I'm going to start the podcast off with a discussion that Jenny and I were
having off the air that I said, oh, let's talk about this on
the podcast on the Minnesota Goodbye, And it's going to be a little bit
of a confession. Now we get this quite a bit, and I'm not
going to be specific and hurt anyone's feelings, because I just you know,
you never want to hurt anybody's feelings. But once in a while people will
say, hey, you remember the time that I called in and I was
on the radio and it was all about my dog and my dog and my
gotta blud away and I and we don't remember. And Jenny had a story
too. Again, you're not going to get specific about somebody who swore you
would remember something, right, And it was a very touching story. And
I was like yeah, yeah, yeah, and I just like tried to
rack my memory. I just don't remember it at all. And it's and
so I told Dave, I just I feel like we do have pretty unique
jobs where we hear so many stories and we create so many segments ourselves that
were just like constantly, there's like something new every single day with us.
Yeah, but it's so hard to really like latch on to specific things that
happened during the show and always remember them. And people will come to me
all the time and say, do you remember the time that you had Ben
Affleck on the show and he called you stupid? And I'm like, honestly,
I don't, And I just I think it's because the way my brain
works is kind of like we don't remember dreams for a reason. Like you'll
wake up and you know you just had a powerful or interesting or fun dream
or whatever, but you can't remember it a lot of the time, yep.
And I think there's part of our makeup that says, you don't need
to remember that dream. Your mind doesn't need to be cluttered up with meaningless
shit that never happened, So you don't remember dreams. And I think it's
a good thing we don't remember dreams, because a lot of the time you'd
be like, did I dream that? And I think that sometimes I wish
I could remember things that happened on the show. But I think my mind
if it remembered everything that happened on the show, it would be full of
thirty something years of stuff. And I wish I could remember, trust me,
there is some that I remember, no question, Yeah. But a
lot of the time when people say, remember you had me and my husband
on one time because we were deciding blah blah blah, and I feel bad.
But many times I don't remember. Hm. I mean I just I
think okay, And also I think we talked about this, I don't know
in the last year that like you have to forgive yourself that like when you
walk into a room and you like forget what you walked into that room for.
You just kind of have to forgive yourself because like we're just like constantly
consuming things every single day with our phones now too, we're just constantly consuming
things. That's just not your brain just it's going to pick and choose what
it wants to remember, and it definitely latches onto things that are really hurtful
or are really amazing. You know, like it's kind of like one of
the two. You know, maybe that's it is. Because you know,
somebody came in and they like, oh, we were on the show and
my husband and I were arguing about whether to get a puppy. To me,
that's fine, but to me it was just another day at work.
Whereas for them, they got to be on the radio, and they got
to be on KTWB. But for me, it was just another day at
work. So maybe it's like a football player might not remember a particular football
game if it was just an average football game, but if it was one
where they broke their collarbone or won the championship, they'll remember. Of course.
Speaking of phones, we were talking about the rectangle yesterday and whether what's
the rectangle? Oh, it's the phone, Sarah writes in, and she
said, yes, I use the term rectangle for my phone. It could
also be for a computer or TV. I suppose I like it because it
devalues it in a way, like it's not some huge important focus of your
life, just a rectangle. I hope that makes sense. Yeah, Sarah,
I appreciate that. It's funny. I think sometimes about what a miracle
it is our cell phone. Yep, and just like just miraculous. Can
you stall for a minute because I want to look up something. It is
an old radio shack ad that. Do you know what I'm talking about?
I don't know, Okay, I don't remember. I just know that it's
it's weird to think that only about ten years ago, I didn't even have
a smartphone because I was one of the last people to get a smartphone because
I had to pay for everything on my own whatever. I didn't want to
pay the money. And now it's like, I can't imagine going through life
without like a GPS on my phone and being able to like Google something really
quick. And just ten maybe a little more than ten years ago, probably
more like twelve. Yeah, I finally like got that first smartphone. And
now it's like everyone who is born now and is growing up, they don't
know a life before that without a smartphone. They just don't. This is
so crazy. It's an older article that came out ten years go exactly everything
from this nineteen ninety one radio shack ad you can now deal with your phone.
So it shows an ad from nineteen ninety one that was a newspaper ad
for radio shack. Everything in this ad you can now do with your phone.
Let's dive in everything that's advertised. First of all, here is a
all weather radio. Your phone is a radio. Now Here is a AMFM
clock radio. Your phone, of course, now is an AM FM clock
radio. In ear stereo headphones, well, you got your air pods or
your earbuds or whatever, and that is now part of your phone. A
micro thin calculator. Advertise at radio shack. A radio shack if you don't
know, it was like a mini best buy. They sold electronics, and
here they sold alator. Now your phone is a calculator. Next one is
a computer, and your phone, of course, is now a computer that
does so many things. Emails, word processing, good, well, whatever,
you have a question about Google. Yes, another one, a mobile
cellular telephone is in this advertisement, and it is of course that's your phone.
Deluxe portable CD player. Well, your phone doesn't play CDs, but
you don't need it to anymore because you can do you know, iHeartRadio,
A compact ten channel digital desktop or desktop scanner. This is like fire calls,
police calls. There are apps that you can listen to fire calls,
police calls. Another one a easy to use phone answerer. Now your phone's
got voicemail, a voice actuated cassette tape recorder. You got voice memos and
record. Another one's speakers. Your iPhone's actually got a decent speaker on it.
Yeah, you know, a decent speaker. And finally a vhscmquorder.
Well, your phone is now a camcorder as well. So all of these
things that are in this ad from nineteen ninety one are now on your phone.
It's crazy. We can't live without them. No, all right,
next one. This is a longer one, and I might save it because
it's a little bit dicey and it's got some racist accusations in there, and
it's not exactly the brand for the Minnesota Goodbye. But basically, they went
to a hotel downtown and they went to celebrate and go to the Twins game
whatever, and they stayed at a place downtown and they said, I've been
in Minneapolis my entire thirty years of life for Twins games, Vikings games.
I used to call this place home for six years. I went to school
there and worked there. Now sadly, I don't know if I'll ever be
back. Basically, it makes me uncomfortable to read about it. But they
said they were falsely accused of being racist and of using racial slurs and acting
in a threatening manner. This is not true. We simply asked the front
desk staff about parking after we got to the hotel after the game. The
lady working at the front desk was rude, very uninformative and acted like she
didn't have time to talk to us. My mom then asked to speak to
a manager because we were getting nowhere with her. She stated he would be
in the morning, and my mom said great. We went to our room.
About an hour and a half later, we had two men pounding on
our door stating we were being kicked out of the hotel. And it goes
on a little bit longer, but we said we didn't do anything, We
didn't do anything, We didn't do anything, and the cops came, and
the cops said, you know, you really don't want to kick out these
people at twelve o'clock in the morning with two kids, four and a half
hours away from home. The cops even said we don't think it's right,
and the manager said, I don't care. So they contacted corporate multiple times,
saying, please look at the video, please look at the audio to
clear our names. Can you imagine being accused of doing something racist that you
did not do. Yeah, and of course it's a he said she said
thing at this point, but they said, look at the audio, look
at the video to clear our names. And they said that the hotel will
do it and get back to us, but they have not gotten back to
them, and it's like they read the reviews of the hotel. They said,
this is not an isolated incident. I've read one hundred plus reviews on
different sites about this hotel. There seems to be a common theme. Rude
front desk staff, hotel staff, unsafe, environment, run down, dirty,
etc. The list goes on. And they said it's not right that
a hotel can accuse anyone of anything and get away with it, and that
they are standing by their employees one hundred percent and refusing to look at the
video or audio to prove our innocence. I'm sorry you went through that.
I don't know what the truth is. Yeah, I mean I really don't,
but I'm sorry you went through that. That would be horrible. I
don't really have anything to add to that except that I think that downtown Minneapolis
is fine, but a lot of people don't want to go down there because
the perception is it's not fine. Yes, and I am one who does
go down there a lot, and I find it to be perfectly fine.
But I know that, like some things make other people uncomfortable that I'm okay
with. So, like if there is a homeless person on the corner trying
to talk to me. That doesn't bother me. And I know that some
people get uncomfortable with stuff like that, you know, so like to them,
they just look at it differently than I do. True. You know
what's interesting, Jenny is that the sticking by the employees one hundred percent sounds
admirable. But I think that's a mistake and a little experience that I've told
you about on the show before myself. Twenty five years ago, I ordered
a pizza and breadsticks and the pizza cane, but the breadsticks did not so
I called the pizza place and I said, yeah, we got the pizza,
but the breadsticks did not come. And the guy said, well,
let me check with the delivery guy. Well, the delivery guy said that
he delivered the breadsticks, and I said, he didn't deliver the breadsticks.
I promise you, And he said, well, you know what I'm going
with my employee. I believe my employee. I have trusted my employee,
and it sounds like you are just trying to scam us out of an order
of breadsticks. And I'm like, I don't need and order a fucking breadsticks
badly enough to lie about it. Yeah, And I was more frustrated,
not because I missed out on the bread sticks, but because I was accused
of lying. And I'm not one of those people to go the customer is
always right, because the customer is really not always right. Sometimes the customer
is an asshole. But I was like, you're accusing me of lying about
a three dollars order of breadsticks because your employee, who is lying said that
he delivered them. And I was so frustrated it kind of ruined my night.
The next day, I called and I'm not going to say the company,
but it's a big company that everybody's heard of. And they said,
oh my god, I am so sorry. I talked to them, you
know, the district manager, and they said, I'm so sorry. You
know what, it sounds like a problem we've had with this store before.
And he said, I will get you your bread sticks. I said,
no, no, no, I don't want the breadsticks. I don't want
them. I just didn't like being accused of lying. If anything like that
happened, it's kind of an unusual situation. I you know, off the
top of my head, I don't think I have but I you know,
me. I always try to think of every scenario in a situation, and
I'm like wondering, I'm like, did the guy who dropped off of your
dropped your pizza off? Did he genuinely think he probably did drop the breadsticks
off because he can't remember because he just dropped off like ten houses in a
row of stuff. But it's not fair to you. You're still they should
have righted there wrong no matter what, and believed you. But I was
like, maybe the guy genuinely who did deliver it didn't remember. Okay,
But if you let's say that you work for a pizza place and you,
like Jenny, the guy called these online too, he said you didn't deliver
his breadsticks, you would probably say, God, I thought I did.
Yeah, Shoot, I mean maybe I didn't. Do you want me to
take over another order? I mean? Fuck? I don't think they would
lie about And that's what pissed me off, was like, I don't need
your breadsticks bad enough to lie and scam you. No, whoever you talked
about the actual store who believed their employee should have still sent out new breadsticks
for you somehow, Like that should have been what it's done, because I
worked I worked at a restaurant, so I know what we did. Even
though yes, it kind of was like the customer is right, we still
always made sure that like even if we knew they were wrong, we believed
that. Yeah, and that kind of gets to me a pain. I
know somebody who worked in the They worked at the Chilies for a very long
time. They were like a Chili's district manager, but they worked their way
up, et cetera. And he said, the shit that people would pull,
they would come in and they would eat half of their food and then
complain about it and try to get it and you know, like something like
it was it right, so you know, bring me out another order.
Or people would bring in expired coupons and fight and bitch and say, I
didn't know it was expired. I wouldn't have come down here if I knew
it was expired. So they would honor the expired coupons and then other shitty
stuff. And then the number of people that wouldn't leave a tip. He
said it was outrageous that they just people just thought, well, I can
get away without leaving a tip, so I won't leave a tip. Yeah,
it's crazy. Next one, Hello, Gang don't say my name.
Do either of you have any stories about getting too drunk at a company party.
I went to a company party recently, drank way too much and turned
into the drunk bathroom girl complimenting everyone. Haha. I haven't done anything embarrassing
that I know of other than that, but hearing other stories would help me
feel like I am not the only one who drank too much at a company
event. Thanks. Send me your stories about drinking too much at a company
event. I would love to hear it. I don't have one myself that
comes to mind. I do do it, Jenny. It was when I
was an intern here and another intern I got let go after this, but
we were all at Star Party, and all the interns had gotten together before
Star Party, and we didn't have to work, mind you, we just
had tickets because we were interns and we were all twenty one, So we
got a hotel room by myth and we pregamed in the hotel room, got
pretty drunk. I didn't do anything bad, but one of the other interns,
I think she was like right, she was trying to get into a
meet and greet, and then she was writing things, promotional stuff that she
shouldn't have been touching and stuff at whatever. She was let go like the
next day after that, but we all definitely drank way too much. I
was very intoxicated, and once again I didn't do anything wrong. But I
remember Nabisco still worked on the show okay, and he had told me after
that that he was like telling me, and I don't remember because I got
so drunk that he was like telling me I needed to go back to my
hotel because I was like such a mess. He's like, you should go
home, you should go home, and I was like, bab fine,
no, what do you mean back in the days? Yep. Luckily I
didn't do anything bad or dumb, but I was way too drunk for my
liking of It's always the worst feeling to wake up the next day and be
like ew yeah. I remember. This was probably twenty or more years ago.
There was an intern that was working Star party and we were at one
of the local casinos, and at the time, this casino was a dry
casino, no drinking. They had pregamed and brought in some booze and little
bottles and they were in intern drinking underage. Then they got in their car
and got pulled over by tribal police and that was her last day, never
worked to be again again. I don't think that I've been drunk at a
station event. I might have, but it's been so long I just don't
anymore. But I remember when we were doing Star Party at the quest or
Glam Slam Downtown, which was Prince's old club. It's still there. I
think was called Epic for a while, but I don't know what it's called
now, And there was one DJ who was a prominent DJ and maybe somebody
you've heard about them, not I can say their name, and they got
sloppy drunk, like fallen down, sitting, like laying on the floor drunk.
And it was like, God, seriously, dude, you you're really
not at a party. You're at a work event. And I've told Carson
when you and your buddies from the Love Tour, when you're done with a
tour and you all go out for cocktails, you're still working. Remember you're
still working. You're not there for fun and you get drunk and you know,
throw up on the table and you know, take your pants off.
Even if you're out drinking and party and you're still working and he's like really.
I'm like yeah, because your boss is still watching you and if you
get drunk and stupid, they'll never forget it. All Right, that's it
for the Minnesota Goodbye. We got to wrap up. Send me your stories
about getting too drunk at a company party. I love that theme. Thanks
for the ideas. Send your emails to Ryan's show at KDWB dot com.