June 12, 2025 • 23 mins
We talk luck, hear another poop story, and Ranger Jessica tells us all about loons!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, here we go with a man minisoda. Goodbye.
Let's get started with an email that says hello, best
morning show ever, obviously sent to the wrong address. I
don't know, been stuck in my head since it happened
last Christmas. I'm at the cub pharmacy waiting in line
get a prescription. I was third in line. I'm waiting.
(00:20):
All of a sudden, the guy behind me, a little
old man sixties or seventies. Hey, he ever, wondered about that.
I looked over slowly and I said, I'm sorry what
he said? Rudolph. I'm like confused, thinking, okay, he's either
a little weird. I wish I had my taser in
my hand, or he's just bored waiting now because of
it being Christmas, Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer was playing
on the speaker. He said, think about it. He had
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a red nose. Reindoor noses are brown. How is it red?
Was he too cold and was red from being so cold?
I said, well, I honestly never thought about Rudolph's red
nose in my life. I'm thinking, okay, this is kind
of creepy. There's a much younger guy behind him, and
he's got this smirk on his face that looked like
he was thinking, Aha, awkward, Glad he's not talking to me. However,
(01:04):
of course he was listening, and my word vombit said, well,
maybe it's blood. It looks at me and says, well,
think about it. Other reindeers would have beat him, you know,
kick him and stuff, so it could be blood. The
guy looks at me and says, slightly shuddering, Oh yeah
they did. Maybe that's why it's red. He then stepped
back a little bit and totally stopped any small talk.
I then walk up to the counter and the line
(01:24):
from the song popped in my head. They said that
used to laugh and call him names. Yeah, nowhere in
that happy little jingle, it said they beat the shit
out of him, causing his nose to bleed, therefore having
a bloody nose to pull Santa's sleigh. So before I
thought he was a little creepy, but now I was
the creep What you guys saying? Yeah you were? You
(01:47):
guys are awesome. I hope you find this funny. It
makes you laugh a little, Love you guys. From Jackie Jones.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
What a story and such like a weird conversation to
have with strangers, likes.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
To get how to get red, and then she turns
it into the other reindeer beat the shit out of him.
He's got a bloody nose because they used to laugh
and call him names.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, rude off the red nose reindeer. His friends used
to beat the shit out of him.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I love that one. So random. That is the email
of the day so far. All right, next one, we're
gonna go down to this one. Sarah. Been thinking a
lot lately about luck and why some people are seemingly
luckier than others. Made me think of it even more
when you were talking about the number you were given
(02:34):
on the happiness scale this morning. And I think that
sometimes this plays into luck. Do you know anybody who
is lucky? I am that person that everybody that knows
me says I'm lucky. I do regularly win things like
poll tabs, I'll be the first person to be brought
into the newly opened line when a line is long
at the airport, to jump to the front, et cetera.
So I started to think more about why am I lucky?
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And I think a big part of it this could
be good is always look at things with an open
mind and typically in a positive way. When I enter
a contest or try something new, I always go in
assuming that I will win or it'll go which go well,
which I think then creates that luck more frequently than
for people that attempt to be more pessimistic. Just a
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thought going through my head lately, wonder if anybody else
has perspectives or anybody else in the show is considered lucky.
Ps I'm the one that owns the dog training, daycare
and boarding facility with the camp van that drives around
to pick up dogs. Jenny, this invite still stands to
come drive around with us for the day. Have a
great day from Sarah. I like the line in Titanic
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where the arrogant guy says I make my own luck.
And I think that's kind of true and I've always
heard I like this a lot too. Luck happens when
preparedness meets opportunity. So why is somebody lucky? Well, because
they went to school, they study, they took a shower,
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showed up on time, and didn't steal anything. That's the
preparedness and now it meets opportunity. Oh, do you want
to be on prices? Right. Well, yeah, I got up early,
I went down, I stood in line. I made a
shirt that says I love Drew Carrey. So why I
got chosen to be on prices right as opposed to
the person who slept in didn't quite make it down
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there in time, was at the end of the line
and is wearing a dirty old sweatshirt. So preparedness meets
opportunity equals luck.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, I do really well, I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I mean, I don't think I'm a lucky person, but
I do agree that like when opportunity arises, you need
to take hold of it rather than waiting for opportunity
to come to you. I mean, I feel like what
opportunity could be considered luck, Like ooh, what an interesting
opportunity I've been given. I am going to take it.
But I don't know. I've never been a lucky person,
like by accident. I don't know any like lucky accidental
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accidentally lucky people.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
I think that pessim has is an awful tray to have,
and you're not going to get very far in life
if you're constantly negative. I really, really, really do. I
think that having optimism is very important, whether it's delusional
to an extent. I still think that, like it's much
better to have that than to be negative, because.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I was just at this retreat with all these people
who became content creators and now make a living doing
influencing and stuff, and it's like they were all very
positive humans and it's like you didn't see someone being
negative there because that's just like not how they would
have built their businesses.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
That.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, So yeah, I agree that.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I think there's like some luck involved in things, But
I also think that your attitude has so much to
do with how lucky you become as well.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I would agree with that. I know somebody who is
such a pessimist. I mean they could win the power
Ball and they'd be like, bah, the taxes are going
to kill me, and now I got to hire a lawyer.
And it's like and they're kind of a miserable person.
They're just always unhappy, and I think it's because of
their pessimism. So what else about luck? Why do you
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know anybody who's lucky. I don't know anybody who's lucky.
And I've heard this because I used to live in
Las Vegas and I used to play a lot of craps,
and they said, you don't have luck. You have either
you have been lucky, or you have been unlucky, or
you are about to be lucky, or you are about
to be unlucky. So in other words, you can say,
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oh my god, I won four hundred dollars playing Black
Jacket Treasure Island. You were lucky, you are not lucky.
Does that make sense.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah. It's not a thing that you have, it's a
thing that happens.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I will say there is one thing
about winning contests on the radio. I know people who
I'm going to tell you a little behind the curtain here.
The industry calls them prize pigs because they'll win every ticket,
every T shirt, every prize whatever, and they win from
different radio stations, and so there's a handful that the
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industry calls them prize pigs, which I think is an
awful name to me. They're like really fucking hard workers
and loyal. Yeah, and it's like, what's your secret? They
play all the time. So I think the more chances
you take in life, the better you'll have. It's kind
of like if you buy one scratch off, you might
not win, but if you bought four hundred scratch offs.
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There's going to be some luck in there.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Like again with the opportunity. If you take the opportunity,
you'll likely benefit from it. So take the opportunity when
it arises.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Right aperiod, don't same a name please, I didn't want
you to run out of email, So I'm sending this
random thought. The other day, Dave mentioned his wife recently
lost twenty pounds quickly. Why does my mind immediately think
must be using ozimpic? Do you all think the same
thing when you see somebody who looks quite different quickly?
It's a lose lose convo. You want to compliment them,
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but you don't want to make them feel that they
have to share if they've been using a weight lost drug.
And what about people who lost weight the old fashioned way?
They might feel like they have to explain it, like
I lost it the hard way without medication. So had
me wondering what's politically correct these days? What do you
do when you notice somebody has lost a lot of weight?
Stay quiet, compliment only or compliment and that naturally say
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how did you do it? Thanks for the fun podcast.
I'm going to send that to you, Jenny, because I
think that would be a good conversation for on the radio. Jenny, okay,
so we can talk about that one day soon. Susan
did not use GLP one. If she did, she hid
it from me. I watched her go from eating a
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plate full of food to eating a small plate full
of food. I watched her go from eating you know, bacon,
eggs and toast for breakfast to having a protein shake
for breakfast.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
And she can't really do a lot of cardio because
she has some like blood pressure, pulse, heart rate problems
and she can't get that up to high. So it's
not from exercise, but it was just basically discipline muscles weightlifting.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Yeah well yeah, but that helps you lose weight, like
your muscle weighs more than your fat, but you'll look
more toned and slim.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Oh. Absolutely, she looks amazing, she really does. And she was,
you know, she was at a weight she was not
happy with, and through no prompting of anyoney, anybody except
her own decision, she decided to eat Like I'll have
a giant bowl of chili, sprinkled cheese and sour cream
on the top and go back for seconds. She'll have
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a small bowl of chili and sometimes she won't finish it.
Now she's not starving herself, but she's just decided to
lose weight.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yeah, I mean I'm jealous. That sounds really nice.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Granted I eat a lot of stuff too, but I
don't eat like crap. So maybe one day I'll just
make my portions very small.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
And with Susan, I say, it's necessarily just about portions.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
I get bummed when you guys talk like that because
it's about macros. You don't have to starve yourself to
lose weight. It's about feeding your own like a lot
of math, feeding your body the right nutrients, cars.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Or most people don't know how to do that. I
don't know what a macro is.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
You can literally go into chatg ept right now and
be like, build my diet for me using macros. Counting macros.
Macros are counting your carbs, your fat, and taking your protein.
And I think you'd be shocked that, like, yeah, you
might not be eating a lot, but if your fat
intake is super super high, you're going to be gaining
weight versus like you need to have more carbs that
are going to keep you full. You need the protein
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because that's what helps you build muscle, So you really
like if you can get those things down, you do
not have to cut out a bunch of food just
to lose weight.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Can I still eat a bag of family sized bag
of chili cheese FreeDOS?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
I mean I think a family size and the whole
bag might be a.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Big I can do it. I can do it. We
talked about this on the show. We should try this sometime.
There's the Lettuce Club over at the U of M,
and I think Bailey brought this up a few months ago.
They get together once a year and their goal is
to eat an entire head of lettuce first, right. Isn't
it a race?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, it's a race in and you can do with
dressing or without dressing.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
And you just shove that whole thing down your goal.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
How long do you think it takes?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Not that long? I think the guy who won it
was like two and a half minutes.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Oh god, yeah, it.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Was really fast. And they just do it once a year.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Should we try it as a social media kind of
a thing. We can we can do time laps.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
We're talking about those kind of like circular heads about
us what you kind of mean?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
And I think they cut them in half so that they.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Can put their mouth like a sandwich.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Yeah, I'm oh, okay, that's smart because I'm thinking you
got to eat it like full, like a hot dog
and a bun.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
And well, I guess they take those. They just told it.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
They usually water down the buns, right, yeah, the water.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Interesting?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Hello Ryan Show, Oh do I have a poop story
for you? Takes place Memorial Day weekend two years ago
up at a cabin. The cabin was a three bed,
one bath, but somehow we managed to fit thirteen family
members in the cabin. Now, I told everybody in the
cabin I was going to take a shower, and I said,
if you need to use the bathroom, use it before
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I shower. The shower was a run down standing shower
with just a clear plastic lining for a shower curtain.
I'm in the shower and suddenly I hear a bang
on the bathroom door. It's my dad, who's got to
come in because he's got to go. I'm pissed because
I just said, do you need to use the bathroom?
He burst through the door starts taking an explosive shit
two two feet from my naked twenty year old body.
(12:34):
Not Oh god, not only was it stinky but also hot.
I blame him, He blames his ozimpic. Oh right, from Hannah.
That would be awful to have your dad do that
while you're naked two feet away. Because cabin bathrooms are
not big. They're usually just big enough for a sink
of toilet and a shower.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I would lar I go poop outside if I was them.
I would not do that to my dad or anyone. Yeah, well, no,
that's not true. I used to do that stuff in
front of my axe.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
So you puped in front of your axe?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Yeah all the time. Yeah, well, I mean I wouldn't
really want to. But if he happened to be in
the shower and I had to go, yeah, I would do.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Right, because sometimes you just have to use the bathroom.
You have no other choice than someone's in the shower.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Well you're like, wow, and what was he supposed to do?
I don't think you were here for the podcast where
I shit my pants at the car mechanic the other day.
You weren't here for that, were you?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
So this is a true story. So Monday night, I'm
dropping my car off at the mechanics, and it's five
to ten minutes away from my house, and it's after hours,
so I'm using the after hours drop off, and all
of a sudden, my belly's like whoa, and I'm like, oh, man,
I better get home. And then I realized I'm not
going to make it home. And then I realized I'm
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not even going to make it like, you know, down
the street, and I got to go now. So at
the mechanic shop there is like it's you know, it's
it's not all the paved open lot. There's some bushy, weedy,
tree filled area right over here. So I grabbed some
napkins out of my car and I run over there,
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and uh and already it was too late, Jenny. Already
it was too late. When your belly's like, yep, we
are we are going to get We're going to admit this, yep.
And so I did went over there and did my thing.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
You shit in the bushes of your mechanic.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I exactly, that's exactly when you shit yourself too, and
myself too.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Yeah, what is the company?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Is?
Speaker 4 (14:38):
What mechanics? Did you go jobbing to call them and
ask for the footage?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
No?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Himself on Monday.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Now, the funny thing was, I look for security cameras
and I didn't see any. But I'm sure they're out there.
But I was pretty well hidden behind the bushes and
trees and there was nobody around. I think. Okay, glad
you got a kick out of that one. I told
my wife that story when I got home, and she died.
She thought it was like the funniest thing she's ever heard. Ah, right,
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next one. Okay, I'm sorry, I'm a little bit unprepared
for the next one. Here. Okay, let's try this one. No,
let's not do that one. Okay, here, okay, we love
this one. Ranger Jessica, you guys like Ranger Jessica. R Okay,
So Ranger Jessica emails in with some interesting tidbits, and
(15:30):
this one says, the recording is a little longer. It's
about loons. If you don't plan on the podcast, I
still think you should do your best loon call. My
bet is Ginny has the best loon call since she
camps the most.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Okay, I don't.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Woa oh wait, hold on wait wait wait wait, not ready,
not ready, not ready, hold on. I got to feed
the right feed, and I think now we are ready.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Hello, this is Ranger Jessica. Still waiting on more requests
listeners for nature facts, but I do remember that Bailey
and Jenny last week asked about mushrooms and louns. I
am not a mycologist. Mushrooms freak me out a little
bit because it's very easy to miss id them and
eat something you're not supposed to. And also I watch
The Last of Us, so just fungus is not really
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my thing. But I can tell you about loons. The
common loon, as Minnesota state bird, as we all know,
makes lots of awesome calls. I'm not going to try
and do that on here and embarrass myself, but feel
free Dave, Jenny, Von and Bailey to do your best
loon calls. Lons migrate south through the winter like most birds,
but if you see a luone in Florida, you'll notice
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its feathers are totally different. You might not even recognize it.
It turns gray and white, and its eyes actually are
not red in Florida either. They are usually a brownish
grayish blackish color. As LUNs are migrating back to Minnesota,
they will get that black plumage back, but kind of
a sad loon fact. If loon's land on land like
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a puddle and a parking lot that they think is water,
they can actually get stuck there. Their feet are positioned
so far back on their body that in order to
take flight, they need to be in the water and
they cannot run on land. So if you see a
loon in a parking lot, it is probably stuck, so
help them out and all the wildlife rehaber to help it.
Do not try and help that lune yourself. They have
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beaks like spears that they used to fish, and loons
have injured many people who try to help them because
they are quite aggressive birds and they have a very
sharp beak. So don't try to tangle with a loon. Anyways,
those are your lune facts. Let me know what else
you want to know. Rain rope.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Wow, that's so cool.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I didn't know that, Thank you, Ranger Jessica. When we
were in the Boundary waters with the Boy Scouts Tennis
years ago, we saw loons all the time and they
would approach us and then dive because they swim underwater. Yea,
I would say I would like to know about any
poisonous snakes in Minnesota. Are there poisonous snakes in Minnesota?
I don't know. If there are there rattle rattlesnakes in Minnesota,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I know.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
So I saw a loon one time on Cedar Lake
near my house, and it was so huge. It took
me off guard because I wasn't expecting it to be
so big because it's like bigger than a.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Goose, and they're quite big. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So that
was so cool.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
And now I have a friend that I go on
walks with sometimes and she used to like go hunting
a lot as a kid, and so she's taught me
a lot about like random ducks. And now I'm seeing
random ducks everywhere that aren't like, you know, the regular
Mallard duck.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
So I've been seeing like wood ducks and coots.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I learned what a coot was never heard of. It's
like a special kind of duck, and they're all over
the place. Now that I have the knowledge, I see
them more.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
How about that, I know? All? Right? Next one, getting
right to the point here from Justine. My husband's name
is on our TV Wi Fi bill and our electricity bill,
every other bills under my name. We tell each other
each month, how too much the bill? Oh? How much
the bills are? And then we venemo each other appropriately.
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Recently I learned my husband has been taking my money
but not paying the bills. I received a notice of
termination for our electric bill, which then led me looking
into the cable bill, same situation. There. It seems he
throws one hundred dollars at them here and there to
keep them on, but we owe thousands to both. Oh
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my gosh, to be honest, Oh, this is not the
direction I thought this was going at all. I haven't
been happy in this marriage for a long time. Is
this new discovery about the bills enough to reason to
finally ask for a divorce? Or am I being too
hard on him? Please help? Thank you all, Justine, Yes,
get a divorce. Will you cut right to the point.
I'm going to cut right to the point. If you
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don't feel it, why spend any more time in ten years?
You're not going to feel better about it. What you
will feel is regretful and resentful that you spent ten
more years with this guy who obviously has no problem
being deceitful to you. Now, I'm sure or he's got
his good qualities, But if you're not feeling the love
in the marriage, and he's also lying about something like finances.
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I will cut to the chaise and say, yes, get
a divorce.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah, that's that's wild.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
And I think like, if it's his name that's on it,
he's the one who's being going to be held liable
for it. If there are thousands of dollars in debt there, like,
that's wild that they haven't shut off their freaking electricity.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
We she pained just enough to keep it going.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Yeah, that's bonkerable.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Well that's some bullshit. What is he spending the money on?
Is it another woman? Is it a habit, is it gambling?
Is it something else?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Right?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yeah, this this marriage is done. It sounds like you
make your own money, get out of this marriage and
go find somebody who will make you happy. I did
talk to somebody who and I don't want to say
who it is, but I've talked about her on the
show before, and she was single for a long time
after her marriage, and then she dated a guy and
I was like, good, you're now happy. You have a
pep in your step and you're dating a guy and
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you are now feeling And I said, I've always told
you you're beautiful and you're funny, and you know, very desirable,
and this guy proved to you that you were desirable. Well,
they broke up and he just said he didn't really
feel it, wasn't really into it, didn't have time for
the relationship anymore. So she goes on Bumble and she said,
everybody on Bumble is a fucking mess. Now is this
(21:18):
true that everybody on Bumble is a fucking mess?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I'm not sure about that they're a mess, But I
do think like dating apps in general is kind of
like ruining dating and ruining like just having any kind
of romantic relationship because it's so easy. You could just
open up the app, and that makes you feel like
crappy about yourself. You're doing more like an interview versus
actually meeting people and getting to know people.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I hate dating apps personally.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
I do too, which is why I probably won't do them,
and I'll probably just be single for a very, very,
very very you.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Know what, I think that you think you'll be single
for a while, but I think all of a sudden,
out of nowhere, somebody's gonna pop into your life.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
That's what they all say, pretty good being by myself
right now.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Okay, and that's fair. See what else here? You don't
need to read this on the air or the Minnesota goodbye.
But I was the teacher who got called, and I
got so nervous and tongue tied. I wanted to say, yes,
public teachers have to put up with some difficult students,
but we don't even get the funding for those students.
Sometimes charter schools and private schools will get the funding
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for those students, and then once they get past the
due date for the head count, they will drop them
and send them back to public school that doesn't have
the resources or the funding. But yes, public schools have
different rules and we can't just expel students. But worse,
we don't have enough funding and resources to be able
to support and provide consequences for students that who need
the most support. So we will deal with some really
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crappy situations and just have to come back day after
day to try to show these kids we care about them,
even though they might cause us extreme anxiety and stress.
Thank you, Jackie. The reason that even came up is
because earlier this morning I was telling this story about
how I was talking to a teacher, and this teacher said, yeah,
I got a job at a charter school. The reason
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I got a job at a charter school is because
we can kick kids out for being awful, and at
public schools it's harder to kick them out because they
need the funding. And so a rotten kid we named
him Theodore, little asshole Theodore causes trouble. At a public school,
they don't want to kick him out because they lose funding.
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At a charter school, they can be like, oh, goodbye, Theodore.
So I just asked whether that was true. Yeah, and
some people said yes, it's accurate. Some people said it's
not so accurate. So I just thought it was interesting.
Shout out to teachers for doing what you do. Enjoy
your summio, You're needed, we love you. And that is
it for the Minnesota Goodbye. Send the emails to Ryan's
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show at KADIWB dot com
All right, here we go with a man minisoda. Goodbye.
Let's get started with an email that says hello, best
morning show ever, obviously sent to the wrong address. I
don't know, been stuck in my head since it happened
last Christmas. I'm at the cub pharmacy waiting in line
get a prescription. I was third in line. I'm waiting.
(00:20):
All of a sudden, the guy behind me, a little
old man sixties or seventies. Hey, he ever, wondered about that.
I looked over slowly and I said, I'm sorry what
he said? Rudolph. I'm like confused, thinking, okay, he's either
a little weird. I wish I had my taser in
my hand, or he's just bored waiting now because of
it being Christmas, Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer was playing
on the speaker. He said, think about it. He had
(00:41):
a red nose. Reindoor noses are brown. How is it red?
Was he too cold and was red from being so cold?
I said, well, I honestly never thought about Rudolph's red
nose in my life. I'm thinking, okay, this is kind
of creepy. There's a much younger guy behind him, and
he's got this smirk on his face that looked like
he was thinking, Aha, awkward, Glad he's not talking to me. However,
(01:04):
of course he was listening, and my word vombit said, well,
maybe it's blood. It looks at me and says, well,
think about it. Other reindeers would have beat him, you know,
kick him and stuff, so it could be blood. The
guy looks at me and says, slightly shuddering, Oh yeah
they did. Maybe that's why it's red. He then stepped
back a little bit and totally stopped any small talk.
I then walk up to the counter and the line
(01:24):
from the song popped in my head. They said that
used to laugh and call him names. Yeah, nowhere in
that happy little jingle, it said they beat the shit
out of him, causing his nose to bleed, therefore having
a bloody nose to pull Santa's sleigh. So before I
thought he was a little creepy, but now I was
the creep What you guys saying? Yeah you were? You
(01:47):
guys are awesome. I hope you find this funny. It
makes you laugh a little, Love you guys. From Jackie Jones.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
What a story and such like a weird conversation to
have with strangers, likes.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
To get how to get red, and then she turns
it into the other reindeer beat the shit out of him.
He's got a bloody nose because they used to laugh
and call him names.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, rude off the red nose reindeer. His friends used
to beat the shit out of him.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I love that one. So random. That is the email
of the day so far. All right, next one, we're
gonna go down to this one. Sarah. Been thinking a
lot lately about luck and why some people are seemingly
luckier than others. Made me think of it even more
when you were talking about the number you were given
(02:34):
on the happiness scale this morning. And I think that
sometimes this plays into luck. Do you know anybody who
is lucky? I am that person that everybody that knows
me says I'm lucky. I do regularly win things like
poll tabs, I'll be the first person to be brought
into the newly opened line when a line is long
at the airport, to jump to the front, et cetera.
So I started to think more about why am I lucky?
(02:56):
And I think a big part of it this could
be good is always look at things with an open
mind and typically in a positive way. When I enter
a contest or try something new, I always go in
assuming that I will win or it'll go which go well,
which I think then creates that luck more frequently than
for people that attempt to be more pessimistic. Just a
(03:18):
thought going through my head lately, wonder if anybody else
has perspectives or anybody else in the show is considered lucky.
Ps I'm the one that owns the dog training, daycare
and boarding facility with the camp van that drives around
to pick up dogs. Jenny, this invite still stands to
come drive around with us for the day. Have a
great day from Sarah. I like the line in Titanic
(03:40):
where the arrogant guy says I make my own luck.
And I think that's kind of true and I've always
heard I like this a lot too. Luck happens when
preparedness meets opportunity. So why is somebody lucky? Well, because
they went to school, they study, they took a shower,
(04:02):
showed up on time, and didn't steal anything. That's the
preparedness and now it meets opportunity. Oh, do you want
to be on prices? Right. Well, yeah, I got up early,
I went down, I stood in line. I made a
shirt that says I love Drew Carrey. So why I
got chosen to be on prices right as opposed to
the person who slept in didn't quite make it down
(04:24):
there in time, was at the end of the line
and is wearing a dirty old sweatshirt. So preparedness meets
opportunity equals luck.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, I do really well, I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I mean, I don't think I'm a lucky person, but
I do agree that like when opportunity arises, you need
to take hold of it rather than waiting for opportunity
to come to you. I mean, I feel like what
opportunity could be considered luck, Like ooh, what an interesting
opportunity I've been given. I am going to take it.
But I don't know. I've never been a lucky person,
like by accident. I don't know any like lucky accidental
(04:57):
accidentally lucky people.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
I think that pessim has is an awful tray to have,
and you're not going to get very far in life
if you're constantly negative. I really, really, really do. I
think that having optimism is very important, whether it's delusional
to an extent. I still think that, like it's much
better to have that than to be negative, because.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I was just at this retreat with all these people
who became content creators and now make a living doing
influencing and stuff, and it's like they were all very
positive humans and it's like you didn't see someone being
negative there because that's just like not how they would
have built their businesses.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
That.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, So yeah, I agree that.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I think there's like some luck involved in things, But
I also think that your attitude has so much to
do with how lucky you become as well.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I would agree with that. I know somebody who is
such a pessimist. I mean they could win the power
Ball and they'd be like, bah, the taxes are going
to kill me, and now I got to hire a lawyer.
And it's like and they're kind of a miserable person.
They're just always unhappy, and I think it's because of
their pessimism. So what else about luck? Why do you
(06:08):
know anybody who's lucky. I don't know anybody who's lucky.
And I've heard this because I used to live in
Las Vegas and I used to play a lot of craps,
and they said, you don't have luck. You have either
you have been lucky, or you have been unlucky, or
you are about to be lucky, or you are about
to be unlucky. So in other words, you can say,
(06:30):
oh my god, I won four hundred dollars playing Black
Jacket Treasure Island. You were lucky, you are not lucky.
Does that make sense.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah. It's not a thing that you have, it's a
thing that happens.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I will say there is one thing
about winning contests on the radio. I know people who
I'm going to tell you a little behind the curtain here.
The industry calls them prize pigs because they'll win every ticket,
every T shirt, every prize whatever, and they win from
different radio stations, and so there's a handful that the
(07:05):
industry calls them prize pigs, which I think is an
awful name to me. They're like really fucking hard workers
and loyal. Yeah, and it's like, what's your secret? They
play all the time. So I think the more chances
you take in life, the better you'll have. It's kind
of like if you buy one scratch off, you might
not win, but if you bought four hundred scratch offs.
(07:27):
There's going to be some luck in there.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Like again with the opportunity. If you take the opportunity,
you'll likely benefit from it. So take the opportunity when
it arises.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Right aperiod, don't same a name please, I didn't want
you to run out of email, So I'm sending this
random thought. The other day, Dave mentioned his wife recently
lost twenty pounds quickly. Why does my mind immediately think
must be using ozimpic? Do you all think the same
thing when you see somebody who looks quite different quickly?
It's a lose lose convo. You want to compliment them,
(07:56):
but you don't want to make them feel that they
have to share if they've been using a weight lost drug.
And what about people who lost weight the old fashioned way?
They might feel like they have to explain it, like
I lost it the hard way without medication. So had
me wondering what's politically correct these days? What do you
do when you notice somebody has lost a lot of weight?
Stay quiet, compliment only or compliment and that naturally say
(08:17):
how did you do it? Thanks for the fun podcast.
I'm going to send that to you, Jenny, because I
think that would be a good conversation for on the radio. Jenny, okay,
so we can talk about that one day soon. Susan
did not use GLP one. If she did, she hid
it from me. I watched her go from eating a
(08:39):
plate full of food to eating a small plate full
of food. I watched her go from eating you know, bacon,
eggs and toast for breakfast to having a protein shake
for breakfast.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
And she can't really do a lot of cardio because
she has some like blood pressure, pulse, heart rate problems
and she can't get that up to high. So it's
not from exercise, but it was just basically discipline muscles weightlifting.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Yeah well yeah, but that helps you lose weight, like
your muscle weighs more than your fat, but you'll look
more toned and slim.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Oh. Absolutely, she looks amazing, she really does. And she was,
you know, she was at a weight she was not
happy with, and through no prompting of anyoney, anybody except
her own decision, she decided to eat Like I'll have
a giant bowl of chili, sprinkled cheese and sour cream
on the top and go back for seconds. She'll have
(09:39):
a small bowl of chili and sometimes she won't finish it.
Now she's not starving herself, but she's just decided to
lose weight.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yeah, I mean I'm jealous. That sounds really nice.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Granted I eat a lot of stuff too, but I
don't eat like crap. So maybe one day I'll just
make my portions very small.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
And with Susan, I say, it's necessarily just about portions.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
I get bummed when you guys talk like that because
it's about macros. You don't have to starve yourself to
lose weight. It's about feeding your own like a lot
of math, feeding your body the right nutrients, cars.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Or most people don't know how to do that. I
don't know what a macro is.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
You can literally go into chatg ept right now and
be like, build my diet for me using macros. Counting macros.
Macros are counting your carbs, your fat, and taking your protein.
And I think you'd be shocked that, like, yeah, you
might not be eating a lot, but if your fat
intake is super super high, you're going to be gaining
weight versus like you need to have more carbs that
are going to keep you full. You need the protein
(10:39):
because that's what helps you build muscle, So you really
like if you can get those things down, you do
not have to cut out a bunch of food just
to lose weight.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Can I still eat a bag of family sized bag
of chili cheese FreeDOS?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
I mean I think a family size and the whole
bag might be a.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Big I can do it. I can do it. We
talked about this on the show. We should try this sometime.
There's the Lettuce Club over at the U of M,
and I think Bailey brought this up a few months ago.
They get together once a year and their goal is
to eat an entire head of lettuce first, right. Isn't
it a race?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, it's a race in and you can do with
dressing or without dressing.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
And you just shove that whole thing down your goal.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
How long do you think it takes?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Not that long? I think the guy who won it
was like two and a half minutes.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Oh god, yeah, it.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Was really fast. And they just do it once a year.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Should we try it as a social media kind of
a thing. We can we can do time laps.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
We're talking about those kind of like circular heads about
us what you kind of mean?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
And I think they cut them in half so that they.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Can put their mouth like a sandwich.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Yeah, I'm oh, okay, that's smart because I'm thinking you
got to eat it like full, like a hot dog
and a bun.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
And well, I guess they take those. They just told it.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
They usually water down the buns, right, yeah, the water.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Interesting?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Hello Ryan Show, Oh do I have a poop story
for you? Takes place Memorial Day weekend two years ago
up at a cabin. The cabin was a three bed,
one bath, but somehow we managed to fit thirteen family
members in the cabin. Now, I told everybody in the
cabin I was going to take a shower, and I said,
if you need to use the bathroom, use it before
(12:10):
I shower. The shower was a run down standing shower
with just a clear plastic lining for a shower curtain.
I'm in the shower and suddenly I hear a bang
on the bathroom door. It's my dad, who's got to
come in because he's got to go. I'm pissed because
I just said, do you need to use the bathroom?
He burst through the door starts taking an explosive shit
two two feet from my naked twenty year old body.
(12:34):
Not Oh god, not only was it stinky but also hot.
I blame him, He blames his ozimpic. Oh right, from Hannah.
That would be awful to have your dad do that
while you're naked two feet away. Because cabin bathrooms are
not big. They're usually just big enough for a sink
of toilet and a shower.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I would lar I go poop outside if I was them.
I would not do that to my dad or anyone. Yeah, well, no,
that's not true. I used to do that stuff in
front of my axe.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
So you puped in front of your axe?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Yeah all the time. Yeah, well, I mean I wouldn't
really want to. But if he happened to be in
the shower and I had to go, yeah, I would do.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Right, because sometimes you just have to use the bathroom.
You have no other choice than someone's in the shower.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Well you're like, wow, and what was he supposed to do?
I don't think you were here for the podcast where
I shit my pants at the car mechanic the other day.
You weren't here for that, were you?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
So this is a true story. So Monday night, I'm
dropping my car off at the mechanics, and it's five
to ten minutes away from my house, and it's after hours,
so I'm using the after hours drop off, and all
of a sudden, my belly's like whoa, and I'm like, oh, man,
I better get home. And then I realized I'm not
going to make it home. And then I realized I'm
(13:54):
not even going to make it like, you know, down
the street, and I got to go now. So at
the mechanic shop there is like it's you know, it's
it's not all the paved open lot. There's some bushy, weedy,
tree filled area right over here. So I grabbed some
napkins out of my car and I run over there,
(14:14):
and uh and already it was too late, Jenny. Already
it was too late. When your belly's like, yep, we
are we are going to get We're going to admit this, yep.
And so I did went over there and did my thing.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
You shit in the bushes of your mechanic.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I exactly, that's exactly when you shit yourself too, and
myself too.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Yeah, what is the company?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Is?
Speaker 4 (14:38):
What mechanics? Did you go jobbing to call them and
ask for the footage?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
No?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Himself on Monday.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Now, the funny thing was, I look for security cameras
and I didn't see any. But I'm sure they're out there.
But I was pretty well hidden behind the bushes and
trees and there was nobody around. I think. Okay, glad
you got a kick out of that one. I told
my wife that story when I got home, and she died.
She thought it was like the funniest thing she's ever heard. Ah, right,
(15:08):
next one. Okay, I'm sorry, I'm a little bit unprepared
for the next one. Here. Okay, let's try this one. No,
let's not do that one. Okay, here, okay, we love
this one. Ranger Jessica, you guys like Ranger Jessica. R Okay,
So Ranger Jessica emails in with some interesting tidbits, and
(15:30):
this one says, the recording is a little longer. It's
about loons. If you don't plan on the podcast, I
still think you should do your best loon call. My
bet is Ginny has the best loon call since she
camps the most.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Okay, I don't.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Woa oh wait, hold on wait wait wait wait, not ready,
not ready, not ready, hold on. I got to feed
the right feed, and I think now we are ready.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Hello, this is Ranger Jessica. Still waiting on more requests
listeners for nature facts, but I do remember that Bailey
and Jenny last week asked about mushrooms and louns. I
am not a mycologist. Mushrooms freak me out a little
bit because it's very easy to miss id them and
eat something you're not supposed to. And also I watch
The Last of Us, so just fungus is not really
(16:16):
my thing. But I can tell you about loons. The
common loon, as Minnesota state bird, as we all know,
makes lots of awesome calls. I'm not going to try
and do that on here and embarrass myself, but feel
free Dave, Jenny, Von and Bailey to do your best
loon calls. Lons migrate south through the winter like most birds,
but if you see a luone in Florida, you'll notice
(16:37):
its feathers are totally different. You might not even recognize it.
It turns gray and white, and its eyes actually are
not red in Florida either. They are usually a brownish
grayish blackish color. As LUNs are migrating back to Minnesota,
they will get that black plumage back, but kind of
a sad loon fact. If loon's land on land like
(16:59):
a puddle and a parking lot that they think is water,
they can actually get stuck there. Their feet are positioned
so far back on their body that in order to
take flight, they need to be in the water and
they cannot run on land. So if you see a
loon in a parking lot, it is probably stuck, so
help them out and all the wildlife rehaber to help it.
Do not try and help that lune yourself. They have
(17:20):
beaks like spears that they used to fish, and loons
have injured many people who try to help them because
they are quite aggressive birds and they have a very
sharp beak. So don't try to tangle with a loon. Anyways,
those are your lune facts. Let me know what else
you want to know. Rain rope.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Wow, that's so cool.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I didn't know that, Thank you, Ranger Jessica. When we
were in the Boundary waters with the Boy Scouts Tennis
years ago, we saw loons all the time and they
would approach us and then dive because they swim underwater. Yea,
I would say I would like to know about any
poisonous snakes in Minnesota. Are there poisonous snakes in Minnesota?
I don't know. If there are there rattle rattlesnakes in Minnesota,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I know.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
So I saw a loon one time on Cedar Lake
near my house, and it was so huge. It took
me off guard because I wasn't expecting it to be
so big because it's like bigger than a.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Goose, and they're quite big. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So that
was so cool.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
And now I have a friend that I go on
walks with sometimes and she used to like go hunting
a lot as a kid, and so she's taught me
a lot about like random ducks. And now I'm seeing
random ducks everywhere that aren't like, you know, the regular
Mallard duck.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
So I've been seeing like wood ducks and coots.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I learned what a coot was never heard of. It's
like a special kind of duck, and they're all over
the place. Now that I have the knowledge, I see
them more.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
How about that, I know? All? Right? Next one, getting
right to the point here from Justine. My husband's name
is on our TV Wi Fi bill and our electricity bill,
every other bills under my name. We tell each other
each month, how too much the bill? Oh? How much
the bills are? And then we venemo each other appropriately.
(18:58):
Recently I learned my husband has been taking my money
but not paying the bills. I received a notice of
termination for our electric bill, which then led me looking
into the cable bill, same situation. There. It seems he
throws one hundred dollars at them here and there to
keep them on, but we owe thousands to both. Oh
(19:22):
my gosh, to be honest, Oh, this is not the
direction I thought this was going at all. I haven't
been happy in this marriage for a long time. Is
this new discovery about the bills enough to reason to
finally ask for a divorce? Or am I being too
hard on him? Please help? Thank you all, Justine, Yes,
get a divorce. Will you cut right to the point.
I'm going to cut right to the point. If you
(19:42):
don't feel it, why spend any more time in ten years?
You're not going to feel better about it. What you
will feel is regretful and resentful that you spent ten
more years with this guy who obviously has no problem
being deceitful to you. Now, I'm sure or he's got
his good qualities, But if you're not feeling the love
in the marriage, and he's also lying about something like finances.
(20:07):
I will cut to the chaise and say, yes, get
a divorce.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah, that's that's wild.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
And I think like, if it's his name that's on it,
he's the one who's being going to be held liable
for it. If there are thousands of dollars in debt there, like,
that's wild that they haven't shut off their freaking electricity.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
We she pained just enough to keep it going.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Yeah, that's bonkerable.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Well that's some bullshit. What is he spending the money on?
Is it another woman? Is it a habit, is it gambling?
Is it something else?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Right?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yeah, this this marriage is done. It sounds like you
make your own money, get out of this marriage and
go find somebody who will make you happy. I did
talk to somebody who and I don't want to say
who it is, but I've talked about her on the
show before, and she was single for a long time
after her marriage, and then she dated a guy and
I was like, good, you're now happy. You have a
pep in your step and you're dating a guy and
(20:58):
you are now feeling And I said, I've always told
you you're beautiful and you're funny, and you know, very desirable,
and this guy proved to you that you were desirable. Well,
they broke up and he just said he didn't really
feel it, wasn't really into it, didn't have time for
the relationship anymore. So she goes on Bumble and she said,
everybody on Bumble is a fucking mess. Now is this
(21:18):
true that everybody on Bumble is a fucking mess?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I'm not sure about that they're a mess, But I
do think like dating apps in general is kind of
like ruining dating and ruining like just having any kind
of romantic relationship because it's so easy. You could just
open up the app, and that makes you feel like
crappy about yourself. You're doing more like an interview versus
actually meeting people and getting to know people.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I hate dating apps personally.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
I do too, which is why I probably won't do them,
and I'll probably just be single for a very, very,
very very you.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Know what, I think that you think you'll be single
for a while, but I think all of a sudden,
out of nowhere, somebody's gonna pop into your life.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
That's what they all say, pretty good being by myself
right now.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Okay, and that's fair. See what else here? You don't
need to read this on the air or the Minnesota goodbye.
But I was the teacher who got called, and I
got so nervous and tongue tied. I wanted to say, yes,
public teachers have to put up with some difficult students,
but we don't even get the funding for those students.
Sometimes charter schools and private schools will get the funding
(22:21):
for those students, and then once they get past the
due date for the head count, they will drop them
and send them back to public school that doesn't have
the resources or the funding. But yes, public schools have
different rules and we can't just expel students. But worse,
we don't have enough funding and resources to be able
to support and provide consequences for students that who need
the most support. So we will deal with some really
(22:43):
crappy situations and just have to come back day after
day to try to show these kids we care about them,
even though they might cause us extreme anxiety and stress.
Thank you, Jackie. The reason that even came up is
because earlier this morning I was telling this story about
how I was talking to a teacher, and this teacher said, yeah,
I got a job at a charter school. The reason
(23:04):
I got a job at a charter school is because
we can kick kids out for being awful, and at
public schools it's harder to kick them out because they
need the funding. And so a rotten kid we named
him Theodore, little asshole Theodore causes trouble. At a public school,
they don't want to kick him out because they lose funding.
(23:24):
At a charter school, they can be like, oh, goodbye, Theodore.
So I just asked whether that was true. Yeah, and
some people said yes, it's accurate. Some people said it's
not so accurate. So I just thought it was interesting.
Shout out to teachers for doing what you do. Enjoy
your summio, You're needed, we love you. And that is
it for the Minnesota Goodbye. Send the emails to Ryan's
(23:46):
show at KADIWB dot com
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
Ridiculous History
History is beautiful, brutal and, often, ridiculous. Join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown as they dive into some of the weirdest stories from across the span of human civilization in Ridiculous History, a podcast by iHeartRadio.