I want to mention though, I do have a bunch of Minnesota Goodbye staff
writer stickers that just came in, So if you want one, let me
know. And remember, all you gotta do is have your email read,
and I'm pretty generous. Even if you don't get your email read, I'd
still like to give you a sticker because you know, sometimes there's an email
that we just it doesn't fit with the show, or we've read the same
thing. But send those into Ryan Show at katieweb dot com. Melissa in
Massachusetts gets one, and let me tell you what she wrote about. Melissa
here from Lynn, Massachusetts, found you on iHeart about twelve years ago and
I've been obsessed ever since. Melissa, Please write me back and tell me
what it is that makes us better than your local radio station. Yeah.
I've always found that fascinating. She's probably within the range of Boston and can
hear some great radio shows. I'm so proud that our show is better to
her than a Boston radio showy, or a New York radio show or a
Tamper whatever it is. It's like that that's so fascinating to me. Contributing
with a random topic and hopes to getting a staff rider sticker. I got
pretty awful. OCD not debilitating, but I take a picture on my stove
and my door before I leave for work in the morning. Anyway, I'm
also a crazy cat lady. Okay, so let's go back. She takes
a picture of her stove and door so she can show herself that I turned
it off. Oh yeah, okay, leave. Wolsviick used to iron her
shirt before she came into work, and she would sometimes turn around and go
back home because she wanted to make sure the iron was turned off. And
she used to turn it off and unplug it and yell the word off so
she would remember that she turned it off and if she didn't, she'd go
back home. Yeah, I'm also a crazy cat lady. Recently, I
discovered that when I leave the house, I am calling for my cat to
come out. She does not respond to her name or me saying goodbye,
not even the treat bag opening. Okay, reason discovery. Unfortunately, in
my journey with OCD, I've actually conditioned my cat to know I'm leaving the
house by checking the stove and saying out loud the stove is off, and
then checking every knob, and she comes flying out every time. While I
know I sound absolutely insane, I thought it was funny and it reminded me
of the episode of the Office was the white expecting gum every time he hears
his computer turned on. I don't remember that anyway. Thanks for reading,
Hope, I've earned a sticker, of course, Melissa. Thank you.
Write me back Melissa and let me know why us over your local station.
I'm so curious about that, Tina writes in I'm almost sixty years young,
listening to KATWB since elementary school A long time ago. Oh a long time.
I've never wrote a letter, emailed, called, or texted KATWB to
let KATWB know that someone's a great addition to the show. I'm doing it
today. Vont is a great addition to the show. I think Rich should
offer Vont the job if Vont wants it. Welcome to the Twin Cities,
Vont, have a great day, Tina. I don't. I think that
Vaunt is awesome, and I think that he's always got something to say,
and he's interesting and he doesn't care what you think of his opinion. I
mean we all do to a degree. Yeah, like his girlfriend yesterday when
we said one word to describe him, and she said straightforward. And that's
so true about him. He is pretty straightforward. I really just can't help
it. Okay, hold on, I'm writing this email from Caitlin as I'm
trying to fall asleep and I can't stop thinking about my foot in mouth moment
from earlier. This evening, we attended a celebration of life for my husband's
uncle who recently passed, and as we approach his wife to give our condolences,
I very enthusiastically say to her thanks for coming. What. Oh No,
I had no idea where it came from. Thankfully my husband jumped in
to speak next, and neither my husband nor the wife acknowledged my awkward choice
of words. Yikes. Hopefully someone can get a chuckle out of my brain.
As an additional note, the event took place at the American Legion in
New Hoom with complimentary pictures of Shell's beer. What a kick ass way to
celebrate a life in my opinion, your fellow Viagles kaiserhof lover, Caitlin,
that's the second time Vigles Kaiserps come up on the show. It's for sale.
Apparently, I was at my uncle Keith's funeral in two thousand and six,
and his wife, Shirley was there, and so I walk in.
Shirley was, you know, she's the widow. She's so sad, she's
been married for sixty years or whatever. She's wearing a black dress. I'll
never forget it. And I said, how you doing, which was the
dumbest thing ever, and she said, I mean she handled it gracefully.
She said, I'm okay. So, you know, always hard. So
Andrew and I had a wedding for one of my good college friends and our
other college friend. Her mom had unfortunately just passed away from cancer or like
probably a week prior, but she was still going to be there. But
I gave Andrew the warning ahead of time. I'm like, hey, just
remember so and So's mom just passed away from cancer. Just be careful with
some of your words tonight whatever. And the first thing he says to you
is like, hey, Holly, how's life ben? Oh no, no,
no, man, how you doing. She is the type of person
she's like, well, you know, I mean, like not so great
lately. Yeah, let me immediately try to like backtrack and yeah, we've
all had our foot in the mouth moment. I talked about mine with the
the people from t Rex Cookies, where I met somebody named Ryan and then
immediately discussed how I chose a boring last name for my radio name Ryan,
and I felt so stupid and small and he played it off pretty well,
but it was it was awkward. Hello morning Shoe from Sandy. She is
a continuing staff writer. She's got a sticker already, Dave. My husband
has climbed many fourteen ers and he goes out to Stillwater to hike the steep
stairs and recommends you add this to your training. Tell me where are the
steep stairs and still Water? Are they the ones on the cliff? Yeah,
well it's right off the main street, right when you're coming in sucking
Patriot. Yeah, it's right where you would like park for booty crews.
Pretty much, She says. I tried hiking Quandary Peak with him once and
it was immediately awful. Past the tree line she means timberline, where you're
above the part of the you know, the atmosphere is too thin with oxygen
for life to grow, for trees to grow. For the record, I
did zero training and I have asthma. Couldn't make the last two hundred feet
to the summit. He has a top ten fourteen er list with a couple
left. He has a couple of funny stories about trying to hikeer near.
If you're interested and I'm happy to write back in, please do. It
might not know Yeah, it might make it on the Minnesota goodbyer. It
might not, but if you want to write me about that, please do.
Have a dart licking good day. Right from Sandy, I have a
question because obviously you go to Colorado every once in a while with your house
there, so it's like you probably are a little more acclimated to the oxygen
levels. Yeah, but are you doing anything special to train for pike speak
in terms of like it's higher there in your oxygen it's harder to breathe,
like you could crush doing a normal hike like that in Minnesota, but in
Colorado it's just different. No, honestly, Well that's there's a big answer
in a small answer. No is the small answer, but a bigger answer
is I'm trying to get my vo two max rate up higher, and that
is how much oxygen your blood is able to carry to your body, and
it's been going up. It measures it on my Apple Watch, and it's
been going up. It's like Wow, it used to be at a twenty
seven and now it's like a thirty three. So it's really good. And
I've been running harder, doing more conditioning training, Like last night, I
ran faster than I normally do for three miles on the treadmill to get that
conditioning up. There is a device, and I've heard it's maloney that it
restricts how much air you can suck in, so you're supposed to is like
a mouthpiece and you're supposed to practice breathing with it to get less oxygen.
I've heard experts say it's not an authentic replication of what it's like above altitude
because the oxygen you're bringing in the air you're bringing in has the same amount
of oxygen. You're just not able to pull in as much. So I
haven't tried it. I've heard it's like not an effective representation. But I
am going to try the stairs out of still water. That's a really good
idea. Next one. I'm a little bit behind, says Carissa. Listen
to the podcast from March nineteenth titled Keep Your Cat in Your Yard and it
reminded me of a story a couple of years ago. My cat, at
the time one and a half year old son was in our backyard playing in
the sandbox. Sandbox is glorious for kids. It keeps them busy for at
least ten minutes so I can get some other shit done. As I was
doing some gardening, I checked back to see what he was up to.
I noticed he was chewing on something. I walked over. I said,
what's in your mouth? As he opened his mouth, a piece of cat
shit covered in sand came falling out. At the moment, I shouted,
oh, my god, grows and I took him over to the outside hose
and rinsed out his mouth. It was known I was known to see outdoor
cats roaming on occasion, but I never think one of them would use our
sandbox as their litter box. So my question is are there funny, gross
stories you have about your kids eating something disgusting? I have a daughter and
a son, and let me tell you, boy, sure do some questionable
things. Thanks for the laughs every day from Carissa. When I was a
little boy, I don't remember it, but I used to eat moths,
the moths that are like the size of your thumb, you know what I
mean with the wings and whatever. I used to eat moths and we called
them millers. And I don't know why, but we called the millers.
And my sister Vivian said, yeah, when you were little, used to
eat millers. I'm like I did, and my mom said I did,
So anything from you, I don't. I don't know. I think I
ate dirt and stuff like that as a kid because I played outside all the
time. I never wanted to come inside. But I don't know nothing.
No insects for me, no cat poop in a sandbox for me. Okay,
good, Well, not that you remember, but you know we probably
all did something. Next one. Hello, Dave and Crewe love the show.
I love the longer podcast. David mentioned wanting to get new podcasts.
What about I'm still fun lol, But here are some suggestions. I listen
to a lot of true crime ones. Morbid Crime, Junkie and my favorite
Murder are my favorites. SmartLess is a good comedy one you might like.
I rotate around those four and just a classic like a twenty twenty yr date
line since you know you are old and like and like forty eight hours yes,
I do. Got a question regarding prizes you give away on the radio
station. What if somebody wins one and a relatively better valued one and they
never show up to get it, what do you do with it? I'm
imagining those last minute tickets like Twins open or recently given away, if somebody
wins and then never comes to get it. Some people just try to win
a prize just to win it. You're right, yeah, Jenny, Okay,
let's stop on that one, because then they have a question for you.
It is not often that that happens, but it's happened. We've I
mean, I've worked in radio for forty something years. There's always unclaimed prizes,
whether it was a CD or whether it was a microwave, there's always
unclaimed prizes. I think we just wait a respectable amount of time and then
we give them away again. And for something like the Twins tickets, usually
those are transferred mobilely or through email. Now so a lot of tickets are
transferred through email, so nobody has to come to the radio station to get
them. But like a physical thing like the Taylor Swift albums were given away
with the qualifiers for the Paris trip, those are something that they're going to
have to come to the radio station and pick up. And I think most
people are going to come pick those up because swifties love Oh totally, yeah,
yeah, there have. I mean there's always people just like you said,
who call to win just for the win. And that's why when we
give away something that's a little bit smaller in fan appeal, like tickets to
see Knox in the KDWB Skyroom, there'll be people who will call just to
win because they love to same way some people love to shop. Yep,
they don't really want what they bought, No, they just love to shop.
So we always try to say, hey, we're gonna look for a
fan because we want people to show up. Next one, Jenny, how
is the O KRTAR series going? What is that a Katar? That's the
Court of Thorns and Roses, and that's the fairy porn books I've told you
about. Oh yeah, yeah, So I'm on the third book right now.
I've been a little slow on this one in the last couple of weeks,
but I've been loving them and so I don't know if they're asking if
I want to recommend them, or if they're saying that they love them too,
but I would recommend them if that's what you're asking for. Okay,
good to know, Dave. Jenny vant I received my staff writer sticker in
the mail yesterday, says Alice, and I want to say thank you.
I really like the stamp with a Peanuts character and plan on keeping the envelope
two. I love the sticker and I put it on my cup that I
use every day at work. Here's a topic. How do you feel about
people posting videos of them being laid off. I remember seeing one online where
the guy refused to be laid off and was telling them all the stuff he
has done to make the company better. It was weird. I know when
I was laid off twice, I took it like a champ and moved on.
I didn't think it was worth arguing since I know they'd already made up
their mind anyway. It's kind of like arguing with a judge or a cop.
The cop is never going to say, you know what, you're right,
you should just be let go. Those drugs really aren't yours. So
I think that's the taking the high road. Y'all. Have a good day,
Happy Friday. Eve. Sorry Jenny had to throw that one in.
Thanks for making me laugh. That's from Alice. How do we feel about
people posting? I haven't seen one, have you. I've seen the videos
of people they have a zoom meeting and because they work from home, and
then they set up their camera to just record themselves basically getting let go.
So I've seen a couple of those before, and I saw one that honestly
made me a little bit sad because the girl was like, I've literally done
all of these things, how are you gonna let me go? This is
insane? And so she got upset in it, and that made me sad.
But it is. It's range to me to see some of them,
because I think a lot of people are just doing it because they're so angry,
and I don't think that posting something out of anger emotion is the best
route to go true and I think that emotion right because you're angry, you're
sad, you're hurt, you're shocked, And that's like they say, when
you're angry and sad and hurting shocked, don't write a letter and send it,
don't write an email. You can write it, but then sit back
and wait a while until you hit sin I've been guilty of that, Like
something has really pissed me off here at the radio station, and I'll write
to Rich and I'll be like, this is some bullshit. This should not
be happening. And I've sent it, and then other times I've not sent
it. Then I'll ask Susan, like should I send this? Should be
like no, no it Sometimes it just feels good to do it, write
it out and get it out of your system, but not actually hit send.
Okay. Then a day later you'll be like, you're right, it's
not I'm not that upset anymore. It's very true, Dave. Don't us
leave us hanging. How to the meeting with the Big boss go on Tuesday?
Because I was on the podcast and I said, we got to stop
because I got a meeting with a big boss. Love to hear about the
office t as a staff writer working from home for the Minnesota Goodbye podcast.
Yes, you are a staff writer working from home for the Minnesota Goodbye podcast.
Thank you, Sidney. We appreciate whatever you can share. Cheers.
The big boss guy named Tony flew into town last week or last Tuesday,
and I had a meeting with him at eleven o'clock. I go back to
the meeting room at eleven o'clock. He's not there. His uber was on
its way. He showed up at about eleven fifteen. We go into a
little meeting room and Tony is a very casual conversation, not a formal kind
of thing, almost a meeting where you can almost put your feet on the
table, almost but not quite. But I respect Tony. I think he's
a really good person and he's a good boss. I don't know him that
well, but he's given me some tips. There was nothing. He did
say that we measure a lot of listening by the iHeart radio app. Yes,
so in other words, more and more people are listening on the iHeart
Radio app. But he also says, you got to work on video live
streaming so people can watch you on the webcams. And I'm like, we'll
get Vaunt on that right away. So we got Vaunt on that right away,
and we worked on the video live streaming, and we did live stream
this morning, which is something we really wanted to do. And that's kind
of like the wave of the future with you know, like radio stations,
so so you get to see us all bright eye Bushy tail at seven am
live streaming. Now, you know it's funny because yeah, we you know,
Jenny and I dress up a little bit. I mean it's casual.
Yeah. At the same time, there are radio people who just look like
garbage and they don't care. And it's like, no, you know,
dress up a little bit. I mean, Jenny's wearing a hoodie today.
That's totally fine, but there are jeans and stuff. It's not like I'm
wearing like sweatpants with my hoodie. You know, we have an intern that
came in wearing pajama pants and she was a very interesting person because she was
very hot and she knew it, and I think that gave her a little
extra feeling of privilege, like I can do whatever I want, but because
I'm gorgeous, people will let me get away with it. So ah,
next one, Hello friends, you can say my name. I don't think
we read this one. Just putting in an idea for Sarah who's trying to
come up with her ideas for her husband's birthday. Remember this one. He's
turning, I believe fifty. If he happens to like golf, or even
if he does it. My family just went to top golf in Brooklyn Center
for my dad's birthday about a month ago. We had a great time.
They had great food and great drinks and you don't have to have ever played
golf before to play. That surprises me. It was more fun than I
thought, and I'd never tried golf before in my life. Hope this helps
with an idea. All right, Jenna from Lincoln, Nebraska, thanks for
reading my email earlier this week about my party where nobody showed up. I
appreciate the support. Next one is from Daisy and I love that name.
I was watching Sesame Street with my four year old toddler and there was an
episode about morning routine. There's even a song written about it, and here
it goes, wake up, potty time, eat and brush. I don't
know the melody, but I'm guessing. Here's my question, who the fuck
eats before they brush? Are the monsters in Sesame Street savages? All my
life it's been wake up, potty time, brush, then eat and so
I thought that was the norm. Is it not? This has shook my
world, to be honest. Lol. What about you do you eat before
you brush your teeth in the morning? Thanks for reading my email. Love
listening to you don't forget. A wise man once said, I'm taking your
kids to school, best regards from Daisy. Okay, so the sesame street
says, wake up, potty, eat and brush. I wake up,
potty, brush, and then I don't eat for a few hours. Same.
I'm exactly the same as the Yeah, but what about on the weekend,
because I still brush my teeth? Oh, are you gonna tell me
you don't brush your teeth at like five pm or something? I don't brush
my teeth every weekend. I mean, like I don't like it. Like
on some Saturdays and Sundays I'll brush one of the other. But I don't
always brush my teeth on a Saturday or Sunday. I just don't. I
just don't. Don't you start feeling grossed by that afternoon? I do,
but I don't. When I was at Boy Scout Camp, we were in
the mountains in New Mexico for eleven days hiking, and we took little,
tiny, portable camping toothbrushes. And there's ones you can buy for camping that
have a little dab of toothpaste built in, so you tear open the envelope
and it's got a little dab of toothpaste and you can do your best or
you can do the full on toothbrush whatever. But we tried to limit weight.
And a guy who was a dentist that was in another crew, not
and our crew, he said, look, I'm a dentist. He says,
you can go for about eight or ten days without brushing your teeth and
it's really not going to hurt anything. And I was like, shit,
you're on doctor, so you go weekends without brushing your tea sometime not a
real fact. I learned about day Ryan today out every time. Liz is
a regular writer. She says, morning, Dave, Jenny and whoever else
is joining you. Yeah, the longer podcast thing doesn't work. Yeah,
the perfect link where the ad for Lucky Land Casino cut in mid story and
that was the end of the podcast on today's four to two episode. That
was why you were keeping it under twenty minutes, you guys agreed after the
previous batch of emails last year for the same issue you lucked out on two
that didn't have an ad during the podcast, But please stop making them longer,
or else you need to go really long so we'll have something to listen
to. After the commercial. That's why I advocated for the shorter twenty minute
podcast, but clearly the people with more time on their hands won. Thumbs
down emoji. I appreciate the opinion, Liz. It's a matter of like,
I tried to please everybody, and if you can't, you know,
here's the saying. You can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself.
Yes, And I'm gonna go please myself right now. I'm going to
go in the other room. You go do that. I'm gonna go please
myself, stay here by myself. You go somewhere else, please, Okay,
I will all right. Anyway, I'm one of the many emails letting
you know that we didn't get to the end of the stories today, letting
you know those damn casinos are cutting off the tail again. By the way,
my husband and I are flying down to Dallas for the Cloudy Eclipse.
When is the eclipse? It's like days away now. I's on Monday,
hoping the sky's open up. But we reserved our room long ago, so
we're still going and that's exciting. Her husband is a pilot and that's super
cool. April eighth, so that's coming up Monday, right Monday. Yeah.
Yeah, have you ever been in a full on total eclipse? No?
I haven't. Okay, Jenny's getting antsy, and I you know,
when Jenny gets antsy, it's time to wrap up the podcast because I can't
see the clock from here. But Jenny gets antsy, so I know it's
time to wrap it up. So let's do that right now. Send your
emails to Ryan's show at KDWB dot com.