Speaker 1: It's so funny when we start to Minnesota Goodbye. This
Speaker 1: is not a knock on Jenny. She's always got to
Speaker 1: go to the bathroom, so she always runs out and
Speaker 1: she's like, I got to go to the bathroom. You
Speaker 1: and Bailey get started, So let's get started. Remember yesterday
Speaker 1: we had some technical problems with our equipment and it's
Speaker 1: a digital recorder and it just ran out a room,
Speaker 1: or it just stopped on its own, and then we
Speaker 1: started up again, and then it stopped on its own again.
Speaker 2: Are you looking at away for them?
Speaker 1: Let me look at the waveform and yeah, there is
Speaker 1: a wave form right now. It's a good sign. Morning
Speaker 1: Show Squad, don't say my name. I wanted to add
Speaker 1: another listeners, insightful thoughts, Oh to the other listeners, insightful
Speaker 1: thoughts on our greatest purpose as humans, discovery and legacy.
Speaker 1: He defined legacy as procreation and discovery is exploration, growing
Speaker 1: ourselves and creating joy. Like Jenny, I'm in my thirties,
Speaker 1: I've been on the fence about having kids. While my
Speaker 1: upbringing suggested having kids is the default route, I spent
Speaker 1: a lot of my twenties envisioning what life could be
Speaker 1: without kids. And but I had imagined wasn't that bad? However,
Speaker 1: all of that change when my niece was born. As
Speaker 1: the other listener noted, one of the greatest joys in
Speaker 1: life is discovery. But what happens when you're thirty. Your
Speaker 1: back hurts, your hangovers last a lifetime, and you don't
Speaker 1: even drink. You just had pizza hut, and your years
Speaker 1: of discovering earth have been made less inquisitive, less imaginative,
Speaker 1: and less excited about the simple things. Remember when Halloween
Speaker 1: was fun? What about Christmas or New Year's? Remember when
Speaker 1: your first thought was seeing a big snowfall, was sledding
Speaker 1: or a snowball fight? And now it's dreadful? How it's
Speaker 1: going to make your commute to the office. My wife
Speaker 1: and I are now expecting our first child, but it
Speaker 1: isn't the legacy that I'm most excited about. It's discovery, Well,
Speaker 1: discovery for the kid and a rediscovery for me as
Speaker 1: I get to watch my child experience the world for
Speaker 1: the first time and bring that childish excitement and imagination
Speaker 1: back to things like Halloween, Christmas, New Year's, amusement parks,
Speaker 1: the zoo, bowling, etc. Seriously, what grown ass person likes
Speaker 1: to bowl anymore hashtag make Bowling fun Again. I love
Speaker 1: your email, and I think that's true. I think that
Speaker 1: you say you're in your thirties now, to me, that's
Speaker 1: awfully young to be being burnout on things because I
Speaker 1: think I've kept my I fucking love Christmas. And when
Speaker 1: my birthday is getting closer and Christmas is getting closer, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm excited, right, yeah, because everything about it. I like
Speaker 1: Christmas in season. I don't like Christmas like shops in July.
Speaker 1: I don't like go to a mall and go to
Speaker 1: the Christmas in July store. But when it's December and
Speaker 1: you got the tree up and there's like rudolph Is
Speaker 1: on TV and I get to go to the mall
Speaker 1: and go shopping. I love Christmas. I love my birthday.
Speaker 1: What are you going to get for me? What are
Speaker 1: we going to have for dinner on my birthday?
Speaker 3: I feel like it's the magic of those holidays and
Speaker 3: kind of what this listener is saying that, like they
Speaker 3: don't have that same joy of discovery that children do.
Speaker 2: I think it's hard, but you can kind.
Speaker 3: Of push yourself to see magic in regular situations, like
Speaker 3: I mean Christmas isn't necessarily regular, but like I try
Speaker 3: and push myself to find magic in everyday delights, like
Speaker 3: riding the giant slide for the first time at the fair,
Speaker 3: Like that's something that you could be like, well, kids
Speaker 3: would do it now, but I'm an adult, so I
Speaker 3: can't have fun anymore.
Speaker 2: You can know you can.
Speaker 1: I will say I get it to a degree. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know what, it's not new anymore, but I still
Speaker 1: think you got to go find. And I think that's
Speaker 1: one of the things that I've kind of like reflected
Speaker 1: back on previous episodes. I still want to go find
Speaker 1: and try to do new things, and Susan sometimes does
Speaker 1: really not want to do new things. And somebody said
Speaker 1: that I can justify that because Susan spent her twenties
Speaker 1: and thirties and forties taking care of the kids, making
Speaker 1: doctor's appointments, so now she wants to relax. And I
Speaker 1: never really thought about framing it that way. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I'm going to only tell you if you are thirty
Speaker 1: or thirty five and think you're old as balls, you
Speaker 1: don't know how young you are. And I know that
Speaker 1: sounds really hard to believe, but coming from somebody I
Speaker 1: remember sitting at the Timberwolves game one time. I was
Speaker 1: about thirty five years old, and I was looking around, going, yeah,
Speaker 1: those women look old. God they're my age. And I
Speaker 1: was like thirty five and I was looking at some
Speaker 1: women and some guys and going, yeah, they look old,
Speaker 1: God they're my age. Do I look that like that?
Speaker 1: And now I look at a thirty five year old
Speaker 1: is like not barely out of high school, but you're
Speaker 1: so young and you don't know it. So do not
Speaker 1: allow yourself, at thirty five years old to settle into
Speaker 1: a life of well, I'm old. I might as well
Speaker 1: not try to learn new things, or go new places
Speaker 1: or try new things because you are so young. I
Speaker 1: still think of myself at my age is like definitely
Speaker 1: young enough to go do things. Like I told Jenny earlier,
Speaker 1: I said, what do I want to do this weekend?
Speaker 1: It's a holiday weekend, long weekend. I don't want to
Speaker 1: just sit. I don't want to go to the fair
Speaker 1: all three days. I said, I'm going to join a
Speaker 1: swingers club. And then Jenny started to critique my idea.
Speaker 4: Well, I said, okay, maybe Bailey asked that Susan would
Speaker 4: be into it. You said, probably not nice. So I
Speaker 4: also mentioned, you know, I'm sure a lot of clubs
Speaker 4: have age caps where you know, you have to be
Speaker 4: a certain age to be into the swingers club. But
Speaker 4: I'm sure there's also like older swingers clubs you could
Speaker 4: go to.
Speaker 1: You know, let me know if you know of an
Speaker 1: older swingers club. And I'll never be able to talk
Speaker 1: Susan into going, but she'd be very popular at the
Speaker 1: swingers club because she's still attracted.
Speaker 2: Sure, but you're semi cute.
Speaker 1: Ah, that's the nicest thing you've ever said to me.
Speaker 1: I'm semi cute.
Speaker 3: I mean you're not ugly. Okay, you just have to
Speaker 3: make sure your hair is did before you go.
Speaker 1: My hairs did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to get your head. You've got to
Speaker 2: get to go to Great.
Speaker 1: Clips later today. Perfect, that's where I wore a hat
Speaker 1: today because my hair looks like this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks rough.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I want to know if this is what you're doing
Speaker 3: on your long weekend. This whole swinger thing is there?
Speaker 3: Do they have events every day all day every day?
Speaker 3: Because you got to.
Speaker 2: Fill up your time otherwise, Okay, jas gonna swing.
Speaker 4: Tired after ten minutes, so I don't think you need
Speaker 4: to worry about every day. You're gonna have to find
Speaker 4: some other activities.
Speaker 3: Last weekend walks upstairs, walks back downstairs.
Speaker 2: It's like I got a run. I'm so tired.
Speaker 1: I'm tired. I'm laying on the couch in the front
Speaker 1: in the living room. Everybody else is upstairs, still banging away.
Speaker 4: You hear a bunch of noises and you're like, can
Speaker 4: you keep it down. I'm trying to take a nap.
Speaker 1: Stop it, h okay. Next one, don't say a name.
Speaker 1: I'm for just for the I don't know context. It
Speaker 1: is from a woman. This time. I'm writing in regards
Speaker 1: to the changes in spouse activity level, which is going
Speaker 1: with the theme we just talked about. I'm living this currently.
Speaker 1: My husband has always been a quiet, not very outgoing person,
Speaker 1: but we used to go to the movies and dinners out,
Speaker 1: and COVID unfortunately change that drastically for him. Not that
Speaker 1: he's worried about COVID, but the many months where we
Speaker 1: stayed at home is giving him reason to stay home more.
Speaker 1: There are months where we don't go do anything as
Speaker 1: just us, or even just go out for supper. We
Speaker 1: have days where we go shopping out of town and eat.
Speaker 1: But it's different to me than planning a date night out.
Speaker 1: I have activities I want to go to, some are
Speaker 1: specifically for couples, and he will not do them. His
Speaker 1: response is always, you can go alone. Part of the
Speaker 1: reason you get married is because you like to spend
Speaker 1: time together. So for me to go alone, I see
Speaker 1: how it could cause us to grow apart. I don't
Speaker 1: want to go alone. I find myself signed of my
Speaker 1: kids up for sports activities. It'll keep us busy on
Speaker 1: the summer or weekends, just so I have stuff to
Speaker 1: do or something to get me out of the house.
Speaker 1: There's not really any point of this, just kind of
Speaker 1: a commiseration in my frustration you have with Susan. I
Speaker 1: express my frustration, but I'm not sure of how to
Speaker 1: fix this, as it needs to come from him and
Speaker 1: him changing love everyone and the show in general. Thank you,
Speaker 1: don't say my name? Yeah, And I wonder I've known
Speaker 1: a lot of women who say that about their husbands.
Speaker 1: They just don't want to go do anything. They want
Speaker 1: to stay home and watch World War II documentaries, and
Speaker 1: they want to stay home and work on their whatever
Speaker 1: in the garage. And I like to stay home, I
Speaker 1: really do, but this weekend I don't want to stay home.
Speaker 1: I can stay home anytime, but I get a three
Speaker 1: day weekend. What are you doing this weekend, Jenny.
Speaker 4: I'm going to head up to Crosby to just like
Speaker 4: hang out on a lake and chill out a cabin
Speaker 4: and that's it. But I do have to be back
Speaker 4: because I got to work at the State Fair on Monday.
Speaker 1: Oh do you Okay, Bailey? What are you doing this weekend?
Speaker 3: Well, I'll be working at the Renaissance Festival on Saturday
Speaker 3: and working at the Fair on Sunday and Monday. So
Speaker 3: that's what I'm doing this well, Ken, working but firing
Speaker 3: outside of the work. So I'm excited for it. Come
Speaker 3: to the fair and come see me, Dave, come see
Speaker 3: me on Sunday or Monday.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's not a bad idea because we
Speaker 1: do love the Renaissance Festival or that too.
Speaker 2: You could come to that too. You could come to both.
Speaker 1: I mean I could. I think I've kind of tapped
Speaker 1: out of the fair because we went on Saturday. We
Speaker 1: went again on Sunday. I'll be there tomorrow Wednesday with
Speaker 1: Treasure Island noon to one and with the station on
Speaker 1: Thursday from eleven till one. Yeah, I'll hang out afterward
Speaker 1: because I'm not going to go just and then leave, right,
Speaker 1: But I do have to slow down with the eating.
Speaker 1: I have put on five pounds since the fair started.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's the fair.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't exist like time space doesn't exist during
Speaker 3: the fair.
Speaker 2: I agree with that, but.
Speaker 1: I also have to recover from that five pounds and
Speaker 1: I like to stay at my fight and wait, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, because of all the fighting you're doing. Yeah,
Speaker 4: to make sure you don't go above that or you're
Speaker 4: not you're gonna lose all your fights in that weight range.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jenny. Next one from Ruth they say, just
Speaker 1: want to say there was a caller that was wondering,
Speaker 1: what will you do when Dave retires? I wondered the
Speaker 1: same thing, but then Dave was off recently, and I
Speaker 1: have to say, Jenny Bailey and vont did an awesome job.
Speaker 1: That's from Ruth. Well, I hate to hear that. What
Speaker 1: I really want to hear is that you sucked and
Speaker 1: it was it's just a travesty of dead air, bad
Speaker 1: jokes that fell flat and other horrible things. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what I want to hear. But no, seriously, I am,
Speaker 1: and I'm not lying. I'm happy to know that you
Speaker 1: guys pull it off when I'm gone, because I know
Speaker 1: that you can. But I also would not want people
Speaker 1: to go aw, it's not as good. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to listen when Dave's not there and then go find
Speaker 1: another favorite radio show. I want you guys to do
Speaker 1: well when I'm not here, and I think that you
Speaker 1: probably do.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, we leave plenty of dead air, but
Speaker 3: we're sparkling personalities otherwise, so they get over it.
Speaker 2: I guess I gotcha.
Speaker 1: Do you want me to turn that down? Jenny? You
Speaker 1: got it? Jenny is using the volume control sliders as
Speaker 1: we speak. Thank you, Ruth. I think that you know
Speaker 1: when I do retire. Somebody asked the other day on
Speaker 1: no Phone screen or Friday, what are you going to do?
Speaker 1: I said, I don't care. I know what's going to
Speaker 1: happen on the show. I don't care because I'll be
Speaker 1: gone the last thing I'm going to worry about. But
Speaker 1: I think that probably what they'll do is the three
Speaker 1: of you would probably continue the show. I don't know, or.
Speaker 2: They'll just blow up the radio. It won't exist anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't think they would do that now because I
Speaker 1: think what the problem is in hiring an all new shows.
Speaker 1: They got to start from scratch, Yeah, they really, and
Speaker 1: starting from scratch in this day and age in radio
Speaker 1: is really difficult, and because you have to cut because
Speaker 1: first of all, I mean, between you and me, radio
Speaker 1: still is thriving and doing really well, but not as
Speaker 1: well as it did when it was the only medium
Speaker 1: out there. You know, a generation ago, it was radio
Speaker 1: and TV and your own music, your CD collection. Yeah then,
Speaker 1: and now there's so much, I mean, there's so much
Speaker 1: that competes with radio. That radio is still thriving, but
Speaker 1: not necessarily growing because it's hard to get people that
Speaker 1: don't listen to the radio to listen to the radio.
Speaker 1: So in other words, if they got of everybody on
Speaker 1: this morning show and brought in you know, Zippy and
Speaker 1: Peanut in the Morning, they're really funny, I made that
Speaker 1: show up, then Zippy and Peanut in the Morning would
Speaker 1: have to start from scratch, right, And they don't want
Speaker 1: to do that.
Speaker 3: And I've listened to shows where they like have either
Speaker 3: completely changed their format, like podcasting where they're like, Okay,
Speaker 3: we're done talking about that one thing that you have
Speaker 3: grown accustomed to, and now we're going to start talking
Speaker 3: about this completely different thing.
Speaker 2: And that's hard.
Speaker 3: But like, I've also listened to shows where they have
Speaker 3: completely different hosts one day and then the next day
Speaker 3: is brand new people. And you're like, well, I don't
Speaker 3: like these people.
Speaker 1: Tell me what you mean. I'm not sure what you mean.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean I don't want to like name the station,
Speaker 3: but they had hosts that left here in town. Here
Speaker 3: in town, okay, host that left, and then we're replaced
Speaker 3: by two brand new hosts.
Speaker 1: I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: And I was like, Okay, i didn't love the host
Speaker 3: that left, so I'm going to like this new show.
Speaker 2: And then I don't.
Speaker 1: Oh killies.
Speaker 2: I don't know either of them, and I don't know.
Speaker 3: It seems like, like you said, you have to start
Speaker 3: from scratch, so you have to learn to become friends
Speaker 3: with these people. Yeah, and I think that takes a
Speaker 3: lot of work. So, like people have established they are
Speaker 3: friends with you, even if it's a parasocial relationship, they
Speaker 3: are friends with you. You are their friend, you are
Speaker 3: their dad. And so like if you left, and then
Speaker 3: everybody left it was brand new people. They'd be like,
Speaker 3: that's not my dad.
Speaker 1: I don't like him any no, And that is an
Speaker 1: absolutely true phenomenon in radio. But I think it also
Speaker 1: goes to a circle of friends. So let's say you
Speaker 1: and I and Jenny and Vaughnt and whatever, and we're
Speaker 1: all like, you know, and maybe Rich and Fallon and whatever.
Speaker 1: We're all in a circle of friends. Well, here comes
Speaker 1: this new guy, Brent. Brent comes in and we're a
Speaker 1: little bit like, we're observing, we're watching. We don't like
Speaker 1: Brent yet. Yeah, but after we meet Brent a few
Speaker 1: times and realize that he's pretty funny and he's really
Speaker 1: generous and he loves to listen to your store, now
Speaker 1: you start to like Brent. But at first we're cautious.
Speaker 1: And I know that happens whenever ever, ever we bring
Speaker 1: somebody new on the show, people don't like them. And
Speaker 1: I always tell new people in the show, people are
Speaker 1: going to hate you at first, and people grow to
Speaker 1: like you. And I know this too. When people leave Minnesota,
Speaker 1: they'll move to Sacramento, or they'll move to Dallas, and
Speaker 1: they'll be like all the radio stations here suck, so
Speaker 1: I listen to you guys, Well, it's because you're familiar
Speaker 1: with us, and so familiarity and I think that's probably
Speaker 1: It's funny that you didn't like the two original hosts
Speaker 1: of the show even though you knew them. Well, yes,
Speaker 1: were they somewhat like they had very high opinions of themselves.
Speaker 3: Maybe I think they just I don't know. I didn't
Speaker 3: enjoy their banter, and the new people, I don't enjoy
Speaker 3: their banter either because I don't know them and they
Speaker 3: know each other.
Speaker 2: So it's just weird.
Speaker 1: And I think sometimes that's what radio people are bad at,
Speaker 1: is they will banter between themselves and forget that there
Speaker 1: are people listening. When Fallon and Steve would fill in
Speaker 1: when I was gone, I was concerned because they were
Speaker 1: both newish on the show and I would listen, I'd
Speaker 1: be like, the guys are talking only to each other.
Speaker 1: You're forgetting that there are people listening. You've got to
Speaker 1: remember is this interesting to the people that are listening?
Speaker 1: Rather than when I would coach radio shows because I
Speaker 1: don't anymore because a lot of them don't appreciate it,
Speaker 1: and it gets really frustrating when I work, really hard
Speaker 1: to spend three hours working on a morning show and
Speaker 1: I coach them and the next week they're doing the
Speaker 1: exact goddamn same things wrong.
Speaker 3: You're like, God, day did I try?
Speaker 1: So I don't really do that much anymore, but I
Speaker 1: would remind people when you're talking, you've got to make
Speaker 1: sure that you realize there are people listening. So you
Speaker 1: either got to say once in a while like well
Speaker 1: what do you think? Or send me an email, or
Speaker 1: this show is about you and it's got to be something.
Speaker 1: So Bailey and I sat and just talked about how
Speaker 1: much we'd love the Twilight Zone. Hm, it'd be interesting
Speaker 1: for thirty seconds the tops And if you don't like
Speaker 1: Twilight Zone, then you'd be like, they're not including me
Speaker 1: in this conversation. So we talk about things that everybody
Speaker 1: wants to talk about, like the State Fair. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: nearly everybody wants talk about the State Fair.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and especially in the last like well a few
Speaker 4: days since it's been around. But people are hyped about
Speaker 4: telling you how the storm was delayed opening all that is,
Speaker 4: and I wanted to know that information myself too. I
Speaker 4: was curious.
Speaker 1: Okay, we got time for one more on the Minnesota goodbye,
Speaker 1: and this is from Amanda, so she says we can
Speaker 1: talk about that. On the I'm Still Fun podcast, Jenny
Speaker 1: was daydreaming about moving to Seattle. I lived in Portland
Speaker 1: for two years and several other states since then. I'm
Speaker 1: considering moving back. What qualities of Minnesota keep you all there?
Speaker 1: I I feel like we might have read this one,
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: I don't remember it.
Speaker 1: All we know this, we all know the summers are great?
Speaker 1: What else? What keeps you there? If you have an
Speaker 1: awesome job in a different state, would you move away
Speaker 1: from your family and friends? Have so much fun at
Speaker 1: the fair. It is a hug, and when it pulls away,
Speaker 1: you're handed to Pronto. That was really good, Bailey, So
Speaker 1: what keeps you here? I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I love Minnesota, but the winters are getting harder and harder.
Speaker 1: I love being outdoors. I love summer activities. I love summer,
Speaker 1: spring and fall activities. I love hiking, I love motorcycle riding.
Speaker 1: So the winters are long, cold and dark, and as
Speaker 1: I realize I want to live my life the way
Speaker 1: I want, Minnesota is not always that accommodating, not at all, Jenny,
Speaker 1: what do you think.
Speaker 4: The only thing that keeps me here is Andrew for
Speaker 4: the most part, and then this job, because if I
Speaker 4: could pick up and have a job in a different city,
Speaker 4: I would. I don't love the Twin Cities very much anymore.
Speaker 4: I did love it, but I've been here long enough
Speaker 4: and I like change sometimes, and so personally, I would
Speaker 4: love to just like be somewhere where there's mountains. That's
Speaker 4: no secret that I like to hike and snowboard, and
Speaker 4: I just like hate not having easy access to certain
Speaker 4: things like that year round. It only happens a couple
Speaker 4: times a year when I make it out on a vacation.
Speaker 1: So what keeps you here? Bailey?
Speaker 3: I actually left and then came back because I like
Speaker 3: it so much here. I like the arts. There's so
Speaker 3: much arts and culture here. It's super diverse. I love
Speaker 3: the people. I love living in Minneapolis and the Twin
Speaker 3: Cities in general. Obviously, my family is here. I coach
Speaker 3: speech and debate and my speech team is here. Yes,
Speaker 3: I could like get up and go to a different place,
Speaker 3: but I would miss it here so much because I just.
Speaker 2: Love being a citizen of the Twin Cities. It just
Speaker 2: fills me up. I love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get that it is. There's a lot here.
Speaker 1: It is a really big city, vibrant with a vibrant
Speaker 1: without a lot of the big city issues. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is the biggest city I've ever lived in, But yeah,
Speaker 1: I like it here. I've also lived in Phoenix. Phoenix
Speaker 1: was the opposite. It was too hot. It was like
Speaker 1: oppressively hot to my to the year where you couldn't
Speaker 1: go outside because it was too hot. Colorado is just
Speaker 1: about perfect. If I could live somewhere else, it'd probably
Speaker 1: be Colorado. Mountana is beautiful, but it's a little bit
Speaker 1: too cold. Seattle has become like a weird city that
Speaker 1: I've heard that you don't really want to live there.
Speaker 1: But that's too bad, because I think Seattle is really beautiful.
Speaker 2: And I was just there.
Speaker 1: I don't know, you're part of the problem in Seattle
Speaker 1: with people like the problem.
Speaker 4: It's it's the same thing though, of people saying that
Speaker 4: Minneapolis is a bad city.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you live there.
Speaker 1: It's different, a right. Send your emails to Ryan Show
Speaker 1: at KDWB dot com.