Insomnia

We have one email today, just one email. Here we go past. It's gonna be very, very very short. I want to get Kate Ann says, I want to give Drake a shout out. This morning. It is two thirty am on a Tuesday, and I'm awake with insomnia. I decided to get up and listen to Kata but You Be a Little And guess who I heard working early this morning? It was Drake on air. Such a pleasant surprise. It can feel lonely sometimes being up in the middle of

the night when everybody around me is sleeping peacefully. But when I turned on Katio but You Be and I heard Drake, it felt like I had a friend up and awake with me. It made me feel less lonely. Plus, there are far worse things than listening to Drake's smooth, sexy and calming voice this early in the morning. Thank you Drake for joining Kato BB. You are a great edition. Love you. You make a difference that is

from Kate. I get it. I think that one of the reasons that I love radio and that I wanted to be on the radio is because I grew up with the radio. One I would listen to the radio while I did my homework in probably elementary school all through high school, and the DJ is like a friend. And I think that's one of the things that you that we on radio can do that podcasting really cannot. Sure, podcasting is a voice, but it's not local and it's not now. It's not something

that you are listening to currently and goes away. I mean that's kind of like listening to Katibb is like a meal in a way. You absorb it, you enjoy it, and it goes away. With a podcast, you absorb it, enjoy it, and it's still there because it's not it's not a consumable. Does that even make sense? There's something about live radio that really is magic. I get, Like, I get this point of if

you're listening to it live, you're actually like sharing time together. Yeah, so that I get like, But I mean, obviously a lot of people do listen to us on a podcast and they don't listen to like live radio, So I get. You know, I still think podcasts can feel like a friend, but usually most of us listen to podcasts from people in California

or whatever. It's not there's no chance of me running into who I listened to a target, So I think there are differences in that way also, but I like more interested in her talking about insomnia because my mom used to struggle from insomnia, and I cannot imagine the very rare nights I'll have where I can't sleep. It's brutal. I'm so sorry you deal with that, because it is weird. I've had a few of those, and you just sit there and I'm like, Okay, let's look at my phone because I

don't know what to do. I can't sleep, and I feel like no one else in the world is awake right now, Like I can't text a friend, I can't do anything. I don't want to get out of bed and go watch TV. So it's a very weird, isolating feeling. So if you experience that a lot, gosh, I'm so sorry you do. It's interesting because I think the loneliest that I've ever felt in my life on a regular basis was doing the all night show at a radio station that people

weren't really listening to anymore. It was back when I was about eighteen or nineteen years old. I worked on an AM station at the time when FM had really kind of taken over, and so I would work the midnight to six shift, six days a week. Midnight to six six days a week, it was. And I went to college the same time, and I would get to work. I was so tired, and after about one o'clock or one thirty, even the late night bar crowd was home in bed and

the night ols were in bed. And so from about two o'clock until about five o'clock in the morning, there was no phone calls, maybe one every hour or something like that, and it was just lonely. And here I was the one that was there to provide company for people. So it was funny because back then on the radio we didn't really do much. We'd be like, Okay, that is the latest from you know, I don't know Mariah Carey. Yeah, and Mariah Carrey is on tour this week and she'll

be in Denver coming up label whatever. But we didn't do any like like wacky stuff or phone topics or anything like that. It was just bake, here is this artist, that was that artist. Interesting, my whole career has been I guess maybe the more modern version of like doing kind of phone topics or bits, because my first well, when I did a weekend show and Indiana. Honestly was pre recorded, so I wasn't like interacting with anyone because it wasn't live. Yeah, right right. It was kind of like

here's like information about this artist and whatever. But as soon as I got like the night Show, which was pretty quickly, then yeah, it was like immediately into like kind of more phone topics. I only did a few bits. I did a bit called Stupid Roommate Theater with Abby, my roommate, and that was like kind of my one consistent bit, and that was

it. When I did the night show. I worked at a station in Colorado that they went from very very little talk and everything that you said was basically written down on index cards in front of you, and you would say something like hey Stave Ryan, and you are listening to ninety six Rock KKFM, Colorado springs the blah blah blah blah blah, and here is Madonna.

Yeah, And then everything was a card, and one of them was you filled in the name and a city with it would say something like, hey Stave Ryan on ninety six Rock. I just got a call from fill in a name, makeup a name, Stacy, who is now enjoying her favorites in Widefield on nineties crock and so that's but then they switched it to do They got rid of that. They wanted us to open up and be more

personality. So when I was the nighttime DJ, I used to do a bit called the Love Lines, So people would call in with love problems and I would give them the stupidest advice ever, and then I would play sound effects of people in the background going, oh, oh that's beautiful, Oh that's oh, oh lovely, oh lovely. And it was so bad.

But did people like it? Oh? Yeah they did. They'd call him be like, yeah, you know, my boyfriend, I think he's cheating on me, and I would say something like I don't know, Like that's some really bad, stupid advice off the top of my head, and I'd record it and then i'd play the sound effects of people clapping in the background. And that was like the first bit that I ever really did. Yeah, since we don't have a lot else on the Minnesota Goodbye And next week

you're going you have to go accept your award, your radio award. Have you finished your speech? Are you actually going to use your chat GPT speech? Probably a part of it. Yeah, I think what I'm going to talk about is how much I love radio. But then I'll talk about like, um, like a couple of little nuggets of advice, and then maybe a couple of stories because nobody likes a long speech. Now. It's like, people really want you to get up, say a couple of words before

they get burnt out and board, and then sit back down. The rule in a speech is the saying is you want them to like you as much as you when you sit down as they did when you stood up. Yeah, so you know when they say it's like, oh, here's Dave Ryan, and then it was like, yeah, you want them to be still like you when you go to sit down instead of holy fucking shut ups. Wevolve into a speech. She is going, but she is not going. I don't think she's going to the award. I don't know whether she will

or not. Okay, Yeah, she went with me last year to the radio convention and she had no interest to go into the panels at all. Well, I don't blame our what either. If Jake had a convention, I'd be like, no thanks, I'll just be in the hotel ordering room service. Yeah, because I was gonna say make sure you have someone record it so we can see how your speech goes. Oh, it's a good idea. I haven't thought about that. Yep. And then are you you're

off next week though? Right off all next week? Yeah? Are you going to go to Texas? Or is that private and personal? I don't know what your plan is. It's none of your goddamn business. Falon. Why must you try to make everything public? I don't know. I mean, I don't care. I don't know. Will you watched Josie? Will you watch Josie? No? Roger absolutely not. I don't have enough food in my house to keep that thing going. Roger's got a pendulous tummy,

he really does. It is a pendulous tummy. I wonder what if Edith, my cat, is ever going to get plump, because my last cat, Drew, was so plump. But she got pretty plump pretty quick after she got spaded, and Edith hasn't really She's stayed kind of spelt some of them. Do you know. I don't know how this came up. I must have liked something, but it sip on my Facebook all the time.

In the last couple of days, it is people saying goodbye to their pets, and I wonder if it's because you and I were talking about that yesterday. But it's like people holding their dog for the last time in the vet in the vet's office before they're put to that and put to sleep, and

their crying and their dog looks so just old and sad. And there was one of like somebody's mom who would look like she was in her eighties, and like that's she's putting down Roscoe, saying goodbye to Roscoe who is eighteen years old, and Roscoe just looked old and tired. It's like, how in the f did this come up as like something I prefer in my Facebook timeline. I find it touching, but I really don't want to see that. No, I've decided I said that thing is said this off the air.

When the time comes with Elliott, I am going to do the thing where they come to your house and not go talking about that last night. Can I ask you a question, Yeah, do they take Elliott with afterward? I think so, because you wouldn't want to figure out what to do on your own. Sure, they set it up and handle it however you want. So, like a lot of people will do, like the cremation like cremation. I have, like my little kittycat, Drew's ashes, So

I probably would do that with Elliott. And yeah, I think that that's how it works. Um, I haven't done a ton of research into it, but I just know that I don't want to. I did that with Drew. I took her to the vet, and I don't want to do that again because it was just like she hates the vet. I don't want to add one level of like an extra amount of stress to her right before. Yeah, good thought, that's that's a good thing too, because yeah,

Josie hates the car. Now. So Josie is fourteen, hopefully she's got another couple of good years left in her. But she does not like to come down the stairs in the backyard anymore. She used to race down the stairs. And she also can't hear like she used to. Yeah, there was something else I was going to say about veteranary. Oh here it is. There's my one piece of advice for putting your pet to sleep. Give them hugs and snuggles before the vet makes the injection. Because when they

go, they go wick they're gone. And it's said, and the reason and the reason I bring it up is because when we put Willie, that was Alison's cat, I put him down seven or eight years ago, and he was a sweet cat. So they gave him the injection and then I went to give him a little hug and he was limp gone. So hug your pet while they still have life in them, because, let me tell you, hug and Willie and trying to give him a little hug when he

was limp gone was not the last memory of Willie that I wanted. Yeah, So come to keep in mind, I just didn't realize how quick it was. And that is like Withdrew, like I didn't realize. I mean, it was like immediate. I did not know that, and that was it is. It is pretty much immediate, isn't it. Yeah. So anyway, well, what other happy things you want to talk about? I

don't even know. Yesterday vacation or something. Well let's talk about Rojo, because yesterday we went to to E White his going away party at Rojo and E White's the nighttime. DJ's got a big job in Salt Lake City, so falonce set up. We all go to Rojo, and I did the stupid ass thing that everybody does that chips and salsa were so freaking good that by the time my enchiladas arrived that I really wasn't even hungry. Did I eat all of the enchiladas and a bowl and a half of chips, Yes,

I did. But you had a salad yesterday? What was that all about? I always get a salad there. I don't know. I get the enchilada trio. They got cheese, beef, and chicken. No I try. I am trying to like find balance. I'm not like sitting here trying to lose like weight and all this stuff. I'm just like, I want to be happy, so I'll go eat ice cream with my family. But I also last night had shrimp and vegetables for dinner beforehand, and I'm so I'm sure, like if I have all of I know I'm gonna eat

a ton of chips and salsa. So I'm like, I'm going to get a salad and not eat all of it. So I'm just trying to be more mindful of serving size and things like that. But I don't ever want to count calories and stuff again in my life. But it's hard. It's hard to not because I get down on myself I'll see a picture of myself that I hate, you know, and I get really down on myself,

and so I go I play. It probably will be a mental battle my entire life, honestly, until I hear at some point you really just don't give f anymore, and I look forward to that day. I know what you mean about the picture you see a picture of yourself, Like, I've seen pictures of myself from the side, and I've been wearing extra large shirts for about a year and then I lost some weight and then now these extra large shirts they look like a two pent yeah, and they look horrible.

But I've seen pictures That was kind of what inspired me to lose weight was I saw a picture of myself from the side. It was born a large shirt. I looked like somebody had stuffed like a sock full of laundry, you know what I mean seriously, And it just looked awful. So there's certain things that inspire you. But I think the thing is this is when I heard eighty twenty eighty twenty. You eat healthy ish eighty percent of the time, and you eat not healthy twenty percent of the time, and that'll

either maintain for you or help you lose weight. Last night, well, yesterday, after I had the InChI ladders in the bowl of chips, I went out to the Excelsior Trail, the flattest trail that I can find, and I ran three point two miles and I did it pretty easily, and I felt really good about it. And you know, you burn off four hundred calories for running something like that, and I figure, okay, I'm about broke even now. So then we went home and had an impossible burger

and then sweet potato tater tots. So are those any better for you than regular potato tater tots? I mean, I think it's better for you in like a neutrientt way, maybe, but I don't think they're that like less than calorarily. All right, See what happens when you don't send emails. We got a couple of emails that will answer like personally or off the air, because we always get emails that they're not right for the Minnesota goodbye,

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