We talked the other day about how if you are languishing in life, that
one of the things you're going to do is socialize more So, I went
out played cribbage last night at Loose Line Brewery and that was fun with my
friend Melanie, and so we did that. We played cribbage with Trivia and
shout out to the manager Tim who came by to say hi, and also
Olivia who randomly said hi, and also shout out to the three girls at
Lagos Tacos in Plymouth. I walked in and I'm picking up my to go
order because I'm headed over to the brewery with a got to go over order,
and I heard I saw three women about thirty years old looking at me,
and I knew it's not because I'm hot. They're looking at me because
one of them is like, oh, that must be Dave Ryan. But
I didn't know for sure that's why they were looking at me till I heard
one of them say KATIEWB. So I said, I got my order and
I walked over and I said hi. I said, I heard somebody mention
KATIEWB. So you know, I sat and chatted for about a minute or
so. So it's just fun to meet people that are out, you know
what I mean, then randomly listen, you met so you were out doing
the fashion show last night. Yeah, I did that. There was a
handful of people there who were fans of the show, so I got to
chat with some people, and yeah, it was super fun. I was
I think the funniest interaction I've had recently. I was at Bunnies and someone
was getting up to go to the bathroom and all of a sudden, they
like screamed my name, and that's fine, and then y yeah, and
then they were like, oh my god, did they say weather girl Jenny
or just Jenny's Jenny? And then they gave me a hug right away and
stuff like that. But also, someone did yell my name as I was
walking into the fashion show last night, so I was still like outside,
and I thought it was someone like for the show trying to get my attention
or something. And I turned and I looked and I waved like I was
supposed to know who they were, but I have no idea who that person
was. So if you're listening right now, I hope you know I was
waving and everything, but I was like kind of probably gave a weird look
at one point because I was like, wait, who was that right?
So see us out somewhere. I mean, definitely feel free to say hi,
and I always try. I've really made it a point to spend more
time saying hi. So you say hi to me, be prepared for a
conversation, yeah, because that's just what I do. All right. Here
we go with Cesna. She is a regular writer on the show, and
she said, Hey, guys, heard you calling for more emails from me?
Laugh emoji. Anytime you mentioned my name unexpectedly in the podcast, I
get so excited. I feel so loved. I talked to my friends about
you guys a lot, and a lot of my stories start with I heard
on the radio. They just don't understand my love for radio. Though.
I was hyped to see that photo of you day with the John Jay and
Rich crew. That's a show that's down in Phoenix. I was down there
on Monday in their studio. I've been listening to them for about ten years
and it was through their subreddit that I found out about your show. In
June of last year, you guys gained a lot of John Jay and Rich
fans through one post on there I also recruited some John Jery and Rich fans
over to you as well. Thank you. Fun question for the room.
Here we go. I work overnight stalking shelves at a massive grocery store chain.
Because of this, I have learned about some products I would have ever
known existed. If you were trapped in a grocery store all night with access
to the grills of and fryers, assuming you know how to use them,
what dinner would you make yourself and where would you sleep? She says,
I would make a rotisserie chicken so I can eat it fresh before bagging.
As for sleep, I'd make myself a bed and a fort out of that
soft toilet paper and tuck myself in at the very back of the shelf so
it's dark. Love youa Sesna. I've thought about being in a bed store
or a target where they have beds, and like sleeping in the bed overnight,
but I've never thought about getting out the grills and the fryers and making
food. So I don't have an answer for you. But I would get
into the freezer section and probably make a lot of the frozen like pizza rolls,
egg rolls, chicken wings, garbage junk food. Yeah, because when
I walk by that, I try not to buy it, but that'd probably
be my temptation. Yeah, Oh my gosh, I would go in.
I would go so hard on some ice cream. Oh. But then I
would maybe, like, if we have to grill something, make actual food.
I probably grow some broth, and then I'd just make it a whole
like kind of campfire situation, like camping situation. I'd build one of the
tents, I'd find one of the air mattresses, I'd find a sleeping bag,
and just like have a little camping site inside of Walmart or whatever it
might be. I like that idea. I think that's a better idea than
Cessna's idea of unrolling a bunch of rolls of Sharman and making a bed out
of it. Because you're gonna sweat, Cessna, and then the toilet paper
is going to stick to you. You're gonna get up, go to the
bathroom, We're gonna have toilet paper squares all over your body. So I
don't like your plant. I like. Another regular listener, Andrew in Ohio
contributes, I was listening to the morning show. You were talking about underwhelming
places to visit and people talked about, you know, they didn't like Mount
Rushmore, or they didn't like Niagara Falls, or they didn't like you started
with Old Faithful and you said Old faith wol was terribly disappointing. Mm hmm.
I did that, and I'm trying to think of the other ones.
It was like Peace Italy. Yeah, the Pisa, the Tower Pisa,
Yeah, the Alamo or maybe I made that up. I always want to
go right. Yeah. Yeah. They go on to say I was surprised
that nobody mentioned the antique archaeology store from the show American Pickers. I used
to watch that show. I didn't know they had their own store. But
that's the one where they go find rusty gold. So they go out to
somebody's farmhouse and they find like a classic nineteen sixty nine, you know whatever,
and then they try to buy it. And I've heard that show is
all set up, you know, it's like it's all staged and whatever.
But Andrew says, I've not personally ever been, but I have heard it
would be a cool spot. But then I've also heard it's pretty boring and
overpriced, so not worth it unless you plan to spend some dough Right Tea
signs off Andrew in Ohio. It came up. The Pond Star Store is
a disappointment because it's cool that that's where they do it. But you walk
in, there's nothing you want to buy. There's a bunch of old rings.
It's like every other Pond shop if you're there to buy old rings and
guitars. But they don't have for sale the cool stuff that you see them
selling and buying on Pond Stars. So I was definitely disappointed that the Pond
Star Store. The coolest thing in the Pond Star Store is the souvenirs,
like the hats and the autographed chum Ley's shirts and that type of thing.
Next one first thing they say is don't say my name. I will say
that it's a long email, but I read the entire thing. It's about
breaking up with a friend. I just broke up with my best friend of
fifteen years, not really, I kind of ghosted her. And they said,
I've been going back and forth on writing you about my story for a
few months now. I listen every day and I noticed the topic of breaking
up with the friend has come up multiple times. I finally decide I'm going
to share my story with you after you asked on the radio today if we've
gone through this. So there's a long version, but it was really interesting.
I won't read the whole thing, but it was basically they had planned
a trip with an airbnb and they were going to go somewhere with this woman
husband and so two couples, and they kept saying, well, where are
we going when we get there? What do we plan on doing? Oh,
it's too early, I want to wrap up twenty twenty three first,
okay, so what we got a plan when we get to this destination?
Are we going to rent bikes? Are we going to go snorkeling? Or
what are we going to do? And then the other person said, you
know, I haven't planned. We're not planning, and so it's getting closer
and closer, and they wouldn't even tell her where the airbnb was booked,
and so finally they did and then they said, well, what time do
you guys land so we can meet you with the airport and whatever. And
they were so standoffish and rude during the entire trip that it made her when
she got home just say, you know what, I don't like being treated
like this. I was respectful. I asked about planning. I wanted to
plan I want to enjoy this, and you blew me off like it didn't
matter. So she concludes with it was the most difficult thing I had to
do. She was my best friend since freshman year in high school, but
she grew into a different lifestyle with different morals and values that no longer aligned
with mine. I didn't notice how poorly she had been treating me until I
planned this trip with her and my fiance pointed out all the rude things she
was doing. I can't believe I allowed someone to stay in my life for
so long and called them my best friend when all they cared about was making
money. We have been friends for so long that I was blind to the
fact that she was so dismissive of me for years. I just didn't see
it because we were so close. And that hurts. You know that when
you break up with a friend, it hurts, and it's kind of like,
you know, I don't know, it's like losing a little piece of
you. Of course, so well, and that's a long like from your
freshman year of high school. You guys have gone through some phases of life.
If that's how long you've been friends with her? Absolutely? Yeah,
if you were like freshmen in high school, you've done graduation jobs. Probably
your first boyfriend, girlfriend whatever. Samantha writes in she says, since you
need emails, and we always do. I saw TikTok recently of a woman
wanting validation that she's not alone with her insanely expensive car payment of sixteen hundred
dollars a month and her husband's is one thousand dollars. Some of the comments
we're agreeing with her saying it's impossible to get a car payment under eight hundred
dollars. Are people seriously okay with spending literally thousands to have a new car?
It seems so irresponsible to me. I'm lucky. I got great credit
and I had a sizeable down payment to contribute when I got my brand new
car. But my payment is two fifty a month, and I can't wait
to pay this bitch off. I think two fifties a little high. Honestly,
I'd love to hear some conversation about this, because it's absolutely bonkers that
people think this is normal. Okay, love you buy all right, Jenny?
What are your thoughts? I haven't made a car payment. I've been
fortunate enough that I've been able to pay off to buy my cars with cash.
We always by used, always by used, because it's going to be
probably thirty percent cheaper than a new car. Yeah, sixteen hundred and one
thousand dollars are way too high for a car payment. Depending on the loan,
I guess how long the loan is. But also interest rates for a
car are really are really high too, and cars have gone up because of
inflation quite a bit. So my payment, I'll openly say it, because
I was in a lease and I just bought out my car back in September,
and I put a little bit of money down, But my payment's four
to thirty four a month, and that is so fucking high for me,
Like it really drives me insane. I've always had a payment closer to like
two fifty or like in the two hundred range, So that is a lot
of money for me, but it was like the best I could do with
interest rates. Okay, awkward editing the podcast. You probably won't even notice
it, but I want to. I want to ask you a question,
how long is your loan for your car? Because I think that's what people
will do they'll get a seven year loan on their car to lower their payments.
Problem is, the life span of a lot of cars is struggling to
get this seven years. Can I ask you how long? Yeah, no,
I don't care. Mine's three years. Oh that's a that's a really
good term. Yeah. Yeah, so, but yeah, I've the I'm
still on the side of sixteen hundred is way too much for a car payment.
I don't know what kind of car she has, but like, if
you have a little bit more of a modest car, you shouldn't be paying
quite that much. Oh well, I think that's the thing is a lot
of people want to buy. I've heard somewhere and I always like this.
It's like buy the most expensive house you can afford, and the most practical
car, like the least expensive practical car. In other words, you don't
want a junker that you spent twenty five hundred dollars on, but you want
something because your car. People love their car and they love to show it
off. But the whole at appreciation, No, it does not, and
the home will appreciate, and that is a difference. So I've always bought,
you know, listen, I don't buy cheap junker cars. I buy
nice cars, but cars aren't important to me. When I first made good
money, I bought a Porsche, at least a Porsche. Yeah. The
payments were I want to say, nine hundred dollars a month, and I
realized about three months in I am not a car person. I don't care.
I don't care about a Porsche. It was beautiful. People would stare
at me at stop lights and I was like, what are you staring at
you? Oh, it's because of my car. And I realized that I'm
never going to spend that kind of money on a car again. But I
do think that there are people who want to get that Mercedes or that range
Rover because cars look so cool and it feels so cool. If you're a
car person, and I'm not, you know, judging anybody who is a
car person, there's not important to me. Yeah, it's one thing that
I admire a cool fancy car when I see it. Like you go to
Wyzetta, You're going to see a lot of fun, fancy cars there,
and I admire them. But for me, I'm like, get me to
point A and B and that's all I need. Yeah, And I think
that there's part of that. And but you have a nice car. I
mean you drive like a like a CRV or something like that. Yeah it's
a Mazda CX five. Okay, yeah, I wasn't even close. Next
one, don't use my name. Longtime listener, first time writer. Having
major life changes, and I wanted to throw it out to the group,
and here we go. I work for one of Minnesota's biggest companies, and
I have a great job. Long story short. I never thought this would
be me, but I had a baby a year ago and suddenly want to
spend every moment with the baby, knowing nothing is forever. They grow up
so fast. So after my husband's recent promotion, I decided I'm going to
be a stay at home mom. So I'm not gonna work anymore. Okay,
I'm pretty introverted, so he's worried I'll be a home alone too much.
I'm excited to be with my daughter all day and I don't have any
concerns about that. But what are some ways I can be successful at this
new job of staying home. I'm so used to an office schedule routine.
I have worked since I was fifteen, so it's a major change. I'm
afraid I'm gonna mess it up. Tips her mothers, stay at home moms
if that term is still relevant, would be awesome, or just general options.
Thanks, have a great day, love y'all. I got nothing.
Yeah, I was gonna say, we're gonna need some help with that one,
because neither Dave or myself or stay at home moms. So I don't
know any tips for that. No, and so if you got anything,
send an email to Ryan's show at KDWB dot com. All right, hitting
the lead on that one. We're getting in some longer ones here, running
a little bit out of time, so let me go back to I've got
about three minutes left here. So this one says morning show crew, love
the show. I'm appreciative of the full show being published in podcast form so
I can listen to it on my own schedule. Please don't say my name.
I don't need the hate. Lol. So they're basically talking about we
mentioned yesterday breakdancing is going to be an Olympic sport, and I said,
that's interesting. I said, I respect people got it wrong. I respect
dancing. It is You've got to be super athletic to do breakdancing. I
know, exactly what it is and what. But but then we kind of
joked It's like, well, is it a sport or no? And I
think that there's always going to be a little argument depending on your definition of
a sport. Is golf a sport? Well? Yeah? Is it an
Olympic sport? I don't know. I think that the Olympics wanted to add
breakdancing to make it more relevant and attractive to younger people. Yeastily. I
feel like the Winter Olympics are kind a little sexier and fun with like snowboarding
and those kind of events, and Summer Olympics, like volleyball's fun for me,
but there's not a ton in Summer Olympics that I care about. Then
we talked about I joked about, well, is hairstyling a sport? Or
jump roping is a sport that's athletic as hell, but is it a sport?
So? And then I said, well, are they going to bring
in PoCA? Why don't they just have dance in general? And it's not
a you know, a criticism of break dancing. They go on to say,
I do like the rule that if it's in we sports resort, then
it must be a sport and should be the Olympics. But this is rules
that we eventually set along with my friends. And they wrote this with bullet
points and indentations and bold fonts, and okay, so here we go.
We are lawyers, by the way, so maybe that tells you a little
bit about their organization. And Athletic competition is any activity involving physical exercise,
bodily coordination, and skill where teams or individuals are able to compete against each
other under subjective scoring metrics. Gymnastics, dance, jumping, rope, roller
skating, freestyle, snowboarding, or surfing. And they refer to a bunch
of Disney movies and that's kind of funny. Karate, Sorry, Ralph Machio,
Karateo is not. Karate is not a sport under this rule. But
then again, wrestling and boxing our Olympic sports. A sport point two.
A sport is an athletic competition involving both strategy and an objective metric for scoring.
Basketball, hockey, football, baseball, softball, tennis, soccer,
racquetball, golf, track and field, volleyball, across, rowing, rugby,
disc golf, ultimate frisbee, table tennis, and bowling. Wait A
second, involving only minimum body movement and coordination. Hairstyle and Chess don't meet
the requisite levels of physical activity to qualify as either, and I wish I
had time to read more of it. I am on a time crunch right
now, but I love the fucking thought that you put into this, Tyler.
That is amazing, So thank you. I appreciate a letter from a
lawyer. That is it for the Minnesota Goodbye,