All right, Heavenly Father, we pray that the podcast records on this nineteen seventy eight equipment and that we won't have to do it again. Do we have a wavelength going? We do have its waveform, Jenny, now the work length. It's a wave but I'm looking at it right now. Let's dive in with the emails, because we got a bunch. Here we go from Rennita, a regular supporter of the show. I was listed to the podcast from yesterday and Dave said his new prescription was four thousand dollars. Yes,
it's true. Right before the end of twenty twenty three, a dermatologist gave me sky Reezy for my psariasist I looked it up at my twenty twenty three insurance and found out that one Skyreazy penn costs just over twenty thousand dollars. But with my insurance out of pocket cost it would have been seventy or sixty seven hundred dollars better than twenty k. But at holy cow, for one penn thirty day supply. I have a different insurance for this year.
My out of pod it is sixty six hundred for one pen. Thank goodness. The company I work for HAS Health Reimbursement Plan, which I never heard of before, so I get reimbursed one hundred percent for all in network out of pocket costs. Whoo. I haven't started using the pen yet, still trying Oddzell Tesla first two pills for twenty eight fifty two pills daily for twenty eight fifty one a month. I am super excited to have clear, none
inchy, non painful skin again. Rinnita. Wow, what I don't want to But what I don't want to do is start a trend of people writing in with your prescription costs because we know it. It's shocking, but this is twenty thousand dollars for one pen. Yeah, that's insane. And I'm not entirely sure what that stuff is that she's talking about. The guy reason
is for ezema syriasis is what it is yet? Okay, So I know this because I watched the news at night, and apparently the news only attracts people with health issues because every commercial on the news is if you watch the local news or NBC nightly News, it's all health and medical commercials because apparently no young people watch the news on TV anymore. Don't tell chase this, but it's a really hard thing to do to get people to watch the news.
So a lot of the commercials for Network news are for prescriptions. Yeah, here's something else that I found. A friend of mine posted things I've learned from TV commercials. Everyone has friends of every ethnicity, which is true. When you watch TV commercial they're all out in the backyard. They get a barbie, they got to do in a barbecue, and there's like a Mexican guy, a black girl, an Asian girl, and then you know whatever. Car buyers travel to the most scenic locations to go off roading.
So in other words, you see a commercial for like a Toyota, Toyota, like rap four whatever, and they're always like in some low exhaust mountaintop and there's a tent on a lake in the background. So another thing I learned from TV commercials. Retired couples all walk the beach with their dogs. Fireworks always follow picnics with friends, and people on weight loss drugs love to
barbecue, and that is true. There's one called I Take One dayly Czardi, and it's all these like moderately heavy people dancing around and having a great time. And I think they'd go to a barbecue at the end. I'm not really sure anyway, let's go back to emails here. Thank you Ranita. Next one. I have been listening to the show most of my life. I love you guys. You regularly come up in conversations, and lately I've been saying my friends Dave, Jenny and Drake said. I was emailing
to ask if Matt from Monticello still listens to the show. He used to call in for War the Roses regularly and I always thought here responses were great. Just haven't heard his name in a while. Well, would like a staff writer sticker if I could get one, and yes, I will send one out. He is not called lately, and I don't know why. Yeah, he hasn't called lately. We just that person probably thought of it because he was just on a Roses. We played a classic well the other
day and his voice was on that Roses for callers. But he calls every once in a while still for like a segment. But he used to call like every week for Roses when we used to take phone calls at the beginning. So that's why you probably heard it all the time, because he was always on top of that, but I think he every once in a while calls him for random segments. Still, okay, Yeah, the interesting Morgan
that you noticed that Matt has been missing, so thanks for that. We were talking about awkward interviews for jobs gone wrong this morning, So this email says my last interview, I was asked, so, what fictional character would you be? I immediately responded with Rogue from X Men. The person who asked me that just sat there awkwardly for a minute. Then I got in my head and I said, did I answer that? Right? My head? Rogue is fictional? Right? What's fictional again? Fake or not?
What's the opposite of fictional? I got in my own head so bad I turned red. It felt like time stopped and no one spoke for ten minutes. Turns out the interviewed was just kind of an awkward guy and takes long pauses. That's a good question. I don't know that I would have an answer, like very easily off the top of my head for something like that. You know, I guess that. You know. I wonder what a real h R person would say about trick questions during an interview, just to
see how creatively you think. I don't know. I feel like, to me, that's a little bit amateurish to ask a question that will trip somebody up and makes somebody feel uncomfortable just to test how creative they can be. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know whether it's a good interview technique or not. All right, Dearest David, Marie Ryan Ha. I don't know if that's your middle name, but I'm too lazy to google
it, so I'm going with Marie, also Jenny and Drake. David, please, please, for the love that is all and good and holy, put an end to the Chumba casino ads. I've been listening since elementary school. I, like many others in Minnesota, grew up listening to you. You've been a part of my daily life for a very very long time. Through the years, you would give me so much amazing advice. I've learned a lot from you. You have honestly and truthfully helped me become the well
adjusted thirty something year ish old something ish year old I am now. Wow, thank you. So I mean this with my whole being. I cannot tell you how livid I get when you are interrupted mid sentence by stupid, fucking Chumba, Jumba, womba, whatever you call it. Who the fuck cares? Casino bullshit? As if people in this day and age are not aware of online gambling and our phone games that require basically in at purchase purchases. Where am I? What century is this? What fucking year is this?
Hello? It is insane how often it is. It's every two or three minutes, and I can't stand it anymore. My dog and I listen you every single afternoon and when I get home from work, and you guys are such a bright spot of my day. I'm at work when you're live, so I can only listen via the podcast. The ads quite literally make me want to tear my hair out. There has got to be something that
can be done. I am at a point where I would gladly, gladly pay to use an app that's specifically for KTWB that doesn't have stupid bullshit ads. Is a specific KATWDB app not possible or not really? Because of iHeart, I don't know how it works, David David. She goes on to say, I am sick to death of Chumba Casino. Please save me and my dog from having to listen to ads every five minutes in the podcast every afternoon. I won't stop listening either way. The day doesn't feel complete without
hearing from you. They say you never meet your heroes, but I'd line up to meet the hero who slayed the chumba casino ads. Anyway. I will grit my teeth through the ads, apparently I must, but I really would rather not lick lick dart dart lick dart lick, keep them guessing. Love you Lots from Ash Love staff writer if Sticker, if that is still the same, And yes, I don't know what say you said it all. I think I've heard that ad maybe once before, but I don't ever
go back and listen to our podcast after we do the shows. It's not like I am over hearing it, but I know that it's an obnoxious ad. And I think I actually saw it on like a TV or something like it was a commercial. It wasn't even like a podcast audio radio ad that I heard. I listen to a podcast in the morning to get my news,
and they played the same commercials every time. And it's kind of a business oriented podcast, so they're all about business software and recruiting, and there's Bambi b a m Bee, which is an hr you know, like service that you can hire for your company, and they play the same commercials every single day, but not but they're put in at good times. It's like, okay, we'll be right back with the business report. Then you hear the commercial. I don't get it. It's kind of like a comical thing
that there's nothing we can do. We're powerless. We forwarded it to the powers that be, and somebody somewhere up the flagpole is getting paid probably a couple of million dollars a year and they're bad at what they do because they don't care. And there's I understand your frustration, and I want to give you a voice, but we've tried everything. We've tried everything, okay, and it's hit to lead on actually going to forward that one to the boss.
Just one second, the boss just walked in. If you were running, who someone just walked in and like came in in a rushed and usually that means like they need something right away. But then he realized we were talking and so we walked back out. So I texted him. I was like, we can pause for a second if you need us, and he's like, no, it's okay, I'll talk to you afterwards. Yeah. We got to meet twenty minutes, so we got plenty of time for the
podcast. Okay, next one, I'm resending my email because it might have gotten lost in the sauce. It's from Amy. Wanted to give a quick update. I wrote in last week about a package being stolen. If I should press charges? Remember that one. Yes I do. We said a sixteen year old stole a package, and should she press charges? I took your advice. I'm not going to press charges, but I wanted to make sure that the apartment complex had a good enough punishment, and I confirmed they
did give the resident a sixty day eviction notice. They said it is sixty days because it was their kid who stole it, and if it was adults, it would have been three days. Oh, all the confused. I'm just kind of surprised that they're evicting those people because their kids did something bad. It was they stole a package, which is I think a federal crime.
Oh man, I don't know. I feel a little bit bad for like the parents now in that situation, because I know that like the parents raise the kids and you try to make it kids be good, but not not every child is going to behave properly. Still, No, it's true, and I think of like Carson was a good kid, but he could have also done something really stupid, like hey, let's go steal that package off the porch and to get a sixty day of viction. Notice that is
pretty harsh. I have a couple of random topics now that the new year is here, people are in the gym. First one to say, good for you, happier there. But as a normal gym goer, please remember a few things. Please wipe down the equipment when you're a done. Please, rewrack your weights when you're done. Do not sit in a machine or bench or your phone for a long period day. There are people who need specific equipment and don't have forever to be in the gym. Lastly, please
don't have phone conversations while working out. Yeah, wipe down your equipment. That's a good one. Rewrack your weights when you're done. And the gym I go to, I'm usually the only one in the gym except for in the back. There's usually like a group lesson or whatever. But I always wipe down my stuff and I put away my stuff when I'm done with it too. And then Dave, I always think about you want to hear the Downy laundry commercial with the Backstreet Boys? Tell me why what is it dumb?
It doesn't just cover up oos. Have you tried down to the Downy Bridge? Yeah? Now I can't think the melody. Lastly, I saw this hat on somebody the other day. Had to take a picture and share it. It is a picture of It's a guy in a hat and it says, I eat ass. Yeah, dart lickety lick. Love you guys, Amy in Dallas, Thank you, Amy, appreciate that. Chow writes in regular listener, miss you guys working during Christmas break that I had you guys had off. I took last week off now to catch up on the
podcast. By the way, I found a picture of somebody online that looks just like Jenny. Of course you did. Everyone always finds pictures. Have you seen gonna swing and try not to do anything? Okay? And it looks a lot like Jenny. Yeah, she's pretty. I used to have a hoop nosring just like her. Doesn't She has a very wide eye shape. I have more of an almond eyesh. Yeah, your eyes are different, for sure, but the hair, the face a lot of like.
So yeah, I wish there was a place that I could easily put pictures on the Minnesota Goodbye, but there really isn't, so thank you. Chow appreciate that one. And they were gonna save that one for later because it's quite long, this one, sairs, I let's see hold on. In your recent conversation about Tupperware, it reminded me of a video. When I first saw it, I laughed so hard. I hope it gives you a laugh too, Sallie talking to Chris and the pronunciation of tubberware comes up,
and how Chris is called out on saying the term wrong. I've seen this before, have you. Yeah, it's a pretty famous club that's gone viral from a podcast. It's pretty funny. I also listened to replay on one point three speed. I listen on one point five. We were talking about, like, you know, listening a little faster on a podcast, and Claire says, I listened to Minnesota Goodbye on Spotify and the show and the War of the Roses on iHeart. Why aren't all your replays available on Spotify?
I don't know. Oh, that's a good question. Did she say specifically wore the roses or just yep yep, hmmm. I have not heard that one before, so I'm not sure. I don't either how to answer that one. I think the field of broadcast in radio, appearing on Spotify
and our Heart is still kind of in its relative infancy. So hopefully somewhere down the road they'll work it out and it'll be really, really smooth, kind of like twenty or twenty five years ago, we had to use a dial up modem and it was slower than shit, And now we would never put up a that we don't get a page loading almost instantly. We're like, what's wrong with this? So hopefully I'll improve as the years go by. Next one, you may use my name Melissa aka Juice Listening Forever.
Love you all and appreciate the hard work you put into the show and you're listening to your community. I went to the bathroom to pee this morning, and I realized it was out of toilet paper, so I used the inner cardboard tube to wipe. Obviously it's a move of desperation. So my question is, what are some of the weirdest things you've used to wipe in lieu of toilet paper. Thanks, and have a great day with love A staff writer sticker and I will send one to you. Uh, Kleenex probably the
worst I've used, Just Kleenex. Do you want a gross story? Yeah for me? Okay. So I it was kickball playoffs one time, and I had gone out the night before, so I was a little bit hungover. And you know, when you're hungover, you kind of have like some issues sometimes with your system. So I want to go to use the bathroom, and all they have is one handicap saw porta potty for all of us
at this kickball playoffs of like twenty teams. Oh wow, and it's like drinking and people are drinking at it, so people are using the bathroom constantly. Whatever. I go in with the intention of only having to go number one and number two happened also. And I look and there's no toilet paper. Oh and I have nothing. I don't have my phone on me,
nothing. I've just come in between like games to nothing to do. I had nothing to do, so I pull my pants up and I dart to my car because I know I have these like wet wife type things fucking and I dealt with myself in my car because I then didn't want to walk back to the bathroom get it and go in the bathroom with the wet wise and so yeah, it was one of the worst situations I had ever been put in where there was no toilet paper or whatsoever. That is terrible and it
sucks. But you know what, sometimes if you go in and you know this, there's no toy, sometimes you don't have a choice. I tell you a quick example. The other day, I was at Mall of America and I had to go to the bathroom, so I all the stalls are closed, so I push a stall door open, and the toilet was filthy and disgusting and just fucking gross, and so I wasn't gonna use that one no way. So I stood there waiting and a guy comes up and he's like, are they all full? I said, well, that one's empty,
but it's gross and disgusting. You can use it if you want to. But I thought, if you really have to go, you're gonna use the disgusting, splattered toilet. Yeah, because you don't have a choice. And I guess if you really got to go, you're gonna go in the one that has no toilet paper, because would you gotta go? You gotta go? Oh, send me a message and let me know if you've got a story about the most unusual thing that you wiped about. There's a story.
There's a bear and a rabbit there in the woods and the bear takes a poop and the bear looks over at the rabbit and says, do you ever have a trouble with poop sticking to your fur? And the rabbit says, why no, I never have a problem with poop sticking to my fur. And the bear picks him up and says good and he wipes his ass with the rabbit. So I didn't know where this one was going. My true story. Oh, it's a true story. Yeah, you saw that happen on one of your boy scouts. Next one. I am not a
crier, but i'm lately for not great reasons. I e. Ruminating thoughts of losing someone I love causes me to cry when I think about them, keeps me up at night. Fru question for you all, when's the last time you cried? And why? What is something you constantly worried about? And no matter how unlikely it is to happen, you still worry about. It makes me make me feel normal. Thank you from Kate. Last time I cried was probably a week ago when Pat died. Yeah, and I
wasn't like sobbing crying, but I cried what about you? I cried last night watching This for All Mankind because it was this really intense scene where this guy was kind of experiencing some like traumatic memories and it just was really emotional, and so it made me cry. But I feel you on the ruminating thoughts. I do that a lot. When I was a child, I used to be scared that my parents were like dead all the time, Like
I had that it was like an anxious child thing. If they weren't home from work at the time I thought that they were supposed to be home, I assumed they were in a car accident and they had died. And so I have started to get a little bit more of that fear now lately, as I'm in my thirties and my parents are getting older that I'm scared for my parents' health and then I start thinking about like what life could ever be like with them gone, and then I start like getting very upset. So
I have those ruminating thoughts myself. I don't think about death often, but I think about what is going to be when I really lose someone that I
love so much. And I mean, I've lost all my grandparents and I love them dearly, but I was a little bit young, and yeah, it was just a little different, Like I just can't imagine losing someone that like a parent or a sibling or anything like that, and you really can't, and you know, and then when it does happen, it's it's a shock because you are all of a sudden without that parent that you've had there
your entire life. And I don't want to get into that and depress anybody, but yeah, it is is a shock like no other when you lose a parent. I think that is gonna do it for the Minnesota Goodbye, there's still some that we have not gotten to, so we get a little bit of a backlog. But if you have something you want to write in about love to hear from you, send it into Ryan's show at KDWB at dot com and we appreciate it. Thanks for listening to the Minnesota Goodbye.