A Minnesota goodbye shout out to Nan who is retiring. She's worked here at iHeartMedia for a long time. She's one of my favorites. And I was just thinking about what I got to do later on today. It's going to go to the gym, two days in a row at the gym, and then NaN's retirement party is later on today. Are you going to go to
NaN's retirement party? Weirdly enough, was just thinking. I was like, I think in NaN's retiring soon, and I swear they have a party set aside, but I didn't have it on my calendar of when it was. So now you inform me, and now I will definitely try to do it. Is this an afternoon thing, It's like five o'clock. I believe it's right right here across the street. Yeah, emails, Hey, Dart liquors. If you need a topic to talk about, here's one right now.
Every year, me and my drunken friends host a poverty pot luck, which is basically everybody gets together and drinks for the night and brings a dish from their childhood that is completely ghetto. And you know, I tell you right now, you can't use the word ghetto anymore. It's not two thousand and four. You can't use that, but we know your meaning that. Looking back, you're like, wow, we were poor. For example, we
used to make many pizzas out of the top of hamburger buns. Just curious if you guys have any memories of a dish that you guys used to eat as a kid that was straight out of poverty. Yeah, we used to make salteines with peanut butter on them. That was a snack. That's one. There was never any like, we didn't have snack food around the house. My dad would buy He did the shopping because mom was would buy too
much junk, so he would do the shopping. He would buy the big family size bag of ruffles potato chips for us kids for our school lunches, and it would go stale, so nobody wanted potato chips because they were stale. Yeah, and then my dad would also make these family recipe oatmeal cookies, and everybody raved about these oatmeal raisin cookies, and I never liked them. So everybody'd be like, oh God, They're so good, but I didn't like them. So I would do saltines with peanut butter on them.
That was mostly my snack, what about you. Yeah. We also never had junk food in the house, and so I would just make things myself where I would We did have things to bake with, though, so my mom would have chocolate chips and marshmallows, so I'd make this combination of chocolate chips, marshmallows and like honey nut cheerios was the only kind of sugary cereal my mom alot. Otherwise it was like checks, like playing checks or something
like that. Yeah, so I just kind of make my own little like almost chex mix together of random things, and that was like a delicacy to me. But my mom did cook pretty nice meals for us every night, like she I don't know, strogging off and meatballs stuff like that, like she always cooked. So I don't really think I have anything. I would not be able to contribute much to this pot luck. I don't think that I really had. I remember my mom. My mom was lovely, She
was so kind, but she hated to cook. And she made Spanish rice once in a while, and I didn't know what Spanish rice was. It was rice with tomato sauce in there, and like you know, maybe some spices and whatever, and it was nothing fancy. But my I remember one time she said, I said, oh, Mom, will you make Spanish rice? And she didn't have any tomato, sauce whatever, so she made it with ketchup. Oh it was terrible. It was awful. Yeah,
very different. Some to please her. They didn't want to be like Mom, this is gross. So I had some just to you know, to please her. And but that doesn't count because it wasn't like Mom made Spanish rights with ketchup all the time. So what about you? What kind of like poverty treat did you have when you were a kid? Next one? I know, I just emailed, so sorry to bother you again, but
I had to weigh in on the whole commercials issue. I noticed it for a while but never said anything because other listeners were saying the exact same things. I was, so no need to be redundant. But I can back up the listener who noticed excessive ads during Tuesday's podcast for the main show. I don't remember the exact moment. There was a point where there was an ad about a minute of talking than another ad. Aside from their frequency,
the annoying part is the randomness. If they could be set to play. When you guys cut out for commercials, the transition be much smoother. For example, today you were introducing the choir. The first student said I'm Olivia. Then you move to the next one and you said, and you are and at which point? Rather than the response, the next thing I heard was hold up, I'm eating breakfast right now, and so on, which, as I guess, the start of a commercial. Yeah, okay,
right in the middle of it. And it's always the same ads. If not the breakfast one, then it's an ad for some sort of casino game, Chumba or Lucky Land, take your pick. Not complaining since I know you can't control it. You made it clear how equally frustrated you are. Just want to share my two cents, since clearly the most of the audience has had the same experience. It's not going to stop me from listening. But I'm sure I speak for listeners when I say I appreciate you, and
Jenny pressuring iHeart to fix this. No need to send me a sticker. I got one last week as a photo attached to a photo of it on my fridge in my new home, next to my award for winning the ugly sweater contest at my office this month. Nice. Thank you for the sticker and all you do for the listeners or community. You're welcome. Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you. What is the latest you wrote to one of
the han shows here at iHeart. They asked what systems we use, They asked for my logins, and that's the last conversation I've had so far. So they are supposed to be looking in for into it right now? Okay, yeah, I don't know. We've talked about it in our annoyance with it many times, so we'll move on. And then Brandon writes in he says the same thing. We'll see what happens. Just in case you need
more evidence of listeners dealing with commercials has been getting really bad. Somebody at iHeart is taking advantage of how good your show is and tweaking those settings to plant more ads before, after and at various times throughout each episode, and they are starting to be longer, sometimes with multiple in a row. I doubt you guys are getting paid enough money for the amount of commercials your listeners are forced to sit through. Dart lick from Brandon, Brandon, We're gonna
stay on this one because it really does. Yeah, it is an upsetting and we've talked about it a million times, and I know that I know that you know that I know that you know that I know that you know I support you. Next one, you can use my name, Christy Merry Christmas. I heard you were low on email, so here we go. I've been listening to the show since Dave started in the nineties. On my
ride to school. I would be so sad when you would get to school and have to get off the bus, so I would always make it so with I was the last person to get off the bus, just to give myself a few seconds of extra listening time. That is adorable. I actually met your show, Dave, when you did a meet and greet at Southdale with Jackie Joyner Kersey. I remember begging my parents to let me go because not only was JJK going to be there I was a huge fan, but
my favorite morning show was going to be there as well. Truth be told, I was way more excited to meet you, Dave, Pat and Angie and Lee and you were signing autographs and I summoned all the courage and my little introvert self to get in line to meet you all. I remember waiting in line, getting so nervous. When it was my turn to meet you, I could barely squeak out my name and Angie wrote it on the photo of the Morning show along with her signature. Pat and Lee signed it as
well. You were the last to sign it. And remember you said to me, thank you Christy for listening to the show. We loved meeting you. Well, pick me up off the floor. I about died. Dave knows my name. It took me a minute to figure out you read it off the photo that you were signing. Face palm. I took my ten year old self home and proudly hung the picture on my kitchen on my bulletin board in my room. I kept that picture up on my board for years.
When I moved away to college and cleaned up my room, I saved the picture in a box with all of the childhood memorabilia. Just last week I opened that box and almost twenty five years later, and lo and behold, I found that picture see attached. Let me look, and there it is. There's Pat, Lee, Angie and me an extreme Jamie in a
Speedoh that was a signature. Bit was to wear a speedo everywhere. He wore that to that appearance or that was the stock nic, there was the picture, yeah yeah, but whenever he would do a stunt, we would put him in a speedo. And that started because we did when Jamie was new, we did the all Gay half Day, a fishing trip with Curtis.
Curtis is my gay friend, so he you know, we got on the air and we said, hey, if you're gay, we're going to take you fishing on Lake Minnetonka. And we made Jamie dance for all the gay guys in Espiedo. And that's how it started. Yea, and that became his trademark. Anyway, I hope you know how much you and your show has meant to me over the years. You made me laugh, cry and think more than you know. Thank you all for being you. And if you read this, I would love a staff writer sticker. She is
in Texas. That is CHRISTI in rock Wall, Texas, and Christy, I am super flattered in honored that you saved that for all these years. And you may throw it away now or you can keep it either one. But I love the fact that you've listened to the show. And it's meant something to you. So that was really cool. What's funny is I don't remember ever doing an appearance with Jackie Jordan Kirsty. I do know that is
she's an athlete. She's like an Olympian athlete, Okay, and I don't and she was so impressive, I mean back in her day in the nineties. I want to say, everybody knew who she was. How in the world we got her to be on the show, I don't know, but I don't remember. And once in a while people will say, you remember you had like this person on the show, and I'm like, we did, so thanks for Thanks for the memories, Christy. What else we got
here? This one's start off It says titled Dave's Funniest song Ever, Hello, my favorite morning show. Somebody wrote in the other day and mentioned the Blame Jared parody song, which I completely forgot about. You still have that song somewhere possibly, I don't think we're gonna dig it out though the main reason is regarding one of the best Dave songs of all time. I found it on the internet, but the clip doesn't seem to be there anymore.
Couldn't find in the podcast. It's from the Mixtape Game November twelfth, twenty twenty one. The Amy Bbobby cover that literally had me in tears, laughing so hard. It's my birthday tomorrow. The Amy Bbobby cover I don't okay, so the party tail I die. There was a cover of Amy but Bobby. I don't know. I mean, I'm gonna click on the link and see if I can find it. Uh, mixtape game. I'm probably gonna have to go back and look that one. Oh it was just ju
j j j j jug Jesus. Oh do you remember that? Oh? I think you remixed it right, and then you remixed it to like sell your point or something on mixtape Game. And I think you used this song, but you said the Jesus part j u Jesus was the date of it? Was it around Christmas time and you were trying maybe trying to do November twelve? Yes, so yeah, I kind of remember it. I don't remember exactly how it went, but yeah, I remember that now. You
know. It's scary. This is from Rain Blood, Good Rain. It is weird that I don't remember, but I think that some things I don't remember because I'm like, there's so much that happens on the show that I us can't mentally catalog all of it, so I don't remember that very well, but I kind of do. So they go on to say, y'all are the best rain Blood. Good thank you. Ps is Bailey going to be a more permanent part of the show. She's the perfect combination of Webgirl
Tina and Lina Spencon. I love when she's on the show. You know what it is not out of the realm of possibility, don't I don't know, you know, you never know what could happen. But we love when Bailey fills in because I always get a little bit nervous when Jenny is gone, because Jenny is so great on the show, and Jenny is like runs everything behind the scenes, like she'll tell me any second. She'll be like, Dave, you got to wrap it up. You're out of time.
It's gonna happen. How much longer we got, Jenny? We have a five minutes? See how she knows. I don't fucking know how long we've got. Bailey doesn't know any of that stuff. But Bailey is delightful on the show, So I'm not as nervous now when Jenny is gone because Bailey is She'll do a great job. Yeah, so thank you Rain. If we can find that, we'll see if we can play it on a future episode. Yeah, d let's see. Okay. I heard you talk many
times Don't say My Name about how there's no good recent Christmas songs. I never heard this one mentioned from you overall, it seems to be overlooked by the public. Merry Christmas by Elton John and Ed Sheeran, released in twenty twenty one, is one of my top three all time favorite Christmas songs.
We listen to it year round. Have you heard of that one? Mary Christmas Elton John and Ed Sheeron. I've heard clips of it as of recent because I think people have been talking about, like, why does nobody play
this song? But I still probably haven't heard the whole song. Let's pull it out, maybe listen to it at off the air so we will definitely check it out and a talking point After holidays and gatherings, my friends and I get into conversations about all the weird food stories from our recent family get togethers. Every family does food, meal prep, etcetera. So differently.
It's always a good time laughing about the weird to us food stories, usually from the end law's example, my family always did Christmas dinner with hamd potatoes, et cetera. My mother in law every year will do a shrimp cocktail, a fruit bawl, take out boneless wings from B dubs, and the Costco turkey roll turkey roll up platter as our Christmas Day dinner could not be more strange to me. They are fun conversations to get into family food oddities.
Happy Holidays. And I won't say your name, but that is really odd and cool. Shrimp cocktail, fruit ball, take out boneless wings from B dubs, and the Costco turkey roll up platter. I love it, but I think you know yours as much more traditional, hand potatoes, et cetera. Our Christmas dinner is like Thanksgiving dinner. I think I don't remember. Our Christmas Eve dinner is the memorable one. We do crab legs and we do oyster stew. And this year I said, and Allison or Susan
was going to do lobster tail, crab legs and oyster two. I said, that's a lot of seafood. I said, let's throw out the lobster instead get steaks instead. Yeah, what about you, Paul. We do Christmas Eve with my dad's side and it's more of like appetizers kind of thing because it's not like a sit down meal, so we kind of just chit chat, have drinks and kind of snack on apps. And then my mom's side on Christmas Day is very traditional with yeah, very similar to Thanksgiving minus
probably like the stuffing in cranberries, Like it's almost the same. We do ham and turkey. I think maybe it's just ham, but yeah. Uh. And then we asked this yesterday, Jello in the Grand can Yeah, yeah, I only got one response on that one, so apparently didn't make people think that much or you didn't really care to write in, which is fine. But we were in a meeting the other day and one of the big wigs in the company she said, picture Jello in the Grand Canyon.
What comes to mind? Jello in the Grand Canyon. And her point was everybody comes up with a different picture in their head when you listen to audio, when you listen to the radio, you'll picture what does Jenny look like? Well, everybody we will picture her differently. What does Dave look like? You'll picture me differently. What does the studio look like? People picture it differently. People come to the studio all the time and go, this
is not what I think, not as glamorous as you might think. And so she threw out jello in the Grand Canyon. We all talked about our different what the mental picture form. So Sarah wrote in thank you Sarah, being the only person that wrote in on that one, I would still love to hear what you think. This is what Sarah pictures, giant green cubed jello filled to the top, Like how those cubes of foam are in a kid's playpit. Well, let me ask you a question. They're giant.
So in other words, they're like ten yards by ten yards, yeah, or five inches by five inches or a mile by a mile. I picture the entire Grand Canyon filled with green jello with bananas, like up to the top, and it's jiggling and shimmering. It's one mold with your one yeah, one green jello. My original thought was just like a small normal plate of a mold of a jello with like the circle in the middle. And then I started thinking more and I thought, no, it's like a pool
of jello. That's red cubed and probably like bigger than your average because it has to fill the Grand Canyon. But I'm not talking about like miles by miles long. But yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking. I thought that was really interesting. Thank you, Sarah, whatever it is you want to write about, we would love to hear from you. We're doing one more Minnesota Goodbye for Friday. That's tomorrow, and that will go through
the holidays. None next week because we're all off, but you're off too, and you're going to be sleeping in or whatever. So fully you're off or at least a couple of days hopefully, But you know what, there's a lot of people that aren't. There's ayably from first responders to retail nurses,
doctors, they're not off either. So shout out to you for listening, whether you are listening next week or not, and send your emails to Ryan's show at KDWB dot com for the last Minnesota Goodbye of twenty twenty three.