Speaker 1: And here we are at the Friday Minnesota Goodbye with me,
Speaker 1: Dave and Jenny and Bailey. Let's get started with the
Speaker 1: emails and thanks for sending the emails. Here is one
Speaker 1: from Jessica. She says, we recently hired a girl born
Speaker 1: and raised in Canada. During the interview, I said, well,
Speaker 1: I just got back from maternity leave, and she said, well,
Speaker 1: how old my baby was? I said, well, he's a
Speaker 1: little over twelve weeks old. Her jaw dropped in disbelief.
Speaker 1: She could not believe that I was already back to
Speaker 1: work full force after having a baby only twelve weeks prior,
Speaker 1: and on top of it a c section berth. I
Speaker 1: think three months is kind of the standard in America.
Speaker 1: It got me thinking, how brainwashed. I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: that's the right word for it. Our society is when
Speaker 1: it comes to women having babies and going back to
Speaker 1: work in such a short period of time. In Canada,
Speaker 1: new moms are allowed up to a year or more
Speaker 1: of maternity leave, while here in the United States we
Speaker 1: only get twelve weeks and more than likely unpaid paid leave. Okay,
Speaker 1: I didn't know. Is it unpaid when you go on
Speaker 1: maternity leave?
Speaker 2: Well, it depends on the company. I know that.
Speaker 3: I think iHeart maybe has changed. But Fallon had to
Speaker 3: use her sick days when she went on my materially
Speaker 3: to get paid, and then after that when she used
Speaker 3: all those up, she didn't get paid after that.
Speaker 4: So yeah, some people use like long term disability when
Speaker 4: they're pregnant too.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know how it works, but I wonder
Speaker 1: if it has something to do with like the government.
Speaker 1: I don't know if the government helps kick in, because
Speaker 1: if you go on maternity leave for a year then
Speaker 1: and if they keep paying you, then that money's got
Speaker 1: to come from somewhere. Maybe they tax different in Canada.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. Somebody explained to me
Speaker 1: how it works. I really truly don't know if maternity
Speaker 1: leave is paid or unpaid or partially paid. And maybe
Speaker 1: it does depend on the company. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: In America it definitely does. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I know that Chase got paternity leave, and that was
Speaker 1: something that I never got. He got like five weeks
Speaker 1: of paternity five maybe eight, I don't know, crap, and
Speaker 1: that was not a thing when my kids were born.
Speaker 4: I wonder if he had to negotiate for that or
Speaker 4: if that was just a given.
Speaker 1: I truly don't know. Let us know. Send us your
Speaker 1: experience with maternity leave. Thinking about this all also made
Speaker 1: me realize that returning to work is no easy or
Speaker 1: slow is no easy or slow moving process. I felt
Speaker 1: my work pairs peers kind of overlooked the huge life
Speaker 1: experience change that I had endured and kind of brushed
Speaker 1: it off, expecting me to pick up where I left off,
Speaker 1: same workload and expectations as before. I mean, I just
Speaker 1: had to drop my baby off with daycare to take
Speaker 1: care of them while also being postpartument struggling to heal
Speaker 1: both physically and mentally. I feel like our society has
Speaker 1: such huge expectations for moms with no real understanding of
Speaker 1: just how much we are going through after birthing a human.
Speaker 1: My son will be one year old at the end
Speaker 1: of the month, and just looking back on that time
Speaker 1: of my life is really eye opening. I really feel
Speaker 1: like America needs to reevaluate how we see birth for
Speaker 1: new moms, dads, and families, as well as maternity leave
Speaker 1: and most of all, return to work. Not sure what
Speaker 1: I want to get out of this email, but it's
Speaker 1: kind of been on my mind and I want to
Speaker 1: talk about it. Thanks so much for your time, Love
Speaker 1: you guys. From Jessica. I wish we had a mom
Speaker 1: on the show to talk about this, but we don't.
Speaker 2: So don't have the experience, so I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you know anything about it, let me know.
Speaker 1: All right, here comes I'm going to set up the
Speaker 1: equipment here so we can hear this. This is our
Speaker 1: random rant from you Guessed It, jan Needa. Let me
Speaker 1: set everything up so we'll get to push that button,
Speaker 1: this button, this button, turn that knob up, and fire
Speaker 1: this up and kickstart this over here. We are now ready.
Speaker 1: Here comes Wannita's rant.
Speaker 5: So my daughter just recently passed our driver's test, so
Speaker 5: now she has her license. So instead of buying a
Speaker 5: fifth vehicle, we decided to give her my car, which
Speaker 5: is a BMW five thirty five I forty two thousand
Speaker 5: miles paid off, not a scratch on it, perfect vehicle.
Speaker 5: We told her she can have that car so she
Speaker 5: can get go to school and to work. She looked
Speaker 5: at us and she says, I don't want that. So
Speaker 5: my husband instantly put his hand over my mouth because
Speaker 5: he knew I was gonna say something, because what I
Speaker 5: started to say was bitch, are you crazy? But instead
Speaker 5: I said, what the fuck is wrong with you? Who
Speaker 5: turns down a free BMW? I swear to God, these
Speaker 5: kids have lost their brain cells by walking around in
Speaker 5: the summer time when it was one hundred and seventeen
Speaker 5: degrees outside with their hoods on, shan has baked their
Speaker 5: brain cells. Who turns down a BMW? So my husband
Speaker 5: asked her what does she want? She said she wants
Speaker 5: a rubicon. So, after we sat down and tatted it
Speaker 5: up how much it was gonna cost her to own
Speaker 5: her own rubicon and pay her own insurance, she says
Speaker 5: under her breath, I'll just take the BMW. Fucking teenagers
Speaker 5: pissed me off? What the hell is wrong with them?
Speaker 5: Well that's my rant for the week, and I wanted
Speaker 5: to ask the question, do you remember remember what your
Speaker 5: first car was? Because I know mine was a ragged
Speaker 5: ass old mobile Cutlass Sierra. The damn sure wasn't a BMW.
Speaker 5: Well thanks for your listening to my rants, Love you guys. Bye.
Speaker 1: Uh think about Anita. That is funny that a BMW.
Speaker 1: I don't know how old it is, but if it's
Speaker 1: only got forty two thousand miles on it. That's not
Speaker 1: a whole lot. That's not an old old car.
Speaker 4: No BMW two, that's a fancy car.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: I I didn't get a car until I was twenty
Speaker 3: one years old. I would have taken any fucking beater
Speaker 3: of a sort that anything my parents would have given
Speaker 3: to me. I didn't have a car for so long.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't have a car until I was in college.
Speaker 4: And it was my grandma's old car, like she couldn't
Speaker 4: drive it anymore because she was like a billion years old. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and so I got her car. It was a nineteen
Speaker 4: ninety four Toyota Corolla.
Speaker 1: Into the ground nice. My first car was. It was
Speaker 1: a Volkswagen Bug. It was was not a new one
Speaker 1: when my mom bought it. That was her car for
Speaker 1: a few years. Then she handed it off to my brother,
Speaker 1: and then he gooped it all up by trying to
Speaker 1: modify it himself. He put exhaust on it, he put
Speaker 1: a hurst shifter, it doesn't matter, it's a shifter that
Speaker 1: looked cool. And then he put a stereo in it
Speaker 1: and that caught on fire a couple of times.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Well he wired it himself. And so it was an
Speaker 1: old Volkswagen Bug and it would break down quite frequently
Speaker 1: and burn oil like crazy. So that was my first car.
Speaker 1: It was a pale yellow.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm just like thinking of all the bugs I saw,
Speaker 3: because you know, I don't see many Volkswing and bugs
Speaker 3: out there anymore. But like I used to when I
Speaker 3: was in high school and there was maybe one kid
Speaker 3: who had one, and we were like, oh, they have
Speaker 3: the coolest car.
Speaker 4: I always wanted one so bad. I was like, this
Speaker 4: is this is the top of the line car. A
Speaker 4: Volkswagen Bug that's yellow and you put one of those
Speaker 4: little flowers that soaks up the sun and then it
Speaker 4: like shifts.
Speaker 1: Back and forth. I want you to Google search nineteen
Speaker 1: seventies traffic picture. Nearly every picture that you see in
Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies will have several Volkswagen Bugs in it.
Speaker 1: They were the most common car ever. I googled. Then
Speaker 1: the first picture that popped up, there's a Volkswagen bus
Speaker 1: right in the front. I'm going to count. That is
Speaker 1: a traffic jam, and I'm going to count the Volkswagen Bugs.
Speaker 1: I see four right away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see the way we're talking about too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's I mean, Volkswagen Bugs were so common
Speaker 1: in the seventies.
Speaker 2: They're so cute.
Speaker 1: They really were a cute little car. They were affordable.
Speaker 1: They could take the engine out and put a new
Speaker 1: engine in in like fifteen minutes. And they were they
Speaker 1: were you know, I mean, they were practical and cheap
Speaker 1: and people loved them. And then they went away, probably
Speaker 1: in the eighties. I think. Then they brought them back
Speaker 1: in the nineties and they were very cute. But those
Speaker 1: were an interesting little fun fact. Original Volkswagen Bugs were
Speaker 1: rear engine car. When they remade them in the nineties
Speaker 1: they were a front engine car.
Speaker 3: Okay, I know you don't know what that matter. I
Speaker 3: just don't know how that matters. Yeah, or another it's.
Speaker 1: A fun fact.
Speaker 2: Oh I see, ha ha ha ha.
Speaker 1: Okay, next one. Let's see what I've got here. Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go, Dave, Jenny vont Bailey. I my name
Speaker 1: is Bree. I'm a long time listener and a huge
Speaker 1: fan of your show. I keep meaning to write in
Speaker 1: to ask Dave if he's seen the documentary on Max
Speaker 1: called Six Schizophrenic Brothers. It follows the Galvin family from
Speaker 1: Colorado Springs, who I first heard about from Dave. I
Speaker 1: read the book Hidden Valley Road after Dave mentioned it
Speaker 1: and the connection to his hometown in Colorado. It is
Speaker 1: a fascinating watch. If you haven't seen it, you should
Speaker 1: check it out. I hope to hear this on the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Goodbye. It is the first thing I put on
Speaker 1: in my car after work. Love you all, Dart lick
Speaker 1: p One. Can I get a staff writer sticker? Please?
Speaker 1: I will write me back. You forget to include your address,
Speaker 1: which is funny because people ask for a staff writer
Speaker 1: sticker and half of them forget their address because you
Speaker 1: just don't think about it. But of course I'll send
Speaker 1: you one. Yeah. I read the book. It's called The
Speaker 1: Hidden Valley Road. I heard about it from Oprah and
Speaker 1: it is. It's this family. They're an air Force family
Speaker 1: and they are you know, they lived right near the
Speaker 1: Air Force Academy and the dad was a very prestigious
Speaker 1: Air Force instructor and the mom was, you know, your
Speaker 1: typical nineteen seventies mom, sixties seventies mom that stayed home.
Speaker 1: And I think they had I want to say, fourteen kids.
Speaker 1: It is ridiculous, and the kids, more than half of
Speaker 1: them developed schizophrenia and were violent and dangerous and awful
Speaker 1: and horrible, and then half of them were pretty normal.
Speaker 1: But the normal ones had to put up with everything
Speaker 1: from sexual abuse to violence from the sick ones, and
Speaker 1: the mom and dad they wanted to keep their standing
Speaker 1: of being such the perfect Air Force family that they
Speaker 1: wouldn't do anything about it. They would just basically try
Speaker 1: to control these kids themselves. Even if your kids are
Speaker 1: I guess you could say normal and healthy, Having fourteen
Speaker 1: kids is of fuck. You can't even imagine.
Speaker 4: No, I would not want that many kids.
Speaker 1: It's called six schizophrenic brothers, and it really is good.
Speaker 1: Thanks for bringing it up, bree Neil writes in he says,
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, you were talking about Skyline
Speaker 1: Chili trying to break a Guinness record for uploading so
Speaker 1: many photos to Instagram in an hour or something. I
Speaker 1: think it was on you can't make this stuff up anyway.
Speaker 1: It was a non news story, but it made me
Speaker 1: remember that I was part of a world record. It
Speaker 1: might sound lame, but hear me out. I was part
Speaker 1: of one one hundred and forty five people carrying water
Speaker 1: jugs on their head at the same time fourteen. You're
Speaker 1: probably saying that's just dumb. Loll was for a good cause.
Speaker 1: The school I taught at had a program where they
Speaker 1: raise money to build clean water wells and seau Sudan.
Speaker 1: Over the years, they were raised over fifty two thousand
Speaker 1: dollars for this cause. Walking with a jug of water
Speaker 1: on my head was simple, but the hard work was
Speaker 1: done by a teacher who arranged all of it. So
Speaker 1: my question is, do any of you have a world record?
Speaker 1: Over the years you talk about walking upstairs with skyscrapers,
Speaker 1: sitting in every seat in an arena, maybe you four
Speaker 1: should break some sort of record. Love the show and
Speaker 1: podcasts always dart Lick licked Dart Neil in Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 1: I think that I knew a radio DJ many years
Speaker 1: ago who stayed on the radio for like at the
Speaker 1: record time was then ninety six hours, and I don't
Speaker 1: think he slept the entire time, and just awful. You
Speaker 1: can't imagine that is like four days of no sleep.
Speaker 1: I really don't think I've sat in every seat at
Speaker 1: several arenas. I sat in every seat at the Exil
Speaker 1: Energy Center when it first opened. I sat in every
Speaker 1: seat at an Arena in Phoenix One in Ohio, Ohio
Speaker 1: Stadium where the Buckeye play. I sat in every single seat.
Speaker 1: That took a week to do, but it's not a
Speaker 1: world record. And then I sat in Thomas and Max
Speaker 1: Center in Las Vegas. I sat in every single seat
Speaker 1: and I would never do it again. I'm too old
Speaker 1: to do it now.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, because you're going up down, up down, up down, updown.
Speaker 1: You're sitting standing, sitting standing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And a friend of mine is in radio and he
Speaker 1: lives in Indianapolis, and he said, Dave, you know, I
Speaker 1: know you've done that seating record thing. I want to
Speaker 1: try it at the arena here in Indianapolis. And I said, okay,
Speaker 1: before you do, before you commit to it on the radio,
Speaker 1: go down to the arena and try it and gauge
Speaker 1: whether you think you could do it or not. And
Speaker 1: he's like, oh, okay. He goes down to the arena.
Speaker 1: He calls me a few hours later and he's like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I'm so glad that you gave me
Speaker 1: that advice, because there's no fucking way I would be
Speaker 1: able to do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Because he was a little bit older, thirty eight.
Speaker 4: Right, but still thirty eight knees are different than twenty
Speaker 4: two knees.
Speaker 1: Right, exactly. Yeah, So I don't know, do you guys
Speaker 1: ever been part of a world record or close to
Speaker 1: a world record.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think we did something outside of my
Speaker 3: elementary school and we all like hugged the school and
Speaker 3: held hands. And I don't know if it was at
Speaker 3: an attempt to break the biggest amount of people chained
Speaker 3: to eat or not chain but like other holding hands.
Speaker 3: But I don't know if it was an attempt at
Speaker 3: a world record or if it was for something specific.
Speaker 3: But that's the only thing I can think of was
Speaker 3: the Dave when you guys did the flag after nine
Speaker 3: to eleven. That wasn't any kind That was just to
Speaker 3: support the Yeah, just support it. Yeah, we it was
Speaker 3: something for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't a world record. It was just like
Speaker 1: we had right after nine to eleven. We it is
Speaker 1: pretty genius. They printed up a bunch of red, white
Speaker 1: and blue cards and figured out a way to have
Speaker 1: people hold them on a football field at the National
Speaker 1: Sports Center in Blaine and form a giant American flag
Speaker 1: with all these red, white and blue cards. And it
Speaker 1: really was very amazing to look at and I used
Speaker 1: to have the picture in my office somewhere, but then
Speaker 1: it got broken and I threw it away because whatever
Speaker 1: I mean. You know, you can't save everything. But no,
Speaker 1: not really a record. We did do at the Metrodome
Speaker 1: what we thought was going to be the world's largest
Speaker 1: musical chairs, and it didn't go off and we didn't
Speaker 1: have enough people or something. I don't remember, but that
Speaker 1: was the only one we tried.
Speaker 2: Now that would have taken forever too.
Speaker 1: It really would. And I think that we I think
Speaker 1: we took out a bunch of chairs at a time
Speaker 1: rather than eliminate one person. I think we took out
Speaker 1: twenty at a time. I don't remember.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've never been in a world record. I have
Speaker 4: nothing to contribute to this. I've never done any world
Speaker 4: record anything. My friends aren't that interesting.
Speaker 1: Well, I think then people look up world records in
Speaker 1: the Guinness Book and they go, well, let's find one
Speaker 1: we can do. It's like, we'll dribble a basketball, okay, Well,
Speaker 1: what's the world record six days?
Speaker 4: I'm like, fronco, I'll pass. Like I don't need to
Speaker 4: make a record out of.
Speaker 1: Anything, all right. That is really, honestly kind of it.
Speaker 1: Is there anything else you guys want to bring up
Speaker 1: on the Minnesota Goodbye?
Speaker 2: My mom's mad at me right now?
Speaker 1: Why is your mom mad at you?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 3: Andrew and I are going back to Wisconsin this weekend
Speaker 3: and we're bringing the camper van back because my family
Speaker 3: hasn't seen it. And we also when we go back
Speaker 3: to Wisconsin, we sleep in my mom's uncomfortable bed and
Speaker 3: she sleeps in like this really shitty bed she has
Speaker 3: in like the one open guest bedroom now, and so
Speaker 3: we're like, well, we'll just sleep in the van because
Speaker 3: we really like our bed in our van. It's very comfortable.
Speaker 3: And I told her that last night on the phone
Speaker 3: and she's like, Jenny, why would you do that? And
Speaker 3: I'm not exaggerating, that's how she responds to things a
Speaker 3: lot of times.
Speaker 2: And she's like, that's just ridiculous, like you have a
Speaker 2: bed and blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: And I was like, yeah, but we like love our
Speaker 3: bed and honestly, your bed is not very comfortable. And
Speaker 3: we're literally just going to be like outside your house
Speaker 3: versus like down the hall, like why is it that
Speaker 3: big of a deal, And she just gets so up
Speaker 3: in arms about things. And I know I'm not a parent,
Speaker 3: and I know that I don't see my family very
Speaker 3: often because honestly, I haven't been home for like eight months.
Speaker 3: It's been a long time. So I get it that
Speaker 3: she just wants to spend as much time. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: my mom just like if things don't go exactly how
Speaker 3: she wants someone we're home, she gets upset. And I
Speaker 3: told her, like my younger sister, she lives with my
Speaker 3: mom right now, and she's going down to Chicago on Saturday.
Speaker 3: So I was like, well, I'll sleep in Katie's bed
Speaker 3: probably Saturday night, but I'm telling you, Andrew's going to
Speaker 3: sleep in that all weekend. Andrew sleeps in that van
Speaker 3: when we bring it to like his grandpa's cabin. That's
Speaker 3: beautiful up in loots and sometimes like he'll sleep in
Speaker 3: the van, that's how much he loves it. So anyway,
Speaker 3: she's upset with me, and I'm just like, I get it,
Speaker 3: I'm not a parent, but also I'm still there, like
Speaker 3: we're there.
Speaker 1: Still there, I was in the van. As a parent,
Speaker 1: I would be fine with that. I'd be happy that
Speaker 1: you're coming. I'm just impressed that the bed in your
Speaker 1: camper van is comfortable enough that you want to sleep
Speaker 1: in there?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because most camper beds, I would imagine are not
Speaker 1: that comfortable. I will tell you this one. Does Cindy
Speaker 1: want you and Andrew to sleep in her bed?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So were her bed.
Speaker 2: We would sleep in her.
Speaker 1: Now that's weird because my relatives used to come and
Speaker 1: my mom and dad would give them their bed to
Speaker 1: sleep in, And even as a little kid, I thought,
Speaker 1: that's freaking weird. I don't want to sleep in your bed.
Speaker 1: I want to sleep in the guest room.
Speaker 3: The way it works is it's only a full bed
Speaker 3: in the guest room. The other room is what was
Speaker 3: my old room. But now my younger sister moved in
Speaker 3: with my mom after a breakup, and so that was
Speaker 3: a queen bed and we used to sleep in that
Speaker 3: one and then ever since then now she has that bed.
Speaker 3: And so it was either a really uncomfortable full bed
Speaker 3: that's small or my mom's like queen bed. And so
Speaker 3: my mom just like said, you guys can have the
Speaker 3: queen bed, like that's fair. I'll sleep in the smaller
Speaker 3: bed while you guys don't care. So that's why it is,
Speaker 3: just because we're two people versus one.
Speaker 4: Well, I'll just be like, Mom, now you can stay
Speaker 4: in your own bed.
Speaker 2: I know, I don't I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't get it, but whatever, It's one of those
Speaker 3: little things that I just like let her get angry about,
Speaker 3: but in the end, we're still going to sleep in
Speaker 3: the camper vans.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: When I was around your age, i'd go visit my
Speaker 1: mom and dad, and a lot of the time I
Speaker 1: wouldn't stay at their house. I would stay at a hotel, like,
Speaker 1: you know, ten fifteen minutes away. And I'm looking back,
Speaker 1: I don't remember why. I don't remember, because they had
Speaker 1: plenty of room, and I had my old bedroom and
Speaker 1: it wasn't a whole lot different than it was when
Speaker 1: I lived in that room. I don't remember, But I
Speaker 1: think I just liked the privacy. I don't remember.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it is.
Speaker 3: Though. You get to a point where you get to
Speaker 3: an age where you're like, I don't really want to
Speaker 3: stay at my parents because I said that to my
Speaker 3: mom that we might be getting into airbnb when we
Speaker 3: come home for holidays now, And that was a whole
Speaker 3: whole fucking thing.
Speaker 1: So that is not happening, all right, any comments on anything,
Speaker 1: send us an email to Ryan's show at KADIWB dot com.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Juanita for the rant, and we look
Speaker 1: forward to your email on the Minnesota Goodbye. If you've
Speaker 1: never written before, but listen every day, hey, maybe you'll
Speaker 1: get an inspiration of something that you want to write
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