The Extended Version

This will be an extended version of the Minnesota Goodbye, because we have gotten enough emails lately that I want to get to as many as we can, So without further add let's jump in. Stephanie says, I woke up super sick, and I jumped on Amazon and got same day delivery for day Quill and Niquill. I apparently didn't read it very well got the gel pills instead

of the bottles. Although it's not a big deal, I'm frustrated trying to open these stupid little things that are incredibly difficult to open, and when you're in a stage of being super sick with the fever, the task is near impossible. Why do companies have to do this? Why can't they just sell them in a bottle like all the other liquid gels. Stop using clamshell packaging on other products and any products it's annoying. Stop it. There are other

products that are nearly impossible to open. And I know, Dave, you did a segment a while back on Easy Open or No, and that was the one where I did the Land of Lake's Mini MOUs creamers. And because there is no possible way, that's my favorite brand of little Tiny creamer little containers and it says push thumb here, lift up up. No, it doesn't work, and I've tried it many times so that I was inspired to do a segment called easy Open or no everything from Kraft mac and cheese to

different containers and some are impossible to open. You're right, so right, Stephanie. About the Nike will little tabs. I don't know why they make it so hard, but I think it's probably because they don't want kids or whatever to break into them. But even an adult has trouble getting You know exactly what I'm talking about, Yeah, I do. Okay, let's delete that one. Next one, This one is from Emily. Did the nearly seven listeners slogan come from somewhere or just a funny made up thing? I

actually thought there were only seven live listeners for a long time. That I believe is what it says on the podcast. When you listen, it says the Dave Ryan Show now with nearly seven listeners. I don't know where it came from, but our company wanted us to say something like music fun and I don't know, music fun and games or something like that, and I said, that's so boring. But if we say something that people think is

clever, they'll listen. And so many people have gotten hooked on our show because the now with nearly seven listeners, sent out a vibe that says, this show is funny and makes fun of itself. So that's been really effective. Dave, when you fly to Colorado, do you have another car at the Denver Airport or nearby? Do you uber there or so? No? I just rent a car. It's not that interesting a story. How do I get around once I get here? I get a rental car and a

motorcycle. Does Jenny have a weather degree or meteorologist degree? Why are you called weather girl Jenny? Jenny? Do you study clouds? What is your favorite cloud? Jenny jamil els, thank you for asking. And I do not have any sort of degree of that sort. I have your basic bitch journalism degree. And the weather girl Jenny thing came because when I started on the show, everyone that was in that position that I started on and was

always still called either producer so and so or intern so and so. Yeah, and we were and Dave was like, let's not do that, let's do something different. And I started doing the weather reports. So Dave was like, let's call our weather girl Jenny instead, which has confused people for many a year's because they thought all I did was a ten second weather report and they had no idea what I actually do on the show. But yeah,

that's where it all come from. It's funny because we don't really call you weather girl Jenny that often anymore, because now you're so much more than that. But yeah, that's how I remember it too. Next one, don't say a name. In response to your comments, Dave about faking it with a hypnotist. I'm in complete agreement with you. I don't think it's real. I just had to tell you about a situation I went through in my life. I had anxiety. My husband says, get some counseling.

I said, okay. The first counselor and I went to wanted me to try this crazy tapping method. I think it's called eft. Anyway, the guy made me tap on my cheek and then I think it was on my forehead and in this weird order, and was convinced it should instantly resolve my anxiety. Every time he had me complete this weird style of tapping, he would say, you're feeling better now. I said no, do it again.

Finally, after three times, I felt bad for the guy and I said, yep, it's feeling better just to get out of the appointment. I left with all my anxiety and found a better counselor that did help. However, twenty years later, my husband still thinks it's hilarious to tell me tap on your cheek when I get mad at him about something. I'm curious if anybody else listening has had success with this EFT anxiety treatment. Love the show again, and I am too straight laced to sign off like your other

listener's smiley face. They mean, they're not going to say dart lick, dart lick. I don't know that that tapping thing even exists anymore, but I think that there is such a big placebo effect that if you're convinced that magic beans or your lucky rabbit's foot are responsible for your wealth well being, you're going to really believe that. And I think that really can be a

helpful thing. It wouldn't work for cancer. You wouldn't want to, like try to get cure somebody's cancer with tapping or the placebo effect, but I think it might work for something like anxiety where if you believe you feel better, maybe you feel better. Mm hmmm. I would say, yeah, maybe it's helpful in that aspect, but I'm the person who emailed inside. I don't think that that would help me at all. Well, and I think that's you're you're such a practical person like me. I know somebody who

I had lunch with the other day. She I think I told her she applied for Falan's job, and we're still friends. I haven't seen her in ten years, and she's wonderful. She says she takes a daily cocktail of klonopin and some other things and they have changed her life because she's so normal and witty and smart and intelligent. But she said she could barely function without, you know, the anxiety medications. So medications for most people really work.

So tap not really sure. This one says, don't say a name. I've been a fan since Carson, my son was about three years old, and you would gush about him on the radio. Been wanting to write in to get my staff writer's sticker for a few weeks. Dave talked about Susan and her ingrown hair on her lady parts and how he tried to help her out. She'd showed me this ingrown hair a couple of weeks ago. I got out a needle, tweezer, some rubbing alcohol, and I went

to work. It did not work. Lo and behold. A week later, I got to the bathroom after waking up in the morning, and as I wipe, it hurts, and I think, Susan, I can't believe it. I've got an ingrown hair on the same spot Susan did, for the first time in my forty plus years of life. I proceed to get a needle and mirror. I was able to take care of it myself. I thought it was funny that Susan was the very first thing I thought of sitting on the toilet that morning. Laugh emoji. Hope you guys had a

great day. Dart Lick, your favorite staff writer from southern Minnesota. She wanted a sticker, and I'm going to take a picture of her address. So that is what I'm doing right now, and it'll be a couple of days till any of these go out, because I'm in Colorado, the stickers are in Minnesota next one. Like I said, we're getting through a bunch

of these it's an extended version. Staff writer Demante Matthews writes in from Wood Beary, I listen to the Breakfast Club Show every morning as well, and it's pretty funny funny that Jenny's jail birds are a lot of the same story that the host, Charlemagne the God uses for his Donkey of the Day segment. In case you don't know, the Breakfast Club is a big syndicated morning show and they're on here in the Twin Cities. Don't listen to them because

we would lose you. Hey, Charlemagne the God is a legendary radio host. Yes, And basically I'll tell you how it works. There's a source that we get Demante that uses that basically gives us the same stories, and he is on this source and we are on this source. I'm actually surprised he uses that one though, because of anytime I've seen him do Donkey of

the Day. A lot of times he's given it to like celebrities. It's not like you're silly Florida criminal, you know, Oh really yeah, it's normally like he's done Kanye And that's why he's so he's he's one of those radio people who's really good at what he does, and he's allowed to talk shit basically about other celebrities and that person will still maybe like them or they start beef and then that makes it even more interesting. And so he often

for Donkey of the Day is talking about a different celebrity. That's funny because you know what he's going to staff of writers. Jenny and I think that he has people that can go research their own celebrity Donkey of the Day, and we don't. We have a source that basically it's kind of like getting an email blast or a magazine that's got all these stories in it, and we pick stories and it comes out every day. So that's probably why we

hear some of the same ones. Okay, next one. Aaron writes in let me start off as saying, I'm a longtime listener the Morning Show and the Minnesota Goodbye. I equate listening to you to the warmth and comfort of my favorite cozy blanket. I get all wrapped up in your lives. I laugh with you, and yep, I even right to It's just not the same when I miss a show. So thank goodness for the podcast. Okay,

onto the talking points. It may require a bit of vulnerability. I was wondering, if I could get each of you to go back in time, what moment would you change with a friend, with a family member, at work, or with a coworker. This could get a little bit longer than we really would have time for, so I'll just give it to Jenny. Jenny, is there a moment you would change with a friend, a

family member, or with a coworker? Ugh? I mean, yes, there's definitely things I've said that I would take back, but like those stories are probably kind of boring, I would say. So, there was a time on the show where we needed something like to fill a break, and basically you guys called me into the studio because this is when Steven Follmer stall on the show, and you're like, hey, like, do you have

a story? And I brought up something that had happened over the weekend and it was about a friend and it was just like a part of her life that she wouldn't have wanted on the radio. And I didn't say anyone's names, but I told the story and a lot of people had heard and knew that it was her that I was talking about. But did the Twin Cities

in general know who I was talking about. No, but she knew and other friends knew, and it really hurt her feelings and I felt like garbage afterwards, Like I felt like I kind of felt like I sold out in that moment to like entertain and I have content on the show. I remember that, Yeah, And I didn't tell her about it. She found out from friends and then she listened to it and then she confronted me, and I will forever like feel bad about that, and we like squashed it and

whatever. We're not really friends anymore, but we squashed that moment. But I learned a big lesson from that moment, and I wish I could take that back because it just was like a hard thing for her and it was unfair for me to be putting her personal life on the radio, even though I didn't say her name. So I would definitely take back that moment for sure. I can only play out that by saying I totally get it. That's the thing, that's the fine line that we have to draw on our

show. Something happened to me and I asked Jenny a little while ago, I said, should I talk about it on the radio. And it's not anything that is scandalous or shameful to do with me. It is something that I encountered with my family. And I said, Jenny, I think I did the wrong thing because there is somebody in my family that I'm worried about. And I wanted to say because I gave them a hug the other day, and I wanted to say, are you okay? Because I'm worried that

they are not okay, that somebody in their family is controlling them. And I asked Jen. I told Jenny the details, and Jenny and I kind of both agreed. I would never want them to hear it. I would never want them to think that I'm accusing them of anything. I don't think my family listens to the show, but I know that some of them do sometimes, and I'm talking to my extended family. Got Carson er Allison.

But my point is, we tell you ninety eight percent of the things that happen in our lives, but there are two percent that we just they're too private. They're things that we're maybe not proud of, and but you get ninety percent of our personalities. But once in a while we go, Mum,

I just can't share that story. Yeah. So, and I think I've still made the right decision, but it is interesting and I would like to know should I have said are you okay to this person as I gave them a hug because I don't see them often and I do worry about him. Hey, Aaron, thanks for that one. She's from Big Lake. I appreciate that. We're going to hit delete on that one and move on

to the next email. Let's try this one. Actually, I'm gonna skip that one because it's kind of something like we just read a little while ago. So let's try this one. Dave. You mentioned your childhood friend Scott often when telling stories. Are you friends still? Where is he now now? It would be entertaining to have him on the show and sharing some stories

about you. Just a thought from Emily in shortview, My friend Scott was basically my very very very best friend when I was a little kid growing up from kindergarten until high school. Then we kind of drifted apart after high school, and then he moved away when we were both about twenty nineteen or twenty years old without saying goodbye. And that's just kind of Scott. He was just done. He moved away, moved away with a woman that he was

cheating with, and he married her. They are still married, they have kids, and so it all turned out well. I called him maybe ten years ago. I looked him up, found him, we talked. It was a little bit awkward, and we have not spoken since then. But we were the best of friends. We would cover for each other, we would lie for each other. And my favorite story was Scott, and I'll tell it really quick, was I got kicked out of the first grade Christmas

musical because I acted up. On day one, I was dancing in the little you know the choir little stands where you have different tiers of choir kids. I was in the front row because I was short, and I started dancing and the teacher said, you are out. And so every day while they rehearsed, i'd sit on a bench by the principal's office. Scott was such a good friend that he purposely got kicked out so I wouldn't be sitting on the bench alone. That is a good friend, Holy buckets, And

that kind of represented our friendship all the way through school. And it's a shame because, you know what, we don't really have much to say to each other now. So yeah, all right here we go with the Mega version, the extended remix, the Minnesota Goodbye to knock out a bunch of the emails that kind of been stacking up in the email box. Because I appreciate everyone, Nick writes in, says Dave, It's quite obvious you take tremendous amount of pride in your work and it shows on the morning show.

You surround yourself with talented people and help them grow as well. Keep it up, I do. This is my life. This is my one thing in my life that I have been good at, and that is the radio show. So yeah, I'd really definitely take a lot of pride, and I always beat myself up when the show doesn't go very well or we do a bit and it's like that didn't go out the way we went it wanted to. And we get really happy when something goes off really well. So

thank you, Nick. You mentioned that iHeart is short staffed. I hear that from everyone, and it seems to me this is really avoidable by simply paying better. Hah, Well that's the problem. Do you think that iHeart is being cheap or is there something that I am missing? I'll be flat out honest with you, radio has a lot more competition than it used to. So we are now where it used to be. There was like just a couple of mediums. There was TV, radio, newspaper you could also

say magazines. And now there is streaming, there is podcasting, there's Apple Music, there is YouTube, there is Spotify. There is all kinds of competition. If we had the money to spend, we would do it. We don't have the money to spend. I mean, it's a really simple answer, let's get more people by paying better. Does it really worked that way? So? I mean, our show and KATWDB is still thriving, but there's a lot of radio that is really I mean there's a lot of

radio stations that are struggling. We're doing fine, but the money doesn't exist. I mean, if it did, they would be like, oh, well, let's spend the money. I got to explain to some friends what dart Lick means. Everybody was dying, and I ended up finding all the episodes that mentioned the act. Each one of us had was rolling laughing. Then I went into some of the great bits. The consensus the HR bit was that Dave You're a Bitch was our favorite. On a related note,

please bring back Carson calling in stoned. And every time I hear that you have nearly seven listeners, I chuckle. But I have a thought, what if you reached updated that to reach a milestone of ten listeners? Lastly I met Fallon at the State Fair and made my day. I hope to meet the rest of you guys next year. So thank you Nick. All right, here we go with another email, this one from Amanda. Hello, Morning Show. My husband and I had a marital dispute. We need some

advice. Is this gross or is my husband being a weenie? Oh? This sounds interesting. Recently we bought a blanket from Costco. When we got home, I unpackaged it and tossed it on the couch with horror. My husband gasp and immediately threw it in the laundry. Now I rarely wash clothes or blankets after purchaots in them, underwear, best sheets aside, But because I feel like things aren't that dirty. Do you immediately wash things when you

bring them home or start using them right away? I always make sure I wash new dishes and utensils, but blankets in clothes don't bother me. I tell my husband I'm saving the planet by using less water. He says, I'm gross in the most loving way. What are your thoughts, please discuss? And that is from Amanda. I do not wash clothes or blankets before I wear them. I never would do that. Sometimes I'll rinse out. If I buy a picture for iced tea, I might rinse it out,

but sometimes not. What about you, Jenny. Definitely not clothes I have, like your sheets, Betting, I do. But a blanket. I don't think I've ever washed a blanket, like a thorough blanket. No, I haven't done that. Yeah, I don't really. I don't really feel like the need to never occur to me to wash clothes or even underwear. You buy new underwear, Jenny, you go down to coals, you buy new underwear, Do you wash them before you wear them? No? Because

they're clean. I don't think there's anybody at the underwear plant that's like, hey, I got an idea, let's roll these around in some dirt and

let's spit on them. They're made in a pretty much hysterile factory. I think, maybe not sterile, but clean, right right, And I'm kind of assuming that the Costco blanket that you're talking about had a smell to it because it was probably in some plastic packaging or something, and that's maybe why her husband was like, no need to wash this first, because there's definitely been things where you open it and you smell like some kind of plastics the

best I can think of right now, But yeah, I don't know to answer your question, I don't think that most people do. But I think that's some people when they get like a new I don't know, any utensil or spoon or something. Maybe next one from Aubrey, Davi and Jenny want to say, I love hearing more my girl Jenny lately, and I love that I still have my Mornings with a Dave Ryan show after twenty five years. Writing to you today on my thirty fourth birthday with a question situation.

Have you ever been in a relationship with a friend that was mostly one sided? How did you finally realize that and how did you move on? I'm struggling with this lately and having a hard time letting go. Keep bringing on the funny that's Aubrey in Ramsey. I'd never have had a friendship that was one sided. Since junior high school, there was a guy named Mike fabian, and he was really interesting. His dad was later on a Space Shuttle.

So because I went to the Air Force Academy high school and I really liked Mike, and I really wanted to come to my house, and so I would ask him and he'd be like no, or I would call him a couple of times, and then he would pretend that the like the phone got disconnected, and after a while, I was like, he really doesn't want to come to my house, so I let it drop. Since then, no, what about you, Jenny, I don't I don't think so. I think when you get older in life, did she say she's thirty

four or was that okay? I feel like when you get older in life, you just start to become so so busy. So like my main group of girlfriends, we have a group checks and some of us don't respond for a week, and it, you know, it's just kind of like what we all expect from each other now. So some people might view that as one sided if someone's like texting a bunch of stuff and nobody's responding for a

while, but that's kind of just how life got busy for us. So other than that, now, I feel like most of my friendships are very both sided, okay good, And Jenny's very social, so she doesn't need a friend who would not pay attention to her. If you had a friend that you didn't feel that they reciprocated, you'd be like, that's okay, Yeah, I mean, I got plenty of other people. I don't need to be like needy around you. Next one all the way for Rocky Point,

North Carolina. This is Lauren, and Lauren writes in Jenny love the fact that you're getting more airtime. Nice to hear your dynamic with Dave now that you're on more. You said in the past that Andrew that your boyfriend doesn't drink. If it's not personal, or you'd be willing to share, why doesn't he drink? I don't care either way, just a curiosity.

Do you want to move on or do you want to answer it? I mean, I can't speak for him, but he actually does drink again in he'd never stopped drinking because he had like a severe problem, but it just drinking wasn't like always the greatest for him, So that's most of the reason. But I guess everyone defines problem in a different way, so you can

look at it however you want. But yeah, he didn't drink for like seven years, and he did start drinking about a year ago, and you know, it's it's different to have him drinking again because the first three years of our relationship he didn't drink, and it was so it was so weird for me because drinking was a pretty big part of my life back when we started dating, and it's not so much anymore. But now it's just like if we have an event going on, we have some drinks or I don't

know, we had a gopher game party. We were out a few weekends ago and we were drinking and playing drinking games at that and stuff now, but yeah, that's the gist of it, Okay. So it's not like he had a problem and said I better stop so just for whatever reason. I mean, I know a lot of people who they just don't drink. They just don't like to, or they'll maybe have like a glass of wine. I grew up in a non drinking family. Mom and dad never had

beer or wine around the house. Mom had a bottle of gym Beams she kept under her bed, but I never They just didn't drink. It was just not a thing. So some people. That's just the way it is. Yep. Next one. Okay, this is interesting. This is from Jessica. I love our Midwestern culture, but was definitely culture shock when I moved here seventeen years ago. For example, here's some quirky vocab larry differences examples below. Designated driver equal Minnesota calls it a sober cab. Somewhere else

we call it a cast role. Minnesota we call it a hot dish. Sledding Minnesota's call it sliding. I don't know that that's true. Is that true? I don't I've never heard anyone call it sliding. Here, parking garage, Minnesota's call it a parking ramp. I think we call it either. Yeah. Lottery tickets we call them scratch offs. Would you agree with

that? I guess, But well, no, not really, because scratch offs I feel like we clarify when we're talking about scratch offs versus a lottery ticket that has numbers on it. You don't you don't call like the jackpot lottery like. You don't call that a scratch off at least I don't. Yeah, I don't. I don't know. I'm definitely can agree with when I moved here. Hot dish was a brand new thing to me. What

the hell is a hot dish? I've never heard of that before. So we're gonna wrap it up that that is the kind of the extended version of the Minnesota Goodbye as we try to knock out some of these emails that have been piling up. Thank you, thank you, thank you. And if you don't hear your email read on the Minnesota Goodbye, it could be because it was too long, or it's kind of a redundant kind of thing we've talked about later. Or there are definitely people writing in just to get a

sticker, and I can't give you a sticker just for writing in. It's got to be something that we will read on the radio. But I love that you're writing in because I appreciate it so much. I do not look forward to sit in my kitchen counter and hand addressing all of these, isn't there There is? Obviously, you can buy a sheet of mailing labels, right, Jenny, and then type them in and send them and stick them

on the envelope. Right. You totally can do that. I mean, we have mailion labels here you can use too, I think, but they might be too big, honestly, because we've got like hundreds of Minnesota goodbye emails now. Yeah, So all right, that is it for the Minnesota Goodbye. Thank you for sending in your emails. Thank you mostly for listening. Even if you never send an email, we still love that you're here and we'll see you next time.