All right, here we go with a minute, so goodbye. Let's get started with this one from h Lucas love the show and the three of me goes, congrats to everyone and they're moves within the company. This question is more for David. Maybe Jenny and Drake know the answer. Let's start with radio. Is there a national time in each hour that all stations need to
take a commercial break? I ask because more often than not, not all the time, but usually every time when you are another station go on a break, you can try other stations to see if they're on the air, but they are also in a commercial break. It seems odd that it happens. Any ideas, Yes, it is very deliberate, and it is all kind of like strategorizing and trying to figure out. Steve, I can explain it without getting boring. So if if you we try to beat other people
to commercials, so we'll be done with commercials sooner. So example, if you are listen to KBB and you hear us play a commercial, you might flip it over to another radio station, but then they're going to go into commercials soon, so then you'll flip back to us and we'll be back out of commercial sooner. I think it's all a bunch of horseshit. I think
it's like Spriss strategy that doesn't necessarily work. I think that it does suck when you you know, we love our commercials and our clients, but when you are listening to let's say, you know, ninety three X and they play commercials, well, chances are you might flip over to KDBB to see what we're playing, and if we've already played our commercials, then you'll be with us for a while until we play commercials again. At the same time,
most people don't tune out during commercials. They stay, even though they might not be aware that they're staying. They might go, oh, yeah, I listen to commercials. But most people actually, in a way, believe it or not, don't mind commercials because they're produced in a way that makes them more fun to listen to, like for example, this Sharman shiny Heine commercial or the Mister Clean commercial or a zero res commercial. We try
to produce them in a way that they're palatable to listen to. I think the problem is when there are too many commercials in a row. The next one then I move on to TV. I listen to iHeart at Home from my phone. But when you go to commercial, I sometimes turn the TV off mute to watch whatever's on. But when I look, they are on a commercial as well. So I try another channel and same thing, the commercial. The channel's on commercial. Super strange, it's not maybe there's a
reason for that. And if you or anybody know this or not, keep up the good work. Hashtag dart Lick, hashtag staff writer. That is Lucas in Ramsey. I don't know about TV, but I will say that the fucking Hulu app if you don't have the paid app and you got the Yeah, they play a commercial every five minutes, and it's pretty often. It is ridiculous. We were watching some than the other night. It might have been the JFK special because there's a JFK sixtieth anniversary assassination special and it's
fascinating because I love history. And literally every five minutes is another commercial. The cool thing is they show you up a right hand corner. They'll say like, add one minute, thirty seconds left, so you got me. It's not like six minutes of commercials. True, Thank you, Lucas. Next one, don't say a name I know it's early, but thought with a holiday season coming up, it might soon be fun to have you answer this question. Someone recently asked me what is the one thing you always wanted
for Christmas but never got? Every single year we would get this long, narrow package under the tree, and I would tell myself it was a telescope. Finally a telescope, but it wasn't. It was always a hockey stick. Also, I asked my family the question about the five liquids you you would choose to come out of your fingers. Remember we had this last week, right, Yeah, it was a few weeks ago. Now, okay, everybody picked gas water and all the same answers except my nine year old.
He said he want to have pea come out of his fingers, so on long car rides he would have stop for the bathroom could point his finger out the window instead. He also thought it would make an excellent weapon if he needed one. He then asked me what I thought would be the worst superpower you could have. He thinks it would be the ability to fly, but only if you're naked. I was curious what bad superpowers you and Jenny
could come up with. Anyway, some random show thoughts. Don't say a name, but I'm going to take a picture of it and send you a sticker. So, Jenny, what about a bad superpower? What would you have? I think mind reading would be the worst superpower to have. I don't want to know what other people are thinking. I want to, like, I think that your entire life would be changed. And we all are
kind of imprints of each other. So imagine like you're already like surrounding yourself by certain people, and you probably do a lot of similar things that they do. Imagine then also knowing their thoughts. On top of that, like you would not be your own person. You would be so influenced by so many things. I feel like totally I never thought about that. Yeah, to hear what other people are thinking of you all the time. Yeah,
what about you? What would be the worst? Anything like Superman Batman where you're trying to sit around, you're, you know, I don't know, you're having some pringles, You're watching Netflix, and all of a sudden, there's the skylight, the big bat light whatever it's called, or they call you in the action. It's like, God, damn it, I just
sat down. I just sat down. It's kind of like when you just sit down, you get a big old bullet chili on your lap, and you got some scoops over here, and you got your sour cream, and you're ready to go, and the vikings are on, and now your dog wants outside. Fuck God, damn it. And then you're like, ah, I gotta stand up, take the chili off my lap, go put the dog outside. Then eight and a half seconds later she wants back in.
Fuck I get it. I get it. So I would not want to be Superman Batman because I just sit down and then somebody would call and go, we're being invaded. All right, thank you for that one. I'm paging through the next one. Hey, guys, a random topic. But this year I fulfilled by New Year's resolution to taking care of my dental hygiene. I've been putting this off for at least ten years, and this
year alone, I got five teeth pulled, three teeth repaired. Now I have one appointment left until all the damage I did in my younger days is repaired. I cannot believe that less than a year ago I felt so helpless and embarrassed to go to my dentist. Now, the bulk of that is over. I'm onto my fitness resolution early. And really this is just an email to tell everybody to check one thing off at a time, no matter how overwhelming. If you have a plate of frogs to eat, eat the
biggest one first and get it done. I feel like a whole new person. Credit to the book, eat that frog, and thank you local New Jersey loyal. That is loyal New Jersey listener. I love that you listen. I don't know how you found the podcast, but so cool that you're listening in New Jersey. I love that, so thank you. And good for you with the teeth. I mean, that's amazing that you put that off to your teeth. We're so damaged that you had to have that many
procedures, but good for you. I mean it's easy for me. I grew up taking care of my teeth. We brushed our teeth, Yeah, often enough. I was a kid. I would skip a lot of the time. Wet your toothbrush. Did you brush your teeth, David, Yeah, my toothbrush is wet. But now I brush with a sonic care every
day for two minutes. I floss. I use those little green, little picky things to get the food stuff out of there so and whenever I go in for a checkup, they always are impressed on I think it's because they think a guy that's my age might be ready to lose his teeth and mine are still strong too, Wow, quite strong. And next one, don't say my name. Thanks for prefacing your email with don't say my name so we don't have to go back and chop your name out. Afterward, I
had some anddom topics to discuss. First off, I fell for a massive credit card scam today and just needed to tell the world that I'm a complete idiot. I have an Apple card and I got a call from them somehow, but it wasn't actually them. I went on to give them my virtual number to verify it, and he even talked me into approving a fraudulent charge because he says that's how they would set up advance fraud protection for me.
I proceeded to spend seventy five minutes on the phone with him as he charged over ten thousand dollars to my card, and he told me that I was seeing these charges because they were reversing them on their end. Jesus h, I'm so dumb. I contacted the real Apple immediately after they charged one more thing after I hung up, and I thought that was really weird. They told me they'd never asked for my card number, nor did they have access to it. Lord help my dumb ass. Let this be a lesson to
everyone. He wasted me time and hurt my pride. It does look like though that Apple did. Yeah, negate the charges good. It is so easy to fall for that because most of us have trained are trained ourselves to like look for phishing emails or a text message from Amazon that says, hey, here's a note from your driver, or just something that looks really official, right, and they're easier to fall for. But I just I look at everything with a cenical eye, even the real stuff I look at with
a cenical lie. Trust me, I do too. I just was booking something for a trip we have coming up that's in a different country, and I was like super stressed booking it because it was in a different language half the time, and I just was like, am I doing this right? Am I getting scammed? I have all the verification codes and stuff like that, but I feel the same way. And I do want to bring up because we should talk about this on the actual morning show too. There is
another scam page that is going around h Dave Ryan. We just got a bunch of messages starting yesterday to the Facebook page, and I just want to warn anyone who might be listening. Like the screenshot I keep getting it says like quick and easy cash on it, and then it's our image the three of us that we have on our Facebook page on it would like cash and the KTWB logo and Dave Ryan Show, and then it shows all this thing and then it says like Verify using a credit card. So there's stuff in
there. Yep, they want to use your credit card. Like it just doesn't seem legit, but you could click on there's like a link and they literally have like KATWB like in the link of it. And so I just want to warn anyone that there are some scams that go on that involve us that are not us, but it looks like it's us. That it happened earlier in the year, maybe in the summer, and then it kind of went away and it's back. There's not a thing we can really do about
it. Yeah, we can report it. There's really not a thing except we just hope that people will go, that's a scam. I get a couple of text messages the last couple of days saying is this a scam, and it's like, yes, it is absolutely a scam. If it seems
too good to be true, it probably is. Second from the same email on observation, Dave, I assume when you're saying UG, when somebody puts it in an email, they are spelling it ug H. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it's meant to be pronounced more of its asi like Okay, if you put it into Google, you can listen to the pronunciation of it. I'm not attacking you. I just thought it was funny. I would not have thought to put ugh into Google and see how it
pronounces it. Do you want to see, Jenny, I do so. So when you put you are it is ugh. When you say you say ug, right, yeah, and I say ug like oh my boyfriend left me in the middle of the night uga, and they spell it ugh. But if you put into Google and pronunciate, pronunciate it, let's see what it says. Uh oh really okay, yeah, okay. I feel like I read it though the same as how you say it with that makes sense. Yeah, I am today years old and I never thought about that.
And finally, would you rather to leave you with with your be able to see ten minutes into the future or one hundred and fifty years into the future on an ongoing basis or just one time. If it's one time, then I would definitely do one hundred fifty years into the future. If it's an ongoing basis, absolutely ten minutes into the future. What about you, Jenny, My brain already thinks into the future. That's what it is, my
anxiety. So personally, I don't want either. I just want to live in the moment because I am an anxious human and I am constantly thinking about the future, which is a huge cause of my anxiety. I read something that was very reassuring to me one time and then maybe this will help you.
Nearly all the things we worry about happening never happen. And when I heard about that was like, oh, well, I'm going to walk through a bad neighborhood and I'm going to get mugged, or I'm going to go skiing and I'm going to break my leg, or I'm going to go on a train and I'm going to get the car wreck. Most of the things we worry about happening never happen. Yeah, and I think that's so true. I'll give you an example. Jenny thought that she would blow it at
the Timberwolves game the other night, and it didn't happen. You did great, It did happen. I think it's just because of like previous experiences of anxiety in moments of having to public speak, that that was just like triggering going into that. But then when I got there, like I said, it was great and I didn't have any nerves when I was actually there. But I was pretty surprised by that. I thought i'd still be nervous there and still be able to handle it. But I actually had like no nerves
once I was there. And that's sometimes how it works. You're nervous leading up to it, and then you get there and you're actually the nerves all kind of meltway. If this is enough for a stick or please send it to this address, I'm going to tell you. You said don't say your name, so I won't, but I will tell you that is the perfect Minnesota goodbye email. Because it was random, it was interesting, it gave us things to talk about. So that is why you get something that's called
a staff writer because you wrote thank you. I appreciate that. That is what the show is all about. Next one, Dave Jenny Drake wanted to write in provide clarification on genital herpes talk a few days ago because I think the misinformation in our community is contributing to the spread. I'm a primary care nurse practitioner and unfortunately, we see this diagnosis frequently. Genital herpes can spread even if there are no active sores. The body is constantly shedding the virus
even without activation of the disease. We had talked about how you probably won't spread herpes if you don't have an active outbreak. Using a condom decreases the possibility of contracting the virus, but does not prevent it one hundred percent. When the writer stated the woman has the quote type of herpes that can't be spread because of her medication, that is partially true. There is no such
thing as a type of general herpes that does not spread. However, if the person with general herpes takes an anti viral medication every day, it's significantly he decreases the chances of spreading the virus, although there is still a chance so to answer the writer's question if he should be angry that she didn't tell him about the genital herpes before. In my opinion, yes, he's got
every right to be upset. She didn't give the opportunity to weigh the risk versus benefits and allow him to make the decision if he would want to put himself at risk. Hope that helps, Yes, thank you. I think we're down to our last one, so let's see if we can get through it. We're a little short on time. Dave and Gang, I like that. Dave and Gang, I'm sure you get a ton of emails for advice. I understand if mine isn't radio enough, but I'm looking for advice
to see if it works. I will sum up as much as possible. I am hosting my first friends giving. I cannot be more excited. With that being said, I've extended to ten invitations to people, but there is one girl in our major friend group who I personally do not care for. The Other friends don't mind her. She's not my favorite. The other friends
know how I feel. Right now, I'm not planning inviting her. There's part of me that feels bad, but there's also a part of me that doesn't because she puts me in some others in a weird mood when she's around. She's not mean. She's always about herself. She talks about her boyfriend about her life, but never ask anybody else how their lives are, how
things are. Friend has been in the friend group for about five years, I would say, and she has only once tried to get the group together, where the others and myself are constantly putting together things, and it bothers me so much. We're all so very good at taking turns driving she never does. There was even one time I kindly said, hey, do you mind driving since the last few times we all have, and she came back saying, my tires are bad. So basically, I want to know if
it was mean or rude for me to not extend this invitation. I am a person where if you put zero percent in of friendship, I'm going to put zero in also enjoy you all every morning, Jenny, take it away. I don't think it's rude. I think you should be prepared for a falling out and some of your other friends being angry with you for that. But sometimes you do have to cut friendships off, Like if you don't feel joy around that front, then why do you want to why would you want
to hang out with them? And I'm sure that like because it's a group setting and it's like, oh, just forget about her. But it's like one person can kind of affect a group setting, say one hundred of friends giving. It's probably not a huge thing. You probably have like maybe eight friends there. Maybe it's bigger than that, but one person could really affect
that. So I'm on your side. I think you just have to be prepared for like your other friends being upset with you about that, and maybe some people starting to take sides and you potentially losing some of your close friends. I agree with you. I think that you're fine not to have her. She sounds like a narcissist where she doesn't think of anything herself. It's always her. This is my experience with a narcissist. When you take a
picture, they always put themselves front and center. And I think if you think about somebody in your life that you know that might be a narciss whenever you get a picture, they always have to be front and center. And to me, it's like, why not stand in the back on the side once in a while. You know, I don't know, maybe I'm wrong about that. I wish I had more time to delve into it, but
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