Okay, for the second time. Today, we are doing the podcast the
Minnesota Goodbye. So we recorded this earlier and I went to hit the stop
button on our equipment and it wouldn't stop and it wouldn't stop, so I
didn't know what to do, so I kind of is the computer op app
So I minimized the window and then tried pushing stop again. That usually works.
It didn't stop this time, so I actually exited the program, hoping
that would save the fifteen minutes of Minnesota Goodbye, and it did not.
We lost it. So we asked the engineers. What did the engineers say
about this? They literally said, there is no solution. We have the
oldest equipment there ever it was, and we just have to deal with it.
And it's a very They agree that it's an extreme inconvenience to all of
us. So that is the solution. Without a solution, it is,
and you know what we really do have, like you know, it works.
It's kind of like you know, if you got like a nineteen ninety
two camera, it might still work, but it doesn't work reliably maybe,
so it is frustrating. I'm going to do like a check every five minutes
on this podcast. Make sure we're still recording. Make sure there's still a
wavelength going no, And that's the thing. I do that myself, because
I can actually open the window and look and there's a wavelength right now.
But it doesn't anyway. Nobody cares. But we're gonna go back and we're
going to redo the motherfucking podcast Magic. We brought to it earlier that it
shouldn't be a recurring theme though. You know you don't see Jimmy fallon go
God. Sorry, guys. You know, we recorded the entire show.
Because we got to the end, we put this push the stop button and
it wouldn't work, so we've got to redo the entire show. It's just
frustrating because you know, you and I are pros, and we expect to
have equipment that works up to a certain standard. Yep. And it doesn't
happen just once in a while. It happens every two weeks. I will
tell you if anything will urge an early retirement from me, it'll be the
lack of budget at this fucking radio station. Because it is frustrating that I
have to buy everything extra that we want. I got to buy it myself.
The webcams, I had to buy myself a little Dave Ryan microphone flags.
I bothols myself, the stickers, the pens, and it does get
frustrating that it's like, hello, iHeartRadio. You could pitch in and help
us out. Yeah, So if anything will lead to an early retirement,
it'll be the fact that I'm tired of buying shit for this radio station.
You got to just start putting in expense reports and see if you can get
away with it. I mean probably you wouldn't get away with the cameras because
those were very expensive. But just like we're little things here and there and
be like, oh, it was parking for a concert that I did a
pre party for, and they'll be like, oh, yeah, that's right
because they wont to remember. Yeah, right, you know. And that's
funny because we I think we I don't know how your company is, but
I think they deliberately make it hard to turn in expenses. Like if we
go to jingle Ball, for example, and we got to park across the
street and it costs US twenty eight dollars to park, they deliberately make it
hard to turn in your expenses. So people, a lot of people just
go fuck it. I'm not going to bother. Yeah, I've only done
an expense report one time, and it was only because it was a lot
of money and it was towards something that they said that they would pay for,
and so I only did it one time because it was probably like three
hundred dollars or something like a lot for me. So I actually made that
for But I have never put an expense report in for any kind of parking
that I've done for any event that we could do it for, I've never
done it because it's just complicated and it takes forever and it's like eighteen bucks
or ten or so whatever. So now getting back to being positive and reading
the same emails that we read a few hours ago, here we go.
I need to share this encounter I had with somebody on Facebook the other day.
One of my Facebook friends that I barely know posted on their story a
picture of an insurance card stating Christmas Special two for fifty dollars now by insurance
Carding, And I guess they're selling fake insurance cards. So when you get
pulled over, you can show it to the cop and it'll say like progressive
and the date of expiration and whatever. So it's fake. There really is
no insurance. I look closer and yes, it was fake, homemade car
insurance cards. I responded to this Slay's saying, smh, this is so
wrong. He then said, why does it bother you? I'm just trying
to hustle and make some money. Don't be a hater. I responded back,
saying if somebody cannot afford insurance, they should not have a car,
and that it could potentially affect myself or a loved one if they ever got
into an accident with one of your clients. This went back and forth for
a while. I ended up with you are just as responsible selling someone fake
insurance cards as they are buying it, and he said, what are you
a fucking cop? Go to hell? And they blocked me. I'm not
sure why it irritated me so much, but it definitely made me boil.
So it leaves the question, have you ever had a time where you hope
somebody would get caught doing something, whether it's something illegal or with work or
someone cheating? Love y'all. That is Amy from Dallas, and Amy says
she already has a staff writer sticker, and she did send me a picture
a couple of weeks ago with it next to her two slinkies on her desk.
So I remember you, Amy, that is really irritating. You are
absolutely in the right. First of all, it's illegal, it's really shitty.
But you got to figure the kind of person that's going to buy a
fake insurance card. They're a fuck up everywhere in their life. Yeah,
they're probably underemployed or unemployed. They probably steal and work the system any way
they can, and don't give me the excuse that they're poor, because poor
people don't equal break the law of people. I know a lot of people
that don't make a lot of money. They donate plasma, or they work
extra hours, or they don't take expensive vacations or buy expensive tattoos and cell
phones. So you can be poor and not break the law. You can
be broken not break the law, but you can be like I'm gonna guess
if somebody does something like this, they fuck up in a lot of areas.
How many times have I said fuck on this podcast? Only a few
can. I think it's only because we both feel a little amount of extra
rage today because of the lack of working equipment. So I think it's I
give you a pass today, and people also love when you swear. It's
like my favorite thing to see when people on a Facebook live and you're like,
I love watching this behind the scenes stuff because watching Dave swear as I
see I don't know the Easter Bunny, Like, it's just such a rarity
and you don't expect it and it's exciting. That is funny, She says.
Has there ever been a time you hope someone would get caught doing something?
I thought of something since we recorded this earlier this morning. There was
somebody who used to work here at the radio station, eh who was involved
in some shady shit and they would get I don't want to be too specific,
but they would get favors from people who gave them favors, and everybody
knew it, and everybody looked the other way, and we were like,
are you serious. You're letting this person get these favors in exchange for favors
and you're going to look the other way. And we used to joke about
it. Everybody knew about it, and I wished they would get caught and
they never did. And then I also mentioned, not quite on the same
thing about people who are not doing anything illegal but they're just assholes and everybody
thinks they're a wonderful person. There was a DJ in Phoenix, and I
don't want to get too specific because he's still out there. He was an
asshole. Everybody that knew him knew that he was a liar. He once
accused. There was a guy that worked on our show named Pat Eberts,
and he once accused Pat Eberts of they found his cocaine somehow on him and
he said, oh, that belonged to Pat Eberts. Because this guy was
an asshole. But everybody thought his public, his listeners thought he was just
the most wonderful guy, and everybody that worked with him was like, no,
he's a fucking asshole. So, and that's one that I wish people
would get caught. I wish there's some certain people that I wish people would
realize what assholes they are. Yeah, all right, Next one. It's
a little tricky because I'm in the deleted email file. This is kind of
funny. I like this one. Hey, fam, don't say my name.
My office is having a Christmas cookie exchange. We have a sign up
sheet on the bulletin board. I noticed that most people are making gluten free
cookies to bring in. I found out we only have one employee that is
following the gluten free diet, and most of my co workers have been accommodating
to her dietary choices. However, am I the jerk if I don't bring
in gluten free cookies? Nothing I bake with is gluten free and I got
to go buy and go out and buy special ingredients to do it. I
don't want to make waves or be inconsiderate, but I also don't want to
spend extra money on baking goods I might not use again. Love you guys,
thanks for helping me decompress on my drive to and from work every day.
I would love a sticker from my laptop, Dave Done. I think
gluten free is important for people who can't handle gluten. Yeah, but I
think there's a misconception and I might be wrong. But let me know that
gluten free is healthy for everybody else. Like, Oh, gluten free is
what I want. It's going to help me with my diet. It's like
fat free or sugar free. I don't think that gluten is It's innocuous and
benign for most of us, and we can handle it just fine, it's
not harmful. If I'm wrong, let me know. But I think a
lot of people think that, oh, gluten free is a good choice,
whereas it's really not necessarily. You don't need to make that choice unless you
can't handle gluten, right. I was going to say, Dave's not saying
that people don't have issues, Like there definitely are people who have serious issues,
And I forget what it's called when you need to be gluten freely as
disease. This is what I thought, but I didn't want to speak.
But I was gonna say because I was out with a girl who she is
one of the most chill people I've ever met in my life, and she
aggressively was asking our server about gluten free stuff, and I didn't realize she
had such a sensitivity and she was like so stretched with cross contamination and everything.
And I know a lot of time servers like it's their worst nightmare to
have to deal with someone who has an allergy, because you don't want to
be that person who tells them the wrong thing and then they like having a
reaction or something. So I do believe that there are some people who obviously
have reactions. Yeah, but I also agree that it almost became like a
diet fad, like people thought that being gluten free was healthy. Yeah yeah,
and think I don't think it is. But if I'm wrong about that,
let me know. This one's from Naomi. She says, thanks again,
Dave for all the last tears and shocks through the years, your irreplaceable,
We love you man, love your bestie Dart Liquor in one of your
seven listeners since nineteen hundred. Ha, Naomi, Seriously, my whole fifty
years have been on KATWB Love You, Jenny Drake, Fallon, Steve,
Bethany, Lena Corey, Lee Stevo, and all the rest. And she
sends a picture of something that we can't figure out what it is. But
it looks like a refrigerator covered with stickers. And the reason we can't figure
out what it is is there's nothing around it to really get even a context
of like what it is. It's just a surface with a bunch of stickers.
But I think we decided it's a refrigerator. I think it looks like
a mini fridge to me, like something you'd probably hold your beers or something
in like the side thing, or maybe you keep your lacroiz in there something
like that, because it looks like something I had in college. All right,
I like it. I've been catching up on the podcast episodes and one
of the episodes was talking about a serious medical condition episode which reminded me to
write in about how I'm grateful that my dad was one of those people that
is still here with us today. Basically, Dad was put on a transplant
wait list for a double lung transplant just before the holidays a few years ago,
like three years ago, and three years ago almost exactly, he got
a double lung transplant. He stayed in the hospital for four months, and
they said Father's Day the next year was one of the best I've ever had.
This doesn't really have a point other than I'm so lucky my dad was
given that opportunity, and I don't want to ever forget it because I'm aware
that many other people are less fortunate. It is really I want to wish
all of you and your loved ones and wonderful holiday season. Thanks again for
another season of Christmas wish. There might have been a few tears and glasses
removed during the wish granting lol, And I would love to receive a staff
writer. Sticker, thanks for being my favorite radio show. Fallon and Zach
are next. Lol, And that is from Annie, Thank you Annie.
Next one. I think that might Oh wait, there was one from Jim.
Jim is a supporter of the show. We love Jim. And it's
interesting because I think he's Scottish. He's got an accent. I've never met
him in person that I remember, and I'm sure I would. But he
is also an ex marine and he is a chef. So we talked about
we have different friends, like I have a carpenter friend. Yeah, that's
Mike. Whenever I need some carpentry building advice, Mike is like a master
cabinet builder. He'll help me out. I hung a TV on whatever,
and he helped me measure it just right. And I've got my Apple genius
friend Nate. I've got Nurse Wendy. I've got Lee Volsvik's partner who is
a doctor. And yeah, so I've got the array. I don't have
a mechanic. Ooh, that's a good one to have, because I don't
know how to do anything with cars. That's someone we don't have. Andrew
has a lot of people too, because he works in real estate, so
he's got like a contractor for everything. So when whenever something goes wrong,
we don't typically hire some big name company, we go to his buddy Carl,
who's been doing plumin for five years, you know, and that's great.
I mean, I love that Dave knows. I listen to KWB for
the morning show and all the Minnesota based DJs, which means I tune out
during Ryan Seacrest. Is that common? No, it's not uncommon at all.
Ryan does a great job, but everybody knows he's not from here,
so a lot of people don't get the joy that they want to get from
here in a local person who knows where Mall of America is and knows where
One's sixty nine is, so you know. I mean, Ryan does a
great job, but it's everybody knows it's pre recorded and everybody knows he's not
from here. During that time and on the weekends, I listen to Cool
One Away for Christmas music. I don't consider shares new song a Christmas song.
It's upbeat and catchy, but not a Christmas song. If it were
played any other time, I would like it, But I can't stand the
Rudolph song by Dean Martin where he calls the title character Rudy, where he
goes Rudy the red beig Rain Deer. Because Dean Martin back in the fifties
and sixties was the epitome of cool. He was the Matthew McConaughey of his
day. He was just cool as fuck. And he's been gone for years
and years now. But give me Gene Autry over Dean Martin every time,
says Jem, question for the three of you, what Christmas song can you
absolutely no longer stand? Is it the hippopottom of song Christmas Shoes? You
can't pick the one about the plane crash because that's not in rotation. Actually
it's a bus crash. But I know the one you're talking about. Yeah,
I would say my least is rocking around on the Christmas Tree. I
didn't like it when it was when I was a kid. I don't like
that. I love that song. Yeah, I don't really think I have
one, to be honest, because I don't think we listen to Christmas songs
enough to get sick of them, you know, like we listen to Fascar
by what's his name? God, what's the name Luke Holms a million times
a day, and it plays and it plays and plays, and so I
do get sick of it. But Christmas songs only plays for a few weeks
a year, and then it's like, all right, it's a new song
when you hear it again the next year. Yeah, I don't hate it.
I just don't really. I never go oh rocking around the Christmas tree
turn it up because I just don't like her voice. It's just kind of
god like a he'll billy little sound to it. I don't really like it,
and I've heard it a million times, and I think it's stupid.
Most Christmas songs lyrics are stupid. If you listen to don We Now Are
Gay a Pair? Or follow La La La la la, deck the halls
with bows of holly? What does that even mean? I don't know,
the halls with bows of holly? What does that even mean? Hang up
a ree. You also, probably up until a certain age, always said
balls of holly because I never knew it was bows until later. Because I
don't even know what that means. I didn't even know what that meant as
a kid. It's like a limb or a something. I don't know Yeah.
Anyway, I was talking earlier about how rocking around the Christmas tree.
I can't get away with it, away from it. Last night, Carson
was at work and he face timed us while he was at work, and
he was sitting there at smash Burger in a food court somewhere, and he
is facetiming while he's waiting for his smash Burger. In the background in the
food court was rocking around the Christmas tree and I'm like, oh my god,
make it stop. Let me see if there's another one. We got
to wrap up here, Show, we're going to wrap up. Then well,
there we go. Simple as that. That is it for the Minnesota
Goodbye, Cross your fingers and hope that when I push stop it works.
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