Speaker 1: I woke up this morning and I didn't know where
Speaker 1: I was. You ever do that, Like you're on vacation.
Speaker 1: You wake up at a hotel and you're like, I'm
Speaker 1: at home, and then you look around You're like, huh,
Speaker 1: I'm not at home.
Speaker 2: I think for me, the most recent thing is if
Speaker 2: I go out in the camper van, I will wake
Speaker 2: up in the middle of the night and I'll be
Speaker 2: very confused because I'm like, this doesn't feel like my bed,
Speaker 2: and then I will look and I'm in a box
Speaker 2: of a van. Yeah, oh that's right, I'm in the
Speaker 2: camper van.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I In the last month, I've slept in the
Speaker 1: camper van in my bed. Yeah, you're right, in Jenny's
Speaker 1: camper van, in the RV in Colorado, in my bed.
Speaker 1: And I woke up this morning. I truly I had
Speaker 1: to sit there for a minute and think about where
Speaker 1: am I and I looked around and it took a
Speaker 1: while to even register where I was. So okay, So
Speaker 1: you're not the only one that does that. I'm not
Speaker 1: the only one that does that. Let's get into the
Speaker 1: emails on the Minnesota Goodbye. Here's a trick I learned
Speaker 1: just now. Thank God, Jenny was here because our emails
Speaker 1: come in and sometimes they're in a very small font
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I can't read this. So what I
Speaker 1: usually do is I copy and paste it into a
Speaker 1: word document then blow it up. Jenny taught me a
Speaker 1: keyboard shortcut.
Speaker 2: Hey, you just said control and the plus sign and
Speaker 2: it'll zoom in for you.
Speaker 1: What the fuck control and plus sign.
Speaker 2: That's probably one of the keyboard shortcuts I use a lot.
Speaker 2: I also use command tab. It'll change between tabs, but
Speaker 2: only if they're different things. So for instance, if I'm
Speaker 2: in a word document but I'm looking at an article
Speaker 2: on the Internet, I can switch between the two of
Speaker 2: them super easily. But if I'm going from word document
Speaker 2: to word document, that doesn't work. It'll only go between
Speaker 2: different kinds of tab. No.
Speaker 1: True, And I use alt tab. Is that what you meant?
Speaker 2: That's mine's command on a I have a Mac, so
Speaker 2: I think it's probably different on like what your computer is.
Speaker 2: But yes, alt tab also.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I learned that in the computer class probably twenty
Speaker 1: five years ago. Alt tab because I was taking like
Speaker 1: a publishing class on how to like do desktop publishing
Speaker 1: back when people would do like newspapers and things like that,
Speaker 1: and so I took a publishing class and I was like,
Speaker 1: all tab oh dang, yeah that's cool. But control plus
Speaker 1: allows me to read this email from Kurt and he says,
Speaker 1: I'm not written in before as I just started listening
Speaker 1: to the Minnesota Goodbye even though I've been listening to
Speaker 1: KTWGB for years. I feel like I might be soulmates
Speaker 1: with Juananita because I have a rant I love the
Speaker 1: podcast been listening to them in reverse order because that's
Speaker 1: how they are playing on the iHeartRadio app. I'm sure
Speaker 1: I could change it if I care, but I'll just
Speaker 1: listen to how they come up until I get to
Speaker 1: the end. Here's my rant. I do love the iHeart app.
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. However, I played podcasts from my
Speaker 1: phone to my stereo. I'm older and I refuse to
Speaker 1: get rid of my records tape CDs because I still
Speaker 1: listen to them, and I also have a fancy stereo
Speaker 1: that plays them and also has Bluetooth. My complaint is this,
Speaker 1: what the fuck is with the change in audio between
Speaker 1: the show and the commercials. Here, I am working my way,
Speaker 1: working away, laughing along with Dave, Jenny Bailey and if
Speaker 1: I don't hear that, will do it for today and
Speaker 1: immediately turn the volume way down. The next thing I know,
Speaker 1: Ryan Seacrest is fucking screaming in my ear about some
Speaker 1: casino game, or I get blasted by a commercial for
Speaker 1: some other podcast that's being advertised. I've nearly jumped clear
Speaker 1: out of my fucking chair because it's such a huge
Speaker 1: change in volume it scares the shit out of me.
Speaker 1: Is like turning the volume from a calm Dave Ryan
Speaker 1: on five to a screaming, fucking ad blasting at five
Speaker 1: hundred at an outdoor music fest with a stack of
Speaker 1: damn speakers. Get your shit together, iHeart. It won't stop
Speaker 1: me from listening, but it may shave about twenty five
Speaker 1: years off my life every time. It scares the shit
Speaker 1: out of me, and I'll be deaf in my ear
Speaker 1: that faces the speaker. Love you, guys, and keep up
Speaker 1: the fun in hilarious antics until next time, Kurt Kurt,
Speaker 1: thanks for the feedback. I don't know why it does that.
Speaker 1: I wasn't aware that it did that, but I will
Speaker 1: say that there's still some glitches in the iHeart app.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean in Iheart's defense. We're not the
Speaker 2: only ones who do that. I think any kind of
Speaker 2: streaming platform you listen to a lot of times the
Speaker 2: commercials are higher volume. Maybe Ihearts is a little bit
Speaker 2: more aggressive. Yeah, but I mean I started watching the show.
Speaker 2: Is it called the Four Seasons?
Speaker 1: Is that what the four Seasons? Did you start watching it?
Speaker 1: I did start watching We're coming back to.
Speaker 2: That, yeah, So, and I last night my ears were
Speaker 2: blasted anytime music played, and I had to grab the
Speaker 2: remote so quickly to turn the music down because it
Speaker 2: was like such a difference in between them just talking
Speaker 2: and the music playing. And so I feel like it's
Speaker 2: just some kind of issue that we all have and
Speaker 2: we've got to figure out levels, is what.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, I think that things come from different sources,
Speaker 1: and what might be there's you know, there's we call
Speaker 1: them vu meters, and they are basically they they look
Speaker 1: like a meter like you know, it bounces back and
Speaker 1: forth and it's supposed to peak at the red zone.
Speaker 1: And so if it peaks at the red zone in here,
Speaker 1: that is kind of like a unit of measure on
Speaker 1: this piece of equipment. But it might be a different
Speaker 1: piece of a different measure of volume on another piece
Speaker 1: of equipment. So that's why Seacrest might be a ten
Speaker 1: or you know, peaking correctly on his equipment but not
Speaker 1: on ours. I don't know if that makes any sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: his apples and Orange is kind of But I still
Speaker 1: love the iHeartRadio app and I actually use it, not
Speaker 1: just because we're supposed to, but because I actually like
Speaker 1: the iHeart Radio app. Next one, I like this one.
Speaker 1: It says hello from Marie day are Marie Daisy. I've
Speaker 1: been thinking about some past bits that I really don't
Speaker 1: hear anymore. I will always miss Dave and Steve slow
Speaker 1: jams and would nearly pee myself listening to the songs
Speaker 1: Dave made up during country song or not. We'll bring
Speaker 1: that back next week. We haven't done that in a while. No,
Speaker 1: I do miss the hr bit too. Haven't heard that
Speaker 1: one in a while. Well, we, you know, like anything,
Speaker 1: we drive it into the ground till it's not funny anymore.
Speaker 1: But we still do the hr bit once in a while.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then we drive it into the ground for
Speaker 2: like a week, and then we forget about it for
Speaker 2: three months.
Speaker 1: I still love that bit that came to me when
Speaker 1: it came really organically because we were sitting here in
Speaker 1: the studio one day, five is years ago, and Fallon
Speaker 1: said you're fat, and I said, you know what, Because
Speaker 1: Fallon and I would give each other shit, like merciless
Speaker 1: shit like that. I'd be like, you are ugly and
Speaker 1: you get a mole in your forehead. She's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: well you're a fat fuck, and I'd be like, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm calling HR, and so off the air, I said,
Speaker 1: d d do do doue? Hello. Yeah, Fallon called me
Speaker 1: a fat fuck, and then I said, oh, you are
Speaker 1: a fat fuck, and we all laughed because HR would
Speaker 1: never say that back to you. So we turn it
Speaker 1: into a bit anyway. She says, what are some favorite
Speaker 1: bit you guys have done throughout the years, whether it's
Speaker 1: a long standing bit or a one hit wonder of sorts.
Speaker 1: I would say one of my favorites that we don't
Speaker 1: do anymore was Steve teaches your kids the meaning of
Speaker 1: the word no. And this guy put together a big
Speaker 1: long intro for it, yep, and he sang to it
Speaker 1: and then he'd be like, hey, okay, you want to
Speaker 1: win Taylor Swift tickets, Call me right now. You want
Speaker 1: to win Taylor Swift tickets. Call me Hello, who's this.
Speaker 1: It's Maddie. Hi, Maddie. How old are you? I'm eleven? Great, Maddie.
Speaker 1: Do you want to go see Taylor Swift? Yeah? You dude,
Speaker 1: do you want to go see her? Are you really bad?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And then you'd draw it out for a while. Maddie
Speaker 1: would be like yeah, and he'd be like, well, the
Speaker 1: answer is no. No, Maddie, you don't get to go
Speaker 1: see Taylor Swift. You don't get to have everything you want.
Speaker 1: The answer is no. I know that's a word you've
Speaker 1: never heard before, but no. And it was very funny
Speaker 1: and very awful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we had to stop doing it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you got in trouble because somebody told their mom.
Speaker 1: Their mom called all the way to the top of
Speaker 1: the food chain, a guy named Bob Pittman, who is
Speaker 1: our big boss, and and Bob Pittman's like, I don't
Speaker 1: got time for this shit, which he doesn't. He's a
Speaker 1: great He's fucking genius, is what he is. And so
Speaker 1: Bob Pittman said, you give that girl Taylor Swift tickets,
Speaker 1: and so we did and we can never do that
Speaker 1: bit again.
Speaker 2: So you were I think in a meeting or I
Speaker 2: think you were in a meeting when we did the
Speaker 2: Minnesota Goodbye Without You this past week one time, and
Speaker 2: someone emailed then and said she was trying to win
Speaker 2: Taylor Swift tickets. And it was during the STEVEO teaches
Speaker 2: your kids the meaning of No. So she was listening
Speaker 2: in one room and her mom was listening in in another,
Speaker 2: and so she was like trying to call in and
Speaker 2: dial in whatever, and her mom runs into the room
Speaker 2: and grabs her phone and says, no, you're not doing
Speaker 2: it because she knew what the bitch was.
Speaker 1: She got it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, took it away from her to, you know, stop
Speaker 2: her from the heartbreak that Steve would have given her
Speaker 2: if she wouldn't have kept dialing.
Speaker 1: She said, it was so funny. I can't believe that
Speaker 1: somebody called about that. It was so funny, but it
Speaker 1: was also it was cruel and whenever would you know
Speaker 1: because it was a little kid and it was very funny,
Speaker 1: but then people would complain and say, that's so mean,
Speaker 1: you broke that little girl's heart. Whatever. Some of the
Speaker 1: other favorite pits that we've done. I love doing the
Speaker 1: parody songs and I haven't done a parody song in
Speaker 1: years now, and I don't know why, I really, I
Speaker 1: mean seriously, one of my favorite bits that I did
Speaker 1: was the Hollister song, and I was just really proud
Speaker 1: of that because it got back when we used to
Speaker 1: keep track of every It got over a thousand requests
Speaker 1: in a day one time. We just have a little
Speaker 1: tally board in here like that, you know that people
Speaker 1: would call in back before Spotify and that type of thing.
Speaker 1: Kids would come home from school and they would turn
Speaker 1: on the radio while they did their homework and they called.
Speaker 1: Like one day when it was new, we got over
Speaker 1: a thousand requests for the freaking Hollister song. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I'm really proud of that one. Any bits that.
Speaker 2: You remember, So when it was you Stephen Fallen on
Speaker 2: the show and I was way more behind the scenes
Speaker 2: at the time. I remember sitting in my studio because
Speaker 2: for when you do phone Rodeo, we would always have
Speaker 2: to record it off air because you never knew if
Speaker 2: people were going to answer the phone whatever. But phone Rodeo,
Speaker 2: I remember, would be a good one. If I was
Speaker 2: in my studio and I could look over and you
Speaker 2: and Fallon were like covering your mouths trying not to
Speaker 2: laugh as you was calling and his person to joke
Speaker 2: and stuff, and so Phone Rodeo was always a hit
Speaker 2: or a miss usually, but when it was a hit,
Speaker 2: it was so fucking funny in my eyes.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: I loved the charity CD bit that you and Fallon
Speaker 2: did for Ducks Unlimited.
Speaker 1: You guys, so I forgot about that.
Speaker 2: Would pretend like they missed a meeting because they were
Speaker 2: working on a charity CD, and then they just improv
Speaker 2: something off the top of their heads. Then seconds and
Speaker 2: then you try to like sync up saying the same words,
Speaker 2: which was.
Speaker 1: A bit we stole from Saturday Night Live, but we
Speaker 1: absolutely made it work for years. That was funny. I
Speaker 1: forgot about that bit.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's so many like I think this person
Speaker 2: said slow jams too. I loved slow jams also with
Speaker 2: you and Steve, and we did have Steve in on.
Speaker 2: I think it was Valentine's Day this year, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I had to do some slow jams. So there's so
Speaker 2: many I could probably think of. I just like we
Speaker 2: don't have all day.
Speaker 1: So I love that. You know what, let us know
Speaker 1: if there was a favorite bit that you loved on
Speaker 1: the show, and maybe we still do it, and maybe
Speaker 1: we don't. I mean, there's a lot of bits that
Speaker 1: we've discovered that we still do recurringly, like favorite musical moments.
Speaker 1: We love that one. Yeah, we still do the HR
Speaker 1: bit here and there. I think next week we're going
Speaker 1: to bring back country song or not, So we'll do
Speaker 1: that next time week. Next one from Chris Chris Sayrs
Speaker 1: random thought, but being you can swear and basically say
Speaker 1: or talk about anything on the Minnesota Goodbye. Do you
Speaker 1: guys ever get nervous that it's being played on the
Speaker 1: radio while recording or all that? Correct? Buttons are pushed? Also,
Speaker 1: is it hard to censor yourself from swearing on the radio?
Speaker 1: Then during a repeat or break during the Minnesota Goodbye?
Speaker 1: So that's Chris in Northfield, Minnesota. I would say I
Speaker 1: always try to check it. It's a pretty easy check
Speaker 1: to see whether the microphones are on because they light
Speaker 1: up red when they're on, yeah, and when they're off.
Speaker 1: Right now, they're technically on, but they're not on the air,
Speaker 1: So it's a pretty easy check. But it's always, you know,
Speaker 1: worth looking down to see whether the microphones are on.
Speaker 2: I think there are moments if if you're not here
Speaker 2: and I'm the one reading emails and stuff and running
Speaker 2: the board, I do get stressed swearing during the Minnesota Goodbye,
Speaker 2: just for the off chance that I screwed something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I like you.
Speaker 2: Usually don't think I try to swear if I'm the
Speaker 2: one who's in controllable.
Speaker 1: Day, gotcha. As far as on the air, no, I
Speaker 1: mean we've conditioned ourselves to just not swear out of
Speaker 1: the air. I mean I think when I swear most
Speaker 1: of the time, it's like with forethought. It's like I
Speaker 1: know I'm gonna say fucking hot outside, so I know
Speaker 1: it's coming and I can prepare myself for it. But
Speaker 1: I also I can say it's freaking hot outside, or
Speaker 1: just it's hot outside, because you know, doing this for
Speaker 1: so long, you'd definitely get It's kind of like being
Speaker 1: around your grandparents or being around your If you have
Speaker 1: your pastor over for dinner. Let's say pastor Catherine comes
Speaker 1: over for dinner, Well, she probably swear. She seems like
Speaker 1: she's pretty cool, so she probably like, damn, it's fucking
Speaker 1: hot outside, Jesus Christ. So it's not that hard to do.
Speaker 1: But thanks for asking, Chris, good question.
Speaker 2: I do have one story. You were on vacation, Dave,
Speaker 2: but I said a bum fuck nowhere on accident on
Speaker 2: air because I thought I had censored myself. And it
Speaker 2: was when Fallen was still here on the show on
Speaker 2: the air, on the air, because I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: well whatever I think. I was like Fallin was coming
Speaker 2: at me for something. So I was getting all hot
Speaker 2: headed and I was like, you know, at least I'm
Speaker 2: not in bum fuck. I thought I censored fuck, but
Speaker 2: I censored like the next one. And then Boun's eyes
Speaker 2: got huge, and I it didn't process in my head
Speaker 2: what happened, And I was like what And then I
Speaker 2: realized I said bum fuck and I had to hit
Speaker 2: the dump button.
Speaker 1: Oh that's funny. Yeah, we do it on the air
Speaker 1: and there's a delay, and there literally is a button.
Speaker 1: I'm not making this up. It sounds like it's out
Speaker 1: of a cartoon. There's a big red button the size
Speaker 1: of a fifty cent piece on the board that says dump.
Speaker 1: So if we accidentally swear or a listener gets on
Speaker 1: and swears, we just push the dump button and you
Speaker 1: don't panic. Jenny panics and just dives for it. And
Speaker 1: it's like, no, I feel like you don't.
Speaker 2: It doesn't register with you, and so I get stressed
Speaker 2: because your reaction's not as quick, and.
Speaker 1: I'm I know I take my time because i'd reach over.
Speaker 1: You got twenty seconds to push the dump buttons.
Speaker 2: See I didn't know that. I thought you had only
Speaker 2: a few seconds.
Speaker 1: It's like twenty seconds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good information.
Speaker 1: Yeah, next one. Lexi says, Hello friends, longtime listener, first
Speaker 1: time writer here. I've been wanting to email in for
Speaker 1: years and finally getting around to it. I've been listening
Speaker 1: to KATWB since I can remember, and now I'm glad
Speaker 1: you're listening to Minnesota Goodbye. I have memories of being
Speaker 1: in the car with my family as a kid, and
Speaker 1: my older brother and I would always fight over the stations.
Speaker 1: He wanted B ninety six and I wanted katble tob
Speaker 1: When I was in high school, I was always late
Speaker 1: for my first hour class on Thursdays because I had
Speaker 1: to catch the end of War of the Roses. I'd
Speaker 1: walk in. Everybody would say, who was cheating? Were they cheating?
Speaker 1: I love that story. I always try to stop by
Speaker 1: your booth in the State Fair, and I've been lucky
Speaker 1: enough to meet you guys once or twice. This past year,
Speaker 1: I had the pleasure of meeting Bailey and had such
Speaker 1: a nice chat with her. I can always remember also
Speaker 1: remember where I was when I first heard the dart
Speaker 1: Lick episode. Anyway, wanted to write in and say how
Speaker 1: much I enjoyed listening to your show and podcasts. I've
Speaker 1: been struggling a lot recently with anxiety and find myself
Speaker 1: so comforted when listening to your podcast. I so appreciate
Speaker 1: when you guys but up about your own struggles with
Speaker 1: mental health. It makes me feel better that I am
Speaker 1: not alone and some of my favorite radio DJs know
Speaker 1: what I'm going through. I'm sorry for the long email.
Speaker 1: I thought I would reach out and say how much
Speaker 1: I love listening to you guys and what an impact
Speaker 1: you've made in my life. Thank you, Thank you for
Speaker 1: all you guys do. Keep on keeping on dart Lick
Speaker 1: and A'll right from LEXI nice.
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening, and sorry for all your mental health struggles.
Speaker 2: I hope that we do give you a little bit
Speaker 2: of comfort because I know for me, specifically, just hearing
Speaker 2: anyone talk about it helps me.
Speaker 1: So I was dming with a woman named Tammy last night,
Speaker 1: and this is what Tammy said. And you know, I
Speaker 1: try to answer all of the dms that I get
Speaker 1: on Instagram. And she wrote it, and she said, Dave,
Speaker 1: I love your shirt. It was the woodstock and snoopy
Speaker 1: shirt as wearing the other day. She said, and I
Speaker 1: like your hair. It fits you. I don't like my
Speaker 1: hair anymore. We'll get back to that in a second.
Speaker 1: I think I look like the murderer from No Country
Speaker 1: for Old Men. So if you look up No Country
Speaker 1: for Old Men murderer, go look up No Country for
Speaker 1: Old Men murderer and see if I look like him. Anyway,
Speaker 1: she says, I like your hair. I said, thanks. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what to do with the hair right now.
Speaker 1: She said, you would look awesome in any hairstyle. Your
Speaker 1: personality shines through. And thanks for being a bright light
Speaker 1: for me through all my trials and downtimes in my life.
Speaker 1: You and your team are amazing. I love you, And
Speaker 1: I said, well, thanks, She said, you bad again. Thanks
Speaker 1: for the humor that you spread around the city. I
Speaker 1: met you at the State Fair. You are anyway, she said,
Speaker 1: You're a legend. And I don't like to read that part,
Speaker 1: so sorry. To hear of your dog passing. I've had
Speaker 1: a lot of loss in the last year. My boyfriend
Speaker 1: died and I have two dogs. We're in an apartment,
Speaker 1: and just seeing your post makes me feel better, and
Speaker 1: listen to the show makes you feel better. So anyway,
Speaker 1: I think it goes back to sometimes you listen to
Speaker 1: the radio and offer something that no other media can deliver.
Speaker 1: I don't think you feel companionship or connection to a
Speaker 1: podcaster necessarily. Maybe you do, but I think because we're
Speaker 1: live and we're much more honest, I think than most
Speaker 1: DJs are. And so I think that when Josie died,
Speaker 1: one of the things that comforted me was so many
Speaker 1: people reaching out and saying, I've been there, I know
Speaker 1: exactly how you feel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So when people hear us talk about, you know, mental
Speaker 1: health or struggles or you know whatever relationship problems, people go, oh, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is very common and it makes you feel better.
Speaker 1: Next one, where do you listen to the Minnesota Goodbye?
Speaker 1: We asked last week? This is Sarah. She says, I
Speaker 1: listened to my office at home while I'm working. I
Speaker 1: usually listened to it right after the morning show. Can't
Speaker 1: get enough love you guys from Sarah. It's just fun
Speaker 1: to find out where you listen. I like that. Also,
Speaker 1: I'm going to give a shout out to Joe Gonzalez
Speaker 1: because Joe, it is his birthday today. He listens in Turlock, California.
Speaker 1: He's never been to Minnesota. I don't know how he
Speaker 1: found us, but he is a big supporter of the
Speaker 1: show and podcast. Shout out Joe Gonzalez. He is going
Speaker 1: to come to Minnesota this June just to see all
Speaker 1: the things that he's heard us talk about over the years,
Speaker 1: and I think that's so cool. So shout out Shoe.
Speaker 1: Next one. Hold on, I'm going to scroll down a
Speaker 1: little bit while.
Speaker 2: You're doing that. I did look up the No Country
Speaker 2: for Old Men murderer. Yeah, I don't think you look
Speaker 2: quite like him. He's got like long hair. It's almost
Speaker 2: like the in between of when you're gonna cut your
Speaker 2: hair really short, but you still have a bob. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so it's kind of that in between. I do not
Speaker 2: think you look like him.
Speaker 1: I think there's a line in the movie where Woody
Speaker 1: Harrelson is about to get I don't want spoiler alert,
Speaker 1: but it's a fifteen year old movie, the murder is
Speaker 1: about to kill Woody Harrelson or somebody else, and they
Speaker 1: say to the murderer, they said, I knew you were
Speaker 1: crazy when I saw your haircut. And the actor who
Speaker 1: played the murderer said, when I saw the haircut that
Speaker 1: I had to wear, I knew I wouldn't be getting
Speaker 1: laid for a few months because it's just a bad
Speaker 1: bowl haircut on a reasonably handsome man. So not sure
Speaker 1: if I have time for one. Yeah, I got time
Speaker 1: for one more. Okay, here we go. Don't stay my name. Okay.
Speaker 1: I heard Dave Mention on the Minnesota Goodbye that he
Speaker 1: knew Carson loved boy scouts when he was younger, but
Speaker 1: pretty sure he was over it by the end. I
Speaker 1: am in that situation with my sixteen year old daughter
Speaker 1: and her dad my ex only it's about hockey. After
Speaker 1: trying everything from gymnastics to soccer to volleyball, I signed
Speaker 1: her up for a try hockey for free clinic when
Speaker 1: she was eight, and she was hooked. Of course, that
Speaker 1: was the only day it's ever been free haha. Her
Speaker 1: dad dove in head first, bought all the equipment, all
Speaker 1: the clothing, kind of like when somebody gets their first Harley.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, they show up in chaps and
Speaker 1: chains to every occasion, and they looked like Harley Davison
Speaker 1: threw up all over him. I know people like that. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Fast forward, she's sixteen, and she goes into like, you know,
Speaker 1: like her history with hockey and how she's just burnt
Speaker 1: out on it. She wants to prioritize school, working in friends,
Speaker 1: and she's burnt out on camps, practice hockey, summer camps,
Speaker 1: late night practices, and she doesn't want to do it anymore.
Speaker 1: It's a huge time commitment. Being sixteen. I feel like
Speaker 1: she has a say in this. However, her dad doesn't
Speaker 1: want to hear it, acknowledge it, or accept it. Hockey
Speaker 1: has become his identity, it's his social time, how he
Speaker 1: makes friends and networks. He says, now that next season
Speaker 1: sign ups are around the corner, he cannot ignore the
Speaker 1: situation any longer. She has stood her ground with my
Speaker 1: full support behind her, and has communicated as she's done
Speaker 1: as expected. He's lost his ever love and mind. He's
Speaker 1: called her a quitter, told her he made as well
Speaker 1: send her to another high school, has threatened to cancel
Speaker 1: her car insurance. He even tried getting her boyfriend to
Speaker 1: talk her into play next year. Completely unhinged over high
Speaker 1: school hockey. I guess I don't know if I'm venting
Speaker 1: or looking for advice, but for God's sake, parents out there,
Speaker 1: please don't put this kind of pressure on your kids.
Speaker 1: To quote Juanita, that really gets on my fucking nerves
Speaker 1: and irritates my soul. Thanks for listening to my as always,
Speaker 1: You're the best and I value and love you all.
Speaker 1: Let's take this one to the air. I'm going to
Speaker 1: forward it to.
Speaker 2: You should and all I'm going to say because I
Speaker 2: don't know that I don't like to get asman on
Speaker 2: the radio, but thank god that guy's your ex. What
Speaker 2: a debaate he sounds. Yeah, yeah, see why it probably
Speaker 2: didn't work out because how dare you base your happiness
Speaker 2: on forcing your child to do something that they clearly
Speaker 2: do not like. That's so selfish.
Speaker 1: I don't understand it. And I think if Carson would
Speaker 1: have come to me and said, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: want to do this anymore, I would have said, you
Speaker 1: know what, okay, I would have I would have let
Speaker 1: him win, but I would have he would have met
Speaker 1: some resistance because he made Eagle Scout, and he begrudgingly
Speaker 1: did all this stuff to make Eagle Scout. But now
Speaker 1: he's pretty proud of that. And he didn't realize what
Speaker 1: an Eagle Scout accomplishment was until he got older. And
Speaker 1: now he goes on a job interviewer and he's making
Speaker 1: conversation with somebody on the tour bus and it'll come
Speaker 1: out that they were both in Scouts, and oh, you're
Speaker 1: an Eagle Scout. Shit, that's cool. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The only thing my mom forced me to do was
Speaker 2: play clarinet in the band. And I was in so
Speaker 2: many things. I did dance, I did every sport, I
Speaker 2: took piano lessons. I just didn't like. I was good
Speaker 2: at clarinet, but I didn't like it. I didn't want
Speaker 2: to join. And I remember like getting a bad grade
Speaker 2: on an assignment because I didn't turn in my sign
Speaker 2: up for band in time because I was trying to
Speaker 2: like push back on my mom. That was like the
Speaker 2: only thing I remember my mom trying to force me
Speaker 2: to do. But I feel like there's a difference between
Speaker 2: between trying to get your kid to stay involved in
Speaker 2: something and like threatening them and clearly he's like threatening. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's just yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm really yeah, I'm sure that he's not as bad
Speaker 1: as a guy as we might imagine him is him
Speaker 1: to be, But that is pretty shitty that it's like
Speaker 1: it's all about him, it's his social time, it's how
Speaker 1: he makes friends and how he end quote she puts networks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, love your daughter, Love your daughter. You got
Speaker 1: her for another two years and then she's going to
Speaker 1: be on her own and you will see her occasionally,
Speaker 1: and it's a big change that you go from seeing
Speaker 1: them at well they're separated or divorced, so I don't
Speaker 1: know how often he's easier. Anyway, let's take that to
Speaker 1: the air next week. That'd be a really good group therapy.
Speaker 1: I may have one more here is from Mike, our
Speaker 1: buddy Mike. We love Mike. Mike's like my age and
Speaker 1: he loves the show and he's just such a good guy.
Speaker 1: Bailey was talking about the phrase on the Minnesota Goodbye
Speaker 1: Hot Mike in the song written by Kaylee, and she said,
Speaker 1: who's Mike? And then she referred to me and then
Speaker 1: dismissed me as a hot option. I am crushed. Do
Speaker 1: you get it. She's like hot Mike. Oh it's Mike
Speaker 1: the you know the list. Oh no, he's not hot.
Speaker 1: I'm crushed. I don't either. For a brief moment in time,
Speaker 1: I thought my morning ladies were going to talk about
Speaker 1: me being attractive, good looking, et cetera, only to have
Speaker 1: that dashed immediately with a nope. I walked up right
Speaker 1: with my head held high for a brief moment. Now
Speaker 1: that's all gone. That's okay. I had it for a moment,
Speaker 1: just kidding. He says, I'm a friend, considered, an honored,
Speaker 1: remembered and mentioned occasionally during the show or on the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Goodbye. So thank you, Mike, appreciate you. You are
Speaker 1: a handsome guy.
Speaker 2: Here's what I'll say about you, Mike. I look at
Speaker 2: you as almost like a dad figure because I feel
Speaker 2: like you've reached out to me during tough times in life.
Speaker 2: So respectfully, I don't think that I can call you
Speaker 2: a hot Mike. Sorry Mike, but no, because I look
Speaker 2: at you almost.
Speaker 1: Like ad dad me. Well, yeah, I totally get that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And so anyway, Mike, we appreciate you, and I think
Speaker 1: you're hot, and that is it. That's going to do it.
Speaker 1: For the Minnesota Goodbye good Ones today. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: to Joe Gonzalez for his birthday. And shout out to
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