On Our Best Behavior
Zach Dillon Cities 97.1
Ever wondered why a pickle pizza might be the highlight of your state fair visit? This week on, On Our Best Behavior, Mac and Kelli share their quirky adventures from school updates to Memorial Day shenanigans, wrapping up with the hilarious dictator joke that's bound to leave you in stitches. Mac's tackling money management and driver's ed, aiming for that permit, while Kelli's determined to whip up more family dinners and savoring her new job with a dream commute.
We're thrilled to have Zach Dillon, who recently moved from KDWB to Cities 97.1, joining us. Zach dives into his new role, sharing heartwarming stories about listener feedback and the creative freedom he now enjoys. We chat about the juggle of family, radio commitments, and how he's making his mark on a new audience. Plus, there's a candid conversation about the best late-night snacks and the unsung hero in your diet: onions.
From Disney World escapades on May 4th to the goal of visiting every baseball park in the country, this episode is packed with vivid stories and genuine moments. We discuss the significance of local radio during critical events, the peculiarities of working close to home, and the ever-evolving landscape of the radio industry impacted by AI. Don't miss out on our playful pop quizzes, and be sure to share your own interesting stories with us. Tune in for a blend of heartfelt discussion, humor, and community spirit that makes everyday life an adventure.
Ever wondered why a pickle pizza might be the highlight of your state fair visit? This week on, On Our Best Behavior, Mac and Kelli share their quirky adventures from school updates to Memorial Day shenanigans, wrapping up with the hilarious dictator joke that's bound to leave you in stitches. Mac's tackling money management and driver's ed, aiming for that permit, while Kelli's determined to whip up more family dinners and savoring her new job with a dream commute.
We're thrilled to have Zach Dillon, who recently moved from KDWB to Cities 97.1, joining us. Zach dives into his new role, sharing heartwarming stories about listener feedback and the creative freedom he now enjoys. We chat about the juggle of family, radio commitments, and how he's making his mark on a new audience. Plus, there's a candid conversation about the best late-night snacks and the unsung hero in your diet: onions.
From Disney World escapades on May 4th to the goal of visiting every baseball park in the country, this episode is packed with vivid stories and genuine moments. We discuss the significance of local radio during critical events, the peculiarities of working close to home, and the ever-evolving landscape of the radio industry impacted by AI. Don't miss out on our playful pop quizzes, and be sure to share your own interesting stories with us. Tune in for a blend of heartfelt discussion, humor, and community spirit that makes everyday life an adventure.
Hey guys, welcome back to Honor Best Behavior. You're here with Mac and Kelly.
Speaker 2:What up Mac doggy dog?
Speaker 1:Negative.
Speaker 2:Negative. What does that mean?
Speaker 1:It means not good.
Speaker 2:Not good. I'm always good. What's new? What's going on?
Speaker 1:The end of school is coming. I'm actually really excited for that. We were just talking about it. I have to lock in. My grades are going up.
Speaker 2:Okay, but your grades are all at least a, c or better.
Speaker 1:Yeah, actually, c plus is better.
Speaker 2:Okay, good, and your C plus is in like drawing. No, oh, money management, money management and driver's ed, my driver's ed class.
Speaker 1:All I do is do good in one more test and my grade is going to go up to it should go up to B-.
Speaker 1:All right or like it should almost be a B it should be like a percent away, because every test we do, I don't know what it is, but if I get like a B on it, it only goes up like 2%. It's weird. If I get like a D on the test, it only goes down like a percent or two. It On the test, it only goes down like a percent or two. It's really weird. I don't know why.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it depends on how many points the assignment is towards your grade. Some things are worth more percentage than others, so it is it's tricky to know. That's why you just have to do good on everything.
Speaker 1:That should be the strategy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I just really hope you pass your permit test and you can just drive me around all summer.
Speaker 1:Oh I just really hope you pass your permit test and you can just drive me around all summer. You don't want to. You don't want to drive all the time. Not all the time.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, but a lot of the time, that's what you gotta practice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know I'm gonna have to though.
Speaker 2:All right. Well, fingers crossed for that. Anything else going on? Did you have a happy Memorial Day?
Speaker 1:Memorial Day weekend Kick off to the summer. I guess it was alright.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was eh.
Speaker 1:It was. Eh. We did have Smashburgers, though. They're like a 7.5. Yeah, they're okay, they're alright.
Speaker 2:I have been so bad at not cooking dinner, and so today I Do you have to really cook dinner every single day of the week.
Speaker 1:That's a lot of dishes.
Speaker 2:I think that we should eat dinners as a family more often. I think you need to eat a more balanced meal. I think it's good for us and I feel like a lot of times when I don't have a dinner plan, like we end up eating out and it's more expensive and it's bad for you. So that's my goal this week is to cook dinner.
Speaker 1:It's to be really healthy with eating dinner. Sorry.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you power washed the Nope Patio. Yeah, and you weed whipped. Yep, I locked in. Do you call it a weed whip or a weed whacker?
Speaker 1:A weed whip.
Speaker 2:You know what you're not locked into? Huh, your mic.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, what are you?
Speaker 2:doing? What is distracting you? What's distracting you?
Speaker 1:Nothing.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right, I went to the mini state fair. Kickoff to the summer.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that was not very nice. When Ellen sent me a picture of Top Boss, I was kind of disappointed because I forgot about that and pickle pizza, eh, eh. Eh.
Speaker 2:You won't get pickle pizza again.
Speaker 1:Eh, I don't really care for it.
Speaker 2:We didn't get cookies because you weren't there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know, I was going to ask you could you bring anything with cookies, but I was like nah.
Speaker 2:Emily asked me if I was going to, and I'm like no, he didn't come, he don't get any.
Speaker 1:What the heck man.
Speaker 2:We're glad you didn't come though, because you were a party foul the last year.
Speaker 1:That was because I stayed up to like 4 or 5 last time Whose problem? Is that my problem? Yes, personal problem. This year I would have been like wide awake, it was cold, but it was boring. Did you guys sit in one spot like you did that one time?
Speaker 2:No, because we didn't run into anyone we knew at this time, because that we were there for like two hours and I took a nap. It was hot as hot. It was so hot last year and this year it was cold. I was like my teeth were chattering.
Speaker 1:You had a hoodie on and you were cold, yeah.
Speaker 2:Sweatshirt. I didn't wear a hoodie, but I wore a sweatshirt Because I thought, I was going to get warmer out.
Speaker 1:Oh, that never happened.
Speaker 2:My new job has been going good Really. Yeah, I like it. I like it a lot. It's a nice balance and I'm enjoying it. I feel very ready to just be on my own, but I feel like I just need to get let loose and I'll be good.
Speaker 1:Let it loose mom.
Speaker 2:Let it loose. My commute is so short, I blink my eye and I'm home. I have like a six-minute commute, I like it. I have like a six minute commute, I like it. Are you ready for our guest today?
Speaker 1:I'm freaking locked in for the guest right now.
Speaker 2:Do you know who it is? Do you remember?
Speaker 1:I don't remember. I gotta look back in the stage papers.
Speaker 2:Okay, it's Zach Dillon again. Again, this is part two, so remember last time we talked to Zach.
Speaker 1:He's back on the stage.
Speaker 2:Last time we talked to Zach he was at KWB and now he's at Cities 97.
Speaker 1:All right, I got to go look on the stage papers and make sure he's here today.
Speaker 2:So when you're ready, go ahead and bring him on for your mom and.
Speaker 1:I'll ask him some questions. Look at the paper. All right, come on, let's go, zach, let's go, come on.
Speaker 2:All right, come on you're listening to another episode of honor best behavior, and today I have. I'm gonna call you my good friend now zach. My good friend, zach, zach Dillon from. Cities 97.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Cities 97.1. Yeah, look at you with your little microphone right there. I got one too.
Speaker 2:Look at it, see. Makes me feel more like official.
Speaker 3:It's been a long time since I've seen you, kelly, that everything's going good. I mean your podcast. I keep seeing you pop up on my social and I'm like, oh, look at that new episode. And yeah, I think the other week you were doing like a police chief or something like that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was fun.
Speaker 3:See.
Speaker 2:I see the stuff that warms my heart.
Speaker 3:Zach, I'm paying attention. It's tough Sometimes. It's tough like, especially when I'm on the radio and I tell people that I'll follow them back from like if they follow me. People love that, but it's like the more people I follow, the tougher it is to see everybody stuff that they post. So someone will be like hey, did you see my thing? And I'm like maybe yeah maybe, but I've definitely seen your stuff, kelly, so something's working I love it.
Speaker 2:I love it. So what I want to know, zach, is what has been going on with you. You've had some changes, like cities 97.
Speaker 3:I talked to you one day, kwb tell me about that well, uh, as you know, and and probably a lot of people watching, that's a lot of people from the cities. I mean, for the last almost eight years I've done afternoons on kwb um, this is the program director and music director and so a lot of other things outside of the on-air stuff. You know, the company approached me and wanted me to do my own show again, and so we launched the Zach Dillon Show on Cities 97.1. And we did that back, you know, a few months ago at this point Again, time's flying by for me and it's already been three months of you know, the Zach Dillon show, and so it's been really cool because it's given me a chance to, you know, be creative with my own show and kind of do things. And you know, a lot of the audience has followed me, obviously, and they love it.
Speaker 3:And you know there's some people that it's funny because some people just get so stuck in their ways of like radio stations that they grew up with and radio stations that they always listened to, and so stuck in their ways of like radio stations that they grew up with and radio stations that they always listened to, and you know there's some people didn't even know cities 97.1 existed. I mean it was crazy. It's like wow, I've never listened to this station before, like it actually is a really great radio station. I'm glad you're on this station. I'm gonna listen more often and so that's cool to see. And, and the supportive people when I left left kdwB, because I'm still on it, I still do a weekend show, because I still want to have my finger on the pulse there. I'm still the assistant program director, I'm still the music director. In fact, they've added me as the assistant program director now on Cities. So I'm the assistant program director for both stations, music director at KDWB. So I definitely have my hands full and I have my hands on that station and cities and, uh, it's, it's been good.
Speaker 3:It's, um, obviously a little bit different music, but a lot crosses over, right, like we're still playing, playing the taylor swift, we're still playing ed sheeran's. This is obviously, obviously like a more softer stuff, um, but um, you know, the feedback's been great. I think it was. Maybe it was like a week in this woman called me and she says I gotta tell you. She says I've been listening to cities 97.1 for many years. I have all of the samplers me and my brother we used to go out to target. We used to get the cds every time that they came out. You know, for those who don't know, the c? Uh that I'm talking about is the sampler it's. It says it's done it for many. We don't do it anymore, but it used to go to a great cause and it'd be all of our Studio C mixes.
Speaker 2:Really awesome instruments. People would get there early on release day and there would be a line out the door to get that.
Speaker 3:It was madness. It was like a Taylor Swift release or something like that. Our very own local one. She was just like me, and me and my brother we used to go and we used to, you know, get in line and get there early and get all the samplers.
Speaker 3:I've been a big fan of cities for many years and I want to tell you something that you and your show just to whatever it's so far, and you and your personality and the way you have about you she says she says you're a breath of fresh air, like this is. I'm so happy you're on this radio station and and I'm finding myself like finding ways in my day to listen to the radio when normally I wouldn't do that. I would just normally just have it on, like if I'm in the car or whatever. But I'm like I'm finding ways to tune in because of how much I'm liking the show and I'm like that's crazy from someone who, like, probably doesn't listen to kdwb, right, like, probably not. You know, obviously she's like a big city listener and so, like the fact that here I come in and to the city's audience I'm fairly unknown, I mean to the city, uh, people know me, but, like, if you just listen to cities and you don't go over to kdwb.
Speaker 3:Maybe there were people obviously that didn't know me but, like for this woman, maybe she didn't know me beforehand and she really got attached to the show pretty quickly, which is awesome. I mean, that's what you want to hear, right? You don't want people hate me and going who's zach dylan? This guy sucks, you know. So it was none of that. Every comment was positive and, um, that made me really feel good, because you never know when you do things like this. You know from the company side of things, but also from my side too, because it's important to me that people are enjoying what you know I'm putting out there and that people are, you know, becoming a fan of Cities now. And if they weren't? And you know that they're listening to the show, so it's cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's rewarding. Like you have people who, like you said, people who follow you from KDWB, so like now, cities has those listeners. Plus, when you get new people who, like you said, like you, that are diehard Cities fans and they're like, hey, we like this guy. Now you know yeah.
Speaker 3:It's a cool thing to see, for sure, because sometimes you never know when that type of stuff happens, when you switch radio stations and you fill the shoes of someone else that have been there for a bit, and it's like you know there's there's people that are sad about that part and they can't get over it and that. But there was none of that, it was. It was just really cool to just ease in really nicely and and um see the feedback, the positive feedback almost immediately was awesome.
Speaker 2:So and I think you do such a good job as a solo show, like you're really the way you talk and the things that you talk about, and you have a very soothing yet exciting voice, like you can do both things and I think that's a good fit for Cities 97.
Speaker 3:Thank you, I appreciate that. So what I was thinking, you don't have to make kind comments to me on this.
Speaker 2:You know I wouldn't say it if I didn't mean it. This is my show, remember that's. You didn't have to make kind comments to me on this you know what I mean.
Speaker 3:I wouldn't say it if I didn't mean it. Zach, this is my show, remember. That's right. That's right we're doing what you want.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't have had you on the show if I didn't love and appreciate who you are and what you do. I mean, that's how I know you is from the radio as well.
Speaker 2:Thank you yeah it means a lot. So before we connected, I was trying to shove a hot pocket down my throat because I was so hungry and it made me think about your eating schedule. So somebody who has a show from 2 to 6, do you eat late? Do you guys eat as a family together at home, or do you just kind of like eat throughout your day, or how does?
Speaker 3:that work? Yeah, it all depends. I mean, we're in the springtime now in Minnesota and my daughter plays softball, my son plays baseball and I so happen to be the assistant coach on both teams. I don't know how that happened. I mean, I guess you know your kids are only young once right, I love baseball, though, oh, I love baseball. It's very hard to rope you into that.
Speaker 3:Well, and I couldn't just do my sons, you know, because then my daughter did it. Well, that's not fair. So I had to sign up for my daughters too. But I love it, and so that kind of like determines when we eat dinner most nights, because if there's not softball, there's baseball. If there's not baseball or softball, a lot of times it's both on the same night. So it's kind of juggling that. But you know, the games are like 6 pm to 8 pm, so I don't eat before that. So typically we'll go out like maybe afterwards or have a late dinner together afterwards. But yeah, you're right, I mean, and the show, by the way, is 2 to 7, even later, oh to even later, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:So on KDWB, it was 1 to 6.
Speaker 2:Oh, it was 1?.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so it's five hours and so this is just an hour later on both ends. So two to seven instead of one to six. But yeah, sometimes it's interesting, right, like oftentimes I can have lunch with my wife before I leave, because you know, I mean sometimes I'm home at noon and I'm able to have lunch and stuff. But yeah, the whole till seven part definitely fluctuates when we have dinner. It's not a normal schedule by any means it. You know, I feel like most families in america have like a set time range when they have dinner and stuff. That's not us, you know so, but you know it's okay. You know that that's an okay. You know, I guess they say not to eat after a certain hour, but sometimes I'm having dinner at like 9 30 at night, which is probably a no-no, but you know when.
Speaker 2:When you eat all those onions I mean that's got to hold you over.
Speaker 3:Yeah, people give me crap about that, but I mean, every time I'm like I'm googling all the benefits of onions and it's like it's really good for your eyes and you know there's a whole boatload of reasons why you should have onions and so I try to have as many as I possibly can.
Speaker 2:Are onions like garlic? Do they repel vampires?
Speaker 3:Well, I have no vampires in my life, so I guess maybe they stay far away. Maybe that's a great question, though I don't want to ever find out.
Speaker 2:With your work schedule. Do you bring your kids to school?
Speaker 3:I do you do, yeah find out with your work schedule. Do you bring your kids to school? I do. Yeah, that's one of my like um ever since they were really really little. I mean my son is 12 now and my daughter's 10. Um, they're still little, but like when they were really really little, we started that thing work because when I grew up, my mom always brought me to school and I enjoyed those moments. You know, like around christmas time we'd play christmas songs and we'd start like singing christmas carols in the car and stuff, just like whatever, uh, and so I wanted that like special moment with my kids, even if it was for like five minutes, because we lived actually pretty cool, uh, pretty close to both their schools. My daughter is even closer to my sons because my son's middle school now. But yeah, I mean I do like those moments because I'm not able to like pick them up and be with them after school. You know what I mean. So I don't have that as an option. So I definitely take advantage of bringing them to school.
Speaker 3:My daughter actually this year started riding the bus to school for a lot of it and that kind of made me sad.
Speaker 3:I'm like, ah, because she started out by saying I just want to try the bus. And so she tried the bus and of course all her friends in the neighborhood ride the bus. And so it was like I'm never getting that back. And so she's like, well, why don't I do? And then the next thing was like, why don't I do one week bus, then the next week you can bring me, and then I'll go back to the bus. And then up until recently she's really enjoyed and there's only a few days left of school this year but she's really enjoyed sleeping in, like even a couple of extra minutes later. And so if you sleep in you can't take the bus right, because the bus comes earlier, and so daddy's able to bring her again. So for the past couple of weeks daddy has brought her every day, and so that's fun because it's like again, it's only like six minutes together, but it's you know, I take uh advantage of that and talk to them about their day and it's six minutes and just like the two of you so exactly.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they used to be both kids because they would go to the same elementary school, but now, like it's a separate drop-off, so I drop off avery and I then I'll drop Jonah off, because Jonah goes in a little bit later than her.
Speaker 2:I need to have a talk with my son, mac, tonight, because the past two mornings his bus comes at like 7.08, and I wake up at 7 to get ready for work. And it's been 7.01, and I call downstairs and I'm like, mac, are you up? And he's like, yeah, I'm like it, man, that kid can get ready and on that bus real fast really, yeah, my son's actually.
Speaker 3:So what was so? How old is he again, your son? 15 okay, yeah, my son's gotten into this routine where, um, I'll wake him up and like he'll leap until I say Jonah, let's go, and he goes. I'm up, I'm up. I'm up.
Speaker 2:That sounds familiar.
Speaker 3:If I forget because I'm doing something. Sometimes my wife isn't here anymore and I need stuff, and so if I forget to wake him up again, it's like it really takes a lot of time into him getting because he likes to shower. He's like that polder old boy now he puts on underarm deodorant and cologne and has to brush his teeth after he has his breakfast, is he?
Speaker 3:worried about his hair or does he wear a hat? They don't allow the kids to wear a hat, so yeah, that was just kind of weird. They do now where we live.
Speaker 2:Really yeah, and I think that's crazy. That was a big deal when I was in high school. You couldn't wear a hat.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, I'm the king of hats, I love hats, and you still have your pony.
Speaker 2:You still rocking that pony? Yeah, I was wondering if you were going to have cut it off by.
Speaker 3:No, no, I mean, if it was up to my wife, it would have been cut already.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's really. You got a good one there. She's tolerating.
Speaker 3:It looks good so thank you, um, but yeah, I know, uh, she, she wants me to get a haircut. I mean, she's even like you know. Just, you don't have to like cut it all off just like for layering purposes, you know what I mean for like the health of your hair purposes. I'm like, I'm growing it, you know, but it's also the facial hair too, and that gets too long she'll. She'll definitely make me. But hey look, happy wife, happy life. Right, it's such a stupid motto, but like it's true, like you know, if your wife is happy, all is good well, if you do trim your hair zach, that does promote growth, so then it can get more long and luscious that's what she's been saying too so you gotta try I don't know, we'll see.
Speaker 3:I have bigger.
Speaker 2:I have bigger issues and bigger things to do in this world than to worry about cutting my hair, you know, I mean, I don't have time for a haircut yeah, well, mine actually, because that's that's actually false, because you know, men's haircut is like in and out, right where women's it like.
Speaker 3:When my wife gets her hair done, it's like an all-day ordeal yeah like. She's like hey, I'm getting my hair done, it's like nine o'clock in the morning. She's like hey, I'm getting my hair done. It's like nine o'clock in the morning. She's not home till like four, like what? The heck are they doing to your hair, you know, and it's not the cheapest either Women's hair, haircuts and colors and all that it's like insane.
Speaker 2:It is insane.
Speaker 3:But you got to do it right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't. I mean I don't, I just box dye my hair. I get my nails done. That's what I spend my money, that's what.
Speaker 3:I, that's my self-care thing I do. How often do you get your nails done then?
Speaker 2:Huh.
Speaker 3:How often do you get your nails done?
Speaker 2:Just every three weeks I try to stretch it out as far as I can. And then it was pouring rain, so now my hair is like I look like I you could have been. Could have been. I mean, it would have been fun.
Speaker 3:The camera doesn't follow you around 24-7. We don't know what you were doing before this.
Speaker 2:No, well, I can tell you something exciting. I also got a new job, and today was my first day.
Speaker 3:Was it really?
Speaker 2:Yes, and I didn't see this coming, so this is a surprise.
Speaker 3:What are you doing?
Speaker 2:now I'm doing the same kind of work, just different company.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:So are you excited?
Speaker 3:Is it like you have to work from home or?
Speaker 2:No, I don't work from home. I work in healthcare so I have to take care of people, gotcha, so I go in. But yeah, I was nervous, because I am always nervous about change and this wasn't anything I was seeking out. It kind of fell into my lap. So I was a little nervous, but it was lovely. I was so excited to go back tomorrow.
Speaker 3:Hey, all good things come to an end right, and then it's. You know, sometimes change is necessary in life and you know, while at first it kind of is like uneasy and worrisome and all that, it's like, you know, a lot of times it's what we need.
Speaker 2:you know, it definitely helps so now when you go to your new job, you just go to, you commute to the same place, but then you're just like go a few doors down.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean literally, yeah, I mean no pun intended with the artist that we play three years down. You know we play a lot, you know it's it's like super quick, like I've done lines on TikToks and stuff that I'm like get to live. I just walked 20 feet and I'm inside the KDL TV studio. You know, it's like right down, just right down the hallway.
Speaker 2:You could like knock on the wall, like, hey, I'm over here.
Speaker 3:Yeah, right, Sounds through. Falls though, so I mean, you may not hear me.
Speaker 2:Oh, ok, I suppose that would be bad if other shows were leaking into your show.
Speaker 3:Yeah right, it's like what is that noise? I don't know the seven of the radio stations that we had there.
Speaker 2:I know, this morning, when I was going to work, justin, my boyfriend was like make sure that you don't take a right, take a left, because you're just like going to the same place every day.
Speaker 3:So how long was your commute before?
Speaker 2:Seven miles.
Speaker 3:So before it was seven miles. Now how long is it?
Speaker 2:One mile.
Speaker 3:No way Shut up. So it was seven miles. Now, how long is it? One mile, no way. So you have to get like one of those like little scooter things new cars, this scooter thing and you're good he's like do you want a bike for mother's day?
Speaker 2:and I'm like I don't know. I don't know if that kind of person would actually ride I could. I mean one mile that's gonna stay on gas and I know I'm going to turn in my car and they're going to be like your car has 10,000 miles on it.
Speaker 3:No, kidding, I mean, my one way is about 30, 31 miles for me Really yeah. So I'm definitely not getting a bike that's all I would say coming up.
Speaker 2:It is hard. I was talking to someone the other day and I'm like I'm not really getting like my radio time in or my podcast listening time in, with my commute being even shorter than it was true.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and that's a true thing. You know we, we uh, you know us radio stations during the pandemic, when, when people weren't going to work, um, you know, a lot of the listening comes from driving and so we weren't having that. So, like, the whole thing was that like telling people while they were working from home or whatever they were doing while they weren't commuting, that you could listen on Alexa and Google home and all of that? Because you can't. I mean it has the iArtRadio app interface on it. Basically, you just command it to listen to it.
Speaker 3:But that was that was rough for a lot of people, because you get command it to listen to it and um, but that was that was rough for a lot, because you get so used to the ways that you do things and you're, you know, you just turn the radio on, you just listen. You know it's not like. You know you're not used to telling alexa to listen and and that way. But, um, you know, I think we ran so many of those promos like, hey, well, you're not commuting, yeah, make sure you listen, because you can still listen, and so you know, I mean, I think everybody at this point, unless you're like the whole anti. Uh, you know, having alexa in your house. Everybody's got some type of smart device in their home now and it's nice.
Speaker 2:I just got um alexa lights and so now I'm like alexa, turn off the light in the kitchen did you I was bitching so much at my family because I'm like, who was in the kitchen last?
Speaker 2:You didn't shut off the light. And so now I installed all these lights and they're like we don't know if we like it. I'm like, well, maybe if you would have shut the light off when you were done, now I can just say from the couch hey, alexa, turn the light off. And they're like, oh yeah, so, but it's great, that's awesome.
Speaker 3:You can do that, that's awesome. I didn't. I didn't know you could go that far. I mean, I guess it makes sense, right, if she could really do anything I mean we're gonna turn into.
Speaker 3:Such a lazy society is what we're gonna turn into. We're gonna have her do everything for us. It's like hey, alexa, make me a steak dinner and she'll have everything all ready to go. She'll make it up, she so bring it to you somehow. You know that little idea to go to that hotel or whatever the hotels and they got those little like or like have some fancy restaurant where it's got that you have those robots that bring out your food, robot that brings your thing out.
Speaker 3:It's like it's crazy. Do you remember? I don't know, I mean, do you?
Speaker 3:remember the movie ai thing is just it's uh, it's kind of getting a little bit scary in a way, because you can take somebody's voice and you can have them say you know, jump in the studio and just like read a page full of stuff, and then you can take that voice and it can be an ai voice, so that it literally can like speak in complete sentences and crack jokes and make like a paragraph of anything that you wanted to talk about in your voice, which is nuts, because it's like that's not me and it's scary because a lot of scams were happening with that, because they would use that to call people and it sounded like somebody needed money and they recognized the voice and it wasn't even real.
Speaker 3:Scams, but also like people losing their job because, like, if you can get an AI person, then like not in like bigger cities. I think in bigger cities will be okay because like there's the whole like still like big thing, with, like being close to personalities on the radio, especially in minneapolis, like it's a different city, like people love their radio and their personalities and all of that. Like, if you have like some ai guy, like they're not gonna love that. You know what I mean. It's not real to them. Um, but I think in like some of the smaller cities.
Speaker 3:Like you take like a I don't know like augusta main or I don't even know why, the kid in my head, but that's like a. He'd take like a. I don't know like Augusta Maine or I don't even know why that came to my head, but that's like a really small city. You have a radio station there. Why not get an AI? I mean you're going to have a really great radio station because that guy is going to be on top with it. You know what I mean Talking about things happening in town and talking about, you know, relevant things to people cracking jokes.
Speaker 2:I mean they'll.
Speaker 3:What is it called? When you like, monetize a radio station, so like there's a word for it, because Dave Ryan talks about it sometimes. Where you like you, you might be in Minnesota, but your radio station is also in, like Florida, oh when the monetize you threw me off of the word monetizing, you know, it's like what, like voice tracking, like out of market.
Speaker 2:I can't remember what it's called. It's called something where, like, you have a show show one place, but then they like also play it in a different city, where they don't maybe have a big city syndication syndication yes, that's it monetizing syndication is it too expensive for those small towns?
Speaker 3:ai would be cheaper yeah, I mean, like you know, ryan's decrest, like he's syndicated yeah and um, he's on in all the different markets.
Speaker 3:You know, I mean I'm not breaking any news to you, but he's not sitting in a studio in Minneapolis doing a show for Minneapolis. You know what I mean. Right, he's syndicated. So, yeah, they do that with a lot of different personalities, especially in the smaller markets and stuff. Um, yeah, that's been around for a bit, though I mean, there's been some syndication and a lot of different cities, um, some of the bigger town and stuff, like you know, because if you can get somebody to, you know have have a a main salary of this right, and then you know you had all these people that had salaries whatever, and then you can eliminate those, basically, and just add a little bit more to this right. So then, like it's a way to save companies money, right, like you're, you're just taking one show and putting it in multiple different places, um, which is good for the person that is being syndicated, bad for other personalities. That yeah, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you're from that small town and you want to be that personality, then that's kind of taken away from you and you don't get that opportunity.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean potentially. Potentially it depends on who's running the company and you know what they want to ultimately, you know, have their radio station stand for. You know I mean a lot want to ultimately, you know, have their radio station stand for. You know, a lot of like I feel like a lot of like this small town radio station still want to be live and local, which is an important part. Even even in Minneapolis, like in Minneapolis, we like I'm always talking about things that are happening and that affects people here, like tonight, I mean, it was severe weather and I'm like talking about all the updates on severe weather and there is, you know, the National Weather Service. They issued a tornado watch. So it wasn't just a normal tornado watch, it was a PDS.
Speaker 2:Potentially I forget what it stands for, but potentially.
Speaker 3:Potentially disastrous storm. No, it's. I can't remember what it is, it's something. But the last time that they did it was like two years ago. So it's like it's not like your everyday tornado watch and I'm seeing like scenes from Des Moines and there's like a tornado that's just like shredding houses. And that was today, it was earlier today, and I'm like yikes, I mean maybe this thing's moving up there. You just never know Like I'm OK when weather. People are wrong because that's OK, right, wrong because that's okay, right. But it's like, if they're right, you don't like, you don't want them to be right right, like I don't want it to be severe weather.
Speaker 3:So you said to be weather alert, but like I was talking about that on the show, like somebody that's in la, if they're tracking the show from minneapolis, they're not going to be talking about that, they're not going to be relevant with it. Maybe they might mention, hey, there's a chance for severe weather, but that's it. It doesn't go beyond of like talking about communities and towns and different things to do and all that. So there's definitely that like local connection to radio stations. That, um, always has been a big thing and it will continue, obviously, to be big things and I think that's enough.
Speaker 3:As my dog's out there I love dogs so it doesn't bother me.
Speaker 2:Um and like. Also when you are a real person, personality on the radio, like I always look forward to, like seeing you at the state fair you know, or like, like whatever events are going on, so like that's always a highlight for me, like hey, yeah, zach dylan, I do listen to him on the radio, but like he's a real person and he's standing right next to me, like that feels good.
Speaker 3:You mean you don't want to come see like R2-D2?
Speaker 2:there.
Speaker 1:Or like some AI computer.
Speaker 3:Hey, taking a picture next to the computer. This is the guy I listen to every day.
Speaker 2:Hi, I'm Zach Dillon.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, it is, and that's one of the favorite things of mine too. Like I really enjoy that and that I like I thrive in those situations of like being around people and being in front of people and all of that. Like that part of radio to me is like so important right. Like it's funny, because when people on the radio you never know if they're like outgoing or not, because there's so many people in the industry that are very like introverted, if you can believe that I hear because they're so yeah they're so used to be, like being in a box and being in a studio and talking through a mic and not talking in front of someone, and so that whole thing just like stirs the crap out of some people.
Speaker 3:I had a boss one time um years ago. We were doing this like nightclub, um gig or whatever. It's bar gate and um you know, when we would do the bar gigs, we'd call the microphone and say welcome everybody, obviously, and talk about all the bar deals and, you know, beer, whatever that was going on. And so I remember he was so like deathly afraid of people seeing him talk and people like being in front of people that he would like literally do this right this is like.
Speaker 3:This is like the dj booth. Do we call it this? Oh no you're nice for a little one out for a dollar dollar x tonight and uh, you know, thanks for putting out or whatever. Yeah, it's like that's crazy.
Speaker 2:He wanted to be like the wizard of oz, the guy behind the booth yeah, I know, but there are.
Speaker 3:There's a lot of people like and I'll meet people too, and I just I don't understand it because I'm an extrovert, and so that's why the pandemic really hurt me, because, like, I just stayed home, like I'm not like, still not like lunches they were like, or beyond people would be at concerts and state fair and all that stuff, and so that was it was really tough for me. Um, but yeah, are you just you when you'd be amazed how many people don't like interaction with? Not that they don't like it, it's just uncomfortable.
Speaker 2:So when you're used to performing for a bunch of people who can't see you, right?
Speaker 3:when they can't see you.
Speaker 2:It's totally different and I think we talked about this before. But I remember when I was young, like I always wondered what Dave Ryan looked like and what Tom Bernard looked like and what, yeah, was her name. My parents always listened to QQR, qqr, kqrs and was it. Terry Train. Like everyone was like oh, she's probably so beautiful. Like what does she look like? No one knew. And now everyone knows what everyone looks like well, yeah, because it's those, the media.
Speaker 3:And yeah, even even when I started in radio, I started in 1998, which is crazy to think many years ago but um, when I started, you know, there was no social media and so people, people never knew. I was 14 when I was on the radio and and or 17 you know, I've got that one great story. I don't know if I ever told you this story, but I was 17 and my boss was like, just don't ever like let it out that you're 17. Like you don't sound like you're 17. So, just you know. So let's talk about, like, young things, obviously.
Speaker 2:Cause it was like a cities 97 or maybe. Yeah, exactly yeah.
Speaker 3:It was, uh, I was doing mid days on this like hot adult contemporary station where I grew up in Massachusetts and and I had this one woman that would call me up and and like every time she would call up almost every day and every time it would be like a little bit more of flirtatious activity on her part, not mine, I was just being nice and well, no, because I'm like, I'm so naive, I'm like 17.
Speaker 3:I'm like. And then finally she got up enough courage to ask me to come for like a barbecue or like whatever, because that's a big deal on where I grew up in the summer. I mean everywhere really, you barbecue and you have cookouts and stuff. And she invited me over and she's like hey, you know, you should come out one time and we're going to have a barbecue actually this weekend and like it'd be awesome if you could come out and be really cool and I'd love to meet you and hang and all that. I'm like this woman has no idea, I'm 17. I mean she was, she was easily like up, she was easily like upper 40s. I don't I never asked her how old she was, but she's easily upper 40s, low 50s, not that that's old, but I was 17.
Speaker 2:She had no idea how old she was, and she would have asked you how old you were, and then you would exactly right, I didn't want to get into that lie I didn't want to get backed into that corner, um, but I never met her.
Speaker 3:I never went there because I was like I'm gonna show up to this place, right, even if it was like kosher or whatever, she's gonna not believe me that I'm got the guy on the radio you know what I mean. It's like you talk yeah, right, but still it's to be like there's no way. You're like. You're like he's old as my son you know stuff like that mortified.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh yeah but no, I know that's just um. But now the wonderful world is social media. You know, people know what you look like and um like before it wouldn't be one of those things where people would have to like, hear your voice and be like Zach Dylan you know, I know your voice.
Speaker 2:I just can't pinpoint how I know it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly. But now, like people know who you are, so, like I, I did seen a lot like seeing, like well, yeah, like in target, for whatever reason. Every time I seem to go to target I'll see like somebody, that's like you know, and half the time I'll get a message afterwards from them on social media, Cause I check all my messages and stuff and I'm I try to be really good about that. But to be like I just saw you in target and Egan or wherever you know, I was too scared or something to come up to you.
Speaker 3:I'm like, oh god, I hate those stories because, like, like I'm the nicest person ever, like I don't care if you come up and say hi or whatever. You know, like you know sometimes, like, oh, I saw you with your, your family, or whatever, I didn't want to interrupt, or whatever it's like no, just say hi, it's like you know wave, you know, you know that they probably yeah, from the show so don't be awkward, just like looking, you know just like yeah, like they're scared.
Speaker 2:People do that at the fair too.
Speaker 3:They'll do that at the fair too, where they're like standing outside the booth for like 10 minutes that I might be like in the middle of being on the radio and doing something else, but like they never come up because for whatever reason, and then they'll message me later and be like I'm just, I was too nervous, or whatever. It's like no, no, I'm not. It's like I'm Justin Timberlake, you know what I mean. Like that's just Zach.
Speaker 2:I know, but it is nerve wracking because we feel like we know you so well, because we hear you every day and you don't know. I mean, you don't know us and who? We are, but that's why I used to come up, because I know it's nerve wracking, because what if you and I know this isn't true about you, zach, because I've met you many times but it's almost like what if you're not everything that we build up in our mind that you are?
Speaker 3:And then I would not want to let you down.
Speaker 2:I know and you never have.
Speaker 3:But I'm just saying like I think that's a fear of a lot of us that do listen to this and there's going to keep it in their mind.
Speaker 1:And I'm like the greatest person ever and I don't want anything to wreck it the goat.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's funny, we'll go with that. Yeah, we'll go with that. What kind of work does Lindsay do? Oh, my wife, she actually. Years ago we decided that, you know, it would be a better deal in life if she would raise our kids, because what she? She was a nanny, um, you know when I first met her raising kids yeah, yeah, well, I knew that. A, but also like the money that she would make in working would go to pay for someone else to watch her.
Speaker 3:Yes, and it just didn't make any sense. It was like if she was some type of, if she had some type of like high profile, like corporate job or something like that, like then you figure something else out, but she didn't, and so I'm like, well, it doesn't make any sense for you to work your butt off and then make x amount of money just to send x amount of money to some daycare to have someone else raise their kids. I'd rather you raise our kids. Yes, you know, and so thankfully we were able to do that and make that work, because not everybody can, and obviously I know that. But so it's been great because she does an awesome job at it.
Speaker 3:And you know I could never do it Like I on vacation days and like holidays we got a memorial date coming up or whatever. Like on vacation days and like holidays we've got Memorial Day coming up or whatever. Like I love my kids so much, but it's like I don't think I could do this day on a bad thing, like it's a lot. You know what I mean, and so I'm pretty grateful for her. She's pretty badass, but she does like she has a couple of families here that she'll watch kids every once in a while for that I become friends and stuff like that and so it's nice that her schedule is obviously life, so the kids are in school every day.
Speaker 2:I mean, summer is coming up, so that'll be different. But um, so I always say, like when I do my my paid job, then I come home and it's even harder work, like when I come home and you don't get paid for it and you don't get paid. No right.
Speaker 3:So, and it's, you're never not working as a mom.
Speaker 2:Yeah, as a woman I mean no offense.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:No, I agree.
Speaker 2:So last time I talked, oh no, this is what I was going to say first, speaking of Memorial Day don't you have a birthday coming up remembering, yeah in may, though what? When was it?
Speaker 3:may the fourth be with you okay yeah, and so, uh, funny story with that is I just, I just turned 40, but don't tell anybody. Um, that was a big birthday for me, but we I wanted to do something like memorable for my 40th birthday, because I only turned 40 once, right, yeah. And so we were thinking about my wife and I were thinking about just going to. Well, I was more so thinking about going to Vegas and just doing me and her thing.
Speaker 2:And Avery wasn't having that.
Speaker 3:No, avery wasn't no, because when I proposed that to Avery, I'm like, hey, mommy and daddy are just going to leave for the weekend or whatever. She's like we're not going to be able to spend your birthday with with you. She didn't really love that idea, um, and so you know, anytime I get like the eyes from her oh my god, he's girl yeah change course and so we decided to go to disney. Yeah, and I went to disney world and I wasn't even thinking about, uh, all of the star wars rides yeah I decided to book.
Speaker 3:This is just random, like I wow, I'm all that there's so many walt disney world guides and stuff that'll tell you like, hey, here's the best day to go to this part. You know, statistically saying and not really, um, actual dates, it's just like days. So I'm like, all right. Well, the book tells me, or the blogs or whatever tell me, that between Saturday and Sunday, the best day to go to Hollywood Studios is Saturday. Between Saturday and Sunday, the best day to go to Magic Kingdom is Sunday. So I'm like, perfect, well, not the best day. But of those two-day options, yeah, so I'm like we'll go to Hollywood Studios Saturday and then we'll go to Magic Kingdom Sunday. And so we're literally flying down there, we check into our hotel and I remember how it happened. I don't know if my wife brought it up or somebody brought it to our attention it might've been someone that brought it to our attention because they're like you're going to Hollywood Studios on May 4th, are you insane?
Speaker 3:I'm like, oh, I didn't even think about it, cause that's where all the Star Wars rides are. Yes, like in Magic Kingdom, there's no Star Wars rides. There's none. They wouldn't go there for that right. But you have the Rise of the Resistance ride. That's brand new. You've got Smuggler's Run, you've got Star Tours. You've got all these Star Wars rides and themed stuff inside of Hollywood.
Speaker 2:Studios. Was it a nightmare? Here I am.
Speaker 3:What.
Speaker 2:Was it a nightmare?
Speaker 3:It wasn't as bad as I had predicted. After someone brought this stuff to me, I'm like, oh, it's going to be crazy, but there were so many people that were dressed to the T of like the characters and stuff. I mean it was like it was a complete geek fest.
Speaker 3:I'm like this is crazy to me, that people actually dress up and it is like hot shit, I mean I know it's only, I know it's only may and it's gonna get even hotter there, but like it was sweltering hot and these people have like black on and like long robes and I'm like, how are these people functioning right now? All for the cause, all for like you made it worth be with you. You know what I mean. I get it, people are passionate about it. But yes, I mean it was pretty crazy. If I had just selected magic kingdom on Saturday and then done Sunday, it would have been a little less crazy, but it actually wasn't too bad.
Speaker 3:If you really, if you really figure out how to master the genie class, which is the addition thing that you have to buy. I mean you think disney makes a lot of money yeah, they charge you for your ticket and then on top of it, now you have to pay for the genie plus. Oh, and, by the way, all the rides aren't included in the genie plus, so there's extra lightning lanes that you have to buy if you don't want to wait half your day in a line. So that was fun. But if you can master that like before, you used to get three rides and you got it free with your ticket and you'd be able to master that. Now you have to pay for the Genie Plus and you only get one ride, and then you have to like, master the one ride each time.
Speaker 2:And then you have to figure out like what time you can go. Exactly, it's not just get in the line, yeah.
Speaker 3:I know, yeah, but we did, we did, but we did really good. We finally got to ride the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, which we'd never done before Because the line had always been super busy. But I'm like I'm buying the path to that, like we're just going to do it, and so we got a time. We went at that time, we waited five minutes and we were on the ride Was it great.
Speaker 3:So it was awesome. Yeah, that ride was super Studios Slinky Dog Train, I think it's called. That was super cool too. Prequel Toaster and then the Rise of the Resistance ride. It's just that is so sick Like it is. I'm not even like a big Star Wars guy. You'd think I would, with my birthday being May 4th.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:You'd think I'd be like a total geek for Star Wars. Maybe not you, but maybe your mom. Maybe she planned to have it. Yeah right, maybe she planned it like that. No, I don't think.
Speaker 1:She even knows the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but no, I mean that Rise of the Resistance ride. They did a really good job with that ride. It is so cool. We had a lot of fun. The one ride we went on a ton is because my daughter really loved it and it was thrilling for all of us was Thunder Mountain.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Thunder Mountain is a classic. Obviously, splashdown wasn't open but we went on Thunder Mountain three times. But we did it once with the pass and then once in between one of the rides that we were doing, because it had a 25-minute wait. I'm like 25 minutes on a weekend, sure. So Thunder Mountain is insane like that's so, like I will wait 25 minutes to ride that ride. So we went in that line for that and then later we found another time where it said 20 minutes even and we're like let's go. Like where is everybody?
Speaker 2:this is crazy did you do the haunted mansion?
Speaker 3:yeah, yeah, we did on the mansion. Yep, we did on to mansion, we did, uh, um, I my favorite is face mountain like I love space, mountain, space, mountain to me is the best ride. Um, I think it just because, like in your mind you imagine it being, because you can't see it right, it's all pitch dark. Occasionally you'll see like a light or something like that, but it's like your mind thinks it's going 100 miles an hour and it's actually one of the slower roller coasters at. It's like it goes 10 miles an hour slower than thunder mountain.
Speaker 2:I'm like what this thing is going like that mental illusion.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no for sure, and I tried to tell so with my daughter. She was really cautious about riding space town. She'd really want to ride it. She's just like, cause of the darkness right names face down she'd really want to ride it. She's just like, because of the darkness right, like it's, it is scary for, for um, someone that is not used to that ride and so, um, I think as a kid I didn't even ride that ride, so, like, I totally get it. But what I tried to do for her was show her the ride with the lights on. You can go on youtube and you can see the ride and what it looks like with the lights on. I'm like, look it really like, because she was worried about it going upside down and that type of thing.
Speaker 1:I'm like it doesn't even go upside down it.
Speaker 3:Literally you can watch it with the lights on, you can see the whole track of what it does and you can see it is actually not that fast, right, because you're while you get the lights and all that. It's not that fast, you'll be fine, I then. So you, you've written space on it. Yeah, so it's a. It's a three-seater yeah right.
Speaker 3:So you got one person up front and single seat, so it's one person, one person, one person. So my son rode in the front, my daughter was in the middle, I was in the back so I could hold it onto her okay so I did one of those things where it's like, even though if you buckled in and it's safe and all that, like just my hand on her for the comfort yes especially because she was still uneasy but I was like holding on to her or whatever.
Speaker 3:So I didn't truly get to enjoy the ride because I was more worried of that. Like she was freaking out about it, um, but you know, we made it through the ride. She asked around. I'm like you did it. Look, you did. This is great. Like, how did you like it? Bawling your eyes out, hey, bawling your, falling your eyes out. She didn't love it.
Speaker 2:She was scared. She was still scared.
Speaker 3:It was scary for her.
Speaker 2:But she did the.
Speaker 3:Haunted.
Speaker 2:Mansion and she's scared of Space Mountain.
Speaker 3:I don't get that Well so the Haunted Mansion I mean to me it's not.
Speaker 2:That drop is terrifying to me For the Haunted Mansion, yeah yeah come on I'm serious, I don't like that feeling, that free fall feeling no, you're talking about hollywood. Um, you're talking about tower of terror yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3:Yes, I'm like there's no drop in honey mansion. What are you drinking? Are you drinking? I am?
Speaker 2:did you drink before this podcast? No, that's unfortunately.
Speaker 3:That's just how I am no, but the hot, the honey Mansion is a great ride.
Speaker 2:So then I'm thinking of the Tower of Terror. Did she go on that? No, she would not go on that, then I feel that's better then.
Speaker 3:No, she did not go on the Haunted Mansion she. I went on it with my son because he wanted to do it and so somebody had to stay back with with Avery. So my wife stayed back. But the funny story about that ride is that we found a time where it was only 25 minutes or 30 minutes, I guess in the middle of the day, and we're like, all right, let's go ride it and then they can just hang out for a little bit, we'll be right back. So we go, and then we're like 10 minutes into the line, the loudspeaker.
Speaker 3:While you're in line he's like hey, just so, you know, half of our elevators aren't working right now and so only half the amount of people are going in. We're still letting people in, but you know that may alter your wait time and I'm like, oh god, was it gonna alter it to 110 minutes? It went from 20, it went from 25 and 30 minutes, 110 minutes. Now what did it end up? Because we were already 10 minutes into the line. For us it ended up being about 55 minutes, so it wasn't like 110. I think the people that were just starting out were going to get 110, right, because of the delay, but we were already deep into it that it didn't affect us as much as the other people.
Speaker 3:But yeah, that ride's so cool it is. You're right, though, like the unknown, I mean you just butterflies galore on that ride. You know what I mean. It's, it's, it's cool. My son loved it. I'm glad that we did. I'm glad that we stepped through it, because there was a point when they said 110 minutes. I'm like, buddy, like I love you, man, like I want to go on this ride.
Speaker 2:You're waiting for you.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, like we can't leave them for two hours like they're just doing nothing. You know what I mean. Yeah, and I, by the way, I have all the cards for the rides, I have all the fast passes like they can't even go on a ride if they want. They'd have to wait, um, so, anyways, it was nice that it moved a little bit quicker than we thought, but, um, yeah, he loved it. I'm glad that he stuck through it and did it, and, um, that was one of his favorite rides, it being one of his favorite rides, so I have two more things for you yeah, what do you got?
Speaker 2:how was your florida trip with your friend? That was like a pick two dayer. Yeah, my friend kyle.
Speaker 3:Um, he's such a he's such a great dude, um, and we've done a baseball trip before. Actually, during the pandemic we snuck away to california and did a little weekend away and saw some baseball and stuff. It always revolves around baseball. It's funny because I have an ultimate goal of going to all the parks eventually All the baseball parks.
Speaker 3:All the baseball parks, yeah, and so I've been to about half of them. So I still have a ways to go. But anytime that we do a trip, it involves baseball. He's not even the biggest baseball fan, but he likes to go to the games. It's fun. Do a trip that involves baseball. He's not even like the biggest baseball fan, but he likes to go to the games and you know we enjoy the time together. I'm just having like a little guy's trip. It's never for. It's never for too long. I think it was gone for like yeah.
Speaker 2:You told me, he was like, if you're going, you're only going for two nights or something like that.
Speaker 3:Well, just I didn't want to like dig into a lot of my vacation time and all that. Just go like guys, you know, I mean I'm kind of selfish, but it was, it was great it was. We went to spring training. I had never gone Well, I shouldn't say never when I was in college, we went to Florida for my own college baseball team.
Speaker 3:I was playing baseball and we went to a spring training game while we were down there, um, a phillies game. That was so many years ago and I don't even count that right because I can't remember it. Um, so this time we went to a astros game, because I'm an astros fan, but also a twins game, which is on the other side of the state. That's right, because you have, like, if you look at all the parks, like there there's a map of florida and then you can see all the different parks of all the different there.
Speaker 3:There's 15 teams that have, you know, spring training down there, and so it's all from like the East Coast part of the state, from like here to here, and then you have to travel over the West Coast and then it's Fort Byers and like a bunch of places over here. And so we did a little bit of driving and stuff and it was a super quick trip but beautiful weather and it was cool to go down and see the twins play and of course course we picked the day when, like nobody you knew of the twins was playing. It was like one guy we're like, oh, I know that name. The other guys are like who in the world is this guy?
Speaker 2:but maybe see him like this season really good, like didn't they win the first 12 games, or something like that.
Speaker 3:I don't think they won the first 12 games. They were on a 12 game win streak kelly thank you for. Thank you for attempting to pay attention to baseball, kelly I do, I do try they.
Speaker 3:they were on a 12 game win streak at one point, um, what happened was the white socks are like the worst team in baseball the shadow ice us, um. And so they came to town and that was like, I think, four of the 12 wins, but they won every like the twinsins won every game against them, and then they just rattled off eight more wins against other opponents. So it's pretty cool. I mean, it is the reason why they have a winning record at this point, but it's still like the season's so long. It's 162 games.
Speaker 2:It's a long.
Speaker 3:And so I think they're like 40 something games in right now, so they still have 120 plus games to go. I mean it's like you could be 20 games above 500 right now and still not make the playoffs at the end of the year. You know what I mean injuries and, yes, it's all the different variables that happen in between now and then. I mean, think about it. It's like what other season goes as long as baseball does. You start in february with spring training, but you know the regular season starts late late, I'm sorry, late march, early april, and it goes all the way. I can make the playoffs you're playing into early november yeah it's crazy, that's crazy, do you go to saints games?
Speaker 3:um, I've, I haven't been in a couple of years. Um, they're fun though when I, when I, go to them, it's a lot of fun and you can get like a ticket for, like you know, 10 bucks and that stadium is so nice.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, and I've been to that stadium and we did a thing there it was called Wiffle Wars, oh fun. And my buddy, paul Fletcher, who's the morning guy on Cities 97.1, he started Wiffle Wars in his backyard years ago and it was never for like a purpose other than getting a bunch of guys together and hitting wiffle balls, you know and like playing a tournament.
Speaker 3:Everyone loves doing that but this was a little bit different. When we brought it to chs field was, uh, that we were going to do it for a cause and then we were going to get like um celebrity people to play on the team, like we had um zach parisi one year play, uh, and you know variety, different people, former baseball players, don Howard, justin Marneau, like Minnesota people that people know and they came out and played wiffle ball with us and so we did it at that field. That's a beautiful park. I think I need to go again this year. It is cool now that the Saints are actually the triple-A team of the Twins because it wasn't that way before.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah you, because it wasn't that way before.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know when Byron Buxton because he's always hurt when he gets hurt he goes down and he'll do his games now at the Saints.
Speaker 3:That's awesome Before he would go to the road. I forget where their Triple A team was before, but it's like right down the road in St Paul and then you go see like all the guys make their rehab starts and then they make it back to the twins and they drive, like you know, 10 miles and they're, they're in the slings. So that part's cool, you know, because now it makes it makes the states a little bit more not credible or relevant or whatever, but like we're signing the loft right put some on the map for other people too that maybe aren't as in tune.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly yeah they're not like an independent league with a bunch of guys that you never heard of. It's like no, I mean a lot of the guys that are future Clems players are playing every night at CHSP. A lot of players that are in between are playing every night, so it's cool.
Speaker 2:And the Wolves. I know you've been watching all the Wolves games.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I mean. Truth be told, I'm not the biggest basketball fan just in general.
Speaker 2:That's what our sport is here is basketball, so it's been an exciting year I I enjoy, uh, the excitement around the wolves and I've been to wolves and they're a lot of fun.
Speaker 3:Yeah, even when. Even when they're a bad team, it's a lot of fun to go and enjoy a game right, but now they're good and that was a nail biter of a game the other night that was. That was awesome, I mean talk about.
Speaker 2:You know, my living room.
Speaker 3:I was well, yeah, what's crazy is that you start that series out on the road and you win both games, right, yes. And then you come home with all the confidence in the world and then you lose three straight and it's like what are we doing here? You're at home like how are we losing, yeah, and then you know they rattle off two wins in a row and then win the whole thing, win the whole thing. You know now. So now tomorrow night, by the time this comes out, it'll be whatever happened. But, um, you know, western conference finals right, they've never won the western conference finals no so there's a good chance that they could not jinx anything.
Speaker 3:but, like the dallas mavericks to me aren't any better than that Denver Nuggets team that we just played. That team's better than that. But again, it's the playoffs. You can't really look at stats, because stats don't mean anything. People get hot. Anthony Edwards needs to stay hot. All those guys are just playing really well together right now and it's cool to see Minnesota. Teams don't normally win.
Speaker 2:And so they're winning. We get excited.
Speaker 3:All the bandw. Like Minnesota, teams don't normally win, and so they're winning.
Speaker 2:All the bandwagon fans and all the excitement around them. I've never seen so much Wolves apparel in public as I have this past week.
Speaker 3:Well, and now that new quote bring, yet asked right Like that time, shirts already and hoodies and all that stuff. It's like it's crazy, it's fun.
Speaker 2:All right, zach. Last thing I want to tell you is it was really exciting for me when it was your first. It's fun and they were all like I remember you calling me. It was very nice of you calling. I didn't know the backstory behind it, but now I do. But I was like, hey, zach, it's Kelly, and you were like Kelly, yeah, at least I wasn't like who. No Wait explain how I know you, and then you were like we got to do the podcast, and so then they like knew it wasn't bullshit, so that was great.
Speaker 3:Well, and and what's crazy is that you know, um, both, you know trick, be cold and people don't notice. But, like, before I switched over to cities, we had done a podcast together and then, and then the new change happened and I'm like, well, why don't we do a new episode? It's because that info is kind of irrelevant now and not accurate, right, like I'm not actively on KDW every day. We're not much of an afternoon show anymore, so let's do a whole new one and then we can have fun again. Right, because it was an hour last time, it's almost an hour now and it's great. So I appreciate you accommodating that?
Speaker 2:I appreciate you accommodating me. I appreciate you accommodating me?
Speaker 3:Yeah, for sure, we'll have to do this again.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure, things just keep on. We should do like a live thing at the fair.
Speaker 3:I like that. Now here's the thing about the fair for me is I have to figure out what that looks like for me.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Because before KDwb is obviously out there and we're on the other side of k-fan, so it's like k-fan in the booth on that side and kdwb and then k102 is out there.
Speaker 3:Those are our pre-radio stations that we have out there actively oh, there's no, there's no cities 97 out there right now, and so I don't know if anything's going to change for that. But but you know, still technically on KDWDB, maybe I make it called the Vecterian Assist. I think we're all kind of trying to figure out what it's going to look like and how it's all going to work.
Speaker 2:And that's creeping up. Though you need a Zach Dillon t-shirt at the fair. I know it needs to happen, I know.
Speaker 3:We had one last year.
Speaker 2:It was with the Fallon I wore the shirt last time.
Speaker 3:Tequila, yeah, and then you told me the story about Lake Patrol. Yes, that story about Lake Patrol is epic, which I hope also I'll be able to do one of the Lake Patrols this year too. Oh, okay, good.
Speaker 2:It's nice having your feet in both boats.
Speaker 3:Well, I know it is good, but we're making a big announcement it's just funny that your feet in both boats Well, I know, I mean it is good, so, um, but we're making a big announcement tomorrow about live at the lake. Okay, um, so by the time this comes out, the announcement will be out. But um intent, since by the time this comes out, I'm hosting all of them this summer.
Speaker 2:So I'll be. You can tell me because, like you said, yeah, right, I mean you're not going to release this yet.
Speaker 3:But yeah, I'll be hosting all the Live at the Lakes and they'll be throughout the Twin Cities at different areas like Maynards Fun. You know it's going to be awesome. So they're going to be pretty much every Wednesday starting in June and they'll go through July and the beginning part of August and, yeah, it's going to be a lot of time Live at the Lake hosted by me, zach Dillon. It's going to be great.
Speaker 2:I hope to see you at one of them. Yes, I love that. I'm excited.
Speaker 3:It's free music. I mean, why wouldn't you right and beautiful days right on the water?
Speaker 2:Love it.
Speaker 3:Let's go.
Speaker 2:Let's go, zach. So, zach, I'm going to let you spend the rest of your night with your family.
Speaker 3:Well, thank you.
Speaker 2:And thank you so much for coming on the podcast and I'll see you soon and we'll do this again.
Speaker 3:I like it. Thank you, Kelly. Take care of yourself.
Speaker 2:See you later. Bye-bye.
Speaker 3:All right, see ya.
Speaker 2:So now I'm excited because Zach and I are officially best friends, really. Yeah, some people, I think I interview them and they forget about me, but Zach is even going to come back on the show another time and we're going to try to do a live broadcast somehow somewhere.
Speaker 1:I better put that on notes that he's coming back soon.
Speaker 2:He's going to be my new co-host when you graduate.
Speaker 1:Oh really. Maybe, I'm going to put maybe on the notes next to co-host.
Speaker 2:Are you like? Yeah, get me out of this bitch, I'm done.
Speaker 1:Um, no Good answer. I think it'll change over time. I think I'll like it more over time. Okay, over time. I feel like I'm saying time weird. Yeah, your braces I feel like that was the first time oh my gosh, it was so good you missed out.
Speaker 2:Ow, Alright, ready for your driver's ed question. No, I'm going to fail. Alright ready.
Speaker 1:Lock in.
Speaker 2:I'm ready when passing other vehicles.
Speaker 1:You ram right into the freaking side like it's NASCARs. I'm kidding. Okay, I'm ready. I'm actually ready.
Speaker 2:When passing other vehicles, do you check your mirror and blind spots? Do you honk your horn at least three times?
Speaker 1:That is retarded.
Speaker 2:Do you reenter your lane within 10 feet of the past vehicle?
Speaker 1:Nope.
Speaker 2:Or is there no need to signal?
Speaker 1:Okay, it's the first one you said.
Speaker 2:What is that?
Speaker 1:I don't even remember, say it again check your mirrors yes, blind spots yes very good, bing, bing, bing.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm feeling more confident that you're gonna pass your test I don't know, it depends on the questions I get, because there's like there was like there's a combination of a lot two, three tests that I did. I got like d's and c's on. I only got d's on two tests and almost every practice test we do because after we do like our final for the unit we do like a practice test or the actual test, and I usually always get a shitty grade.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I never have enough time to do it because, like, class is about to end, so I just like I quickly read it and then just click an answer.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm glad that you told me that there's like seven days left of school and you have to get there and do a simulator time. Way to drop that bomb on me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I have to, I just need to be there for one. I said to go there early one, two days, and I should be fine.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:Are you ready for a pop quiz? What do you mean? Yeah, I'm ready, I guess.
Speaker 2:But you know you're not ever. You're always supposed to be ready for a pop quiz, but never be expecting it.
Speaker 1:All right ready I don't like pop quizzes ready.
Speaker 2:I'm poopy ready, yeah what color is an emerald?
Speaker 1:green. Good job, I play minecraft. I didn't know if you would know that.
Speaker 2:How many colors are there in the rainbow?
Speaker 1:is it like?
Speaker 3:I don't know, because there's not a multiple question.
Speaker 1:No, isn't it like 12 or some shit like seven, seven, seven?
Speaker 2:Seven is the right answer. Go, bro. Red, orange yellow green, blue.
Speaker 1:I was like wait, no, no, no. I know it's really close to six, it's seven.
Speaker 2:At what temperature does water freeze?
Speaker 1:30? 35. Two, two, yeah, 32. All right. Last question Thirty-five Two, two, yeah.
Speaker 2:Thirty-two, all right, last question for the pop quiz you suck ass. You should know this one because you took civics.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm ready. I'm ready to answer civics.
Speaker 2:How many branches comprise the federal government?
Speaker 1:of the United States. Five Eh Six Eh Three yes.
Speaker 2:Fuck, you need multiple choice in your life. No, I three. Yes, you need multiple choice in your life.
Speaker 3:No, I, I don't know why I was saying that I I wasn't.
Speaker 1:What is it? It's the judicial and then I don't know.
Speaker 2:I know there is I don't know what the other ones are, either judicials and then there's like, there's like a really weird names.
Speaker 1:I don't really know, is it?
Speaker 2:judicial like judge judicial is that like jujitsu.
Speaker 1:No, that's like all the judges like the like the rumor, like like all the like, make the laws and shit oh yeah, I think I'm pretty sure that's what it is.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I don't. I'm not good at government, I'm really ass at it too it's like my weakness me too. You must get it, I barely passed that class.
Speaker 1:I already got a b, a b minus when I passed hey, that pretty dang good.
Speaker 2:That's better than what you've been getting in money management.
Speaker 1:Money management is just bullshit. It's just a dumb class.
Speaker 2:Earmuffs, earmuffs. Okay, all right. Now this is the part. Where Is anyone listening who? So if you have a story about any of these things, we want you to write in. You can email us at honor best behavior at yahoocom, or you can send us a dm on any of our social media platforms. Uh, do you? If you're anyone listening who has more than three cats, anyone listening who recently got a raise and anyone listening who is a twin. So if any of those are, you, go ahead and write into us. We want to hear your story. All right, mackie, do you have a? Would you rather for me today? Oh, did any of those apply to you? Well, you're not a twin and you don't have more than three cats and you don't work, so you definitely cats and you don't work, so you definitely didn't get a raise.
Speaker 1:All right, all right, go ahead. Would you rather not have thumbs, or would you rather only have thumbs Go?
Speaker 2:Hmm, I'm trying to think how that would work. I feel like I'd rather have all thumbs, only thumbs. Yeah, what would you pick Same? Do you have a reason for your?
Speaker 1:answer yeah, your grip would be way better. Okay, and if you have no thumbs and you can't grip anything, how would I use my phone.
Speaker 2:Just put it here.
Speaker 1:I guess You'd be like this I guess, yeah, you'd just be holding your phone like this.
Speaker 2:I feel like we have a lot of, because you have to use two hands.
Speaker 1:You have to be like this. So it'd be kind of weird, but You're funny, alright, are you ready? It's hard to work. Are you ready For the funniest?
Speaker 2:joke that you've heard In a really long time.
Speaker 1:I literally just hey guys, welcome back to. I gotta take a poop.
Speaker 2:That was your favorite thing I ever came up with it was so bad.
Speaker 1:It's pretty bad.
Speaker 2:You should do it hey guys, welcome back to. I gotta take a poop the way you look oh wait, there's this thing that logan was doing today.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, it's so funny. It was like when he was in um what's it called daycare yeah, um, there's this kid.
Speaker 2:That was like five. You guys went to daycare together, didn't you? Yeah, only for a little bit.
Speaker 1:And when I was not there, um, there's just like a little kid and this kid that was like five. You guys went to daycare together, didn't you? Yeah, only for a little bit. And when I was not there, there was this little kid, and this kid next to him was bashing two trains.
Speaker 3:He was bashing what?
Speaker 1:Two trains together and the kid was like holy shit, Like really loud, and the way Logan says it it sounds like exactly what a little kid he's like holy shit, and it's actually funny as hell. I can't do it.
Speaker 2:It's so funny. I think it's one of those things where you had to be there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2:All right, ready. Yeah, I'm ready. What?
Speaker 1:do you call a potato shaped like a penis A shrub?
Speaker 2:A dictator? Oh my God.
Speaker 1:Dictator I, I know you mean, it's all goofy I thought that one was really funny.
Speaker 2:All right, thank you for listening to another episode of honor best behavior hey, guess what? We're gonna start stockpiling interviews. So, if you want to, if you want to tell, your story on our podcast. We like to talk about anything and everything, so bring all your interesting topics.
Speaker 1:Negative.
Speaker 2:Step right on up. You're the next contestant on On Our Best Behavior, on.
Speaker 1:Our Best Behavior Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.
Speaker 2:Oh, mackie, one more thing I want to tell you Uh-huh, I love you.
Speaker 1:Oh, I love you too. Thank you, thank you.