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Sifting Through

Jan 25, 202413 min
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Today Jenny and Drake discuss how we got into radio and our favorite part of our jobs, the worst job we've had and what encouraged us to leave, would you dig into this to get your phone out if you dropped it, and more!

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It's the Minnesota Goodbye, the Jenny and Drake edition. Hello. All right, Dave's off for the next two days, so you're stuck with Drake and I for the Minnesota Goodbye today and tomorrow. We will jump right into emails. This one says, Hey, guys, I'm cooking dinner listening to the Minnesota Goodbye, and I heard the story about the person that took a run and took a shit by someone's backyard. I also listened to a podcast called

I've Had It. I don't remember the episode, but it was within the last month or two, and a lady had emailed them telling them about a person taking a shit in their backyard while on a run. They saw it happen and saw them wipe. Person that emailed you said they had tissue in their pocket. The person on the other podcast thought it was a premeditated shit because they had something to wipe with. Not sure if they are the same people, but how fucking crazy would that be if they are. That's all.

I have a great day, Shay. We've had a lot of like emergency Pooh stories lately, which Dave put a cap off, I think because he brought it up. There was one story that got brought up about it. I don't know the beginning of last week, and he goes, if you have a story, email us. Well, then of course all these stories start coming in. He goes, all right, that's it. I'm capping it off. You need to email it in the next week, and then we're not doing them anymore, because I knew what he got himself into

when he said, email us your emergency Pooh stories. So anyway, Shay, that would be quite the funny coincidence if it was the same person. All right, moving on, this says, hello, my favorite morning show. This is Charise. I'm writing to see if other listeners just knew when they met there happily ever After. I think I've found my Oh you know, I think we've read this one, Scharis before, but maybe I'm not rereading one. This came in yesterday. Did she send it in twice?

Maybe, Charis, we've definitely talked about this before on other Minnesota Goodbye, So i'd go say, within the last few weeks, definitely go back and check out some episodes because we've talked about meeting there happily ever after, and if you found them, if you found that person once you've already been with

someone else, So yeah, go check those ones out. Sorry to not trying to like brush over your email, but we've talked about this quite a bit in like past episodes, So I'm going to move on to another one. Let's see this one says, Hey, guys, I got my staff right or stick or yesterday. I will send you a picture once I figure out where to stick it. I just also wanted to say thank you for all your hard work and dedication to the show and the podcasts. I do

have a question or topic for you too, though. What encourage you to go to get into radio? What's your favorite thing about the job? So we'll start with that first. Sorry we don't have Dave here today. Andrew, this is Andrew in Ohio. But what encourage you to get into radio

and what's your favorite thing about the job. So for me, I was in college trying to figure out what to do with my life, and I was like, well, I want to do something with music, and I always thought I wanted to be in like pr or be like a publicist for bands or something like that, which now is probably the equivalent of like a social media person for bands. Publicist is like a very outdated term almost,

I feel like, but that was my goal. And then I saw an internship for Dave's show open up, and I applied, and I got into radio because of that, and then I fell in love with it, and I got really lucky that I saw that internship because I have no idea where I would be today had I not seen it, because radio wasn't my go to, like I was really doing all not necessarily like not I honestly probably

not. No, I really wanted to do something with music. I was in such a track of like public relations in college that I foresaw myself probably just going to work for like a fun agency in town. And I mean radio doesn't pay very well. But also when you start out at ad or pr agencies, that also is a very hard income stream when you first start off. So yeah, I don't think it was. And then my favorite thing about being in radio is without a doubt, being able to connect with

you listening. It is like I don't like, it's hard to explain, but like when I go out in public and someone comes up to me and says something like, oh my gosh, I've never related more about when you talked about anxiety on the radio. That is like something that I wish everyone had, is like I love to connect with people. I love that radio is a form of connection, even though we might not actually physically connect in person. Someday if something I said can help you somehow in your life.

That is my favorite thing about radio. But Drake, what encourage you to get into radio and what's your favorite thing. Honestly, I think I was just really trying to get a head start on anything. I started radio when I was thirteen years old. I remember it was a radio station that I always listened to as a kid, so I think there was a little bit of like a nostalgic aspect to it too, of like I really wanted to

work here because I listened to it growing up. And I remember just sitting and writing the little job resume g's thank you yes words with my parents. I was like, I have nothing I could put on this, so they're probably not even gonna like look at it. Yeah, But I sent it in and got word back like a few weeks later, and they wanted me

to come in and check it out and meet me. And then I started interning and learning things, and then it was all from there, But I think mostly I just wanted to get a head start in something and I really liked music and I want to I knew I want to work in the music industry, and that's kind of where it all started. And for me, what was the other question? Then? What's your favorite thing about radio?

Very similar to yours. I really like having a positive impact on somebody's life, Like if I can put a smile on somebody's face, that to me is like that makes me happy? Would I make other people happy? It makes me super happy. So that's what it is worth it for me? Got it? Yeah? And then Andrew continues on He's got a couple more questions. He says, what was the worst job you ever had and what encouraged you to leave it when you did? So, it's so you basically

have worked in radio your whole life. I've had three jobs, all of them. I didn't really necessarily I left, but I left on good terms because there was a new opportunity that opened up. I've done. I've worked for a DJ company doing weddings, which I kind of like unofficially quit. I don't know, I just kind of like tapered off. It wasn't like an official official job, but I worked at had a lot of fun, learned so many things from that, and then obviously working in radio and Green

Bay, I just left that when this opportunity came up. So that's pretty much been my resume. Got it Okay, So the job itself wasn't exactly like the worst job ever. If I have to go back to the worst job I've ever worked, it was definitely when I was a bus girl when I was fifteen years old, and I had to wear one of those old

diner dresses. I worked out like it was this old school restaurant. My dad literally worked there for forty five years I think literally from the ag was eighteen till he was sixty something, and so I had my first like real job there, and it was just like it was early hours I was in high school. I had to be there at like seven am on a Saturday and Sunday, like almost every Saturday and Sunday. Worked. So all of my weekends, like right away in high school, I didn't like have weekends

to go like have all these sleepovers with friends and stuff. I was always working. But if I want to talk about like an actual, like career job, more so outside of the first jobs you have that usually aren't the greatest, I would have to say, and this has no shade against them, because I absolutely love Canterbury Park. But when I worked in marketing at Canterbury Park, because of the schedule, I was so miserable. I was like twenty five years old, had just gotten out of like a relationship,

and my schedule was Wednesday through Sunday during race season. So I was working Wednesday in normal like nine to five, Thursday and Friday nights because those were races, and then Saturday and Sunday days because they raced Thursday through Sunday, so it was night racing Thursday and Friday, Saturday and Sunday day racing. So my schedule was Wednesday through Sunday all summer long. It included working on Labor Day, Memorial Day, and the fourth of July. There were no

holidays off. It was really hard on me mentally. I just didn't get to do much with friends. And I also went from being a server that was interacting with people and working with friends all the time to working in a

very like office environment. And the offices at Canterbury also are in the basement of Canterbury where there's no windows, so that was like another thing lots of things I've learned in my years of like just what helps me with my mental health, and I definitely never realized at the time how bad it was that

I was like sitting in this basement working a bunch. But yeah, the schedule was really hard for me because I was like single and my friends were all out doing things, and if I wanted to do stuff, I had to be like going out after races at like eleven PM to meet up with them, and then I had to be up a Saturday morning and at work again at nine am to work a full eight hour a day, you know. So the job itself wasn't bad. I really loved everyone I worked with

at Canterbury Park. Honestly some of the greatest professional people I've ever worked with. I worked with amazing servers before in my life, but like professionally, that was probably one of my favorite places I've worked with of people who were just really good at their jobs. But the schedule just did not vibe for

me. So what encouraged me to leave was the fact that, like I had already worked in radio on Dave's show, I was an intern, and I really did love radio and that's what I wanted to do, but there

was nothing for me when I was interning. I had to leave eventually, and so what encouraged me to get back was like just like honestly wanting to be in radio so bad, and how miserable I felt from doing like one race season at Canterbury Park, because then once race season was done, my schedule went back to Monday through Friday, but your entire summer was consumed with that. So it really helped me push me to get back into radio.

And then I took a big demotion to get back in. I went from a full time marketing position to part time assistant producer on City's ninety sevens morning show. But I still had side serving jobs, so I was able to just like pick up more shifts back then to like equate for the loss of income. So yeah, that's a long winded answer, Andrew. Sorry that was a lot, but that you answered yours right, Yeah, okay, all right, thank you for that one. Andrew in Ohio. Can't wait

to see where you put your sticker. Okay, this comes from Lauren. She says, Hi, guys, I'm a first time writer, longtime listener, and I couldn't help, but have to respond to your topic the other day on where you've dropped your phone. So my friend recently was at the same Paul Christmas market helpings how they're use the porta Patti and dropped his phone in the toilet. He said, he sifted, Oh gosh, I know exactly where this is killing. Oh my gosh, I'm trying to figure out

how much I want to filter this. He doesn't filter any of it, no, he said, he sifted through turds to get to it, and a bloody you know what that living is? Oh man? Then he put the phone back in his breast pocket. What he didn't even clean it or anything. He went and found his wife after with his hand all blue from deep diving in the biff. Worst part he cleaned it, of course, in the phone case, but kept the phone case. Those are like seven

dollars on Amazon anyway. Now it's a debate between the friend group, would you or would you not? What would you guys do? My answer was I'd grab it if it was sitting on top, But to dig through strangers poop now I'm out. What would you do? Would you dig in there. I would what a hard for it person, I would dig in there for it. I would. I mean, so it was at the same pole Christmas market. There's a good chance he was wearing gloves. Maybe she

said that. She didn't say that, but it was winter time. I would have been wearing gloves, so I would have at least had that, and then I would have tossed the gloves. I would have put the glove on, or had the glove in dug in, did a little like biff surgery, reach it in there, pulled it out, and then I would have immediately like thrown it onto like the ground, onto some snow if there was snow around, to like wash it off and then dish the glove.

Yeah, I would probably do all that. I don't know if i'd be wearing gloves though, yeah, you never wear gloves. I would never I have to. I'd be gloveless, which honestly, I feel like I would still do it. Yea, I would still do it. I'm not tossing like a nine hundred dollars phone, especially with all your stuff on there, like it's not yet it's worth just just do it, I know. Yes, Lauren, thank you for that somewhat disturbing but very entertaining email. We

appreciate that, and she says thanks for all the morning entertainment. I listen every day, and that looks like we, I think, are caught up on emails already. So if you have any emails for Drake and I, I'm going to say, there's a couple in here that I'm going to say because they're specifically directed towards Dave, but feel free to send him in to Ryan's show at KADIWB dot com because it'll be Drake and I tomorrow as well,

and then Dave's going to be back on Monday. So thank you so much for listening to the Minnesota Goodbye,

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