is an idea. Here's another really cool idea.
Speaker 1: And I like this a lot. Britney writes in and says,
Speaker 1: anybody wants a real Christmas tree but has limited space
Speaker 1: or budget or both. I went to a regular nursery
Speaker 1: this year, not one of those pop up Christmas tree places,
Speaker 1: and they showed me spruce tops. It looks exactly like
Speaker 1: a small Christmas tree. And get this, it was fourteen
Speaker 1: ninety nine.
Speaker 2: Wow, what a deal.
Speaker 1: It's about five foot tall, maybe two or three feet
Speaker 1: in diameter. She's a little less full than a regular tree.
Speaker 1: But I absolutely love this alternative. Just thought I would share.
Speaker 1: And she's sent in a picture for reference, and it
Speaker 1: is the top of a spruce tree. That's cute and
Speaker 1: it's great, and it's like, you know, it's small, but
Speaker 1: some that might be exactly what you want.
Speaker 2: Huh, Like a person living yeah, or you live by yourself.
Speaker 2: You don't have a family. I have a teeny tiny
Speaker 2: little tree.
Speaker 1: Is a real tree or fake tree?
Speaker 2: It's a fake tree. I have the one that has
Speaker 2: the like the gosh needles are fiber optics, so they
Speaker 2: like it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I really like that one. And it's
Speaker 1: fourteen ninety nine. So and the Christmas tree we bought
Speaker 1: this year, and we bought it from the Lions Lot
Speaker 1: so it goes to a good cause. It was one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty bucks. Crap, it's about an eight foot
Speaker 1: tall tree.
Speaker 2: Wow, I didn't know. I've never had a real tree,
Speaker 2: so I never know. Actually how much those cost.
Speaker 1: They've definitely gone up in price. Yeah, they have next one,
Speaker 1: it says a hello, favorite morning show. The topic of
Speaker 1: health results test results getting posted to an online portal
Speaker 1: rather than coming from your provider has come up twice
Speaker 1: on your show, so I wanted to quickly share why
Speaker 1: that is, because it's kind of interesting. Previously, test results
Speaker 1: needed to be reviewed by your provider before being posted
Speaker 1: to your health portal, so your provider could leave comments
Speaker 1: or call their patients to tell them the results if
Speaker 1: it was bad news. However, people were getting mad because
Speaker 1: providers needing to review results obviously adds more time from
Speaker 1: when you get testing done to when you see the results.
Speaker 1: I cannot remember if legal action was taken by a
Speaker 1: patient or regulation changed, but it's now a requirement that
Speaker 1: lab results be posted to health portals as soon as
Speaker 1: they are reported by the lab, and then providers add
Speaker 1: in commentary retroactively. Really great if you rapidly find out
Speaker 1: your results are good, but obviously unfortunate to somebody who
Speaker 1: founds out they have abnormal results with no explanation from
Speaker 1: the doctor. I had a result come back abnormal one time.
Speaker 1: It turned out it wasn't a big deal, but because
Speaker 1: my doctor didn't review before I received my results, I
Speaker 1: freaked out and thought something was horribly wrong. Luckily for me,
Speaker 1: my mom is a doctor, so I called her freaking out,
Speaker 1: and she said it's nothing bad, and then proceeded to
Speaker 1: go on a rant about how annoying this changed regulation
Speaker 1: is because it causes stress and upset for people for
Speaker 1: no reason. Now I know why it happens, Jenny, I
Speaker 1: am so happy you are okay.
Speaker 3: Thank you. One thing I missed part of that email
Speaker 3: because I just walked in. But one thing I'll say
Speaker 3: that was really helpful for me when I was waiting
Speaker 3: for test results. Is I just copied everything that was
Speaker 3: in my chart and put it into chat GPT, and
Speaker 3: I said, can you put this in layman's.
Speaker 1: Terms for me now?
Speaker 3: And it broke it down to like the most basic
Speaker 3: thing to understand what it was. And I could understand
Speaker 3: it for the most part. But I wanted that backup
Speaker 3: before I heard from my doctorate because my doctor usually
Speaker 3: couldn't get to things till like the end of the
Speaker 3: day or the next day or whatever. But that might
Speaker 3: be helpful for anyone who might be reading a chart
Speaker 3: and not fully understanding and like, just paste it into
Speaker 3: chat GPT and be like, explain this to me in
Speaker 3: simpler terms.
Speaker 1: What a great tool. Next, one all the way from
Speaker 1: Arizona says, good morning. I live in Arizona, but I'm
Speaker 1: originally from Minnesota, where I still have family. My nephew's
Speaker 1: wife and I both loved the Dave Ryan Show, so
Speaker 1: when we had a bit when they had a baby,
Speaker 1: I had to get her Dave's book. When she received it,
Speaker 1: she responded, Dave Ryan book, are you kidding me? I
Speaker 1: can't wait to read it to her available now on
Speaker 1: Amazon dot Com. I immediately felt connection with her because
Speaker 1: of our shared interest in the show. Living in Arizona,
Speaker 1: it's hard to find somebody who understands my love for it,
Speaker 1: so it's wonderful to have somebody to share that with
Speaker 1: here in Arizona. Whenever I mentioned Dave Jenny Vont Bailey,
Speaker 1: people look at me and go who followed by, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: your BFFs who don't even know you exist? Oh gee, wow,
Speaker 1: that's cruel. I know everybody says this, but your show
Speaker 1: has had a huge impact on my life. I've been
Speaker 1: a P one listener since Dave started in Minnesota in
Speaker 1: the nineties. Your show has been a constant source of joy, laughter,
Speaker 1: and comfort for me. Your humor and genuine connection brighten
Speaker 1: my world and make each morning more bearable. You're always
Speaker 1: you always managed to lift my spirits and put a
Speaker 1: smile on my face even on tough days. Dave, you
Speaker 1: are truly amazing. When I grow up, I want to
Speaker 1: be like Jenny, even though I'm much older than she is.
Speaker 1: You are an incredibly impressive woman, Bailey. Your positive spirit
Speaker 1: and energy are truly inspirational. Vaunt. I have children your
Speaker 1: age and I hope they can be as successful as
Speaker 1: you one day. I apologize for the link of this message.
Speaker 1: It's challenging to be brief when there's so much to say.
Speaker 1: Thank you for everything you do, Nikki that I love
Speaker 1: that so much, And I will only say that it
Speaker 1: goes both ways because I feel such a connection with
Speaker 1: people who feel connected to this show that it really
Speaker 1: is not a one way street. And when your friend says, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're BFFs who don't even know you exist, we are
Speaker 1: critically aware that you exist. Even if we've never met
Speaker 1: or spoken to you. We are critically aware.
Speaker 2: I think about you before I go to bed. Yeah,
Speaker 2: critically aware, and I go she's listening.
Speaker 1: So no, seriously, I think, you know. Sometimes I think
Speaker 1: it's why I love doing radio so much, because I
Speaker 1: feel like I belong. I feel like I have a purpose,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And so thank you because
Speaker 1: you are critically important to us. Next one, this came up,
Speaker 1: and I just wanted to kind of acknowledge this one.
Speaker 1: Vaunt about the right turn on Red was a pretty
Speaker 1: controversial thing on Reddit, and they sent me a link
Speaker 1: and we talked about this at length on Monday, where
Speaker 1: says Vont KWB said something so dumb. I cannot even
Speaker 1: listen to their show anymore. I don't turn right on
Speaker 1: red get over it be late. You should have been
Speaker 1: in front of me. Then it's just one listener, but
Speaker 1: I can't listen to his voice after hearing that. Thanks
Speaker 1: for coming to my Ted Talk. I'll be sticking to
Speaker 1: ninety three X in ninety four point five exclusively. Now,
Speaker 1: Vont got a ton of reaction on Reddit, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people were really annoyed with him, But we
Speaker 1: just thought it was kind of funny.
Speaker 2: That's the whole point of the bit on, not the bit,
Speaker 2: but hit that segment. He's supposed to stir the pot,
Speaker 2: and so he clearly did.
Speaker 1: He did, and I think that he was kind of
Speaker 1: poking the bear. I don't know that he really believes that,
Speaker 1: but Bunt is good at saying something that'll just pish off.
Speaker 1: Kenda writes in Southern Minnesota, p one listener, Hello, my peeps,
Speaker 1: I wanted to send an email to discuss some Christmas
Speaker 1: ideas with you guys. First, let's discuss favorite Christmas songs
Speaker 1: and least favorite Christmas songs. My favorite would be Carol
Speaker 1: of the Bells, and least favorite would be Wham's Last Christmas.
Speaker 1: I'd be interested to hear all of yours. I know
Speaker 1: Dave is going to say sleigh Ride for his favorite,
Speaker 1: which he is overdue for to play and on the
Speaker 1: Morning show before Christmas break, So yeah, sleigh Ride. I'd
Speaker 1: say my least favorite is hmmm, probably rocking around the
Speaker 1: Christmas Tree. I don't know if I've just heard it
Speaker 1: enough times, but if I thought about it longer, I'd
Speaker 1: probably come up with something worse.
Speaker 2: I like the Scrooge song from them up at Christmas Carol,
Speaker 2: and I also like Merry Christmas Darling by the Carpenters.
Speaker 1: Oh that's pretty yeah.
Speaker 2: But my least favorite Christmas songs, and this is where
Speaker 2: I feel the most vehemently, is simply having a wonderful
Speaker 2: Christmas time. Oh I hate that song and War is Over?
Speaker 2: I hate that song, okay, And so two Beatles have
Speaker 2: the worst Christmas.
Speaker 1: Song Good Bad Choices Ah, so terrible.
Speaker 2: I hate both those songs instant change the channel the
Speaker 2: second they come on.
Speaker 3: Jenny, I don't know that I really dislike any songs.
Speaker 3: I like ones that have words, and no more so
Speaker 3: than they're just instrumental but I do. However, I also
Speaker 3: like trans Hiberian Orchestra, so I feel like I'm up
Speaker 3: in the air. But favorite songs I love. Christina Aguilera's
Speaker 3: like entire Christmas album Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday or no,
Speaker 3: what's is that?
Speaker 2: Mary christinc One? Yeah, yeah, Marry Christmas, Habby Holidays?
Speaker 3: Hey blank? First Christmas are probably my favorite ones?
Speaker 1: So good? Oh the in sync one right happy? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we haven't played that one yet either. Second if from
Speaker 1: Kendra is another idea, if it's not too personal, could
Speaker 1: you please make a reel of you all sharing your
Speaker 1: Christmas trees and your favorite ornaments and what some of
Speaker 1: them mean or if they have special meaning behind them.
Speaker 1: I feel like Bailey would have something crazy on her
Speaker 1: Christmas tree. Well I don't really have.
Speaker 2: I mean, I have a tree, but it's small, and
Speaker 2: I don't really have like ornaments to put on it.
Speaker 2: My mom saved an ornament every year for me and
Speaker 2: my sister growing up, and she's like, Okay, now you'll
Speaker 2: have ornaments when you get your very own tree and
Speaker 2: your very own house with your family or whatever. And
Speaker 2: I don't have a family, and I don't have a house,
Speaker 2: so I don't have a large tree, so I have
Speaker 2: a big box of ornaments that don't fit on my
Speaker 2: tidy tree. So I feel like I am gonna disappoint
Speaker 2: you there. But I do have a ceramic cat that
Speaker 2: has a Christmas tree that's growing out of its head,
Speaker 2: and I just thought that was funny, so I bought it.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's cute. Yeahah, anything Jenny come to mind.
Speaker 3: I don't know that I have anything sentimental, but when
Speaker 3: we put up our tree this year, Andrew and I
Speaker 3: both were like, well, which one's your favorite ornament? And
Speaker 3: it was just this one that's beautiful that my mom
Speaker 3: got me. There's not really, okay, anything like super crazy
Speaker 3: story behind it, but it's just a really pretty ornament
Speaker 3: that I think stands out of against all the other ones.
Speaker 1: We've got kids, so we've got so many handmade little
Speaker 1: kid ornaments with their pictures in them, and we've kept
Speaker 1: every single one of them. But my favorite is one
Speaker 1: I've had for thirty years, and it's a little old
Speaker 1: fashioned radio with a cat rubbing up against it affectionately,
Speaker 1: and you push them it plugs into a lamp like
Speaker 1: a light bulb socket, and it says something like it's
Speaker 1: a radio announcer and it says something like this, just
Speaker 1: in Santa has been spotted overhead listen for Reindeer on
Speaker 1: the roof and I just love it and it lights
Speaker 1: up and I can't get it to work this year
Speaker 1: because it won't fit into the light socket because I
Speaker 1: think light sockets have changed. I don't know, but yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe we can make a reel of all of our
Speaker 1: Somebody remember that. Write it down, Jenny, write it down.
Speaker 1: Thank you for bringing me joy every single day. And
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to all, and have a good holiday break.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Kendra. Next one, uh oh, Sydney's been on Reddit.
Speaker 1: Sorry Jenny, that's how it starts.
Speaker 3: Let's hear it.
Speaker 1: Good morning. This morning, I had a chance to scroll
Speaker 1: through Reddit. Found a question I thought you might find interesting.
Speaker 1: I had so much fun reading everybody's answers, came up
Speaker 1: with a few of my own. Curious, if you have
Speaker 1: any thoughts? What were you denied as a child that
Speaker 1: you now indulge in as an adult? A few of
Speaker 1: mine perfume, scented lotions, and body spray. My mom was
Speaker 1: always sensitive to smell, so none of these were allowed.
Speaker 1: As a team. I vividly remember my mom searching through
Speaker 1: my room and car as if she was looking for drugs,
Speaker 1: when she was really trying to find my contraband body
Speaker 1: sprays and highly scented lotions. Now, as an adult, I
Speaker 1: have an entire cupboard full of them, partly to use
Speaker 1: and partly just because I can. Anybody have anything that
Speaker 1: you were not allowed to have when you were a.
Speaker 2: Kid, snacks in general, snacks. I we lived in an
Speaker 2: ingredient household, and so if we were hungry, my mom
Speaker 2: would be like, you can make yourself a salad, and
Speaker 2: we like, no, I don't want a salad, so we
Speaker 2: have like carrots. We would have like lettuce, and then
Speaker 2: maybe things to make, like if we wanted to make cookies,
Speaker 2: but then you'd have to like make the cookies. So
Speaker 2: everything was an ingredient. Nothing was a snack. So now
Speaker 2: I can have snacks.
Speaker 1: I can't really think of anything. I think any yeah,
Speaker 1: good snacks, because we didn't have good snacks as a kid.
Speaker 1: It was either I remember one time for a snack,
Speaker 1: and this is not uncommon, you would sprinkle some salt
Speaker 1: into the left palm of your hand and then lick
Speaker 1: a toothpick with the right one, and then dip it
Speaker 1: into the salt, and that was a snack. And I'm
Speaker 1: not making this up.
Speaker 2: That's so depressing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this during the Depression. It was during the Great Depression.
Speaker 1: We were actually on the Oregon Trail.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and yeah, and then my brother died of cholera colera.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well at least it wasn't dysentery.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And we had to shoot oxen.
Speaker 2: Oh, you had to shoot them.
Speaker 1: Where was I going, Jenny? Did you have anything that
Speaker 1: you were denied as a kid that now you indulge
Speaker 1: in because you can.
Speaker 3: I think it's just the matter of like everything about
Speaker 3: my daily life, Like I stay up until I want to,
Speaker 3: I'm a truck bedtime, I eat whenever I want. Like
Speaker 3: it was always like we eat at this time and
Speaker 3: this time and this time with my mom and I Also,
Speaker 3: I would say probably watching TV in bed, because we
Speaker 3: do have a TV in our bedroom that we used
Speaker 3: to like never watch, but now we binge watch Survivor.
Speaker 3: So sometimes we'll watch an episode before bed. But that's
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 1: She goes on to say another one we indulge in
Speaker 1: now is drinks, any kind of drinks. We were a
Speaker 1: strict milk and water household, and I can't drink milk,
Speaker 1: so it was just water. I still love me some water,
Speaker 1: but I also indulge in flavored water packets of a
Speaker 1: wide variety, coffee, hot chocolate, juices, coke, teaese, lemonade, and
Speaker 1: the list goes on, wondering if you guys have any
Speaker 1: thoughts what were you denied as a child that you
Speaker 1: indulge in as an adult? All right, from Sydney, G Sydney.
Speaker 1: That was a fun one.
Speaker 2: That's a good question.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, if you got any other answers, then let
Speaker 1: us know. Hit the lead on that one and let see.
Speaker 1: We do have a rant from Juanita, but I want
Speaker 1: to check my time to see how we're doing, and
Speaker 1: we are about at fifteen minutes, so I'm going to
Speaker 1: save Juanita's rant for tomorrow because that's always worth waiting for. Juanita,
Speaker 1: you are a joy. Thank you so much for doing that,
Speaker 1: and I think that is going to do it for now.
Speaker 1: Yes on the Minnesota goodbye. Send your emails in to
Speaker 1: ryanshow at katiwb dot com. I love when you bring
Speaker 1: up random topics. Thanks for giving us so that's why
Speaker 1: we call you a staff writer. Because if you come
Speaker 1: up with something like what you were denied when you
Speaker 1: were a kid that you indulge in now, please let
Speaker 1: us know. Or if we get something wrong or we
Speaker 1: bring up something and you want to tell us what
Speaker 1: it is really all about, like the health charts online,
Speaker 1: then let us know. Ryanshow at KDIWB dot com