I can start out with a joke and see if you get this joke. This joke comes courtesy of staff writer Tracy. Okay, here we go. What is the best time of the day? I have no idea six thirty hands down? Do you get it? I get it? Yeah, I didn't get it. Are you reading o'clock? I didn't get that at all. I was like what. Tracy goes on to say, My eleven year old son told me that. When I thought it was hilarious. I told
my thirty five year old brother and he didn't get it. It's amazing how we forget to tell the old fashioned time the old fashioned way now that everything is digital. So I didn't get that joke. I've never heard that six thirty hands down because the hands are both pointing to I didn't get that. I did. I mean, definitely not a joke I've ever heard before. But I did understand it. But I think I probably was already trying to think hard because you said that, are you going to get the best job?
Thank you, Tracy. She goes on to say, on to the question, I wanted to ask in our current society, what is an appropriate time frame to meet new neighbors. I'm sitting on my deck typing this is I listened to my husband talk to our new neighbor for the first time, and the neighbor commented on our Halloween decorations from last fall. Then it hit me. They moved in mid September last year, and we haven't met them
until today. If you're bad with math, that is eight month. I feel bad that it took so long, but I really don't even know most of our neighbors. Just the one to the right and now this one immediately to our left. Is that typical. I feel like we're pretty social people, but our circle of friends are outside of our neighborhood. Curious on how it is for you as well. Keep up the great work. I literally listened to every day and I have since fifth grade. You keep me entertained,
laughing and inspired. Have you tried the lasagna? It's my favorite. Tracy, you made me laugh. I think that is so interesting. I know somebody I don't want to embarrass them, but they have not met any of their neighbors. I met their neighbor because I was at their house, went across the street where their girls were doing some sort of an art project. In the driveway and I went over and I said, hey, can
I ask what you're doing? And she's like, oh, yeah, sure and blah blah blah blah blah, and I said, oh, that's really cool. So I went and said, hey, I met your neighbors. She's like, you did. I'm like yeah. She's like, how do you meet neighbors? You see him at the mailbox, when you see him in their yard, you go say him, you introduce yourself. I know all my neighbors all around me. I'm very close with a couple of them. There's one diagonally from me that I got to tell you. I don't
even know his name, but we're friendly to each other. What about you? Do you remember when you met them? Though, because you've lived at that house for quite a while, Do I remember when I met who? When you met your neighbors for the first time? Oh, okay, I'm pretty much right away? Okay, yeah, within a couple of days. I don't remember. It's been a long time, but within a couple of days you see him at the mailbox, You're like, oh, you must
be the new neighbor. Oh, I'm Dave, I'm this is Susan whatever. Type of thing. We only know pretty much the people who are who are left and right, and then the people who are behind us in the alley because we don't really go out to the front much, but the alley is like where everyone usually like drives in in parks, so we see those people a lot. There's a young couple though, that also moved in the same day that we did, and they're right behind us in the alley too,
and we've never spoken to them because we never see them. And I just we just really don't see our neighbors. I think that's part of it. Though. If you don't see them, then how are you going to meet them. You don't really want to go knock on the door to meet them. You just see them out in the yard or pushing their stroller or whatever, or walking their dog, and you know, you encounter them they're way And I think a lot of it does depend on whether people come outside
or not. We've had neighbors that they just never come outside. I mean literally, they're normal looking people with normal looking kids, and they never come outside, so you never really get to know them that well. Right, But I tell you the advantage of having a neighbor is you know you might need them. Yeah, Like, for example, let's say you were trying to get a hold of Andrew and you couldn't get a hold of him, and it's like, man, I've been calling him all morning, and that's
really weird. He's not answering his phone. He always answers his phone. You can send the neighbor over to knock on the door and see if they're okay. Yeah, if you are going to be out of town for the weekend and you want somebody to pick up your mail, neighbor can pick up your mail or like Amazon packages, our neighbor Bennett always takes care of our packages if we go out of town, which normally we don't have a ton of packages, but every once in a while we'll forget that we ordered something
and did that just the other day. The neighbor's like, hey, we're at our cabin, there's a package on our porch. Well, you pick it up and put it on a garage and so we know their garage code. We pick up the package, we stick it in their garage, and you know, it's just kind of nice. There's another neighbor down the street that we know from boy Scouts that they watch the pets when we are out
of town. So yeah, it's definitely worth it to get you to know your neighbors, and most of the time they want to know you too. But I think there's just something in our you know, when I grew up, we grew up, you know, out in the country, so the
neighbors were hundreds of yards away, sometimes close to a mile away. But we knew everybody around us because back then it was just a different culture and some you got along with really well, and sometimes you just said hi to him at the mailbox, and other ones would come over for dinner, you know, so you don't have to make friends with everybody. But I think it's a good idea to get to know your neighbors, for sure. But I get it. Thank you, Tracy really enjoyed that one. Let us
know about you and whether you know your neighbors. I'm going to go back to an email from Dan. Dan is ourb buddy who lives in Apple Valley. We love Dan because he's a smart ass. He's the guy who is on no phone, screen or Friday once in a while, and he's got a bit of a speech difficulty. I don't know what the word is that you use now. But Dan hit a tree head on a four wheeler and wrapped the tires around the tree, so the front two tires of the four
wheeler actually touched. And he's got some you know, he's had some like brain damage or whatever. He says, Wishing Jenny a happy twenty first birthday. I wish I uh okay, let me read you again. Wishing Jenny a happy twenty first birthday. Wish. I don't remember how many years of experienced. Sincerely, Dan from Apple Valley. All right, keep on dart licking, Dave you do you? Thank you Dan. It is Jenny's birthday today. We can do it for your birthday. That's what we're going up
to luten Is. We're just going up to get away for the weekend. Andrew's grandpa has a cabin up there and we haven't been in a couple of years, so we're gonna head up and get away and just be one with nature. We're going to do with some hiking and stuff like that. I love that. I love that you both love to go hiking, that you both want to just get away and go to Lutten. When you feel when you're in Lutzen. You feel like you're a million miles from anything, right.
It really is just isolated. But at the same time, there's a holiday station and Carl's Junior down the block. You really need something good for you. That is super cool. What a great birthday trip, And thank you Dan for the birthday wish. Yeah, thanks Dan. Dave Jay came back from vacation in Puerto Rico a week ago. I'm finally catching up on the podcast. I was too busy laying on a beach to listen to My apologies if you're getting tired of this subject, but I wanted to commend Jenny
for talking about our anxiety so publicly and bluntly. I can identify my anxiety is made worse by an unrelated medical condition that has taken away my peripheral and night visions. So going back to going to dark and crowded public spaces is really difficult for me, and I probably missed out on a lot of fun events, which is really frustrating. But I started taking medication and it's been helping. I have also had depression for years, but I didn't recognize or
want to acknowledge it until it got really bad last year. And I asked for help. What Dave mentioned about physically feeling the effects of the drug happened to me too, and it was weird but comforting. Now I'm just more level. When I took klonopin twenty minutes or half an hour, fifteen minutes after I took it, whatever, I could feel it change my brain. I could feel it just like things that it just slipped away. It was just And I don't like drugs. People are like, oh man, You're
like this high is so good or this whatever is so good. I'm like, I like to feel real, like in reality. But when I was on the klonopin, I needed it because I was so I could not stop. I said, it was like a bonfire in my head. So how are you doing? Give me an update with your if you want to no, PRESI sure I don't. Yeah, no, I'm totally fine with it.
I just met with my psychiatrists. We did like a month's check in this week, and we're going to I'm on like the lowest dose you can with mine of medicine, and we just checked in about how it's been going. So we're upping it like a tiny bit. Because she just says that she thinks that'll be a little bit more helpful for me, and so I'm going to give that a try and just see how that goes. I'm not
starting that for like a week, but it's been good. I mean there have been days where it's been a little bit harder, but I will say that the medicine has definitely put me back into a more normal headspace. And I guess it's just the thing with anxiety is it creeps up out of nowhere and you just like never know how your day is going to be sometimes.
And honestly, I had like a rough day I think either Tuesday or Wednesday this week, and I think it was Wednesday, and it was such a bummer because like, I can't enjoy certain things right now because it only heightens my anxiety. So I stopped drinking over a month ago, and that's fine. I don't really care about that, but coffee. I can't even really consume coffee right now. Because I asked my doctor about it, I was like, I don't get it, and she's like, well, your body
is in like fight or flight right now. That's what's happening with you because your anxiety is so heightened when you add caffeine to it, it basically doesn't register that it's just caffeine. It's just registering that something is happening to your body that's accelerating your heart rate and you get into an even worse fighter flight mode. So it's kind of like some things in life that I really enjoy I can't do at the moment. But it hasn't been like it's been good
for the most part. Uh. It goes back to you know, I'm looking at you now as you tell the story, and I'm like, you know, Jenny just seems chill, not chill, just seems normal Jenny. And I think that's the thing that I learned about this one and we all know, is that you look at somebody and they might seem like they're fine,
what's your problem? You don't have any problems. And you look at Jenny and you can go she lives a charmed life, she's young, successful, in a happy relationship, got her own house, all these things. But then you never know what somebody is going through, even if they look like they have a very charmed life. Yeah, so be easy on the
people that might that might even seem normal. I don't know, there's a lot of people who reach out to me, like some people who also work in media after I talked about it and said that they deal with the same thing, and just other people that I wouldn't have expected it myself from, and I was like kind of shocked to hear from them too, saying like thanks for talking about it, because I go through the exact same thing as
you do. I think it's really important. She goes on to say, not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but having a healthy gut also improves mental health. When I eat less dairy, sugar and processed foods and limit alcohol, I do feel better. Love you all. I'm enjoying the Morning Show just as much as ever. I've been listening off and on since ninety eight, and that officially makes my relationship with the Morning Show the longest one I've ever had. Laugh emoji, laugh emoji darting off now but not
licking. That is Annie from Roseville. Annie, Just to let you know, I will be in your neck of the woods tomorrow, Saturday the eighteenth, doing a book signing at Barnes and Noble on Snelling from noon until one. So if you're up that way and you've got a kid, or you want to buy one for your niece or nephew. It is called Little Dave's Amazing Day, and it's gotten good reviews and I think people really like it. It's full of fun pictures and the pictures tell just as much of a
story as the story does. I think people really like it for that one. Uh, Okay, we're going to delete the next one because it's an ad. Here's one says random thought for you from Stephanie. Sometimes when I'm on the treadmill, there's a pit Bull song that comes up. There's a line in the song that says every day above ground is a good day. That really resonates with me and sometimes lists me up when I feel like I'm having a crappy day. Another lyric that always stands out from Pitbull is quite
a different type. It's in the song Fireball, and pit Bull says, I came I saw I conquered, or should I say I saw I conquered? I came? I don't know that one? Oh God, really, Pitbull. Pit Bull has so many good lines, Like I'm sure some people think that he's just like one of those fun party kind of artists and stuff, but honestly, if you actually listen to his lyrics, He's got some really good motivational ones. He's got lines like that one I came, I saw or whatever. It was, like, yeah, no, I like
that one. And you know what, there is a pit Bull song that I've heard. It's like, oh, I like that one too, but I can't remember what it was, But I think that he does. He's he's I think he is what he is. I met put pit Bull at jingle Ball a couple of years ago, and he was just chill and friendly and so fucking cool. And he walks in the room and you just like, know, pit bulls in the room. He's one of those artists. Yeah, and he I just I'm I'm not the biggest pit Bull fan of
his music, but I like him. Mister four oh five is that what it is? Four oh five? Yep? Three h five? No, yeah, five five five is mister worldwide, Mister three five five. He's got so many nicknames. I think, thank you, Stephanie loved that one.
Next one is a delete because it's an ad. We get a lot of ads that I have to kind of pluck through because we people write to us and they want us to do interviews with somebody who's from the like I don't know, some dairy Farmer's association or whatever, and it's like, well, we don't do interviews like that. But there's companies that are PR companies that they send out press releases like Jennifer Smith is going to be in town and she is the expert on dairy cattle. If you'd like to talk to
an expert on dairy cattle, Jennifer Hudson's available all next week. And I'm like, why did how are we on your list? I always I wonder that too, But I did work for a PR agency. I worked for Minneapolis or I interned for them, and so I was the person who was like updating our media list constantly and doing all this stuff. And I never understood like how much we were probably spamming so many people with press releases.
Yeah. No, And it's true. And I feel bad because I always picture some twenty five year old, poor little not intern but a newly employed, recent college grad who's got their first job, and they have to write up these press releases on Jennifer Smith coming to town with the Cattle Association and they just mass email it kind of like any kind of a spam where if you send out a thousand spam emails and you get two returns, then it's
worth it. And we get a lot of those, and I hit block on usually when we get things like that, and it'll say block sender, so I'll never get an email from them again. But they are plentiful, Jenny. They're like mosquitos. You can swat a hundred mosquitos and it's not going to make a difference in your backyard. Yeah, they're still coming, all right. Next one, I got a story of drinking at a work type of event. Because we talked about somebody getting drunk at the work type
of event. My boyfriend at the time was invited to a happy hour with old coworkers and I his girlfriend at the time, was invited as well. We had a great time. We were at a brewery lo and behold, a female previous co worker got hammered and professed her love to my boyfriend right in front of me. Wh okay. It was so weird and uncomfortable for everyone. He's now my husband and father to my beautiful little girl. I'm honestly so surprised at how many women over the years have had crushes on him
and he has never known about it. At the time. I'm actually his first girlfriend. Moral of the story, please don't get drunk events you may proclaim your love to an unavailable man in public. Wow, all of that woman, That is a little bit crazy. That it's weird that people let themselves get so drunk. And I think it's a matter of, like being an experienced drinker. I was going to say, I think there's a maturity
level too. I think that when I was younger, you know, we talked about last week or earlier this week, I don't know when it was last week, getting drunk at work events, and the only one that I thought about that I really I was probably twenty three and we were doing a big work party and I was doing the morning show in Columbus, Ohio. I was twenty three years old, so I was pretty immature and I had
too much to drink at a staff party. So I got up in front of the room and I think they said something like Dave's beech speech speech, and I'd been drinking, and I remember I got up and I said, we're going to kick ass. We're gonna kick fucking ass. And I remember looking at one of the sales guys named Eric, and I'll never forget the look on his face. He was standing there. He had like curly hair,
like an afro, and he had a drink in his hand. He had glasses, and he was kind of looking over the top of his glasses at me, like what the fuck, But he was kind of smiling, like I'm trying to play along with Dave, but he's being so fucking weird and drunk. And I remember right away realizing I should not have said we're gonna kick fucking ass in front of all of my coworkers. And we did
kick fucking ass. We did, so I was right, So that was validated had you not been drunk, though, that wouldn't be too far off from something that might be said in a meeting in radio. Honestly, we're like, we're not so button up to here, we're not corporate. We can say let's kick some fucking ass. We can say that to like, well, maybe that's a little aggressive, but it's just like, I don't know, had you not been drunk, I don't think it would have been
as bad. You know, probably, I think if I hadn't been drunk, I wouldn't have said fucking ass. I would have said, we're gonna kick some ass. Yeah, but you know, I had no idea how to get up in front of a room and make some sort of a speech or anything. So I just said the first thing that came to mind. And it still embarrasses me a little bit because I was in front of like, you know, the the spouses and the general manager and his wife and
that type of thing, and nobody gave me any shit for it. I mean, if the thing is, if you're successful, people will forgive you for a lot. Remember what I just said, If you're successful at work, people will forgive you for a lot. In other words, if Mark down the hallway in sales is the number one salesperson and sells the shit out of your product or your service, Mark can get away with a lot of shit. Mark can come in late. Mark can be an asshole. Mark
can be a little bit rude. Mark can bang the you know, the receptionist or whatever. Well, that might be crossing the line a little bit if there are some rules. But yeah, I mean, I but I but I've seen it happen in radio too, where if somebody is successful, they can treat other people like shit. I will not name names, but I've experienced it here a couple of times. We had somebody who was a big figure at the radio station and they were successful. They treated everybody literally
like abusive, just literally like abusive. But they let them get away with it. Number one, because they were successful. Number two because it was a little bit different of a time. But they were almost frightening sometimes because they would like turn red and like get in your face and scream at you, and it was it was not pleasant, yeah, but they got away with it. I mean somebody, let's let's say Carol Anne is like the
she organized the company. It's her company, and here's an interesting development. So we recorded the Minnesota Goodbye, and I looked at the waveform and we have trouble with this sometimes, and it stopped. And it stopped when we were mid sentence about Carol Anne and being the boss and whatever, and so we kept talking for a few minutes after that. Then I looked at the
waveforhim and realized it wasn't recording. So it cut off at a really shitty part that we don't know where to pick up on it because we don't know exactly what we did not say anyway, I want to thank you for being here for the Minnesota goodbye. It was kind of an abrupt ending. Jenny is. This is a few minutes later, like five minutes later, and
Jenny is down the hall recording Weather because she's weather girl. Jenny, but I think one thing that I just want to wrap up with, Like, you know, we we did talk about it, and I don't think we got to it on the podcast, but maybe we did. We were talking about Jenny or somebody said something shitty about Jenny, and then we talked about how Keanu Reeves said, and Jenny brought this up. Keanu Reeves said, if you've got a problem with me, call me. If you don't have
my phone number. I don't want to hear it. In other words, and I'm paraphrasing, but it's like, hey, listen, if you don't know me well enough to have my phone number, I can't let it bother you me what you think. And I think it's good for any of us, because you know, we all have people that like are jealous of us or dislike us or whatever. And Jenny and I agreed that if somebody doesn't like me or Jenny because we're good people, and I'm pretty proud of the
fact that I'm a good person. And I can sleep at night because I don't backstab or manipulate. And I've known a lot of people in radio who that's what they do. And I can sleep at night because I've never screwed. I've never screwed anybody over in radio ever, and I never will and I don't have to. And I've gotten this far by not having to screw anybody over. So Jenny and I agree that if somebody doesn't like us, they either don't know us or they're jealous. And I would say the same
thing for you. If somebody doesn't like you, they either don't know the real you, or they're jealous because you have a better relationship, income, house, kids, partner, hairstyle, whatever it is. So if somebody's if somebody doesn't like you, unless you're an asshole, I'm going to give you a benefit of the doubt that you're a wonderful person. Then it's because
they're either jealous or they don't know you. So anyway, that is it for the Minnesota Goodbye kind of an odd ending, I know, and that is what we deal with with some of the equipment that date back dates back to the Carter administration, and that is going to do it for the Minnesota Goodbye. So as we say at the end of every Minnesota Goodbye, thank you for listening, and send any emails with anything that struck a chord. Maybe you met us and you say, Dave, you really are an asshole.
Or maybe you met Jenny and said, you know what, she was not the nicest person ever. If you caught her on a bad day, you never know, all right, send your emails to Ryan's show at KDWB dot com. Thank you for listening.