I really appreciate all the emails and really nice emails for the Minnesota Goodbye, And of course the Minnesota Goodbye is all about we get to read emails that you write, so you bring up the topics. That's why we call you a staff writer and Dart liquor. But it's also where we get to be a little bit more, you know, let our guard down and talk about shit that we don't normally get to talk about, like oh, I don't know, we get to swear. We have talked about naughty Tuesday. Most
recently we've one to an extensive talk about genital warts. Do we talk about genital warts and harpies? Yeah? Okay, yeah, yeah. I think I knew somebody that had genital warts and they told me and I'm like, pass, you know what I mean. So because it's like, yeah, you know what, I'm sure that you deal with them just fine. Rather not trade that for genital war, you know, the love and for the genital warts. Yeah, all right, let's dive in and see what we
got. Here we go, Jacqueline says, Hello morning show crew. First of all, congrats on your achievements in the last few months. I'm proud to be a listener of the Marconi Award winning morning show. I need some advice. Not trying to be a downer, but I'm not a fan of the holidays. This is actually one we could probably read on the regular radio show too, because I think it's quite common. I'm going to read her
email and see if this relates to anybody. I'm thirty four. Both of my parents have passed away over ten years ago, so she's thirty four. So her parents died at a very young age when she was in her early twenties. Yea. They died within a few days of each other, a few years of each other, but both close to Christmas. After their deaths, my siblings and I became mostly estranged, and the extended family I do
have lives out of state or taken little interest in keeping in touch. I'm very much on my own since I am single with no kids, and most of the time I'm okay with that and just content with my two cats. The holidays are hard, though, I get sad scrolling through social media or when I'm out in a bout seeing everybody with their families and all the festive
decorations. It makes me wish I at least had a significant other to celebrate with the past few Thanksgivings and Christmases, I have spent alone at home, usually going to bed early so the day can just be over. Oh my gosh, I'm just heartbroken. I've joined friends on a couple of occasions, but at this point in our lives, most of them have kids in their
own families, and I wouldn't want to intrude. I'm wondering if you have any idea for something to do on these holidays that isn't as depressing as being alone. If not, that's okay. Just thought I would write in and possibly get a staff writer sticker that is Jacqueline. Yeah, sure, I'll get you sticker, no problem. I'm gonna we should do this on the regular show because I think that we get a broader audience. And I'm going to forward this to you, Jenny, because I really do want to help
you, Jacqueline. But off the top of your head, as I'm typing in your email address, Jenny, what do you suggest. That's very tough because most people are probably with their family for the holidays and so they're already
busy. I would say, maybe see if there's like a local bar or restaurant around that you can at least have some human interaction with, even if it's like sitting by yourself and hanging out at the bar and talking to the bartender, because I mean, you might find other people that are in the same boat as you if you go do something like that that also don't have family around, and there's you know, there's transplants everywhere, Like Minneapolis has
a lot of people who have moved here for jobs, So there's a good chance that other people don't have any family and friends to celebrate with, so they might be out at a bar too, So maybe you can meet other people that are in the same situation as you. But outside of that, I'm kind of struggling what abos one of the social clubs like events and adventures in that type of thing. I mean, we advertise, so it's not
a paid plug for me. But aren't there a lot of like groups of single people that you know, they kind of get together so they're not alone on holidays. Yeah, I can't speak for any kind of group like that, but I would say there's probably like Facebook groups that are developed because there is a Facebook group for everything. There's like a women in Minnesota who hike
Facebook group. There are men who love to fish Facebook group like stuff like that, you know, so it's like you could probably you could potentially find a Facebook group where you can make some friends that way. But yeah, I don't have an answer for that outside of maybe just go hang out somewhere that's open. You know. I don't really have an answer either, but I do think that you should do something. And I think even taking the step to email us and ask us about it is you know, a start.
And Jacqueline, I just looked you up on Facebook, and I hope you don't mind. She's very attractive. I'm gonna show your picture, yes, and attractiveness doesn't matter for being alone. But the reason that I ask Jacqueline is, you know, if you if you want a partner, you look like a news anchor. Seriously, she looks she looks like a news anchor, and she looks put together and smart and whatever. The reason I'm bringing it up is not because you should not be lonely because you're attractive,
but you could pretty easily find a romantic partner. I don't know how that goes. I know that women have a hard time on a lot of the apps because guys want sex. Guys will leave like, hey, yeah, you look really nice. I hear you like cats. I like cats too. Here's a picture of my dick. So that's that's and that's not what women want, but that's what a lot of the time they get. Isn't that what you hear on all the dating apps? Yeah, I mean I've
heard some of those horror stories. I don't think that I would say seventy five percent of the people who are on dating apps are not doing things like that. I mean, there's probably a lot of people who are trying to hook up still, but they're not being so forward as sending a tck pic after like a few texts. But yes, I mean I've heard that some of them have. My friend Melissa has gotten the dick pick after like an hour of chatting and things going well, here's a pick my dick, right,
And I'm saying that it definitely has happened. I just want to like say that there are plenty of people out there, though, that don't do things like that. And I have had a handful of friends meet their partners on dating apps. My sister's married to a guy she met off of Tinder, so I think that there is hope for dating apps. But I also have been out of the dating scene for a while, so I'm sure other
people have different experiences than I do. But here's the interesting thing. I know, and Jacqueline, you might be kind of shy, and you might be kind of a more of a reserved person. I don't know. I'm going to guess that might be the tendency if you stay a home alone, because I know people that are single, their kids are either grown or they didn't have kids, and they're out and about and they're very social. Yeah, you sound more like me in a way, Jacqueline, that you know
I like to stay home. But I'm at a point right now I stay home too much. It's getting to it's getting to me because I stay home alone too much. Almost every single afternoon, I get home at around noon or one. I go to the gym. Sometimes I get home at two on gym days, and then I'm Susan's gone on until like six or seven o'clock and it's fucking lonely. Yeah, And I sit there and I don't
really I sometimes I walk around the house. I don't know what to do, and I know that I should do this, and I could do this, and I could practice my magic or my ukulele or read or whatever. And sometimes it's just it's just getting to me. But I'm not want to make this about me, Jacqueline. There are people who have less to offer than you who have a partner. So if you want to find a partner, I think that's one of the joyful things in life. Is that one
of the best things in life? Yeah, when you have a partner and they're your best friend, well for sure. But I will also speak on the single life because I was single for many many years and I was also very very happy. And I know that she's asking for solutions for being alone, So I get that, but I would say, like, you know, you do not You could find other things to do besides like diving right into the dating apps to find a partner to celebrate the holidays with. So
I think, like, I don't know. I think that's what I'm the most interested in and is finding answers from other people also want to what to do on Christmas and Thanksgiving. Because you're right here, we are trying to solve all of her problems and tell her what she needs to do, but that's really not what she asked. And she wants to know what to do on Christmas Day or New Year's Day or not New Year's Thanksgiving. Volunteer. Oh yeah, that's work at a soup kitchen or a shelter or something.
I think there's probably lots of volunteer opportunities, but we'll see what we get. Jacqueline, thanks for emailing and good luck and let us know how it turns out, because that makes me sad. I mean. And one thing I'll say, as someone who's always been able to usually go home for the holidays, I've always had friends who have invited me though if I was unable to go home for the holidays to their family Thanksgiving or Easter or something.
And I'd never go home for Easter, so that was always a big one. So I would say, if you know someone that is alone on the holidays, maybe lend an invitation if you're able to to your whatever you're doing to celebrate, because that go a long way for that person that you know what that is true. And I will tell you one final note on this one. I decided to spend my birthday alone this past year, like three weeks ago, bad mistake. It was a terrible mistake. I thought I'd
be Okay. It was the loneliest birthday. I'll never choose to spend my birthday alone ever again. Yeah, next one, Dave and Jenny, you can say my name. That is Taylor. I've been listening since middle school, found your podcast after I graduated college. I live in Euclaire now cannot get enough of your show and podcast. The Minnesota Advice is definitely one of my favorites. It's cool to hear you guys get to be yourselves a little
bit more unfiltered. You are all amazing and do such a great job with the show and podcast, and I'm grateful to get the opportunity to continue to listen to you. Wow, that's very nice. Yeah. When I got married, we had a question game at my bridal shower where my friends had a list of questions they asked me and then ask my now husband to guess how I would answer. One of the questions was if Taylor could meet any celebrity, who would she choose, and my husband correctly said Dave Ryan.
Okay, that cracks me up, but it's also super flattering. At the same time, my kids also know all the show members by name only from the actual morning show. They do not get to listen to the Minnesota goodbye laugh emoji. Good because you don't want to explain dart lick to a kid. Onto the content. Here we go. What is your personal mantra? For a while, mine was this too shall pass, and I used it
to move past the hard times and truly value the good times. I don't have a specific one anymore, but I try to reflect on how I'm living my life and if it aligns how I'd like to feel if I was watching my life on a movie theater screen. It's a good gut check on prioritizing the right things and not reacting harshly in the moment, which I tend to do. I like that. Look at your life as if you're watching it on a movie screen, and are you proud of what you're watching? Yeah?
You know, if you lay around all day and eat cheetos and masturbate all day, that sounds like a lot of fun. It does. I might get old after a little while. Well, here's the problem. You're gentitail. You're gonna have cheesy orange dust all over them. Got a nice little tan, do well? You got a little tan on your genitalia, this is actually Cheeto's dust. And then see but here's the great thing. On the Minnesota Goodbye, we can talk about masturbating and Cheetoh's dust, whereas
we can't really talk about that on the regular show. So I think that's a really good mantra that watch what you know? How would you feel if you're watching your life? I also like this too, She'll pass mine is there's two of them. No hill goes up forever, which I've talked about before, And I always try so when I fail at something, like if I do something really bad on the show that doesn't work out, like earlier this week, I fucked up a bit so bad it was embarrassing, and
Jenny heard me whine and bitch about it for two days. But I tell myself, I always try. I always try. So when I, you know, try to build something or paint something or fuick fix or cook, I tell myself I always try. So I don't beat myself up too bad because I do. I always try. That's a good one. What about you? Mine is do it for the plot that's in my literal Instagram bio, Because I think that I like am decently adventurous, but that's not what
it's about. It's about doing things that you wouldn't always feel comfortable doing. So if something makes you anxious, but you're excited about it at the same time, still do it even though it's making you anxious because there's an excitement there. So yeah, I always say do it for the plot. I kind of like that. I've never heard the term do it for the plot, but yeah, you are kind of adventurous. There's a lot of the lot. Jenny won't fly with me in my airplane, which hurts my heart,
but you know it's not to consue. It's my own internal fears. So stressed. And here's another thing, know what you don't want to do. And I think that's a really good thing to know in life, Know that you don't want to do something like if your partner is like, we're gonna learn bouldering, we want to go We're gonna learn but it and you're like, I don't want to fucking go learn bouldering. That sounds awful. That's a dumb example, Jenny. That's a good aga. I know.
I think that is a good If you know that you don't want to learn bouldering, then just go No, thanks, I'll pass. Yeah, we're gonna go out and do shots all night. No, I don't think I will. Next question, would you rather be only able to eat with an excessively large spoon or fork think dinner plate size, or be able to use regular cutlery but never use napkins? I think this gets interesting if you were at a dinner party and had to choose. All right, this is a
great question, Jenny. Which one is it? Do you want to xssly large or never use napkins? I think I would probably say never use napkins, yeah, because I mean, yeah, I've get sloppy when I eat every once in a while, but for the most part, I can keep my food on my plate and in my mouth and not like miss and like drip down my shirt. So I think it'd be good. And even if you do, that's better than eating with a dinner sized fork or spoon.
Thanks for reading my email that is from Tara in Wisconsin. Thank you, Tara. I think I took a picture of your email, but I'm going to do it again just to make sure that I did, so I can mail you a staff writer sticker Okay, we're deleting that one, right, Yes, we are deleting that one. I'm asking you, all right, here's one from Dara, Dave, Jenny Drake, love you guys. I listen on the iHeartRadio app with my Alexa every morning while I'm getting ready.
I live fifty miles south of man Cato, and I was hoping you would answer this on the Minnesota Goodbye one. You often say, Jenny, write it down. Is this actually happening. Is there a big notebook or a bunch of notes, or is it just a bit or a joke. No, I do write it down. I write it down. I did. Used to have a notebook that said write it down from this woman Angela, we worked with before she got all of us the notebook that set it on it. So I had that. But I'm almost through that notebook, so
I don't have that anymore. But I am physically writing things down. When Dave tells me to do that and we all have ideas, we go write it down because the problem is in the moment. This is what happens with ideas is if you don't write it down or record it, you'll remember that you had an idea. But you won't remember what the idea was, so we all say write it down because I will ask later fifteen minutes later, Jenny, what was the idea that I said write down? It'd be like,
oh, well that was blah blah blah. Number two, does Bailey get paid to come in and help host when Drake or Jenny is gone. No, and she should, but she enjoys it to the point where she does not. Kind of like if we get asked to, like go over on Twin Cities Live and you know beyond, we don't get paid. We just love the fact that it's fun to do. So she does not. But you know, it's possible that somewhere down the road we might have to flip her a little bit of money when she starts to go what the fuck?
What is a movie that you guys like that is always you always stop on if it's on TV. In other words, one of your favorite movies or one that you could watch over and over again. Mine is How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days? Jenny would one. Okay, I don't know. Sometimes I feel ashamed for this, but I love Coyote ugly. It is just like one of my all time favorite movies, but also around Christmas time. I love the Grinch version with Jim Carrey, so that one
I will always sit and watch. If it comes on around December time, I'm like, time to watch this, even though I'm busy and I need to be doing something else. No, I get and think we all have one like that. I would say vacation, the original vacation which Heavy Chase and their trip to Wally World. But if I thought harder, I know there'd be others that'd be like, oh God, yeah, of course.
But that's the first one that comes to mind, and that my friend is going to kind of wrap it up for the Minnesota goodbye today, Thank you very much. Send in an email. If we read it on the show, then we will send you a staff writer sticker if you include your first, last name and address. There's been some people who don't put their last name on there, so I'll just say like staff writer Melanie or staff writer
Brook or whatever. But hopefully you got your sticker. And if we don't read your email, that could mean either we didn't get time for it, or we covered something that was kind of like that, or it might have been a little bit off for what we want to talk about. But there's really not a lot we won't talk about. I mean, we're gonna talk about one. We got one for Naughty Tuesday next week that is so naughty. We talked about the topic came up, I think yesterday on the show.
We said, is there a fetish or weird kink that a partner wanted to try with you? And we said, well, we'll talk about that next Naughty Tuesday. But somebody wrote in with an answer, and I'm gonna let's see if I can find it really quick. Here. Yeah, here it is. Her name is Amaret and she lives in Plymouth and she was approached by somebody who wanted to try something and she said no and ended up blocking him because it was such a bizarre not anyway illegal or not any way
dangerous, just a bizarre fantasy. And you'll hear that next Tuesday. Say I can't wait for Tuesday, Naughty Tuesday on the Minnesota Goodbye. Put a little reminder in your phone to not miss the Minnesota Goodbye on Naughty Tuesday, because that one will blow your hair bag. It's crazy, that is it. Send your emails to Ryan Show at KDWB dot com.