I was just telling Jenny, I said let's start the Minnesota Goodbye and said
let's get started, baby, And that to me is like so not me.
I do it out of fun whatever. But I was running with a
woman from the Katie but to Be Running club. Her name is Shannon.
She listens to the show, and we stopped and played cribbage and we're running
a couple of weeks ago over an excels here and we're talking and I kept
calling her babe, and I'm like, well, here's what I think,
babe, or what are you doing babe? And I said, I'm sorry
I called you babe. I said, I don't know why I called you
babe. I don't know her, and even if I did, it's not
I call Susan babe maybe, but it's just kind of slipped out. And
I did it again a couple of more times, and I'm like, I'm
sorry, I don't mean to call you babe. What the fuck, Jenny?
I don't know. I mean, I think if you use it ever,
sometimes you just start saying it. Because I do the same thing to
my girlfriends now, because I call Andrew babe a lot, and then I
will like talk to my girlfriends and I was like, Babe, it's gonna
be fine, like and then I'd be like, what, No, that's
not what I meant to say in this moment, Like I just called my
girlfriend babe, Like, that's not something I normally say. I don't know
where it comes from, but okay, all right, let's get started.
For the emails on the Minnesota goodbye, and the first one says, I
was watching a few seventy three question interviews with Vogue, and I want to
try a shortened version with you guys. Okay, now, she gives me
fifteen questions, some we probably will not get to, So let's start with
this one. Given the chance of an all expense paid trip, where would
you go to and why? I would go to Fiji That's where I would
go. I'd probably go to the Amalfi Coast because I hear it's expense what
coast the Amalfi Coast. I believe it's off of Grease. I could be
wrong, it might be Italy, but I'm pretty sure that's Grease and it's
beautiful and expensive, and so if it's all expenses paid, take me there.
Okay. What is one thing in the past you would go back and
change. Oh, how long have you got? I would say, But
in all honesty, I would have I love my job here at Katie would
you be? But I think I could have done so much more if I'd
insisted that the show would be syndicated. And because I think there are shows
that are not as good as our show, and I really believe in our
show that are syndicated, and I hear all the time it's like, why
are you guys not syndicated? I live in Xtown and they are syndicated,
so why aren't you? So it's it's my fault because I could have,
like, you know, been more firm. They'd always say like, yeah,
you know what maybe one day, yeah, yeah, yeah. But
then they wouldn't because the theory with some people in our building at the time
was well, if you're syndicated and you're doing a show in Charlotte or you're
doing a show in Savannah, then you you're not gonna you're gonna lose your
touch with people here in Minnesota. And I should have said fuck you.
And so that's one thing. What about what about you? I would say,
just like if it's not one particular thing, but I would just say,
working on my confidence in my twenties because I feel like I'd be further
in life if I had been more confident, not like in looks or anything
like that, but in like my career actually, because I think maybe I've
told you this before, Dave, but as an intern, I was so
shy on this show, like I just kind of minded my business, did
what I wanted to do because I was like intimidated, and I had like
bit ideas and they were probably absolute garbage, but I was intimidated and not
confident enough to come and pitch them to you guys. And then I would,
like later down the row when I wasn't an intern anymore, see other
interns pitch ideas, and I was like, why did I do that?
Why did I? Like? Why was I so scared? You know,
understandable because it is a little bit you know, we forget sometimes like Fallon
and I And now you're at that point too, where people are maybe a
little bit intimidated at they're new and radio when they come in and just like
if you're like the new person at Target, or you're the new person at
Medtronic and you're in with the person who's been there successfully for ten years.
It's a little bit intimidated, but I think you do just fine. You
don't seem lacking confidence to me at all. You strike me as very confident.
I mean at this point in life, yes, but in my twenties
and probably my teenage years definitely did not have as much What three celebrities would
you want to be friends with? Tina Fey for sure, because I think
she's very funny, Kristen Wig because I think she's very funny. She's kind
of quiet, because she came in one time to promote Bridesmaids and she wouldn't
speak. She had to have one of the other co stars of Bridesmaids do
the speaking, and Jason sidekis Oh good choices. I would go Jennifer Lawrence
just because she seems fun and funny. Probably Seth Rogan, also very funny,
and then just because I like to look at him, Orlando bloom Day.
What is the best celebrity encounter you've had? Off the top of my
head, I would say Will Smith. Back when everybody loved Will Smith,
he was just you could tell why he was so likable. I remember he
called I learned something from Will Smith, and that is he used my name.
Yeah, because a lot of us, we meet somebody, we immediately
forget their name. And I'm like, so, what happened with the movie
Wild Wild West? Because it was a bomb? And he's like, well,
Dave, you know, and he had a funny answer, Well,
Dave, here's what a Dave Dave? And I learned something from Will Smith
that people love that you used their name. So there was something that was
my best celebrity encounter. What about yours? Well, funny enough, it's
who your son Carson's about to go work with Louve because at one Star party,
I went and did the meet and greet and I'll never forget he told
me. He was like, wow, I just like love your energy.
And we had a very short conversation, but he was just so genuine and
friendly and I'll just never forget that. All right, What about your worst
celebrity encounter? I would say I've never really had a bad one ever.
I think Joan Rivers was a B word when I interviewed her because I wasn't
very good at it. I was new in radio. Maybe it was twenty
five, and she's like, I guess I asked a series of dumb questions
and she's like, this is the interview and I'll never forget that, Like,
this is the interview. And it wasn't her being rude, it was
just her being impatient with a rookie rookie interviewer. Yeah, I feel like
I haven't met enough people to say a bad time. I would just say
when Kesha came to jingle Ball one year, her security was so tight that
like you barely even got to like do anything for like you could go in
and get a picture with her, even though that's what a meet and great
is. But that wasn't Cash's fault. It was just like what she was
going through in life, so her security was very tight for her. All
Right, those are really good. Let's do one more. And this is
a hard one. If you had the power to fix one thing in the
world, what would it be. Wow, Well, you've got everything from
the environment to hunger to war, racism. What would you fix? I
mean, they are all very important. If I was going to throw something
at one thing, I'd probably say, let's stop wars first and then work
from there. Yeah, because I think I mean war is just I mean
it is we know what war is. People, Young people usually go out
and risk their lives and many of them don't come home. And having a
son who is twenty two years old, I can't even imagine at twenty two
years old, Carson, you going off to Ukraine and in the army or
the Marines or whatever and being in a war and not coming home. So
war is like, we know what war is, but it's so unspeakably horrible.
I would say, let's start with war and then move on to the
other important things. Yeah, I mean, Mine's just it's very hard to
pick, because of course I want to pick like cancer, and so I
know it's like I feel like that would be the top thing, as cancer
and sickness, and because like it, just I've luckily never experienced anyone being
taken from me too early because of cancer. So I'll probably go with that.
Good choice, all right, Moving on to the next one. This
is in response to an email you got the other day about the throwback bits
on the Minnesota Goodbye. Something was mentioned about a leave it to Beaver bit
and a broken window. I have listened to all of the Minnesota Goodbye episodes,
some more than once. Shout out, Jeanette, thank you. I
figured I could take some time to find this episode the listener was talking about,
I'm currently on a road trip with my dad to Colorado, Grand Canyon,
Phoenix in Dallas. So I assigned myself some homework of finding the episode
they were talking about. I couldn't find the episode about the broken window,
but Dave did a bit on the episode Wards Baseball. Ward was the father
on Leave It to Beaver. So I included the date and title, so
anybody can go back and listen to this audio gold and maybe Dave you can
save it somewhere. I've also included the dart Lick episode because why not love
you guys, thanks for keeping me and my dad entertained. I love that
on our long road trip. So they give the dates of both episodes.
The Dartlick episode where we introduced the term dart Lick, which is going to
be on a state fair T shirt this year at Katie WB. It actually
is it is. Yeah, I remember the last winter I made up I'm
taking your kids to school and dart Lick shirts. And I didn't do it
to make money because it's not a money making thing. Yeah, it was
to basically promote the morning show because I wanted people to wear around a dart
Lick shirt or and I'm taking your kids to school shirt and have people go,
oh wow, I get that shirt. That's cool, that's funny.
That's a dart Lick shirt. And high End management said you can't do that,
you can't sell things that are unauthorized, and blah blah blah, and
I was like, I'm not trying to get away with anything hinky. Just
like I paid for the Dave Ryan gave me Crabs billboards, just like I
paid for the uniforms for my band, just like I paid for the drumheads
for my band. Just like I paid four thousand dollars for Angela to consult
the show. I am doing it not for personal gain I did. I
made those shirts too, because we should have merch. You know, some
radio stations have water bottles, some radio stations have hats, and we didn't
have anything, so so I had a basement full of them, and they
said you can sell them at the fairs. So there's a very limited supply
of dart Lik shirts. March twenty third, twenty twenty. Thank you,
by the way, Jeannette, that is a very flattering and fun email that
you are such a listener of the Minnesota Goodbye Joyce writes in and says,
this week you'd read on the air too. On the show Thursday, you
were talking about Monopoly and asking with the boardwalk in your city would be.
I live in Blaine, and I agree with most people saying it would be
the National Sports Center. Funny enough, I actually have the Blaine Opoly,
which is Monopoly but based on the city of Blaine. I found that at
Walmart three years ago in the Blaine Opoly board, the thing in the boardwalk
spot is actually downtown Blaine. This makes no sense to me because I don't
even know what would be considered downtown Blaine, and I've lived here in my
whole life. I've attached a picture for you to see, so let me
scroll down. It looks like, yeah, I gotta turn my head sideways
here, Downtown Blaine would be boardwalk, park places, city Hall. Oh,
I gotta squint a little bit, Lakeside Commons, Beach, Blaine Wetland
Sanctuary. Then it's all the way upside TPC, Twin Cities. Oh,
that's a that's probably a big one. Blaine High School, Centennial High School,
Johnsonville Library. Say, we did a fun bit yesterday about you know,
what would be the wardwalk in your city? And I said, in
Chanhassan, probably Paisley Park or the Dinner Theater or the Arboretum. And you're
in Saint Louis Park and you said, well, I said, the Space
Needles Studio, because it's big, tall, beautiful structure here in Saint Louis
Park. It's true, all right. We got one from Chow. We
were talking about drinking milk the other day and he informs us via email.
Humans are the only species that drinks milk from another animal. Milk and made
for babies to stop at a certain age. Cow's milk is made for baby
calves and not for human consumption. I stopped drinking milk while in my teens.
The only time I have milk is with cereal, and that's only once
in a long time. Plus when I do have it, I opt for
oat or soy milk. Oat milk does taste close to real milk. Yeah,
I'm not I don't dislike milk. I just don't drink milk same.
I put it in my coffee on like on Saturday and Sunday mornings. I
have a it's called the cafe barista, and it makes delicious lattes. And
I use real milk. That's the only time I drink milk. What about
you ever drink milk? No? I mean I always have almond milk because
I put that in my smoothies every morning. So that's usually the only kind
of milk I drink nowadays. And I don't ever I have cereal in the
house because that's the type of food that I cannot stop myself when I when
I start, one bowls, not enough. I had three bowls later.
I was like, all right, that was good. I have a friend
who's she's like you. She's tall ish, probably taller. She might be
like five to eleven, and she's very athletic. But she I wouldn't say
struggles with eating. She might say that I don't know, but she's one
of these people who's always trying to lose those last five pounds. And she
said, I ate an entire box of cinnamon toast crunch, and I'm like,
really, She's like, yeah, I just ate, sat down and
ate the entire box. I'm like, I couldn't do that. I don't
love cereal that much, and I would probably stop after a couple maybe two
bowls at the most. Yeah, I mean, I just I grew up
like my high school years when my parents got divorced. My dad did not
feed us healthy food, and so we finally got to like go wild a
little bit when we were at dad's house. And so that's where I kind
of got addicted to cereal and I'd eat like sugary, crappy cereal and then
I kind of cut that out by like my mid twenties, because yeah,
I just like became addicted to it almost we Susan made this really cute little
recipe in a tiny little muffin tin where the muffins are about the size of
Reese's cups a little bit like I don't know about size of a fifty cent
piece, and she lined it with Graham cracker crust on the bottom. Then
she put in chocolate, then a marshmallow, so it's a s'more cup yep.
And they were so good. Alison was going crazy over him. That's
my daughter last night, and she's like, Dad, you gotta try one.
So I had one. I'm like, yeah, it's really good.
She's like, how can you have just one? I said, I don't
really crave sweets. And I also don't want to load up on They're probably
like one hundred and ten calories each. Probably do one load up on it?
So all right, last one, Sarah says, good morning. I'm
on a flight, so right now she is, She writes this, she
is a flight. I'm gonna lose my shit, and rather than snap on
every single person around me, I'm gonna vent to you guys via email and
hope that it helps. I'm trying to see when she wrote this yesterday about
five o'clock. I often fly in throughout Midwest for work, so short flights,
mostly one and a half to two hours. So why on a short
flight do these two old women in front of me insist on reclining their chair
immediately cause and it causes the tall man in the middle next to me to
have no choice but to have his legs now on my side, which is
the window side and the aisle side, so he's you know, they call
it man spreading. Speaking of tallman in the middle, why do tallman always
sit in the middle. Pay it a little extra pick your seat so you
don't always end up in the middle. My final issue, as I'm convinced
the man behind me, is detaching and reattaching the trade table because he keeps
poking, hitting and bumping my chair so damn much. I feel claustrophobic as
right now, even for an airplane. I hope that felt good, Sarah.
Yeah, I'm not sure if anybody feels this way on flights at times.
Thanks for listening to my rant. I love the show. I'm now
going to eat my gummy worms and trying to distract myself enough for the last
forty five minutes to not snap on the people around me. Wish me luck,
good luck. I hope it worked out well. I don't really have
problems on flights, Yeah, I really don't. I think the biggest problem
I had, like a couple of weeks ago, was somebody was I think,
playing Blackjack on the screen behind me and Tapa tap tap poke, poke
poke, and I finally turned around. They're like, oh sorry, I
mean I didn't have say anything. They knew why I was turning around.
Any problems on flights, well, I haven't had problems. I have been
in the situation where I've been in the window seat and the guy in the
middle was man spreading so aggressively. I was like just touching the window,
like the entire time with my life because he was man spreading, but like
it was one of the cheaper airlines that doesn't have as much space. I'm
not going to call him out, like it's kind of what you expect on
certain airlines, I think. But I also will say that I think that
those people just don't realize it, because my boyfriend does it sometimes and I
will grab his legs and be like, hey, your man's breading into that
girl's spot, like put them together, you know. Like, I just
think that they don't realize it a lot of times, or they genuinely don't
have the space because their legs are so long. I would compare it to
the people who cruise in the left lane on Highway seven. They're not trying
to be a jerk. They're just off in their own world. They're not
even thinking about it. The one that really and now that you mentioned that
man spreading, the last couple of flights, I've set next to a guy
and it's summer and I'll feel his hairy, bristly arm hair tickling my arm,
and it is the most disgusting, way too intimate of a feeling to
feel a stranger man's arm hair tickling my arm right, and so I actually
elbowed him. I like, like I sort of aggressively elbowed him, like,
get your arm off my arm. Yeah, and I let him have
the arm rest, but he was over on my side. I was leaning
toward the window because I was on the window side. Yeah, but okay,
that's it. Thank you, Sarah. Thank you for the emails,
and we are always looking for more because they definitely make the Minnesota Goodbye a
lot more interesting when you email, So you got something on your mind,
you want to bring up something that we haven't brought up, or something you're
like, hey, you talked about this a few weeks ago, or you
brought this up on your show, or my sister was talking about this and
it was interesting. Give us your idea to talk about on the show.
We would appreciate that. Send it to Ryan Show at k d WB dot com.