Minnesota Goodbye will probably pretty much always feature Bailey and Jenny and me once in
a while, it'll be just me and Bailey, or Me and Jenny and
maybe Vont once in a while. But Bailey, welcome to another episode of
the Minnesota Goodbye. I was sharing with Jenny and Bailey about how yesterday,
after my big hike, I thought I want a Coca Cola slurpy. So
I stopped at seven eleven. And you know there's different versions. There's the
icy, the slushy, the slurpy whatever, they're all the same thing,
you know what I'm talking about. And I went back to the machine and
I was like, oh, this is gonna be so good. So I
got the cup and I lifted the handle and sloppy soupy slurpy pours out,
and it was literally mostly Coca Cola and the rest was a little bit of
sloppy soupy slurpy. And you know how they give you a dome lid so
when it peaks, there's room in the cup that you can put a dome
lid over. You know what I'm talking about. Ye didn't need it,
Nope, got the dome lid and it was like it was still a Coca
colasy, but boy was a disappointing. It was kind of like when you
have a Coca Cola that you accidentally, like leave in your car during the
winter, then it's just a little bit icy on the inside. Yeah,
it was disappointing. It was okay, but I wasn't gonna let it ruin
my day. It's like, I hiked all the way up Pike's Peak and
this is what I get. This is not and by the way, clarify,
I'm not going to talk about this forever. But I did not hike
all the way up Pike's Peak. I hiked six and a half miles up
to a place called bar Camp B A R R. And I noticed a
couple of things. I noticed there was a ton of women hiking. And
I noticed that a lot of women hike alone. And I think that the
hiking community is different than the walking on the path in your neighborhood community.
Well, especially a plays like Pike's Peak that's like intense hiking. Well it
is. And I think that people if you're up there, you're up there
to hike. You're not up there to be frightening or to be you know
what. I mean, like, if you hike on an old railroad bed
in your neighborhood, you look for a sketchy guy wearing a hoodie and wearing
pants, and you're like, oh god, not this guy, and it
makes you a little bit nervous. But like on the trail, everybody was
so friendly. It's like, hey, good morning, how are you.
And I'd stop and talk to a couple of people. And my favorite,
I told you earlier was Nicole, who is seventy six years old. Hikes
thirteen miles up and back Pike's Peak every Monday and every Thursday. Wow,
And it's amazing because it's a tough hike and she's seventy six. She does
not look like it either. No, And I told her she was on
your blog. I said, you could pass for forty five or fifty.
And she said, well, you know, I do this all the time.
I try to stay fit. And her husband is dying of cancer and
she said that's the only thing that she does that keeps her saying yeah,
because you know, she loves her husband and she's been with him for a
long time, but that is kind of her her therapy. Did you get
a lot of good reflection done on your hike. You know, I had
the song Whistle by flow Rida going through my head most of the time.
Lota whistle baby, So baby, let me go and start real slow.
Were you listening to it or you just not? It just went in my
head and it wouldn't stop. Did you listen to anything? No? And
I didn't put my I had my earbuds for eight hours. You didn't listen
to anything? No? Because I wanted to enjoy the sounds of birds and
nature and streams and wind. But all I heard in my head blow my
whistle, baby, whistle baby, Let me go, because it just got
in my head and it wouldn't stop. So stupid. Let's get on with
the emails, and here we go. Brandon writes in Hey, Dark Liquors,
congratulations of vont and Bailey joining the show. I wanted to randomly reach
out and give some potential content. We're planning a wedding this fall, so
many things I'm surprised by at this point. I used to think that I
was giving a generous gift of the amount per meal per person at twenty five
or maybe thirty dollars a person. When I went to a wedding Lol,
our wedding is pushing eighty dollars per person at the very low end for food,
and that's with a three item they and paper plates and plastic cutlery.
It's wild. Also, did you know that an eight thousand dollars catering bill
expects a twenty to thirty percent gratuity even though three thousand of that is quote
events set up. I can't even imagine what these vendors are expecting for tips,
except pretty close to zero if you already overcharged it. So it doesn't
sound like Brandon's going to give them much of a tip. You get an
eight thousand dollars catering bill, they're expecting a twenty to thirty percent gratuity.
What do you guys think? I don't think. I think that that's your
gratuity. Then I don't think you go and tip them on top of that.
I think that's what it is. Yeah, when it's added in,
that's what it is. I was gonna say, I worked one time a
catered wedding because of working at Straight Dog, because they catered some random wedding
and I worked it, and it was honestly the greatest gag ever because we
had a set amount that we were making, and I think that that was
just what was added into the catering bill, So I think that's it.
I wouldn't tip on top of it y either. I mean I would.
I would probably say I'm not going to tip, and here's why you're charging
me a three thousand dollars setup fee. But if you're in the wedding industry,
let us know. I mean, of course, if you're in the
caterine industry, you're gonna say, yes, tip, tip, tip,
But is it justified? There was a wedding that that I won't give a
lot of details for I don't want to embarrass anybody, but we tip the
DJ. I thought really generously, like one hundred dollars. And they actually
wrote to me afterward and they said, did I do something wrong? I
thought I did a good job. The tip was so small. I'm really
upset and very hurt that that I didn't get a bigger tip. And I
was like, I don't know how I thought. I one hundred dollar tip
seemed like a pretty good tip, you know, I mean the DJ was
probably five six, seven hundred dollars and a one hundred dollars tip, I
thought was good. I honestly didn't even think that you'd have to tip tip
a DJ. I thought that their fees were what you pay them. I
didn't realize that that was another thing that you tip up for. This is
why I'm never getting married, man. You I got to tip for everything
these days. Back in my day, you would only have to tip the
waiter at the restaurant. Oh right, right, I don't I don't know.
I mean, I don't want to get into the whole tipping culture thing.
We've done that to death. But I think that you're justified. I
think it was Brandon if you tell them why you're not tipping, But it
sounds like he is tipping. He said that it's already added into the bill,
didn't Isn't that what he said? Yeah, well, it's it's for
a three thousand dollars setup fee, which is like, what is a setup
fee? I mean that is where you bring in the food and that's part
of what you're doing. Yeah, it's kind of like if you go to
the doctor and they charge you one thousand dollars and another five hundred dollars for
medical care, Well, what the hell am I doing? You know?
What is the thousand dollars for I feel like that happens on every medical bill.
I have no idea what I'm paying. Oh my god, yeah,
doctors, we don't even realize. Yeah, seriously. Next one, Jenner
writes san, Hello, morning show crew, I'm excited about vont and Bailey
joining the Morning Show. I was wondering if you could tell us more about
the process of getting Bailey on the show. She had guests hosted quite a
few times in the past here or so were those auditions? Was she paid?
Did Dave have to fight to get two additions to the Morning Show approved?
Anything you're able to share about this process would be appreciated and interesting.
Congrats to all from Jenna. Yeah. Uh, you know, it was
definitely a process. When we had Bailey fill in, Bailey was on the
show about three or four or five years ago talking about dating. Do you
remember that, Bailey? Yeah, I remember that like it was a yesterday.
What did we talk about when you were on with the data? It
was like we did like a dating game kind of thing where I had like
a list of fun facts that I was listing off, and then all these
dudes would call in and then once one of my fun facts turn them off.
They would hang up the phone. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah. I didn't contact any of those guys, I'll tell you right now,
but they all like still follow me and message me every so often.
Okay, yeah, And so I realized at that point Bailey is that she's
a funny person. So when we needed somebody to fill in, it was
funny because when Jenny was gone, the station, you would think would provide
somebody to fill in, and they usually always have, but they did not.
They basically, you know, like, they didn't have any money to
pay anybody for Bailey to fill in, so so anybody fill in. So
I, luckily, very fortuitously, I knew Bailey. I know Bailey's funny.
I know she loves our show. You've listened forever, right, yep,
truly since nineteen ninety five, and that's one of the great things is
that you listen to the show, so you know the vibe of the show
and how we are smart asses and we talk about this and this and whatever.
So Bailey was a very natural fill in. And honestly, we didn't
have a lot of other choices because a lot of people, so Bailey came
in and did not get paid, which I think they're going back retroactively daily
they are, well, that's what I was told, but I literally just
wrote it down because I want to remind myself to ask Rich about that,
because that would be great. I think they are. I think that they
realized, oh my gosh, we can't have people coming in and working for
free. So I think they're going to go back and retroactively pay. It
was fun, though I would have done it for free anyway, but if
they want to pay me, I'm not gonna stop it. Stop talking just
paying you wait to get paid. No, I'm nearly certain that they are
because I think, like you know, ethically, it's the right thing to
do. But that's one of the things we loved about Bailey was Bailey loves
being on the radio, and so you would come in and be on the
radio for free. In the same way that you don't have to pay me
to go ride my motorcycle, you don't have to pay me to go play
golf. I just love to go, you know what I mean. And
it was food to be on. So anytime Dave was like, can you
be on? I was, Honestly, I was super fortunate because my boss
at my job that I had right before this. I worked at the History
Center. Shout out, Sammy Joe, love you. She's not going to
listen to this, but I would just say, hey, I have the
opportunity to be on the radio tomorrow, and she would be like, oh
my gosh, that's so cool. Just let me know when you get into
the office. And she let me do that twenty three times. So that's
I am sorryful that she let me do that, because if I was I
mean, if I was working retail, that would have happened and I wouldn't
be sitting here right now. So yeah, it was like kind of a
lovely chain of events. Was everything was like working out the way that it
needed to. So I'm hashtag blast you know. I love it. I'm
really glad you're here. I'm very happy with this team because I think that
now we've got a bunch of different lifestyles we do need and this is probably
going to send me right into HR, but we do need one of you
to get pregnant. And I think that, well, I'm going to offer
a cash incentive. How much I got seventy three dollars in my wallet.
Absolutely not, would you do it for seventy five, Jenny seventy three will
get me the pill that I need to make sure that that doesn't happen.
That's what that'll get me. But you're actually great mom. I don't know
that I would. I am fantastic with kids exactly. I however, get
to return them when I'm sick of them, and that is where I don't
know. I'm going to be a great mom. Bailey, have a baby.
If I could have a kid like walk out of my womb, like
age four, being able to talk and poop on their own, perfect,
I'll take it. If I have to raise a baby hard pass. How
about the whole pregnancy thing too hard pass? Yeah, saying hard pass.
I don't want to. Jenny, though, if you got pregnant, you'd
be the cute kind of pregnant where your stomach is like only no life.
Would not I would absolutely blow up. My face would have three thirty chins
at that point. I would blow up. I know I would, because
I would be like I get to eat everything, give me everything. Can
tell you why you're both wrong. I was watching a graduation speech from the
kicker of the Kansas City Chiefs, and he told me that he knows that
you women, your main thing in life is you want to have a baby
and be a mom. So I took that at face value, and I
figure that the kicker from the Kansas City Chiefs is anybody knows what he's talking
about, it's him. That motherfucker literally works what three minutes a year,
He gets paid millions of fucking dollars and then gets asked to say a speech
to tell women what to do. No fuck him. I'm sorry, has
women, No, he makes me so I rate man, I was mad
about I was so mad about that. I rate golly. You know you
two women should listen more when a man is talking pants day. Okay,
David, is this why you suddenly have a Kansas City Chiefs Jersey in the
studio out of nowhere on the back. It's funny because you know what Jenny,
Jenny's very like, very even leveled as far as like, you know,
reaction. But when that speech came out, Jenny was like, I'm
gonna imagine that motherfucker. I'm gonna blow up his car. And I'm like,
okay, I never threatened any violent dud. You said, you're there.
We go out with the torches in a big group. All right,
right, here we go, Dave, Jenny Bailey, vont trying to call
in a no phone is stren Or Friday did not get through. I always
like asking different random questions to people. Here's what I was going to ask
you. What is the time when you laughed the hardest on the radio?
Okay? I've had so many over the years that I've probably forgotten if somebody
said, oh, yeah, that might be this time. But I would
say the most recent was probably when I put the funnel in the front of
Jenny's pants. I was poured water down the front, which, by the
way, that thing is still going viral. I get constant notifications about people
commenting on it. Are you serious? Yes, all the time. People
are still commenting and seeing it, and they're like heated about it too.
They're like, oh, of course you would do this too, A loe
know people are serious. Yeah, so it's so wild. They're like,
well, that's an HR violation. I was like, does anybody know what
a joke is? Like I get that, like, of course, at
like in most work environments, yeah, you can't do that. But like,
I like feel bad because I feel like because of my reaction, everyone's
like saying it was so evil, but I thought it was hilarious. It
was a good bit, you know. And that's the thing, is kind
of like, that's what we do. And I get, you know,
if you worked at oh, I don't know, Cargill, and you get
everybody in the conference room and you're like, hey, Jessica, stand up
here, we want to try a little game with you, Jessica, and
the the CEO pours a funnel of water down the front of her pants.
That would be awful and evil and embarrassing. But at the radio station,
I mean, seriously, that's another That's a Tuesday, you know it is.
And it kind of reminded me. There was a prank we did.
Oh my god, Jenny, I think you were here at the at the
restaurant, right yea with Tina. So in case you didn't know this when
this was huge and it blew up big and not always in a good way,
but basically, we staged a prank. We set a camera at a
table across the room and I was at the restaurant with Rich and Zach from
the station, and Tina, who worked at our radio station, was pretending
she was a server and I berated her for not knowing how to do a
good job and blah blah blah, and allegedly the phone video was from a
guy across the room who was videotaping the whole thing. So we showed a
video of me like telling this waitress that she doesn't know how to do a
good job and I'm chewing her out, and Rich and Zach are looking at
their menus like I'm not here, I'm not here, I'm not here.
And then we showed the videos like, oh good, look at this leaked
video of Dave Ryan being a jerk. And then we showed that for one
day and people went after me hard they did, and they said, I
thought he was a nice guy. What a jerk. I'll never listen again.
What an asshole. And then we showed the second half of the video
where I said, you know what I'm gonna do right now and Tina says,
no, what, and remember Tina's playing the part of a waitress.
I said, I'm gonna dance, and so we all got up and we
danced, and all the other tables got up and we danced past the camera
and walked out. So clearly, one hundred percent, you couldn't mistake it
for anything but a setup joke. On the people who watched the video,
they didn't like it, And I think one of the reasons is people don't
like to be fooled. They don't like to be have their passions provoked and
then have it turned out to be a joke. So one of the big
things I got was, I don't care if it was a joke. To
do something like that as with a woman as a victim was despicable. And
I'm like, come on, that Tina was in on the joke. It
doesn't matter that it was a woman. But and there were a lot of
people also who are like, you got me, You totally got me.
Good one. I'm pretty sure I had people texting me and being like,
oh my god, like Dave this video of Dave, and I like couldn't
say anything until we revealed it. So I was like and then they're like,
oh, okay, that was funny. Most people I don't can take
a joke. Yeah, So but yeah, back to the funnel thing.
I mean, it was a joke, but yeah, it's still it's still
got a lot of legs to it. Last email, it says, hey,
guys, the show has changed and evolved over time, and one of
my questions is why don't you have interviews with celebrities anymore? I very briefly
listened to that Big show in New York, but for me, they weren't
as good as The Dave Ryan Show, so I removed them from my listening
queue. I do still see videos from them on my Instagram, and they
recently had Drake Bell in the studio, so it prompted this random question,
why don't we do interviews with celebrities anymore? That's a really, really good
question. Number One, they don't make themselves available like they used to.
We used to get celebrities in the studio once a week. I mean back
in the day, we used to get you know, anybody from Jessica Simpson
to Jesse McCarthy or McCartney, whatever his name is, Duran, Duran,
Ricky Martin, Justin Bieber. Once a week a celebrity would come in the
studio. I have no idea why they don't anymore. I really don't.
But I also know that we used to interview like TV stars, like we'd
get on like you know, for example, we'd get on Teeter from Yellowstone
and we never had her but that's the kind of grade we would get.
It'd be like, Oh, I've heard of her, but a lot of
people haven't heard. So the thing with having celebrities on from a TV show
is it doesn't work because only about twenty percent of our audience knows that celebrity,
and the rest are like, I could give a shit. So if
we had Teeter on from Yellowstone. I love Yellowstone, it'd be fun to
talkch or Oh, do you really do your own stunts? Or do you
really like what's the set like? And how did you get this job?
And you know, how did you come up with that funny accent and whatever?
And I would be find a very interesting. But if you don't watch
Yellowstone, for example, you could give a shit. Does that all make
sense, Jenny? Does that sound right? Like how it's happened? Yeah,
I mean pretty much. I wasn't here during the era of celeb interviews,
Like I think there's maybe been two people in studio Nelly for some reason,
like did an entire show with Dave and I one time Desperate and then
some guy from Stranger Things, And so I wasn't even really part of that
era. Oh my god. Yeah, And it's weird. I don't want
to cut you off, but we got to wrap up here. We got
to wrap up and it's perfect timing, So send your emails. We need
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