And welcome to the Minnesota. Goodbye. Let's start with this one right here.
A couple of weeks ago, I was watering flowers in my front yard,
says Alison. Young guy approached me almost out of nowhere, and he
said he looked maybe twenty two twenty five is sh I'm twenty nine for a
reference, and he said you're the owner of this house. I said it's
a rental property, and he says, well, a lot of your neighbors
have been complaining about the ants. Have you noticed how bad they are?
Now I knew this was leading up to some sales deal where they spray for
ants, but I went along and I said, no, they don't bother
me, just so maybe he'd get the hint and go away. He does
this very demeaning laugh. I don't know how to describe it. Then he
says, uh, okay, well do you think you or your landlord to
be interested in removing them? And I just tell him no. He says,
okay, walks away. I continue watering my flowers, but I turn
to see where he is, heading to anybody else's door, and he has
completely disappeared. Now I'm suspicious because he never introduced himself, never introduce his
services or company that he works for, and he had no uniform on and
no, he's not a neighbor. I'm pretty certain he even said your neighbors,
not our neighbors. I'm so sketched out by this encounter. Even still
today, I did not It did not feel right at all. It didn't
feel like he was a real salesman. I wanted to see if any other
listeners had this strange encounter and if I am right to feel unsettled by this.
Sorry if this is too long for the podcast, and ps I got
aunt to turrent fix the ant problem myself because they were kind of bad.
Alison, I think there's your answer right now. There really were bad ants,
And if he was a scammer, he probably wouldn't have taken the time
to notice that. So if it was some creepy guy that was stalking your
house or scoping out your house, then he wouldn't have known about the ants.
So I would think that he's probably just a bad amateur salesperson. Because
anybody reputable, they're gonna wear a uniform, they're gonna wear a name tag.
They probably don't just like walk up and start you know, whatever.
I mean. If you work for ORC and I don't think you go door
to door. If your organ you do calls when people call you out.
But I don't think you have anything to worry about. But if you get
a doorcam, maybe that'll make you if you don't have one already, a
ring that maybe that'll make you feel more comfortable, and that's fair. We
have one in Colorado. We have one here too. We have a ring
doorcam, and it notifies anytime there's a motion at the door or if somebody
rings your doorbell, and you can talk to them and be like, hey,
I'm not there, can I help you? And we got one in
Colorado for the backyard and up and stuff. No, it does not,
which is really interesting. And you do have to be up about thirty forty
feet within the range for to pick up. But it says, HI,
you are currently being recorded, and I can set a siren off if I
want to. But anybody who walks up to my house in Colorado gets a
note of recording that says, HI, you are currently being recorded, but
not your regular house. That doesn't say no, no, But you know
what I'm just saying, you can get one. They are very great for
peace of mind, because ain't nobody walking up to my Colorado house and without
them being recorded. And by the time you get the note the message,
it's too late. It's already on my phone. So it's actually really cool.
So thanks for that one. Next one, hoping you could get me
to the best person to answer this email. I'm looking to confirm the average
listenership, even a ballpark number. That would be wonderful for The Dave Ryan
Show. And Katie WB is this something you'd be able to share. Appreciate
your help, Margaret. I'm going to send this over to our sales department,
so Matt is going to get that email and I'm going to send it
to him, so you should get an answer. Matt will be really good
about getting back to you. And I don't know, I know, we
really do, we do really well. I don't know what our exact listeners
are. I think they used to say we have a million listeners in a
week, not all at the same time, but something like a million people
listen to the show in a week, So I and that can mean as
long as it's at least five minutes, it counts. But I'm just remembering
and I could be totally wrong. My mind did not think of that being
the question. My mind thought like, who is the average person listening to
your show? So I was thinking, Oh, it's a woman who's in
her early to mid thirties. Probably that's where my mind was going. I
mean, you're probably right. You know, every show, every brand,
every store has its target demographic. And I think that ours would say,
you would say, an a thirty four year old woman, But we get
sixty five year old dudes who listen to the show. We get eight year
old kids, fifteen year old boys, and we get everybody. And that's
great, and I think that it's mass appeal. I mean, we play
the songs that appeal to so many people, we talk about things that appeal
to so many people. But let's say, for example, we wouldn't necessarily
talk about bass fishing because that not might not hit eighteen to thirty four year
old women or thirty four year old women in their heart. Although as soon
as you say that, somebody's gonna say, I'm thirty four and I love
bass fishing. Well, we have that woman on that's a professional professional angler
and she just did like it. But we but Dave's been good at this.
Dave is good at like if it is something like that, I'll be
like, you know, hey, you know, it wouldn't be a bad
idea to have her on because that could be cool, and Dave will be
like, yeah, but like, how do you make it more you know,
morning show friendly? And so I actually it might have been her idea.
I don't want to take away at her idea. I think she might
have said, I'll quiz you on like fish stuff, and we thought,
yeah, as long as it's short and like quick and like kind of entertaining
for people listening, than yes. And she had a personality too, and
that really made a difference. Because if you had somebody on male or female,
any gender, and they're going to talk about bass fishing, given us
a fish quiz and they kind of talk like this, it would not be
good. But she had a big personality. So and she still, damn
it has not invited me fishing this summer. I'm a little bummed about that.
All right, I'm gonna pass on that one because it is just not
right for the Basically, they found a picture in their grandma's old stuff.
I'll anyway, what the heck my grandma died, and we came across a
photo of one of her friend's sons from the early fifties, and it is
a picture of a little kid wearing very fifties attire. He's probably about four
or five years old, stand on her front porch, wearing a ball cap
with a broad smile, and interestingly enough, he's wearing gloves but not a
jacket, or maybe it is a jacket, I'm not sure, she says,
I want to get this to the original owner. The boy in the
picture is Jimmy Lund, and his mom's name was Winney. They lived in
Minneapolis. I believe he's probably in his late sixties, early seventies. Now,
my grandma's name was Mary Keith. We'd love to send the photo to
him and his family. So, if you know Jimmy Lund, and you
know his mom was Winny, and you know grandma's name was Mary Keith,
we got a photo that we want to hook you up with. It is
a weird ass request, but why not. I mean, that's very sweet
that you didn't want to just throw it out and want to get it back
to their family. So we'll see what happens on that one morning show.
Dave you're asking for show suggestions. Have you watched the series Outlander. It's
on Stars, but you can watch the first five seasons on Netflix. I
watched it three times and it's amazing series based on the books which I'm going
to start reading, drama, suspense, romance history as well. I think
you guys would really like it. Christie says, another quick question, and
I love this one. We're going to the Black Hills over the fourth of
July. We are looking for recommendations on things to do. We have three
boys, seventeen, fourteen, and eleven. We are going to be staying
in Deadwood and of course Mount Rushmore is on our list. What else would
you say as a must see? Thanks guys, hope you have a great
rest of your day, Christie. Bear Country, USA is a favorite.
You drive through a wildlife park with bears and grizzlies and elk and deer and
wolverines and it's just cool. Yeah, but it's a drive through, like
a drive through a giant forest, and you stay in that. You stay
in your car with your window up. You can't feed them, No,
you can't feed them. No. You know, I've you seen those late
exhosted zoos like our old night Gui cult was just at one in an ostrich
was eating out of their hand and I'm like, I've seen those. That's
what I would imagine, like a grizzly comes up you've thrown a piece of
salmon. Ah. Well, the funny thing is the boys are seventeen,
fourteen to eleven, but we have always been delighted by Bear Country USA.
And then you park at the end and there are bears with cubs in an
enclosure that you walk around that's the size of a basketball court. And you
walk around and you look at all the cubs and they're freaking adorable. Bear
Country USA Reptile World, I've heard, is really good. I've never stopped,
but people enjoy that. Go to Keystone, which is near Mount Rushmore,
and go on the Keystone Alpine Slide. It's just fun. It is
one of those slides that you push the handle forward and you go faster and
it's just fun. And they have like ice cream, sodas and root beer
floats at the bottom. And Keystone is just a great little touristy town.
I would say Mount Rushmore is good and some people really like it, and
some people think it's kind of boring, but it's a must, seem.
We went to it's called Wonderland Spot or Mystery Cave or something where it's one
of those things where you stand in a house that looks like you're standing crooked
and water flows uphill and I freaking love that stuff. I don't know what
it's called. Cosmos. That's what it's called cosmos, So look up cosmos.
We really enjoyed that one. Caves. There's tons of caves to explore
and Chase and I, when he was about eleven, went on a lantern
cave tour. You probably around this time of the year. We'll probably have
to make reservations in advance, but we really like that. You wear a
lantern on your on your head, and you know, you wear a helmet
with a lantern on it, I think, and then you carry a candle
lanterning and you explore caves and it's freaking Cooline. The Crazy horse Memorial is,
you know, do it if you have time and there's you just drive
around, enjoy the scenery, seriously, take pictures. I've never been.
I got to check it out. Horseback riding might be another one. We
did horseback riding and that was a ton of fun with a seventeen year old
to fourteen year old. Eleven year old, you're getting everything from kids who
love kids, stuff like gold panning. Seventeen year old probably wouldn't enjoy that.
But there's one called The Big Thunder gold Mine. Yeah, Chase was
eleven. He freaking loved The Big Thunder gold Mine. So going back to
the TV show Outlander, So I watched the first season, which was so
like romance based, and it was sexy and hot and basically Dave, it's
a woman who time travels and she'll go back and then she goes back to
current day. Okay, so she's married and current day to a great guy.
But then she'll travel back and she's falls for another guy because she never
knows when she's going to travel again. So she gets spend years and one
time period. And but season two became so historical. I had no interest
because it's like Outlander. Yeah, I was like, I was in it
for the love story aspect. And then when season two was so big,
they weren't. I think season two, I might be wrong, they weren't
together anymore. I think she went to the future and it or maybe I'm
getting that wrong. But either way, it was like, this is boring.
I want the romance back. So I gave up on it. But
I have thought multiple times I should go back and give it another chance because
I know people love it. Okay, good to know, I mean,
I might check it out. We are truly right now in a limbo of
shows to stream, and we're lost. We actually watched freaking American Ninja Warrior
last night because there was nothing else that we knew to watch. I will
tell you that American Ninja Warrior is just kind of eye candy and it's fun
to watch. You know what I'm talking about. It's the one where they
run these obstacle courses and they had a fifteen year old girl on there who
fucking killed it. And it was so impressive because I was telling Susan,
I said, she was like me when I was that age. I was
all I had no fat, I was all lean and I had decent,
like natural muscle, and that's what this girl had. She was all lean,
very in shape and natural muscle and just all lean. I said,
when you are wiry and fifteen, you can do things like that. But
at the same time, she had been training, she had a mentor to
be on Ninja Warriors. So yeah, I can't believe we're talking about American
Ninja Warrior. So let's move on to the last one. Falon, you
look so beautiful at Taylor Swift. You have the prettiest hair. It's a
wig. By the way, make my Monday. I need to hear Carson
calls soon. That's my absolute favorite. Thank you. And to the comment
on Mormon's having a bunch of kids, yes that is true. I was
born and raised Mormon. I think I brought this up last week that Mormons
usually have a bunch of kids. I am one of nine kids, and
my cousin had ten kids. I'm sorry, but if you have that many
kids, you are a selfish jerk. My parents have been together for forty
nine years, so we all grew up in the same house. But there
is no possible way too people can give nine kids equal attention. I saw
that in my household with six kids. I know that Donna did not get
as much attention as she needed. Yeah, probably Linda didn't either. I
did because I was the baby, and I was the youngest, and I
was one of two boys. I was talking to Alison, She's thinking about
having a third baby. Yeah, but she doesn't want to have one too
many that she can't pay attention to. She's a very careful parent and they
have the money. They're you know, they both do well. They're both
super educated and very ambitious, so they can afford it. Daycare for the
two kids right now is thirty four hundred dollars a month, by the way,
thirty four hundred dollars a month. But she doesn't want to do another
kid necessarily because she wants to be able to pay attention to three kids.
And going back just really quick. No, what happened was I said Mormons
have a ton of kids. You said do they? And then you turned
it into soaking. Oh yeah, soaking that's what the cover. Well,
she brings that up. She brings that up. Okay, ps, that
soaking scene on Jury Duty was amazing. Yeah, I cried laughing. I'm
not sure if that actually happens, but I also left the religion twelve years
years ago. It does happen, because this is what I know about it.
And I'm not going to name any names, but we had somebody auditioned
for this show, probably fifteen is years ago, and women would come in
and they would tell stories. We'd give them an hour on the radio to
show that they were interesting and had personality. And one woman told a story
about how she was dating a Mormon guy and he basically put it in for
just a few minutes and you're not allowed to move it, and it's called
soaking. And I guess technically, in some more and I'm not picking on
Mormon's total respect, then in some Mormon beliefs, that is not considered sex
as long as in and out kind of motion. Apparently. Yeah, I
got to tell you something that is kind of like putting a bunch of cinnamon
toast crunch in your mouth and trying not to swallow it. You can't.
I mean, seriously, are you telling me you can actually get into there
and just sit? No? Well, remember on Jerry Duty. This is
a spoiler, but it is so funny. It's a guy who he doesn't
he's like religious, the girl's super horny, and so he doesn't, and
they have James Marsden come jump on the bed because then it's not him.
As long as they're not making the motion, it's fine. So James Marson's
like, all right, why not? He goes and just Oh my god,
it was so ridiculous. Okay, if you haven't watched Jerry Duty,
watch Jerry Duty. And that's going to do it for now. On the
Minnesota Goodbye. I always loved your emails. Thank you. By the way,
we didn't have you, we wouldn't have anything to talk about, so
we would talk about like shrubbery and point sets and things like that. And
you don't want that, so send me. You know what. I just
found one more. Gonna do one more? Okay, one more. I
heard Drake asking for house purchasing the advice on the show yesterday, and I
thought I would weigh a number. One. The first year of owning a
home is the most expensive tools, repairs, furniture, decor, painting.
None of it's cheap. I don't mean a couple hundred dollars, I mean
thousands. Be prepared paint. Everybody say it's cosmetic and changeable, and it
is. But when you're looking at spaces, be sure to evaluate how much
painting it will need, and how quickly are you building into your budget money
to hire painters if not, how many rooms need painting, and what's your
realistic timeline to complete? Can you live eight months? Without that one room
painted. Three. Don't get a place with a yard if you're not prepared
financially, in time wise to take care of it. Mowing, weeding,
watering, shoveling. It all takes time and money. We all know the
neighbor that doesn't take good care of the yard, and I'm going to guess
it's because they don't have the time. They're busy. I was like,
that was snow removal. I know. Four. If you get a place
with a yard, look at the trees. Are their dead trees? Are
they overgrown? Will they need to be removed? Look? That is so
true. My realtor when we went to this house we currently bought, she
noticed that we didn't. She there are two trees that need to be removed.
You need to negotiate that out of the price for your house. I
was like, oh damn, you are good at your job. I would
never have noticed that. Our thought to negotiate at out of the buying price
because it's expensive. That is so true. Our realtor one time pointed out
a dead tree that would need to be removed, and it's like it's like
I didn't even notice it was dead. It was dying, but realtors aren't
great for that and tree removal. As she say, tree stuff costs money.
Best of luck to you, Drake all and you're all the best.
Thank you. Don't say my name, and I did not, so that
all worked out well, thank you very much. And that now for sure
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