All right, time for the Minnesota Goodbye. It is Jenny and I fallon is Now did she go to Switzerland? No? No, this is her nephew's graduation. So she's just down in Florida real quick for the graduation. Oh. When she coming back, she's back on Monday. Oh, she's back on Monday. Yesterday is off, and then she's back for the week next week. And then that's when she goes to Switzerland the week of Memorial Week. Okay, all right. I was totally confused about that. I
was like, is okay weird? Well, I wanted to tell you what Wisconsin's story first of all, to start off the Minnesota Goodbye. So I went on this trip with Liam, my grandson, who is eleven years old. We went from where do they live, Wilmington, South Carolina, five hour bus ride to somewhere in Virginia Colonial Virginia Colonial No, colonial Williamsburg. Ye, you ever been there before? No, I've never been anyway. I haven't either. Really, I've been to Washington, d C. But
being in western Virginia was like being in Africa to me. I had I don't know my way around, I don't know north and south. It was a totally foreign territory. So we one night, we had a free night, and we said, let's go to dinner. Now, I'm gonna tell this story on the radio, but i'll tell you now. So I said, let's go to dinner. What's around here? I pulled up my phone. I said food near me? Hooters? I said, Hooters. Is
they got good food, They got good wings. It's not appropriate for an eleven year old boy, but you know, it's not like they're strippers, right, So we go to Hooters. The first thing I see is a girl waiting at a table with giant breasts sticking out of the top of her shirt, and I thought, uh, maybe this wasn't such a good idea. We're standing there at the hostess just me and Liam at this point, yeah, because we needed it was like an open night to go have food
on your own, okay. And we had hung with other parents all day, and I said, let's go spend some alone time. So we played mini golf together. We go to Hooters. We're standing there at the hostess stand. I see this girl with a giant breast sticking out of her shirt. Another girl wearing skin tight little like booty shorts. And I thought, maybe this is not a good idea. Well, I think it was God's sign. It was not a good idea because nobody ever came over and sat
us. We stood at the hostess stand for probably five minutes. Nobody even looked at us and said we'll be right there or anything. So I said, that's a sign. So we went to Golden Corral. Okay, okay, Golden Corral is classic. It's epic. They have great food and it's moderately cheap and you can get as much as you want. So there's another tour group of kids there. There's dozens of kids, all wearing matching shirts that say you know, they're on a field trip whatever. So I saw
one of the parents out in the parking lot. I said, where'd you guys drive in from Kenosha, Wisconsin? YEA, all the way down on three motor coaches. One hundred and fifty kids a few adults all the way from Kenosha. Wouldn't that be like a two day drive from Kenosha down to Mike, Virginia. It would be. Were they high school kids? We were trying to figure it out. Liam said tenth grade. I said eighth grade, So right, around there a little bit older, yeah, and
eleven. They looked older than leamls totally older than Liam. Okay, because that seems like an extravagant field trip for anyone that's not in high school at least. Liam said they must be billionaires. I said, well, I don't think they're billionaires. I said, they probably sold a lot of cookie dough and raffle tickets and candy bars to fundraise for this trip. But I
thought that was kind of cool. And then was what was interesting is the parent dynamic, because you don't want to be the parent that sits by themselves the whole time all the kids are doing stuff. So I kind of made friends with a guy named Tim, another guy named Joey, and another woman
named Stephanie. So we're kind of chatted. But there were people if you ever go on a kids field trip, and you won't if you you're not planning on having kids, but one day if you do, you'll go on a field kids field trip and you're pretty you know, chatty, so you'll make conversation with other people. But there's some people that just don't. So I was telling one parent that I'd not really talked to I'd said hi and
good morning or whatever. I said, Wow, you know, I just ran to this bus trip away from Kenosha, Wisconsin, and blah blah blah. And I told him, but I thought was an interesting story. His response was absolute silence, not a wow or not a chuckle or anything, just and I'm like, well, fuck you, you know, yeah, it's like if you can't even give me a response, so then I don't know, it's just a weird, like I'm not gonna be friends with him the rest of this trip exactly. So what else is I going to tell
you that I can't tell you? On the radio show about give Me the Juice, Give Me the d thing from Carson's graduation, there's one kid that went viral. Oh yeah, someone tagged us in it on TikTok where he went on and he went to walk and he's saying to Usher, is that what you're talking about? Yeah? Ye. It honestly made me uncomfortable.
I didn't like it if you didn't see it as a kid who took his phone up during the graduation walk and he's graduating, he's got his phone pointed his face and he goes up on stage and Usher was sitting in on the stage, like back in the front row, back a little bit on the stage, so facing the So the kid gets on stage, walked across, points his phone at Usher and then he started singing to him or whatever, singing my boo, and he led it up to the point where all Usher
would have to finish it with is my boo. So it's like started when we were younger, you were mine, and then Usher says my boo. So he did finish it. He did. Okay, I didn't notice that part he did, but you could tell that he had the fakest smile on and was just trying to be calm because he clearly was annoyed, but he was trying not to show that he was annoyed. He just wanted to go along with it. Yeah, and I looked at that guy's TikTok afterwards.
His entire personality on TikTok is very obnoxious and annoying, so it makes sense that he would do something like that in a graduation. But yeah, I just I felt bad for Usher in it. I thought it was like, like really stupid that he did that and kind of like just kind of a dick move. But Usher was so cool. He brought his family. You could tell that he really was proud to get this honorary doctorate. Yeah,
and he spoke Usher. You would think that Usher would have a lot of energy and talk like this and have a lot of like you know, like fun and animated Ussher kind of talk like this, and he was like very soft spoken and almost a little bit shy and he but he said something really powerful. And again some of this will be repeated from the radio because I want to talk about it. He said, the most important thing for my success was not education. It wasn't school. And everybody's like, and he's
saying this at a school where you get educated. He said, the most important thing that I did to further my career was network. And I thought that is such a great lesson because you can get educated, you can go to a great school, but if you don't know somebody, like I got this job thirty years ago because I knew the producer of the show. He was a friend of mine named Rick, and he knew that Steve Cochrane was going to be let go before the whole industry did. So he's like,
day, they're firing Steve right now. Send your resume, send your whatever application in and if I hadn't known Rick, I probably wouldn't have risen to the top of the pile. So it is kind of like networking. Oh, I believe that I had said that to Andrew last night because you had messages about what Ussher had said, and I said that. I was like, I don't know if that, like that definitely falls true for the industry that he's talking about, the music industry. I think that that's so important.
And Andrew goes, I think it's the most important in every industry. And we kind of went back and forth about our thoughts of that. Obviously his industry, which is real estate, it's very important. Yeah, but I was like, yeah, but I don't know about like a doctor,
and then he has a doctor in his family. He's like, no, I mean she when she was trying to finish some of her schooling, she knew some people that kind of helped her with certain things too, And I was like, I guess that's true then, so networking is the most Usher was right, Yeah, it definitely was. You know, still, I mean you can't just network and succeed. I think you still had to get the education and you gotta work hard. And you gotta have ethics. But
I thought that was really interesting. All right, let's get some emails because they are the heart of the Minnesota. Goodbye. Let's start off with this one. Hello, says Marianna. I was rewatching your video on Instagram. Have you taken shots of water? And one of them was vodka? Who got the vodka shot? Was this an old video or did you guys do this again last? This is like probably a few months ago. Drake had us set up and we were all in the little green room or production room.
Okay, right, so that was Drake. Rake got the shot of vodka. Yeah, Jenny and I we could do a shot of vodka, not even blink. Okay, I don't know if I could do it anymore that way. I think I've lost my touch, Jenny. It's like riding a bike. I'm sure you can get it right back. It's so funny because I'm not like a big, heavy, like hard liquor drinker. I do have a Gin and Tonic and like a martini once in a while,
so I'm not going to say that I don't. But it's funny in movies when somebody takes it like a shot of Scotch and they're like po and I'm like amateur. Come on, so yes, Drake got that vodka shot. Next one, Dave, I know this happened over a month ago, but I wanted to talk about that piece of wire you found in your food in Arizona. I was out of breakfast with Chase and I was having eggs benedict and there's a little piece of wire twisted up in my food. It was
about the length of a paper clip, but it was very thin. It wasn't a paper clip. They go on to say this happened to my mom as well. While we were out to lunch. She pulled aside the server and they brought the chef out. The chef explained that was likely a loose wire that fell off of a strainer while straining the pasta. It was thicker wire, and the explanation makes sense for a restaurant grade industrial strainer. My mom's okay. It could have been much worse. It ended up poking her
gums badly, but she didn't ingest the wire. The meal ended up being camped, although I'm sure if we wanted to escalate the situation, we could have. Hope you're okay, and have a great weekend from Kirsten. I love the way you spell your name, Kirston. That's really cool. Yeah, they didn't fully comp your meal, right you remember this because and I was shocked they comped the food but made us pay for the drink. Yeah, that's just that is not proper restaurant customer service. And we didn't drink
alcohol. I think we had like a V eight or an orange juice or something like that, so it wasn't like it was. I mean, even if it was alcohol, they should have comped the whole and we weren't dicks about it at all. They were very kind, they were very apologetic, but I still have no idea what that was. It was definitely too thick to be a piece of a strainer or something like that. Next one,
okay, hold on, let me just see. Okay, I'm gonna read this, although I think it has something to do with what you guys did when I was on vacation. Okay. I love hearing my emails read on the podcast. But thank you extra for reading my email today about my dad's band surprising me at our wedding. Oh yeah, okay, it truly was so special, as I always told my dad I wanted to play my wedding, but he always would say that he doesn't want to work at my wedding
and wants to enjoy it. So looked like we both won l ol. And yes, we had a DJ her wedding and I was in the loop of everything too and kept the secret. Thanks again, guys, Happy third birthday to my daughter, Emmy Lou. You guys met her when we came to the studio a few months ago. She's a big Katie WB fan. We went out for her annual birthday breakfast this morning. That's from Melissa,
so her dad played. We were talking about best surprises that has ever happened in your life, and this person had said that she had no idea that her band had been Her dad had been in a band her whole life, she grew up going to see him, but then at her wedding they kind of like shoot her away so they didn't see that he had his whole setup
and everything. They wouldn't let her in the reception hall and all this stuff, and then she was completely surprised and he performed, and I was like, well, that's interesting because she still would have had to have some form of entertainment set up. Yeah, so like that's why she said we did still have a DJ because I set all that up, but my dad gave us the honor of performing and it just was like the best surprise ever on her wedding day. That is really cool. And by the way, she
sent pictures of Emmy Lou and Emmy Lou is adorable. So thanks for sending that. Next one from Vanessa, she says, I'm behind on the trend here, but bad farting times? Did you guys talk about bad farting times we had, just like we also talked about like embarrassing moments, and so of course a couple of ones I came up were like, yeah, accidentally farted in a situation you wish you wouldn't love. She goes on to say, I went in for a lady check when I was seventeen. I was
already super nervous. The doctor put the crank thing in my hot pocket. Good God, really in my hot pocket, Vanessa, seriously, I mean I like it. It made Jenny laugh in my hot pocket. I've never
heard it called a hot pocket laughing. Your lack of saying the full word as you realize what you were about to read, and you kind of got hot pockets, hot pocket, and a big old fart let out when she started cranking it open, and instead of being decent and ignoring it and be professional, she was like, well, I guess you know, I know how you feel about this now. Now remember this kid is seventeen. She goes on to say it was mortifying. I've never gone back to that doctor
again. And now I'm thirty two years old, so fifteen years later, still remembers that traumatized by it. I went to I think the doctor was actually she probably handled it in a good way, at least kind of like made a joke about it. And I'm sure that the doctor has probably experienced that a bunch of times. Are you titling the podcast hot Pockets that you're writing down, Yeah, that's the title hot Pocket. Well that'll be a
surprise when people find out what hot pocket actually refers to. A couple more here, Dear Dave, I hope you're proud of yourself. It's after eleven o'clock and in my head on repeat is done Dune, Done, Dune, Dune, Dune, Dune bomb Bomb. I couldn't figure it out for a while. Then I had an epiphany and a flashback to your Taco video. Now, I'll be honest, I read this several times. I don't know
what song they're talking about out I really don't. My Talco video is the one where I dropped it yeah, and it's like, yeah, you know you boys got is free time that I fall But I don't get the done done, done, done done, Elena, So maybe you can explain that one. It is the gift that keeps on giving. Thankful for that. Also, I love your impressions. Faves include Drake Fallon and your rendition of Small Children. Please never stop doing them. Lastly, I have ideas for
your lyrics game. Now, this is the lyric shuffle thing that we'll do on Tuesday. You get five seconds to think of a second song with the same word, and that's how you really can crush your competition. So, in other words, if you say the word is love and I come up with I'll make love to you, and then I say, what's another song with love in it? I'll want no, I will always love you, I will always love you. Then you get a bonus point or two points
or something like. That's kind of a cool idea. We might try it. Happy Nurses Week to my fellow nurses, and happy teachers Week to all that teach, coach, tolerate our offspring. That was last week. She sent that on Thursday of last week, so and I wasn't here, so we saved this email so I could read it. Thank you, Elena, And that is going to wrap it up for today's Minnesota Goodbye. Send your emails into Ryan Show at KDWB dot com