All right, it's in Minnesota. Goodbye, good morning or good afternoon or
good Eve or good early. I know I did. I did. I
totally just stole that from you. I did just totally steal that from me.
I didn't know what to say yesterday. We just started talking on this
half the time, and there's no plan, there's not like a thought in
my head. I just turned a microphone on and I start blabbing, and
apparently I decided to steal your Line's fair. Anyways, it's Jenny, it's
Drake, and vond is here as well. Today my first Minnesota goodbye baby.
More often, I've been on the show more times without Dave than with,
and I feel like he has a problem with me. I'm scared.
No, not at all. We just don't really typically have guests and a
lot like anyone fun. You can come hang out next week when he's back,
go for it. We would love to have you. We have a
lot of email, so let's jump into these first officers, Jenny and Drake,
who don't say my name. This email has been sit in my drops
for the last eleven months, so it's about time I finished writing it and
send it your way first, as a fellow LGBTQ Plus member, I wanted
to see what Drake's perspective has been being gay in the Twin Cities. I
moved here from a small town in Minnesota to feel more accepted, and it's
been great. Every once in a while, something will happen where I feel
like I have to hide who I am, But for the most part,
being in the Cities, I have felt pretty widely accepted. What do you
feel, Drake, Yeah, I mean I come from a very small town,
like population two thousand in Wisconsin. I'm assuming it's very similar to small
towns in Minnesota. But I think moving here was one of the best decisions
I think I ever made. It truly is a crazy difference moving to a
big city when you are you know, might not be comfortable in the area
you grew up in, especially if it's like a small town. Yeah,
it's just nice to surround yourself with people that don't know you personally. They
don't you haven't grown up with them, and especially around people. Everybody in
the Twin Cities I feel like, for the most part, is very acceptable
of who you are, no matter who you are. Absolutely, yeah,
yeah, it's very acceptable. I will say, my experience has been really
good. The one thing I do I am not a super big fan of
is the dating scene around here. It seems like everybody kind of knows each
other, since you know, very ancestuous around here. Yeah. So I've
got plenty of gay friends who tell me all about it, and there's a
lot of gossip about Drake. Yeah. I haven't heard any rumors about Drake
yet not. Yeah, yeah, you should act like you don't know who
Drake is. Right, So besides like it being a little bit more of
a tit nick dating community, I would say everything else is great. I
would just be careful about who you If you are going to get into the
dating scene, totally cool. If you're not, I know, there's like
a little bit of a relationship because I'm going to get to that in parts.
Okay, yeah perfect, Yeah then absolutely, Citi's been great. Yeah.
I highly recommend it. So they said, Second, my fiance and
I are planning a non traditional wedding and looking for fun things to include.
Since you both have been to lots of bachelrette parties and weddings, do you
have any fun or sentimental suggestions that have been memorable? God, Drake you
might have to take this one. I don't what do you what do they
say they're having a non traditional wedding, and they're looking for fun things to
include in it, So just like some some maybe an activity or something like
that. Definitely, I mean, depending on how many people you are wanting
to include in this. Like I think going downtown on like you know,
around like the Gay Nineties and the Saloon and all that, just go like
hopping around all those places for a night. I think that would be a
lot of fun. If you're talking like an actual like wedding wedding, I
mean I have an idea go for it, because I just had a wedding
the summer that was super cool, and they said anything memorable. The couple
did a crossword like a big, like life sized crossword puzzle where you could
fill out on this board answers to questions about the couple. So it was
super cool. It was like, well, where was Glob's family originally from?
He's from Russia, so so you'd fill that out and you only should
fill out like one answer at a time. But I thought that that was
a unique way to like have something about them and then interact with the people
who are there. Yeah, and you're doing a non traditional wedding, so
you know, you you do whatever you want at it. But that was
something that stood out for me. So sorry, we're probably not the greatest
help on that. But bachelorette parties, I would say bachelor I think bachelorette
parties. I mean, yeah, if you're going around here, there's so
many options around the downtown area in Minneapolis. I'm gonna be honest. I
did one bacherette party in Saint Paul and the only reason it was okay was
because there was a wild game that night. Otherwise Saint Paul is dead usually
unless there's a concert or something going on at the ex Bomber, So I
would like avoid Saint Paul unless something's going on. But if you're trying to
go out and party, invite me. Accept your invitation. I think we'll
have a great time and think it is a good time. HM. One
last question, they say, Jenny, do you want a wedding? Any
desire for one? Since I know you are up in the airbo getting married.
Any fun honeymoon ideas that people have absolutely loved. I'm not a big
beach gal and love some adventure. I don't care about a wedding. I
have told Andrew before that if we decide to get married, let's go.
Sarah Bob was at the top of a mountain and snowboard down like that is
my personality. I know a lot of people love weddings, and I think
that I love attending weddings. It's just not my thing to like go have
this big, extravagant wedding, or even like a small wedding. It's not
really my thing. I get that. So and then fun honeymoon ideas.
I would say, you're not a beach person, so I would consider doing
a West Coast road trip literally one of my favorite trips I've ever ever done
in my entire life. You can get the beach vibes if you want them,
or you can just like see the ocean you don't. I mean,
we went when it wasn't very warm, so we weren't like hanging out on
the each but we were doing a new city every day, and we went
down the coast all the way down to Big sur from Portland and then down
the coast and that was so much fun. Lots of hiking options, things
to do. We rented four wheelers, I think they're four wheelers and did
like dune buggies more these like sand dune things. So that was so much
fun. But you feel free to DM me on Instagram and I can give
you some more. I don't want to take up like this entire podcast because
I could give you some more recommendations at Jenny Katie WB. And then lastly
they finished it with saying I love rhyming words, so I'll send it off
with this licky dicky instead of the traditional dart lick. Okay, so licky
Dicky cool. Love that. Thank you for your email. All right.
Up next to Ted and Drake were playing learyc Shuffle. When Dave was out,
one of the words was under. Both of them were trying to figure
out the song under the Bridge by Red Hot Chili Peppers. I just heard
it played on City ninety seven and fun fact, the word under is never
mentioned in the song. I wonder how many other songs have titles that are
never actually mentioned in the song. AnyWho Bye? That comes from Stephanie.
That's so true. I don't remember you guys trying to contemplate over that one,
but I like, there are definitely some songs out there where you hear
the title and you're like waiting for that to come up in the chorus,
and they never actually say what the title is. So that's an interesting,
good point, Stephanie. He's very observational. Yeah, no kidding, This
one says, Hey, you guys, don't say my name. I am
currently going through a breakup. First off, sorry, those are tough.
We were together for nine years. Cool. This is the second time in
two days I've heard about nine years. I haven't lived by myself for no
more than six months at a time, and that was eight years ago.
I will soon be moving into my apartment all by myself. Now I'm wondering
how do I make sure I use this new alone time to find myself again.
Should I find new hobbies, do things I want to do? Any
advice is needed. I haven't been alone in nine years, thank you?
Okay. So I was in a relationship, like very serious relationship with an
until I was about twenty five, and then I was single for about five
years and then now we are together again. But in that five years that
I was single, I took full advantage of like trying to find myself as
a single person, and I wasn't like I was habitually single before Andrew even
so like I was pretty used to it, but it was different after you
experience a relationship to then try to find yourself again. And so I got
involved in so many things. I mean, like I said yes to everything.
Granted I was like twenty five, I was young, and like at
this point in my life the things I used to do would be exhausting to
me. But I mean, I joined a kickball league, which I know
you hear me talk about on the show all the time, but that league,
hands down, was one of the best things I've ever done for my
social life. I made so many friends in it, and I have so
many different groups of friends now because of that league, and to the point
where I like, I've done snowboarding trips with people, I've done goodbye parties
on a party bus with a different group from that league, Like I've done
themed parties and it just really got me out there socially. So if you're
not a super extroverted person, I would say, just like, lean into
your hobbies and figure out what makes you happy and figure out who you are
by yourself. Because I know someone else who went through a breakup recently and
they were talking to their therapists and they were like, do you even know
who you are? Like it feels like you don't know who you are anymore
as this person. So you just really got to find out who you are.
And I mean, I'm sorry you're going through that. Nine years together.
It's a long time, so like I need to be by yourself.
Like I'm learning to be by myself just like physically right because I'm still in
a relationship. But yeah, find out the things that make you who you
are, whatever your name is, without not only that person, but just
like just as your self period, the things that make you happy, the
things that you enjoy, the things that you don't enjoy, you know,
the things that you used to maybe do with that partner and then just don't
like the social things like obviously you don't like have intimacy or stuff like that,
but like maybe you don't enjoy drinking or going to a bar by yourself.
That's all important. Yeah, pretty sorry about that. Nine years is
goodness? Yeah, Drake, do you have any I think you guys,
I think you guys said, and I don't think you should be pressured to
like, don't feel pressured about having to go out and be social right away,
Yeah, don't you. You might just need some time to yourself just
to, like, you know, deal with emotions. Don't feel like you
need to be distracted. Like it's okay to deal with emotions. There's plenty
of hobbies and things that you can go do that don't involve socializing. Snowboarding
like that's that's a good example of it, or something like that. Maybe
you don't have to go like super not dangerous, but figure something out.
You'll figure it out. You'll you will figure it out. You will find
who you are as a person by without your significant other. And I promise,
even though you are going through this breakup and it sucks right now,
that it gets better because trust me, young Jenny thought it was never going
to get better when she went through a breakup, and now look at me,
guys. Okay up next says Hello, Jenny and Drake. Hope you
all are well. I've ritten a couple times about various things, but I
wanted to ask both of your thoughts on young people listening to the show.
Me as well as many listeners listen to The Dave Ryan Show, because we
grew up on it listening to it in the car. However, as the
times change, as young adults don't really listen to the radio nowadays, I'm
a nineteen year old college student and I don't know anybody in my friend group
that listens to the radio. I think one reason is because of car play.
I really didn't listen to the radio that often, but last summer I
got an internship. My shitty two thousand and two Chevy doesn't have the ability
to plug in bluetooth to plug in and bluetooth my music from Spotify, so
the entire summer I listened to the katiwb in the morning show during my thirty
minute commute, and honestly, that was the only reason I started listening to
KATIBB again, and I'm so glad I did. Now I listen to you
guys via iHeart on my phone while getting ready in the morning and trying to
hold back laughter so I don't wake up my roommate. However, most of
my friends have the ability to play their music in their car, so they
just do that. It's to the point that when I gave a couple of
friends a ride, someone grown when I said that we were going to listen
to the radio. Is there anything that the industry is doing to combat the
back the lack of listeners from gen Z. I love listening to you guys
every morning, and I'm sure other people in their late teens early twenties would
too if they swapped it out for podcasts or car play. Thanks for all
that you do and keep up the good work. Do art Lick Casey or
Cassie, Sorry, Cassie. That is that is that is definitelyed. Yeah,
that is a loaded thing. I will say. I think when younger
people hear the word radio, they think of it as like a very old
It's like, you know, millennials thinking about newspaper, Like, when you
think newspaper, you think like nineteen forties, nineteen fifty. Right, It's
not that the newspaper is not that old. I want to clarify. I
had a paper route when I was thirteen, so I read. I read
the newspaper like, let's get a few facts right here. But okay,
keep going. I get you're just trying to make an example of that.
Yes, So I think when you know younger gen zers and what's the what's
the generation before us? Now? The one? No, no, no,
the generation that's after you guys, Jen No, No, So the
younger people, the basically teenagers, so that generation, I think when they
hear the word radio, they they just they think of it as this is
a really old thing. I think, what if you were to say podcasts,
we're going to listen to a podcast instead, they probably have a little
bit of a different opinion about it. I think a lot of people's interests
when it comes to radio and listening to it is a lot of what the
personalities are saying, what they're doing on the radio. I think a lot
of people connect with it a lot more. It's becoming less about the music
and more about the personalities, and I think that'll take a few years to
really start ramping up more and more. But it's already started, you know,
like you you see it with afternoon shows like across the country, just
adding more time for them to talk in the afternoon, adding in more people
talking in the afternoon, and that's just going to be an upward trend.
So I think people are caring less about the music and more about the personalities.
And I think the transparency in this question, oh yeah, it was
just I sort of Yesterday I had a conversation with Dave because he was like
Carson, his son's my age and doesn't listen to Terrestrial this old school radia.
Yeah. So yeah, it's just about like us finding the different ways
to like bridge that's why you do Minnesota Goodbye. Yeah, that's why we
do like social media clips, which is a whole other era of ways that
people aren't tapping into. Like, yeah, I was gonna say, I
think to answer your question, the main thing is that we have to be
on top of social media because social media a lot of times pulls people in
enough to then be like wait, where do I listen to what they're talking
about? And then they can start listening to the show. So that is
why, like you know, some people look at social media as this awful
evil thing or like you're vain when you're on it, but like it's a
part of our business, Like we have to be on social media. We
have to build a brand, We have to to build people to get to
know us, to like our personalities enough to then want to if they only
follow us on social media, then they'll go start listening to the show.
But that's like a huge factor there. Yeah, And the advantage is that
like if you can't listen in the car, or you just have no aspiration
to listen to the podcast. You might just know. Like a fun example,
E White was a lot of people knew him more for social media than
they did being the night guy. He had a pretty big like TikTok and
Instagram following, lots of food stuff coffee stuff in the Twin Cities, and
so people got to know him from both of those things helped grow. Yeah,
good for him. All right, we'll get to one more. Thank
you so much for all the emails. We got quite a few in since
yesterday. Question next up, Let's see. I like that people are interested
in like the behind the scenes. It's really cool. A lot of people
don't get access to that stuff either. Yeah, so we gonna give it
to you here right, all right. This one says, I just heard
your show from Monday about finding the hair and the food, and I wanted
to share some of my experiences. So we had our friend Tony was on
and he had us situation where there was hair in his food, and he
told us about it and was wondering how someone else would handle it. But
this person has a specific example. One time I ordered a drink at a
restaurant and I saw something in the bottom of my glass after I took a
few SIPs because it was a darker colored drink, and turns out it was
a straw wrapper that was almost mixed in with the ice in my glass.
I brought it to the service attention, and she at first seemed like she
didn't believe it was already in there because but luckily brought me a fresh drink.
Another thing was actually a health hazard when my ex wife had ordered a
salad that had chicken in it and it ended up that it had clearly raw
chicken in it. The server apologized and we were able to get her meal
for free, which I think was definitely fair. Yeah, absolutely, and
then they sign off right staff writer or Andrew. So we have a lot,
not a lot, but a few more emails that we haven't been able
to get to today, so we will get to those tomorrow. We got
to wrap up the Minnesota goodbye for right now, but thanks for being on
today, Vaunt and Drake for guests staring on today's episode as well. But
feel free to send us any of your emails Ryan's show at KDWB dot com.