Well, we have an interesting Minnesota goodbye today and we're gonna talk about Drake
and leaving the show because this is I don't know. I've always prided this
up, the fact that we're pretty open and honest with you and things happen
on the show. Okay, I'll give you an example. Steve was he
was laid off from the show because we had budget cuts and we love Steve.
We didn't want to see Steve go. And I'm gonna go ahead and
jump in. I'm gonna go ahead and take credit for a couple of times
they said we need to cut budgets, what about Steve? And I said,
no, you cannot cut Steve. Okay, next time budget cuts rolls
around, we need to cut budgets, who can we cut? Can we
cut Steve? I said, no, you can't cut Steve. Finally,
they did it without asking me because they needed to cut and they didn't give
me a say. And that's honest, it's the truth. And we missed
Steve and we love Steve. And you know, Steve is just such a
He's just such you know Steve too. He was a smart ass, He
was funny, He could take the tension out of any moment, and he
was let go and not let go. He didn't do anything wrong. They
just said, find a place in the budget where we can save this amount
of money, and they said, okay here. It is kind of the
same with Tina. I mean Tina, we love Tina, and I know
that they purposely looked past Tina many times until they couldn't anymore. Does that
make sense, Yeah, I mean her position around the country basically wasn't existing
in most markets anymore, and they did keep her around like much longer than
other markets that had that similar position, and that person was gotten rid of.
There have been other people in the show who have left. I mean
Angie Taylor left for a bigger show, not a bigger show. She left
for another show, I'm not going to say a bigger show. And now
she's got her own big radio show years later. I mean she's been gone
twenty years. Corey Foley left because she just wasn't really you know, for
whatever reason, she didn't want to do it anymore here and now she does
radio somewhere else. Intern John left for a different opportunity and now he's a
huge DJ in d C and Baltimore. So and then there have been people
who have been fired, and I'm not gonna pick on anybody, because you
know, even after all these years, I don't want to embarrass anybody that's
been fired from the radio station. But I can only tell you that when
somebody gets fired, whether it's from your place or from a radio station,
you don't just go, hey, you know what, you know what sounds
good? You're gonna fire somebody? You know? You just you just don't.
Yeah, I mean, And that's really all I can say about it,
and there's really not and I will go a little bit deeper with Drake
as a person. Drake was kind of, like I joked earlier, I
said, he's like the son that I never wanted. Drake was kind of
a you know, goofy, irresponsible, laid back, very funny, friendly,
positive, always a warm hello, always a war goodbye, always acted
like he was glad to see you. So there's no personal animosity with Drake
at all, and we wish him well. And is there anything that I
missed? No, I don't think so. I think that's pretty much everything.
I will only go on to say that, you know, I've been
doing this for a long time. I've been at thirty almost thirty one years
here at this station. People come and people go. Sometimes people last.
For you know, Steve was here for fifteen years, Fallon was on the
show for twelve years. She moved up to her own show. So a
lot of people thought, and it's funny how people want to speculate, just
like we look at the the Kate Gate thing with Kate Middleton, we're like,
oh, there's something people aren't telling us. And maybe it's like,
hey, maybe she's sick and she doesn't want people to know. Well,
there's nothing that we're not telling you except what we can't tell you. And
I will tell you that We've gone through this before and we always bounce back
and we always will. And people, I mean, it was so funny
because when people when Steve left the show, people said, that's it.
I will never listen to the show again. That's it. I'm done.
I'm done with this show. And the ratings actually got bigger after Steve left,
not because Steve left, but for whatever reason. And when and when
Lena left, oh, people were like, oh god, well, now
that Lena left, I'm never going to listen to the show again. But
then they fell in love with fallon, So I don't know it will will
move on because that's what you do. You know. It's kind of like
if you break up with somebody. You don't go, well, I'm going
to become a nun and I'm never gonna date ever again. You go,
well, this sucks, and then you sit around and mope about it for
a while, and then you go date somebody else. Exactly, Jenny,
you're not much help today, but I appreciate you why you're doing analogies.
I don't know what else do you want me to add to it? I
don't know anyway, So Drake is not here anymore, And if you want
to know more than I guess, you could say, ask Drake. But
then again, you know he might not want to talk about it either.
All right, I do want to talk about this. I brought this up
earlier. It's funny because we were trying to record the podcast earlier and we
got about two minutes into it. Of what the computer froze up? Jenny,
I don't know. Something started firing off in my headphones and you didn't
hear it, and then I got scared something was happening with a station,
so we just had to stop we were talking about a friend of mine who
and this is kind of a conversation I want to have that's nothing to do
with what we just talked about. But she said, I'm a mom,
I'm a grandma, i am a wife. I do everything for everybody.
Nobody ever does anything for me. She said, I'm getting tired of doing
things for other people and nobody does anything for me. And I said that
sucks. And I said, I'll bet we all feel like that at some
time or another. Whether I think a lot of moms feel that way because
they got a couple of rotten kids they got to take care of. They
might have a partner that you know, doesn't really help as much as they
should, or they don't appreciate it. And I think a lot of people
do. And I think sometimes there are the people who do, and the
people who let other people do, and the people who let other people do.
Maybe we're guilty sometimes have taken them for granted. Would you say that's
true? I mean absolutely, there are definitely people in my life. My
mom, for example, I've definitely taken her for granted. She's there for
me through like everything, and I get annoyed sometimes when she calls me and
just wants to talk and I'm busy, you know, but she's always there
for me. Yeah, And I think that's true. It's kind of like
I think I feel that way sometimes too, because I really like doing things
for people, and I'm not talking about monetary things, and I'm not talking
about you know, whether it's monetary pick you up at the airport, or
help somebody along in their career or whatever. And a lot of the time
there's just no it's like, what are you gonna do for me? I
mean, I've had people like friends of mine say hey, will you take
me flying? Will you take me flying? Will you take me flying?
And I've kind of stopped in a way because they just don't seem appreciative,
you know. Yeah, it's like, oh, you take me flying,
Well, it's gonna cost me about four hundred dollars to take you flying.
I love to take you flying, but when I get so little appreciation for
it, I'm just like, eh, no, but I'll give you a
phone number as somebody who will, but you gotta pay for it on your
own. So if you feel unappreciated, you're not alone. Yeah, Ben,
if you got a story about it, send me an email to Ryan
Show at KTWB dot com. Let's get into the emails. Jenny, you're
ready, I'm my day. Let's see what we got here. Hold on,
I got to push the right tab and see what we have. Some
have come in from earlier this morning. Let's try this one. What's up,
gang, I hope you're having a great day. I'm emailing to ask
why Drake is gone. Okay, so that's funny that you asked that,
and basically we just we just talked about that, so there's your answer already.
But thanks, totally understand you asking. And then let me move down
to this one. Happy Tuesday. I hope you're all having a dart licking
week. To make it short and sweet, I would love advice and opinions
from you guys and listeners regarding your parents trying to help you with your finances
as a young adult. Here are the details. Is it normal for your
parents to ask about your finances as a young adult. My dad is my
best friend and has helped me budget and knows how much I make, and
I ask him for advice before taking jobs or paying to do anything that costs
a lot. But is it normal or does this happen more than I realize.
I absolutely know it's none of his business, but I also know he's
trying to help me and get me set up for my future. I'm also
very thankful for that. But overall, I'm sure somebody has some type of
situation. How do you handle it? I don't mind you saying my name,
but if you can avoid it, I would appreciate it. Case my
dad listens from Alabama, Thanks in advance, and keep on dart licking.
I would like a stay Rider sticker if possible, so I will take a
picture of your address and send you one. I think it's really cool that
your dad knows all your finances, because this is somebody who, as your
dad, wants nothing but the best for you. Did she say how old
she was or no? She said young adult. She does not say exactly,
but no, I'm gonna guess probably mid twenties or so. She lives
in Texas, by the way, which is really cool that she listens in
Texas. They say, I know it's none of yours, none of his
business. He's also trying to help me. Is this common? Susan helps
Carson a lot with his finances because Carson. He makes a lot of money
when he's doing the tours, but then he makes a little bit of money
doing his part time job when he's not touring. And I'm not good with
money in finances because I just don't. My basically thing with money in finances
is I just I don't really spend it. I'm not a money hoarder kind
of a person, so I don't concern Susan is much more concerned with money,
so she advises Carson on finances. Alison doesn't need it, Beth and
Chase don't need it. What do you think. I just never had a
parent who was involved, like new enough themselves to be able to help me.
So my parents have never been in my business about finances. But I've
had other people who I'm like envious of their relationship with their parents because their
parents help them get like an investment portfolio going and helped with roth Ira and
all of this stuff. And so I think, like, if that's where
your parents are helping you, then it's I would be willing to tell my
parents how much I was making them, But for right now, there's no
reason that I would tell my parents. Yeah, yeah, I totally get
that. I think that some people are very involved in their kids' life and
finances. And I know a lot of parents give their kids money because they
could afford and the kids need money. And we've been guilty of that too,
because Carson lives in LA and the only way to get deep into the
music business is to live in Los Angeles. Well, when you move to
Los Angeles without a job, you can't afford to live in Los Angeles.
So we've helped him out with the idea that you know, hey, you've
got to be really ambitious and you get to really work in a high try
hard, and he has so yeah, no regrets. This email is mostly
for Jenny. I've been on a recent binge of old Amazing Race episodes and
I think you and Andrew would be the perfect pair to compete on the show.
From what I can tell, both of you are in great shape for
the physical aspect of the game, intelligent for mental challenges, seem to have
great communication with each other, very sociable, and of course love to travel.
You've also got a decent social media presence and appear very marketable for TV.
I can't help but think how you would kick ass racing around the world.
You can have about this though, right we have. There was like,
I don't know, a year ago, it got brought up somehow and
we thought about it, and so we were like watching audition videos from people
like who literally like they were on the show, and they explained what they
did in their audition videos, and it kind of we kind of forgot about
it, honestly because we're like, oh, we should try it, But
then it did seem like a lot of work because you can't just you can't
just fill out an application and like be like cool, maybe they'll reach out
to me. You have to put some effort into your audition videos, and
it just never was like a top priority. Andrew wants to be on Survivor
more than anything. But when it comes down to it, and we've discussed
this recently, Andrew doesn't have a TV presence. He is not a public
speaker. He shuts down when a camera gets put in front of his face.
Even if it's just me hanging out with him at home and I try
to record something funny he's doing, he stops. So I just don't foresee
us. And I'm not saying we wouldn't ever try, but I don't foresee
us getting picked as like a couple because I don't know that we would stand
out and be like the characters that they're looking for those shows. I get
you, because you know what they are characters. I mean you think about
like when it goes all the way back to like what's the one Big Brother?
Right big Brother? And Survivor and Jersey Shore, all of those people
that are supposedly on a reality show. They don't cast people who are quiet.
They cast people with big personalities. If you think back to the original
season of Survivor, they had Tina the white trash or Tina the nurse.
They had the white trash trucker. They had Richard the gay guy, and
they were all characters and none of them were like, you know, polite
and shy, and if they did, they did not last very long.
So I get it. You and Andrew would be great on Amazing Race because
you would fit all those things. But Andrew just probably would kind of shrink
if he was on TV. Yeah. Yeah, Hello, Dave. I
want to ask for any tips of resources for the Pinewood Derby, anything from
websites to cool recommendations or just things you've learned through experience. Would be incredibly
helpful. It's my son's first year in Scouts and first time participating. He's
so excited. My husband's pretty handy, but it's his first time doing it
as well. Hearing about your love of Scouts and good things you've had to
say about it made me feel good about getting him involved. I know you're
busy, so thanks in advance and I'll email her back. But I thought
it was kind of funny. There are actual books of how to make your
racer go faster, and a lot of it is they I think it's a
five ounce weight limit. You put the drill a hole in your racer,
and you drop fishing sinkers in there, and you weigh it on a posted
scale until it is five ounces, and then you go to the way in
and then you be ready. If it's a little bit heavy, you be
ready to take some of that would fill route and take a weight out,
but get your up to five ounces, and then also put graphite powder on
the wheels. The wheels are so important. They get to spin freely.
And we did really well in the Pinewood derby. Because there are actual books
that you can buy that'll tell you how to build a good racer. Okay,
maybe I would say, maybe I'm naive to this, but is that
a boy scout thing? Yeah, it's all okay, okay, okay,
because I was like, I don't remember ever doing anything like that. Girl
scouts do it too, and I think it's open to any groups. I
mean, it's not exclusively a cub scout thing, but that's kind of what
cub scouts are for. And I I mean, that's not what they're for,
but that's where they usually do it. And she shows a picture of
her little eight year old Cub scout and his name is Jonas and he is
adorable. He looks so proud. And I'm gonna tell you that scouts,
I'm a big, big scout advocate because if you're gonna play sports, you're
gonna recognize that the people who say accel like sports are fast, big,
tall, or strong. A scout, whether they're a boy or a girl,
doesn't have to be any of those things to succeed in scouting. Like,
for example, I mean, Allison played volleyball and she was tall,
but not fast and not really strong, and she also didn't have that you
know, like you can call it the eye of the tiger, you know
what I mean, like the her factor. Yeah, she didn't have that.
You can succeed in Scouts without any of that. You can be a
quiet kid, kind of shy kid, and you're gonna love it. You're
gonna have a great time. So there's my lug for Scouts. Yeah,
okay, I think we're getting kind of near the end here. Here we
go real quick. I too heard. Oh they were talking about the Okay,
never mind, they're talking about something they heard on the show that they
didn't like but they thought was funny. So I'm gonna move on from that
one and I'm gonna go up to let's do this one. Last week on
the Minnesota Goodbye, you were talking about the woman who asked for advice on
owning her a new home. You mentioned how you keep your pets in your
own yard. She wanted advice on buying a new home, right, Yeah,
just to be like a homeowner. Any advice of being a new homeowner.
And I said, go meet your neighbors because they're going to be great
when you need somebody to like, Oh, I forgot to shut my garage
door. Will you shut my garage door? Or Skippy is gonna need to
be fed for a week. Can you feed Skippy while we're out of town?
Can you get my mail while we're out of town? And plus,
it's nice to be able to walk out of the mailbox and see somebody that
you know, even if you don't need them for a favor. You mentioned
keep your pets in your own yard? Can we talk about that more,
particularly where people that their cats roam the neighborhood. I'd like to give a
PSA. In most cities, it's illegal to let your pet off leash outside
your property that includes cats. Please, people, keep your damn cat in
your own yard. I keep my dog in my own yard or on a
leash. Cat owners should be just as responsible. It's not that hard.
I'm so tired of one my dog trying to eat all the cat shit deposited
all over the sides of the street walk, and two trying to keep a
dog quiet in her own yard while the neighbor's cat sits five feet out of
reach and sits in stairs taunting my dog. Keep your damn cats off the
streets, please, dart lick Kate for Motamede. We have a street cat
in our neighborhood and that's well, it's like someone's cat, but they let
the cats roam whenever the cat loves to go outside, and I thought it
was a missing cat. Once I'm coming home from the gym and I see
it and I was like, here, kitty, kitty, like trying to
talk to it. And then I realized the owner was outside and I was
like, oh, is this your cat? And they're like, yeah,
she just likes to roam. It's like, oh, okay. I used
to be guilty of that. I used to have a cat that I would
let go outside and I never even thought about it, and he would roam
around. We live by a marsh, and he would roam down by the
marsh, and I think one of the neighbors finally said something about the cat,
like they'd call and they'd be like, your cat's in our backyard,
and I was like yeah, So then I finally got the idea. So
then I don't remember if I put the cash out the cat out on a
tie out or what. I don't remember, but I was guilty of that,
so I never even thought about it. Was it because like did you
grow up with like barn cats or something? Because I was gonna say,
I'm my best friend's family. Growing up, they had so many barn cats,
so like that was pretty normal for the cats to just roam outside and
do whatever. Yeah, it wouldn't. I'll be honest. It wasn't really
a barn cat. It was a pet cat. But we lived on five
acres and the cat would go outside whenever they wanted to. It was like,
oh, cat wants outside, and they'd go roam around and yeah,
so and that is going to do it for the Minnesota Goodbye. If you
want to comment on anything about Drake, don't ask me too many questions because
I can't answer. Also, if you want to talk about whether you feel
like you're appreciated or not, and what you go through and what you do
for people but you don't get things back in return, and anything else you
want to bring up on the Minnesota Goodbye, send that to Ryan's show at
KDWB dot com and thanks for listening.