And here we go with the Minnesota goodbye, and let's get started. I have not pre read some of these, so we'll kind of see what happens. But this one I actually did preread, and here we go. David Jenny want to get right in this time with a quick shout out today for his joke of Henry the Wasp that he told a couple of months ago. The Henry the Wasp joke, I won't repeat it now, but you know, I guess you could probably google it, but it is a joke that
goes on and on and on and then the punchline is really stupid. Over Christmas break with my family and friends, I have told it no less than ten times, committed. My kids and nieces and nephews kept asking me to tell it anytime somebody new came over to the house. They even started getting ahead of me and saying details yet to come, and I had to keep slowing it down. It took me a couple of times to keep a more
dead pan look and not smile when I got close to the end. I always make sure I start with I'll just tell this short version, which I think adds to the joke. Since people don't expect it to go on for five minutes anyway. It's a new personal favorite of mine and I've added some new details of the story from my own personal style. I want to give a shout out today for telling it originally. Looking forward to listening to you all, including Drake in the new year. Thanks again from Paul. Paul,
You're more than welcome. Glad it worked out. You got to know your audience for this one, because you couldn't I, for example, couldn't get up at like, you know, a wedding and tell this joke. Yeah, Or I couldn't get up on stage at a club and tell this joke. It is definitely a kid friendly kind of a joke and a very very corny dad joke. So if you ever want to hear it, then you know what, I'll come by your house and tell you. So next one, I want to delete that one so I don't come back and read
it again. Here we go. This one says, no, no, not that one. Here we go. We talked about Hannah yesterday on the Minnesota Goodbye and how she says there's a radio station in southern Minnesota that steals all of our bits. And she does say what station it is. I'm not going to repeat it because again, I'm not here to bash anybody. You know, it's not the most professional thing to steal from other radio stations,
but they don't deserve to be bashed on the radio. So whatever I do, remember War of the Roses and two Sides to Every Date, So they do steal directly War of the Roses and two Sides to Every Day. Okay, I think there was another one, but it was five years ago. I stopped listening, so I can't remember. But sometimes I'm scrolling Facebook and I see your guys's question and then some days theirs is the same two not all the time, so okay, all right, Charis or Charisse writes
in we always get her name wrong. Hell, Happy New Year to my favorite morning show. It is Sharise, and I thought he'd give you an interesting topic to discuss on the podcast. I've been with my boyfriend about four years, living together for about two and a half years. He's got a daughter this twelve, and I have two daughters, almost twelve and thirteen. He's the type of parent that plays with the kids and wrestles and plays tag
and other physical activities like that. I'm more of a bored game and movie watching kind of a person with the kids. He thinks I should play with my kids more than I do, But I've never been that parent. It's probably because of how I was raised. My mom was a single parent that worked a lot. I loved my mom and she was great, but I didn't spend a whole lot of time with her because she had to work, so I was mostly home with my older sister, who I thought was annoying.
Lo well, anyway, his mom would stay at home and did fun stuff. We often disagree about this topic. Any advice would be appreciated. Do your thing, do your thing that feels comfortable. If you are not comfortable getting on the floor and wrestling with your kids, they're not going to
be used to it either. And twelve and thirteen is probably kind of the outline area to wrestle with your kids and be physical because kids don't like physical touch, like that kind of physical touch once they get to about ten or so, right, I agree, I mean, I do know if like friends who are just not like that as parents, they don't want to get
on the floor and play like barbiees or something like that. I'm like in the in between when it comes to when I would babysit when I was younger, and then also with my niece and nephew, I'll like chase them around, I'll throw them around, I'll like throw them over my shoulders and stuff. But after like three minutes, I'm tired, and then they want more, and I know I've opened up that can of worms. And then I'm like, what did I just do? And then I'd be like, Jenny
needs a rest. Now go play with your choice right exactly? You know what I think. Whatever feels natural, Sharise. I mean, if it's natural for him to get on the floor and wrestle with his kids, that's great. If it's not you, then it's totally fine that it's not you. My mom was a big hugger, kisser, I love you person. My dad was not a hugger. He was not a kisser, not and I love you, and I do that with all my kids, hugs,
kisses, I love you. And Carson doesn't like it when I hug for too long, so I'll be like, don't let go, don't push me away, don't push me away, don't push me away, and then I'll finally let him off. The hook because you know, I don't want to piss him off. But everybody's a little bit different. I think it's just fine that you do what you do. Next one, First of all, I want to thank you Dave Jenny Drake for all you do. I love listening to you every morning, and you bring me so many laughs. Thank
you very much. I was wondering while you guys were out for Christmas break, do you still get up relatively early every morning to stay in a rhythm of things, or do you sleep in and then dread having to get up early again next week for the show? Yes? I do, well, Yes, I did absolutely sleep in. Our average wake up time is about eight twenty or eight thirty, I don't know. That's when our alarm clock
goes off mentally, and that's when we get up. On vacation, I did sleep in the bed with Susan because I didn't really feel the pressure to sleep. But on normal weeknights, I feel the pressure to sleep because we got to get up, so I sleep in the other room. But I wake up on weekend mornings and on vacation about eight twenty. Okay, I am kind of all over the place. I don't really have a routine.
I tried to not sleep in too late past like eightish. But we also watched some dogs over this break that were very much up and barking early. That kind of caused me to be up earlier then I wanted to be. I watched these dogs before, and I absolutely love them. They were not like this the last time we watched them. They barked a handful of times throughout the night, and so I kind of my sleep was pretty much similar to what it would be with the morning show. Not quite not up quite
as early, but I was up decently early. There was one morning I think Andrew and I were still laying in bed at like eight thirty and we both were like, we gotta get up. This is like not good. Oh really yeah yeah. And there were a couple of mornings he definitely slept in later than I did because I would get up with the dogs. He just sleeps through everything. I don't like. If I hear the dogs barking, I'm up. He can sleep through it. And note we can.
Some people can't. Dave. My husband and I are also watching Suits, and we agree with you. Holy fuck, do they need a new horse storyline? Every episode is we're losing the firm. Everybody panic and I don't think I've every seeing the main character, Mike smile or show an ounce of
joy behind his eyes the entire show. We talked about this yesterday. I don't like watching Suits anymore because it is Season six is the same as season three, is the same as season and they like they you know, spoiler alert, one of the characters went to prison, which was like a shock, but now they're back out and that was a decent diversion, but it's kind of jumped the shark a little bit. You know the phrase jump the shark, right, I do, And so I'm not really enjoying it,
but Susan still wants to watch it. Are they thirty minute episodes? Are they all forty five ish? Okay, so like probably when they were originally they were an hour man. Those are long episodes then if you're committing that, yeah, and I don't I don't dislike it. I just don't care anymore what happens because it's just it's repetitive. Yeah, it's just not good anyway. We are on the last season. I'm one of those people that has to finish the show before I start another one, so here is to
hoping they finish strong. More of a liquor than a darter. That's funny, Katie. Thank you. Ps A love a staff writer sticker. If you still have some, I do, and I will send that out. I love your tagline, more of a liquor than a darter. This is the next one, Minnesota Goodbye. I'm gonna save it because it looks like a group therapy and it's very long, and she actually even says not sure
if this is better for Minnesota Goodbye or group therapy. So I'm going to review your email later, Jessica and take a look and see which one it is more suited for. This one says, I'm sorry, it looks like spam. I'm not gonna open it. It looks like one of those click this link that no, but it does say told you I owed you one, Dave. See but it also looks like it says, hey, Dave, this should make us even. But that's a link. I owed you one for helping me out when I asked you last year. Now allow me
to repay the favor. Check this out. This is perfect for you. Now we're even. But it's written by somebody who really has bad punctuation,
or they're not a native English writer. For example, it says, now allow me to repay the favor, but now is in all caps and there's an odd comma, and so anyway, I'm to delete that one because I'm gonna guess it is some sort of a phishing of whatever malware cand of believe, right, I get nervous if I So when you get dms on Instagram, if you don't follow the person, it goes to like a separate message box and you have to like separately open them, you know what I'm talking
about. And if someone sends you a picture or something, it's like images blurred until you accept message or whatever. Same, Yeah, And I always am curious, but sometimes I get nervous when and it's like someone I don't know, someone I don't feel right right, and I'm but I always end up clicking and seeing what the picture is because it'll be like, oh, this is your doppelganger and like, but sometimes I never know if it's okay to click the picture and accept it or not. What are you worried about?
Seeing? I'm curious, Like, what are you worried about? Like you don't care if it was like a naked picture of a dude. You don't care, You just don't know. I just I just never know what it could potentially be. You never know. I mean, I get I get strange dms. Sometimes. One person every once in a while reaches out about giving wedgies, either giving me a weggie or they used to ask me to give foulon a wedgie and take a video of it and they were going
to pay me for it. They asked me to be on their weggie podcast. I think one time. I'm weird. So I just I can get very unique things in my box. My inbox sometimes that I'm cautious when something is not I can't see it right away and I'd have to accept to see it. I get those two once a week or so. It'll like images blurred, tap to unblur or something like that. And it's never anything like horribly shocking or disturbing. Yeah, but think of any examples right now.
Last one for now, it looks like it's from Jessica, Hello, Dave, Jenny Drake. Listening to Minnesota Goodbye Wednesday yesterday, there was a woman asking about leaving her job, going to school and how her and her husband have talked about starting their own business. If she has an idea of her own business, start small with friends and family, track it as a side hustle, and then keep expanding until you are ready to do it full time
business ideas. My husband and I thought it would be a cool idea if we could hire someone to wrap our Christmas presents. We hate rapping, we suck at it. And you could expand into decorating for parties, party rental type stuff. Okay, and that's a good idea. So also, if you and your partner are handy, you could do handyman service or landscaping, snow removal, cleaning, organizing. You can start with one category and keep
them expanding. So these are some non education career things right. But you do need a network, okay, JUNI network of people to hire you. That's where I think it can become complicated. When you are starting a wrapping present business. You need to make sure that you have enough people hiring you to do that. And how do you do that word of mouth or social
media? Yeah? Well, I think the funny thing is, like so many people, you know, radio is still such a powerful medium for advertising, but a lot of people want to spend their money on social media now, so and a lot of companies do. My son in law, Marcus, he quit his job at a grocery store a few years ago and he had a side hustle cleaning businesses, and he quit to make it his full time thing. And he now has fourteen clients and I think four employees.
Okay, so he's doing really well. But it took a while to grow that business, and they were nervous and for a while they were really struggling. Yeah, and now I think it's working out really well. But I don't think this Marcus uses social media. He's not a social media kind of a person. Yeah. I think he's in networking kind of a person. You definitely don't need it. My mom also started her landscaping business, probably twenty ish years ago now, and I will never forget. She had business
cards made and we I think this is illegal to do. I don't really know, but we went around and drove her around neighborhoods that were like kind of newer houses that didn't have their landscapes done yet. They were just like brand new built, and she put her business cards in everyone's mailbox. That was like her way that's what I thought, but nobody reports that right and now like her company, just word of mouth got out and she has to
like deny clients. Honestly, she could have built up her business to be more, but she she's just a very hometown loves to work with the same people. Like she could have had a company of like twenty people that worked underneath her, and she just, I don't know, didn't end up doing that. She has a couple of people that work for her, but for the most part, she runs it all herself. And I had to convince her to start upping her prices in the last couple of years because she just
couldn't do it. And I was like, you have so, yeah, that is what happens. Inflation happens every year, like three percent raises happen on like house taxes or whatever it might be. You have to up your prices. We had somebody who cleaned our house and they charged like eighty bucks for twenty years, and I said, she is getting taken. We're not going to pay her eighty bucks. I think we gave her a raise on our own. She doesn't work for us anymore, but it was like eighty
bucks. Since two thousand and three, it's no, you need more money than that. I will also say this, if you are going into business for yourself, do not think that you can slack because it is a lot of work. You are everybody from the marketing department, sales department, HR department. A lot of the time you are on the front line doing the work. So to the woman who wrote in a couple of days ago, if you and your husband are not admittedly very ambitious, I would not try
to start your own business because it is a lot of work. Not just an ambitious disciplined Yeah, okay, you got to be like super disciplined to be able to make sure you wake up every day and do everything. You don't just like decide, well, I'm working for myself today, I'm going to sleep till nine and then I'm going to get to things eventually. Like you still have to remain discipline. Yeah. Susan has her own business with
the Born and Brush, and she is very, very hard working. She does everything from run the workshops to schedule it, to do marketing, to go out to different clients, to find different clients. So it's a lot of work. Last paragraph of this email from Jessica and Cottage grow My husband does side jobs for the trade he is in, and he has dreams of opening his own company. We've been running a side company for two years now and keep expanding more and more each year, with hopes of him quitting next
year his full time job. I figure worst case scenario, if it doesn't work out, he can go back to working for somebody. He will always regret not trying, and I will take that back to you. Regret the things you didn't do, not the things that you did. Sure you might regret some things that you did, but I think in life you tend to regret the things that you didn't do. Anyway, long email, thanks for reading. We'd love his staff writer sticker from Jessica in Cottage Grove, Jessica
done. Thank you very much and if you are another Jessica wrote a long email about your I think your brother's girlfriend. Then I will check that one out. And there's some other ones that are like a group therapist. I'll check those out too. Thank you for being here and thank you for listening to the Minnesota Goodbye. Send those to Ryan Show at KADIWB dot com