I gonna start off the Minnesota Goodbye with a complaint, it says bff's and
usually not a complainer, but I get a bone to pick with you,
Dave. I've sent a couple of emails to the Minnesota Goodbye that we're read
on the podcast and requested as staff rider sticker, but never got one.
Four weeks I've been excitedly going to the mailbox only to find some stupid fucking
Christmas cards with pictures of families that I don't want. That shit goes right
in the trash. I love you already right about now. I'd be happy
to get Ralphie's fucking little orphanani bullshit to coder ring Ah got then, just
to add insult to injury, I'm listening the other day and some lucky girl
got too. What even, Dave? What have I done? And then
she puts the laugh emoji and the heart emoji, so I know she's kidding.
She says, I love you guys so much, brighten my day every
day, you make my workday better. Thank you. Can I please get
a staff writer sticker? I promise I'll slap that bitch right on my laptop.
That is Mary Anne in Blaine, Mary Anne. Absolutely, it is
totally possible that I did not send you one. I don't know how it
slipped through the crack. I thought it was doing very good at that But
if you sent too and I never sent you a sticker, my bad.
It'll be a couple of days because I'm in Colorado. But watch for it
and I will get you a staff writer sticker. Another one says I added
this Joslin, I added my stickers to our new garage fridge. Thanks so
much for sending it seems to be a popular place for our stickers. She
put the Dave Ryan Show sticker and the staff writer sticker on her garage freezer
door. Nice, So thank you, Joslyn. Appreciate that one. That
is spam. That is junk. That is junk. This one says they
are our local book author and they look for a shout out. So I'm
going to read that one a little bit later on. This one says,
you know, I'm trying to find one with content. There's a lot of
ones that are saying, hey, can I get a staff writer sticker?
I never got one, so there it goes that one. Next one Jenny
as I started whatever happened to your poop clips that you used to make?
Where can I find one interesting story? Now? We can talk about them
on the Minnesota Goodbye because it is not regulated by the Federal Communications Commission.
So I can plug Clip a Doo's on the Minnesota Goodbye because we can't plug
them on the radio because the radio waves are protected by the Federal Communications Commission,
where I am not allowed to apparently try to sell something that I'm not
that I have an interest in that, you know what I mean and business
jargon, you know. Yeah, But on the podcast, I can mention
it, but I'm not going to overdo it because I don't want to,
you know, step in any grey territory. But yeah, I make clip
a do's and they are amazing. I invented it, but it's it's not
incredibly unique. It's a clip that goes on your dog's leash and then there's
a clip on the end that easily clips onto their poop pag. There are
other products like that that are out there, but I really like mine the
best because it's simple and it's expensive. I think it's nine to ninety nine
for one of them. They make a great stocking stuffer and you can get
them on Etsy just search clip a do Ce, l Ipado or Dave Ryan
Dave. Finally think, oh, I was gonna say, Dave gave me
one the other day. Finally, And I'm so pumped because there's one dog
I watch who literally like it's her goal to not poop in the yard,
but the instant you take her on a walk within like a block, she
poops every single time. And I am so sick of carrying the poop until
we get to the high school that's near my house and get to a garbage
like a public garbage can that I can throw it in. But so I'm
pumped and finally have one. No, they're great. I mean seriously,
I used to before I invented the clip a do seven or eight or nine
years ago. I remember I used to take the Josie's poop and I would
tie it to her collar because I was like, it's your poop, You're
going to carry it, and so you know, she didn't like it,
but she didn't really have a choice. And then I said, oh,
well, what if I clip it to the leash? And then I got
an idea and then I clipped one into the leash and the other one was
the one it looks like pe and you slide down like when you clip a
dog's leash to their collar. And then that was a little bit cumbersome.
So I just used tube clips two alligator clips to hold the poop on there.
So if you want one, let me know. Next question, why
is the app sound sped up? When Drake laughs, he sounds like a
chipmunk. Is it just my phone? And yeah, it is your phone
because when you listen to a podcast, you can listen to it at one
point oh speed, which is the normal speed one point twenty five one point
five, and then two point oh you can even listen to half speed.
So I'm gonna guess look at your phone and tap on it, and then
you'll see that it's probably sped up to one point five. Yeah. I've
caught myself a couple times being like this sounds weird, and then I look
down and I was like, oh, it's on one point high speed.
Yeah. I listened to most podcasts on one point five. I listened to
that air disaster crash with those two women that do the air disaster podcast.
It's called Take to the Sky, the Air Disaster Podcast, and I listened
to it yesterday, and I always listened to it at at one and a
half speed. Let me ask you a question, Jenny. When you listen
to a podcast and you're listening to like these two people that host this podcast,
they're great, and I've listened to it for years, but they always
do about ten minutes of fluff and personal stories before they get into it,
yep. And it'll be anything about their dog or about their trip, or
their husband or school, or their mom or health or whatever. And it's
to me, it's like, I don't care. It's interesting that they have
personalities and whatever, But do you listen to any podcasts where it takes them
minutes to get to the content? There is the fluff. Yeah, there's
one girl, her and I share. Her podcast is called be There in
five, and she kind of does that and I usually skip ahead to like
once she starts getting into the content of her podcast. And it's not that
I don't care, but like I guess, I haven't like grown to like
her to care about her personal life as much as she was as much as
I like to hear about the time topics that she talks about. But then
I also listen to podcasts where it's like all about their personal life. Like
there's one podcast it's very filthy. It's called the Guys We Fucked Podcasts,
and it's easy. You serious. It's these two comedians out of New York.
They're super they're super funny, and they started it based off of talking
about guys that they had slept with, and now it's transformed because they've been
doing it for like eight years. So eventually you run out of stories.
But I like to hear their stories and like how they have a comedy show
even though I'm never going to go to it because it's in New York.
I like to hear their stuff because that's more of the kind of podcast it
is where I care about their life. Okay, I think that's interesting.
If people are good storytellers or their comedians, then you want to hear their
stories. And these two women, they're great storytellers. I just don't always
care. It depends, honestly, if I'm going out for an hour long
walk, I'll listen to it. If I'm like, I got thirty minutes
I get to be to work, then I will not listen to it.
Yeah, yeah, I think that's I think that's all I had to say
about that one except to say there are some really bad podcasters out there because
there's no training, there's no licensing, there's no standard to do a podcast,
and sometimes you listen to a podcast and it's like, God, you're
a terrible storyteller. Get to the point. So I will say one thing
real quick about podcasts, because I think I think a lot of people were
like bored during COVID, so they started one, and some people absolutely took
off and did great. Some people probably still only get, you know,
their mom and dad listen, and maybe some friends. But when Andrew started
real Estate, him and one of his friends in his office were like,
we're going to start a podcast. And I hate to be the like Devil's
Advocate Debbie Downer person all the time, but I kind of was like why,
Like what are you going to talk about it? He's like, well,
real estate, And I go, what makes you think that you're going
to grow this listenership based like you don't have the experience quite yet, like
you just started, and he goes, well, I don't know, like
we could just try. And I like kind of explained to him how a
lot of people start podcasts and it becomes this extra thing that they do and
it serves them no purpose in the end, and it's this extra time that
they spend doing it. And he like finally agreed, Like I wasn't trying
to be like not be supportive, but I was like, I gotta be
honest, babe, you just started in real estate. If you're only talking
about real estate, I don't really think you have like the resume yet to
be a podcaster about real estate, even though he had like properties before that.
But yeah, so I kind of crushed his dreams for a second.
But he did admit like a week later that I was totally right in what
I said. You know what, you were just trying to be realistic.
It's kind of like if your kid wants to move to Hollywood and drop everything
to go become, you know, a big star, you might want to
say, well, you really gotta be realistic about that. Whatever. So,
you know what, I don't think you did anything wrong, But I
will say I know that I've heard somewhere that most the Great I don't about
the Great majority, but a lot of podcasts have one episode because they recorded
the podcast, they saw that nobody really responded to it. They said that
was tough. I don't have anything else to talk about. I think if
you're going to start a podcast, map out five or six or ten episodes,
so you're like, I know, I've got enough content. And you
can't map out or plan five or six or ten episodes in advance, then
maybe it's not a strong enough topic to do a podcast on. And then
some podcasts run their course too. I mean, Fallon did the Heartbroken podcast,
which was huge yep, but after a while it kind of ran its
course yep. And there's nothing wrong with that. This is She ends it
by saying, can I please get a staff writer sticker? But she does
not give her address. So Nicole, send me another email with your address
and your name, and I will send you a staff writer sticker. She
does say dart lick dark. No, she says dark dark, dart lick
lick Ooh. Changing it up a little bit. You can't always do the
same thing, Dave, what's that? I said? You can't always do
the same thing. No, you gotta change it up. There was a
comedian and I'm gonna tell you a disgusting story, but it's kind of funny.
And he said, when you are performing oral sex on a woman.
You don't just like up down, up down, up down. You know
what you do, but you lick the alphabet. Okay, I've heard this.
Have you heard this before? I've heard I think it's been in like
rap songs or something. Yeah, like you do the ABC's with your tongue.
Really, yeah, Okay, I'd never heard of that before. I
don't really, I don't. Nobody wants to hear about anything I want to
say about that, so I'm gonna move on. Don't use my name.
I'm responding to the gluten free question from today. There was a woman who
wrote in yesterday. She said, we're doing an office cookie exchange, and
everybody in the office is doing gluten free because one person can't have gluten.
And she said, amine asshole for saying, screw it. I'm not going
to buy a bunch of gluten free ingredients that I'll never use again. I'm
going to go ahead and make gluten cookie, you know, non gluten free
cookies, and if she doesn't like it, then she doesn't have to eat
them. And I said, no, you're not a jerk at all.
I said, do you have every right to do that? And I said
from what I understand, a lot of people think that gluten free is a
good dietary choice, kind of like fat free or sugar free, where most
of us don't need to eat gluten free, but some people do. So
Let's see what she says. My spouse has siliac disease, which means we
eating one hundred percent gluten free for the rest of his life. The superb
basic sum up is that gluten causes erosion to the small intestine, so you
cannot absorb nutrients. People have died historically from malnutrition before doctors figure out what
was happening, and it dates as far back as the Egyptians. You can
range from violent immediate reactions to basically no noticeable symptoms even though the hidden damage
is still happening. Siliac people have to watch out for cross contamination, meaning
you can't cut regular bread and then use the same cutting border knife to cut
something for someone with siliac. Even flour in the air at a pizza shop
can be enough to make someone sick. It's a big pain that makes eating
out nearly impossible. Some people are gluten sensitive or gluten intolerant, which is
not the same as celiac and usually not worried about cross contamination. All to
say that even though those well meaning co workers who are making gluten free food
are likely making contaminated food, so it depends on who they are planning servit
to. My spouse has learned not to accept homemade food from anyone, even
if they describe all the methods they do to avoid they did to avoid contamination.
It's nice to feel included, but I don't think the person who wrote
in needs to feel pressure to make anything gluten free. Simply mentioning that you
didn't want to accidentally gluten the person should be sufficient to anybody who makes a
fuss. I'm glad that she put it that way, because you know,
there's some people who are so I don't know, crazy about passionate. You
could say about that that she didn't go down the road of like you are
a terrible person that you don't want to So I'm glad that she was able
to see both sides. And that's interesting. I did not know that there
were people who are that sensitive to gluten. So thanks for educating us.
H a little bit. Appreciate that one looking at the next one to see
if it's you know, it's more spammy email y kind of stuff. Joe
from Turlock, California, regular supporter of the podcast. Correct me if I'm
wrong, but I feel like door Dash, grub hub, uber kind of
thing took off right before the pandemic because people were getting laid off and this
was an alternative to unemployment. Like, this wasn't supposed to be a career.
It was meant for people to raise a few bucks while looking for another
job, similar to fast food, where fast food was meant for entry level
employment to gain work experience. But then people tried to make it a career
and are now demanding twenty dollars an hour. I've got nothing to add to
that, Joe. I think you summed up my opinion on that exactly.
I don't think that every job should pay a minimum should pay a livable wage.
And I know that people go, well, the president of so and
so she makes or the CEO she makes twenty four million dollars a year.
They should be able to pay there, you know, but that's what she
earns, that's what her the mark could place pays. And I think if
you work at like you know, my wife Susan, she doesn't even make
a livable wage herself at her shop, much less be able to pay somebody
a livable wage. Yeah, some jobs just don't pay a livable wage,
but there certainly are some people who will bitch and moan and say that it
should. I don't think that certain job. When I was in you know,
when I first started working, I worked at a radio station. Probably
was in radio for three years before I made a livable wage. Yeah.
I also think that livable wage is very much your own perspective. So some
people might think a livable wage includes being able to buy an niced coffee every
single day, and at that I say, no, that is not what
you get to get out of doing like bare minimum work in my opinion.
But I think livable wage is also something that's kind of like up in the
air of what you consider a livable wage, because for me, I was
barely enough to get by for like most of my twenties because I just had
very entry level positions and stuff. But like, I wasn't going out and
I was making a livable wage, but I wasn't going out and doing the
extra things that some people might find like going out to eat and stuff.
And that was fine. With me because but some people would argue that that's
not okay. I should be able, I should have been able to like
go out to eat and whatever. You know, a good point. I
mean, really it depends on what you consider is a livable wage. If
you can't afford to go out to eat, if you can't afford a vacation,
that is a good thing, I mean, the good thing to talk
about because it means different things to different people. Right next one and says
you can say my name. My main reason for emailing is to ask for
the link to the light that Susan opened on the show this morning. I
recently learned how to crochet, and man, is it a struggle to see
what's going on? Sometimes she wears a neck light. You know what,
I'll try to get it for you, and I don't have it off the
top of my head. While I'm here, I want to say how much
I appreciate what you do for Christmas wish this year. It's really given me
some perspective on my life. I've struggled with depression and anxiety for a long
time, and the last year has been especially rough. As a result,
I find myself getting impatient with my kids and husband faster. Hearing the stories
on Christmas Wish has really made me realize how lucky I am to have all
that I do and inspired me to start taking steps to better myself for my
family. Good. Honestly, even writing this email is huge for me since
one of my problems is reaching out to others, and I think that's great.
That's one of the things that I think Christmas Wish does is it makes
you feel grateful about how lucky you are. And I think that we absolutely
can appreciate what we have and improve ourselves for the people that are around us.
Whatever that is, whether it stops smoking or to get healthier or to
whatever it is, I don't know for sure. We got to wrap up,
Dave. Sorry, I don't want to cut you off, but we're
getting close on time here. Thank you for sending your emails to Ryan Show
at KDWB dot com