Speaker 1: Well, you're ready to do the Minnesota Goodbye? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: we're loaded up on cookies because staff writer Breed came
Speaker 1: by with some crumble cookies for my birthday. And I'm
Speaker 1: not as sweet. What have I said a million times?
Speaker 1: I'm not a sweet person. No, my kids hate me
Speaker 1: saying that, and I say it just to annoy them. Dad,
Speaker 1: you want a cookie. I'm not a sweet person. But
Speaker 1: there's a part in my book Bailey J where I say,
Speaker 1: when a child offers you cookies that they made, you
Speaker 1: fucking take that cookie and you tell them, and you
Speaker 1: tell them how great it was. If you're you know,
Speaker 1: if your niece or nephew made brownies and they look
Speaker 1: like shit and they're raw around the edges and burnt
Speaker 1: in the middle, and they got a fucking thumb print
Speaker 1: of pubic hair on the top of them, you take
Speaker 1: that pubic hair and you fucking eat that thing.
Speaker 2: WHOA.
Speaker 1: I don't know where a six year old would get
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly a hair or a cat hair instead,
Speaker 1: But but I mean, think about how if you know
Speaker 1: it's in my book because I think that I ran
Speaker 1: across that one time where some little kid had made
Speaker 1: cookies and I'm like, yeah, i'll have one later, and
Speaker 1: her face fell. And so the other day, Ava, who
Speaker 1: is four, that's Alison's daughter, decorated a little round pancake,
Speaker 1: you know, and she not a pancake but a pan cake.
Speaker 1: And she, you know, helped mix the batter and poured
Speaker 1: it in and then they baked it. And then she
Speaker 1: picked out the color of frosting and some red jelly
Speaker 1: other frosting and some sprinkles, and she was so proud
Speaker 1: of it. She's like, Pepa, I made you a cake.
Speaker 1: And I don't like cake. No cake is dull, but
Speaker 1: I ate the fuck out of that cake. And I
Speaker 1: told Ava how great it was, and she was so
Speaker 1: proud and she's like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I helped. There's like eggshells in it, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, this is so good, so crunchy.
Speaker 1: H Here comes an email from Sydney, who is a
Speaker 1: regular staff writer. Dave, I'm curious to know how the
Speaker 1: relationship with Gary started and why does the morning show
Speaker 1: for you for free? Okay, So we met Gary years ago,
Speaker 1: like maybe twenty five or so years ago, because we
Speaker 1: used to have a psychic named Allen Cunningham and Allen
Speaker 1: was a dear old lady that I'm sure she's gone
Speaker 1: now because this was so long ago, and a l E. N. E.
Speaker 1: Cunningham and she was really good, but then she lost
Speaker 1: her fast pitcht lost her fastball.
Speaker 2: Sure and lovely, she looks beautiful.
Speaker 1: Is she still around?
Speaker 2: I can't. Oh nope. She died in twenty sixteen at
Speaker 2: ninety four.
Speaker 1: Oh wow wow. And she was so sweet, but she
Speaker 1: seemed confused and her son was I thought that it
Speaker 1: was like, okay, he needs to let her retire, but
Speaker 1: that was his meal ticket, so he would bring her
Speaker 1: around to the radio station, and so we stopped using her.
Speaker 1: And then somebody told me about Gary Spivey. And I
Speaker 1: remember the first time Gary Spivey got off the elevator
Speaker 1: and we looked at him and I thought he was
Speaker 1: wearing an inflatable plastic, inflatable football helmet, because that's what
Speaker 1: my mind told me, right exactly, And because he has
Speaker 1: this big white wig and he gets off the elevator,
Speaker 1: I look at him and and my mind was like,
Speaker 1: inflatable plastic football helmet. Yes, No, that's his hair. And
Speaker 1: it's gotten bigger and more outrageous every year he does
Speaker 1: the show for free because we plug his eight hundred number,
Speaker 1: so in exchange for him being on, we give his
Speaker 1: number and to say go get a reading, and so
Speaker 1: he charges for readings, so and people love him a
Speaker 1: You've also mentioned, Dave you're skeptical about psychics, but also
Speaker 1: you've also say you've confide it a lot in Gary.
Speaker 1: So which is it? It's both?
Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like you can you can still
Speaker 3: be skeptic of what they're saying to you because they
Speaker 3: don't have like proof, so you can still like be skeptic.
Speaker 3: But then if they say something that you connect with,
Speaker 3: you can still believe that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And I think I've told the story a
Speaker 1: million times. I'm not going to tell it again about
Speaker 1: my dad dying and Susan and that type of thing
Speaker 1: and how Gary nailed that. So that gives me some
Speaker 1: faith in Gary. But I would not personally pay to
Speaker 1: go see a psychic. But when Gary comes in and
Speaker 1: I ask him something about something deeply personal, and Gary,
Speaker 1: like I said, there's been things I've talked about Gary
Speaker 1: that are deeply personal, and Gary knows about the thing
Speaker 1: that was, you know, like in twenty twelve that was
Speaker 1: very very awful and upsetting to me, and so Gary
Speaker 1: knows about that, and so but I mean Gary comes
Speaker 1: in and you're like, you know, you make conversation Gary,
Speaker 1: tell me should I move to Toronto? You know that
Speaker 1: type of thing. Yeah, doesn't mean you're going to like
Speaker 1: write it down and.
Speaker 2: You know what exactly?
Speaker 3: It's always like, you know, believe what resonates with you.
Speaker 1: But here's a good question. What would you ask Gary
Speaker 1: Spivey if you knew his answer would be the correct
Speaker 1: answer accurate? So I will start Gary, how what do
Speaker 1: you see me doing in the next like five or
Speaker 1: ten years career wise? Because I'd really be curious to
Speaker 1: know what I should should do? What should I do?
Speaker 1: Not what I should what will I be doing? Because
Speaker 1: he might say, well, you're gonna get fired to work
Speaker 1: at TSA, Yeah, but what should I be doing? What
Speaker 1: would you ask Gary man?
Speaker 3: Can it be kind of can I copy you? Because honestly,
Speaker 3: I do want to know. I guess like, I'd like
Speaker 3: to know if my career goes off in a way
Speaker 3: that I can afford to buy a house, because I
Speaker 3: would love to have a house someday. I would love
Speaker 3: to have I don't know, a yard, a deck, I
Speaker 3: wonder if Gary can tell me whether or not I
Speaker 3: will ever have a deck with twinkly lights on it.
Speaker 1: Okay, Jenny, what about you?
Speaker 4: Will I ever move to a state that I dream
Speaker 4: about living.
Speaker 1: In, like Oregon, Washington, Colorado.
Speaker 4: Wyoming, Pacific Northwest Ish or Colorado?
Speaker 2: Probably? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, next one, this is from Don't Say My Name.
Speaker 1: Thanks for putting that up front. I was listening to
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Goodbye podcast talking about dating people with the
Speaker 1: same name as your family members. I briefly dated a
Speaker 1: guy in college with the same first and last name
Speaker 1: as my dad. So, what is your dad's first and last.
Speaker 4: Name, Jenny, Glenn Lutenberger?
Speaker 1: Glenn Lutenberger, So can you imagine dating a guy named
Speaker 1: Glenn lutenbergerg what's your dad's first and last name? Greg
Speaker 1: has Greg Hes, So could you ever imagine dating named
Speaker 1: Greg Hess?
Speaker 3: I think it'd be cool if I dated somebody with
Speaker 3: the last name of Hess, but it would be weird
Speaker 3: if his name was Greg.
Speaker 1: I honestly didn't think it was that weird because I
Speaker 1: don't call my dad by his first name. Okay, so
Speaker 1: there's that. The ridicule I got from my friends was
Speaker 1: less not one of my finer decisions I made as
Speaker 1: a twenty one year old, but I have no regrets
Speaker 1: because it makes for a funny story ten years later.
Speaker 1: Just had to share this with you guys. Love you
Speaker 1: and a staff rider sticker is on the way and
Speaker 1: I got through it without slipping and saying your name
Speaker 1: took good job. Here comes juan Nita. Juanita, I want
Speaker 1: to let you know that I wore your shirt the
Speaker 1: other day. The fuck around and find out shirt to
Speaker 1: my gun class the other day.
Speaker 4: Anymore, last week during the show.
Speaker 1: I did wear it last week during the show, So
Speaker 1: thank you Anita, much appreciate it. She does not send
Speaker 1: a video rant this week, but I think I haven't
Speaker 1: pre read it, but I have faith in Anita that
Speaker 1: it'll be an entertaining Still going to send my end
Speaker 1: of the week RAMT, but wanted to get an opinion
Speaker 1: on a situation that just went down involving my son.
Speaker 1: He is fifteen and has always been a very respectful
Speaker 1: kid that's never given me any problems except for the
Speaker 1: fact that he couldn't sweep or mop to save his soul. Lol.
Speaker 1: He's got a couple of friends that he hangs out with,
Speaker 1: regularly at the YMCA, but there's one in particular that
Speaker 1: kind of rubbed me the wrong way. Sure as shit,
Speaker 1: yesterday I got a call from the Onoka County Sheriff's
Speaker 1: office saying there's a situation at the WHY involving my
Speaker 1: son and his friends. Come to find out, that little
Speaker 1: shit that I didn't trust in the beginning, stole another
Speaker 1: kid's headphones. He had an excuse, I thought they were mine.
Speaker 1: My son and his other friends said, they told him, dude,
Speaker 1: those aren't yours, but he didn't listen. The kid that
Speaker 1: owned the headphone told his parents and they called the police.
Speaker 1: Now here's the part where I ask, should I be
Speaker 1: pissed or what? Was this the right thing to do?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 1: Because all the boys were together, and even though they
Speaker 1: know exactly who took the headphones, they are all banned
Speaker 1: from the WHY for a period of one year. They
Speaker 1: even said, though my son didn't nicely participate in the theft,
Speaker 1: he's at fault because he didn't do anything to prevent it.
Speaker 1: I mean, really, he's fucking fifteen years old. What the
Speaker 1: fuck did they want him to do? Tack a little
Speaker 1: asshole to the floor and say, don't take those damn headphones.
Speaker 1: So should I be pissed at the why for banning
Speaker 1: my son or should they have done that? Thoughts please,
Speaker 1: I'm going to come down to the side of the why,
Speaker 1: but I could be convinced otherwise. I could be persuaded
Speaker 1: otherwise because I think it's a good lesson for your
Speaker 1: son that fucking a there are some consequences. And also,
Speaker 1: don't hang out with little assholes because your friends become
Speaker 1: your luck. I'll say it again, your friends become your luck.
Speaker 1: You hang out with little asshole all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: wall fuck, I lost my backpack. Ah, fuck I missed
Speaker 1: the bus. I'll fuck I was late for school because
Speaker 1: your friends become your luck, and you'll blame it on anything.
Speaker 1: Oh I missed the bus. Well, my alarm didn't go off.
Speaker 1: Your friends become your luck. So this kid's friend, if
Speaker 1: your son hangs out with him, it's not going to
Speaker 1: be good for your son. And you might be like, well,
Speaker 1: he's kind of got a rough life and his parents
Speaker 1: are shit. Not your problem. I would say, I'm not glad,
Speaker 1: but I think it's good your son realizes by hanging
Speaker 1: out with a little fuck that he will not go
Speaker 1: to the why for a year. So what do you
Speaker 1: guys think.
Speaker 4: Well, I would say that it's really hard to convince
Speaker 4: a kid not to hang out with someone, though, because
Speaker 4: my mom did not like a couple of my friends
Speaker 4: and they were still my quote unquote best friends throughout
Speaker 4: all of my years. And it took me to like
Speaker 4: college to really understand how bad of influences certain people are,
Speaker 4: or if they're like not a good person. But when
Speaker 4: you're in school, you just want to hang out with
Speaker 4: the people that you like, have fun with, and yeah,
Speaker 4: they might like trouble making things like that, but outside
Speaker 4: of that, I'm sure like that kid is having fun
Speaker 4: with the other one, you know, that's why he's hanging
Speaker 4: out with them. Yeah, so I think it's very hard
Speaker 4: to convince a kid not to hang out with someone
Speaker 4: because their trouble. My mom always thought my best friend
Speaker 4: Carissa was a bad influence, but I was the one
Speaker 4: who was underage drinking. My friend Chrissa didn't even care
Speaker 4: about drinking and she didn't even want to drink. And
Speaker 4: she always thought Chrisa was the bad one because she
Speaker 4: was loud and she just was like kind of put
Speaker 4: off by her. And then my mom realized she's a
Speaker 4: good person. She just wasn't like she's just loud and
Speaker 4: a little bit wild in that way. But my mom
Speaker 4: always thought she was the reason I was like drinking
Speaker 4: and stuff. But I was the reason I was drinking.
Speaker 1: I understand that. Yeah, would you have changed your mind
Speaker 1: about Carissa if she stole? Would you look back and go, yeah,
Speaker 1: she stole, she was a bad person.
Speaker 2: I would.
Speaker 4: I would look back on like certain things like that
Speaker 4: because I was at least like a moral Well you
Speaker 4: could maybe argue against that since I said I was
Speaker 4: underage drinking, but I had good morals for the most part,
Speaker 4: grow up and so certain in a situation like that, yeah,
Speaker 4: I probably would know the difference between hanging out with
Speaker 4: someone who's stealing versus just like someone loud.
Speaker 1: I think the fact that the kids stole while his
Speaker 1: friends said those aren't yours, or at least that's what
Speaker 1: they claim, and then the little asshole said I thought
Speaker 1: they were mine and couldn't even apologize and couldn't even
Speaker 1: come clean and say, yeah, you know what, I shouldn't
Speaker 1: have done that. So here's a kid that I'm going
Speaker 1: to make a prediction that in this is what I've
Speaker 1: said before, the trouble kids get into when they're five
Speaker 1: is cute. It's adorable. Yeah, they put like I don't know,
Speaker 1: they poured baking powder all over the carpet. It's adorable.
Speaker 1: When they're ten, it's not so adorable. It's troublesome. Like
Speaker 1: they got into a fight at school and punched a kid.
Speaker 1: The trouble they get into at fifteen is either illegal
Speaker 1: or dangerous. Here we go, kid's fifteen years old. It's illegal.
Speaker 1: So and I don't see that kid. Honestly, I don't
Speaker 1: see Hi getting ay better, and it's not worth get
Speaker 1: rolling the dice on. But you're right, Jenny, good luck
Speaker 1: getting him to hang not hang out with that kid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like I wonder if you can divert
Speaker 3: your son because I'm trying to think of like a
Speaker 3: solution for it, And like, is your son interested in
Speaker 3: any after school activities?
Speaker 2: A sports?
Speaker 1: Well, he goes the why. So there's like basketball, so
Speaker 1: he goes the why.
Speaker 3: But then he goes the why with his ship friend.
Speaker 3: So like, how can we get him away from the
Speaker 3: ship friend without making it seem like.
Speaker 1: Shit in my house? Similar to my house, I'll take
Speaker 1: care of him I was just like, kid.
Speaker 3: If you get your son to meet other people and
Speaker 3: make other friends, then the shit kid is just going
Speaker 3: to slowly, you know, not be as you know, prevalent
Speaker 3: in his life anymore.
Speaker 2: So try and divert if possible.
Speaker 3: Because if I feel like, if you tell a kid
Speaker 3: not to do something, they're gonna do it even harder.
Speaker 3: So if you say you can't hang out with your
Speaker 3: ship friend, he's gonna be like, Okay, I'm gonna run away.
Speaker 2: We're not going to hang out with my ship friend
Speaker 2: all the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very interesting, Monny, Thanks for that and good luck.
Speaker 1: I would be curious to know. I bet I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm on the side of the YMCA because they're serious
Speaker 1: about this and there are consequences. I think it'll be good.
Speaker 1: Next one. Don't same a name first rhyme writer. I
Speaker 1: want first time writer. I want to start out by
Speaker 1: saying I've been listening since twenty twenty one. I love
Speaker 1: the show. The addition of Vaunt and Bailey perfectly fits
Speaker 1: into the show. On to my topic backstory, my parents
Speaker 1: got divorced when I was younger, and my mom never
Speaker 1: got rid of her ring. I now have an amazing
Speaker 1: girlfriend who I plan on proposing to in the future.
Speaker 1: So mom got divorced and she still has the ring.
Speaker 1: A few months ago, my mom offered me that ring
Speaker 1: from her relationship with my dad to use to propose
Speaker 1: to my new girlfriend. I'm not sure if I want
Speaker 1: to use it or not. I feel like it'd be
Speaker 1: a little weird to use that ring from my parents' relationship,
Speaker 1: But on the other hand, it'd be nice to save
Speaker 1: a bunch of money on a new ring. I'll be
Speaker 1: able to customize the ring, so it's not the exact
Speaker 1: same ring, but still it'd be the same ring. She'll
Speaker 1: probably pawn the ring if I don't take it, but
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if my girlfriend would find this weird
Speaker 1: or not. I'm curious what your thoughts are on this one. Me, No,
Speaker 1: don't use the ring. You already answered your own question
Speaker 1: by saying you feel funny about it. There's your answer, Jenny.
Speaker 4: No, do not use that ring? Bad juju uh uh?
Speaker 1: I would I would toucher.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would never accept my mom's ring if she
Speaker 4: offered that to me because her and my dad had
Speaker 4: a bad relationship.
Speaker 3: So no, Bailey, and I'm just gonna agree with you.
Speaker 3: Both you said everything that needed to be said about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that just because you feel bad about it,
Speaker 1: there's your answer right there. Yeah, you'll save some money,
Speaker 1: but in ten years that money won't matter. I know
Speaker 1: what I mean.
Speaker 2: It is the stone for it. Maybe you could just recess.
Speaker 4: I say no to all events.
Speaker 3: See, I think even a resetting is it is a
Speaker 3: brand new ring and then it's yours, and then you
Speaker 3: have something that belonged to your mother that you wear
Speaker 3: around with you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but mom probably has other kind of jewels that
Speaker 4: he could give to his future fiance that would be
Speaker 4: like more sentimental.
Speaker 1: Here's one that I have not pre read, but let's
Speaker 1: see what we have. It's a little bit longer. And
Speaker 1: we always hesitate on the longer ones because sometimes we
Speaker 1: get into it and we realize that it's just too
Speaker 1: long and it's not the best, most interesting. But I'm
Speaker 1: going to give it a chance. Just binge listening to
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Goodbye on iHeartRadio while working from home. Definitely
Speaker 1: being super productive. Longtime listener all the way back to
Speaker 1: Dave Lee and Pat days. I love that I can
Speaker 1: always count on the day Ryan showed to brighten my morning.
Speaker 1: So I so appreciate that. Well, whether or not this
Speaker 1: is on air worthy, I wanted to reach out to
Speaker 1: the woman who wrote in about her mom having recently
Speaker 1: diagnosed with ALS. This is on October fifteenth. My mom
Speaker 1: passed in twenty fifteen from lou Garrig's disease for more
Speaker 1: than five years. Thankfully, my family was able to provide
Speaker 1: care for her in our home until she passed. Please
Speaker 1: tell her to look into the ALS Association of Minnesota.
Speaker 1: If you remember the ice Bucking challenge, it's the same thing.
Speaker 1: They have so many resources for people diagnosed with ALS.
Speaker 1: And with that said, if you want to, you're welcome
Speaker 1: to give her my email if she ever wants to connect.
Speaker 1: I love the community sometimes on the Minnesota Goodbye because
Speaker 1: somebody will hear something about this and they'll be like, oh,
Speaker 1: I went through the same thing. If she ever wants
Speaker 1: to reach out to me, let her know so if
Speaker 1: she reaches back, and I will give her your email.
Speaker 1: Thanks for all that you guys do. You're amazing. I
Speaker 1: appreciate the chance to share a little bit of me
Speaker 1: with you. Love love love, Viviana. Thank you Vivianna or Viviana.
Speaker 1: I love that and I think that is okay. There's
Speaker 1: one more, one more, one more, Hello Dave, Jenny Bailey Vaught,
Speaker 1: even though he's not there. A writer from Tuesday's heavy
Speaker 1: Load Minnesota Goodbye mentioned the Office Cast watchback podcast and
Speaker 1: they said they wish Breaking Bad or Parks and Rec
Speaker 1: had one. I don't know about Breaking Bad, but Parks
Speaker 1: and Rec has one called Parks and Recollection.
Speaker 2: Oh that's cute.
Speaker 1: It's very clever. I haven't listened to it personally, but
Speaker 1: I know of it being promoted through Conan Conan's Team
Speaker 1: Coco podcasts. No need for a staff writer sticker. I
Speaker 1: got one already for a brief funny story. In a
Speaker 1: past email, I had one of my employers listed in
Speaker 1: my email signature, no addresses for them, but apparently the
Speaker 1: address looked and mailed was looked up and mailed to
Speaker 1: me through my work. I also don't work there. Okay,
Speaker 1: you lost me. I'm sorry. I'm probably read it wrong,
Speaker 1: but thank you very much. From Peter, he says, thanks
Speaker 1: ah Rt dart Lick. Do we need to keep explaining
Speaker 1: dart Lick.
Speaker 4: No, I don't think so. I think give you listen
Speaker 4: to the Minnesota Goodbye. You probably know by now because
Speaker 4: we've explained it so many times. I know we get
Speaker 4: new listeners, so maybe ever once in a while we
Speaker 4: got a we got a mom butt in there once
Speaker 4: a quarter.
Speaker 1: All right, well, all right, if you don't know what
Speaker 1: dart lick means, it is our usual. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like the behind the scenes secret code word of the
Speaker 1: Minnesota goodbye. And I'm not going to tell you now,
Speaker 1: but send me an email if you don't know what
Speaker 1: it means. We'll see how many emails we get. And
Speaker 1: then the all right comes from the chef at Old
Speaker 1: Country Buffet in the classic like nineteen eighty nine training video.
Speaker 1: He's cutting off a slice of beef and he's like,
Speaker 1: do you want that thick or thin? I'll have it thick.
Speaker 3: Oh right, what do you like hot fudge Sundays? They're
Speaker 3: my favorite?
Speaker 2: Ah right, have you.
Speaker 1: Tried the lasagna? It's really good. Anyway, we had this
Speaker 1: guy in the studio. Right behind you on the wall
Speaker 1: is a picture of this guy came into the studio.
Speaker 2: I was here that day. It was awesome. I was
Speaker 2: subbing that day.
Speaker 1: He was so cool.
Speaker 2: My favorite days.
Speaker 1: That's it. Have a great day. Send your emails. To
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