Let's get started with the Minnesota Goodbye. Thank you for being here and welcome.
I'm gonna guess you've listened a few times, but if you's you're a
first time listener. Thanks for finding us. A lot of people don't know
that we do it after the show podcast that is kind of much looser and
chatty and kind of all over the place. Yeah, Rochelle writes in don't
use my name. So Rochelle writes, I love you all as well in
the world. Thank you so much for doing your show every day. Have
a great day. And that's I made that up to protect the innocent.
Here, let's move on to another one here, let's go to this one
also says, don't say my name be a good topic for the Minnesota Goodbye.
Don't say maybe even the show. Good friend of mine just told me
that he and his wife filed for bankruptcy a few months ago. I was
shocked because they seemed to be doing fine. He had lost his job a
few years ago and found a new one shortly after, but was making way
less than before. They had to dip into savings to get by. Pretty
soon, credit cards are being maxed out. A few thousand medical bills were
going to collections. Major and necessary repairs to their house that costs thousands of
dollars left them in major debt. He's making better money now, but they
still could not make all the minimum payments. They live in an average house,
drive average vehicles, and don't buy flashy stuff. He was so embarrassed
about getting it to this point, and he hid it from everybody. It
really opened my eyes to people that file bankruptcy. I always thought it was
people that lived way above their means and didn't care about racking up credit cards.
His car took a shit right after filing, and since their savings was
pretty much done, they had to take out a car loan, which their
lawyer said was a good idea to do to start building credit back. I
had no idea you could even get a loan after filing bankruptcy. There's a
lot more. He told me that I won't get into it. I thought
of Jonathan Fogil come on on the show to talk about divorce. Maybe have
a bankruptcy attorney come on to answer questions about bankruptcy. Since a lot of
people look at bankruptcy like I did, thinking it was sketchy and you know,
that type of thing he is, so he said, he's so happy
they made the choice to file. What do you want to say, Jenny.
I also was in a situation where I found out that someone I grew
up with that their family filed bankruptcy twice throughout like when we were growing up,
and I had no idea. I took them as people who were very
financially responsible. They had a decent house, they built a pool, like,
lived in a really like right by this lake. And I was shocked
when I heard that. But I also never understood bankruptcy that well until I
found out that this family had filed for it. Yeah, but I I
will say, I have my thoughts on what that family did, and I
think that they like two times around, it's kind of like, all right,
you know that you were doing something wrong at some point, let's make
a note to get somebody on who's like an expert on you know, not
bias to not trying to sell us to do bankruptcy, but maybe somebody who
does. I mean, consolidations loans used to be a big thing, maybe
twenty or thirty years ago, and I don't know if they still are,
but they would say, okay, if you have this credit card, this
credit card, this credit card. We will consolidate those into one lower,
affordable monthly payment. And I heard that they were kind of a scam.
And I also heard that debt for some people can be like a diet.
What do I mean by that? Some people lose their weight on a diet,
get to their goal weight, and then they start eating and gain back
what they lost. People who get out of debt will get out of debt
and immediately start racking back up again with an expensive dinner here, and maybe
a boat over here, and a trip to the Bahamas over here. And
so people get out of debt and then get back in. I will say
I dated a woman many years ago who had gotten a divorce, and she
wanted out of the marriage so bad that she didn't want any support. She
didn't want the furniture, she didn't want the fridge. She wanted to get
the fuck out of the marriage, not because it was dangerous, but just
because they didn't get along. And so she got nothing, no furniture,
nothing, had to buy everything, and then she couldn't afford it, so
she went into bankruptcy. Not because she was bad with spending, but because
she left a marriage and now couldn't afford to have the basic essentials. So
good people can go absolutely go bankrupt. But I think the cliche is somebody
who's like, you know, they got a brand new Mercedes and they just
got back from Veil and now they're going on an Alaska cruise. And I
know somebody like that right now. Not even going to drop a clue as
to who it is. But they're both wonderful people, but they both have
a spending problem. Where one of them said to me not too long ago,
it's like, yeah, we got a big trip coming up, and
we need ten thousand dollars. And I don't know where that's coming from.
And I'm like, are you fucking kidding me? You're saying you need to
take a trip that you don't have any money for, but you're gonna come
up with ten thousand dollars for it. I I was gonna say. I
was like, you don't take a trip, then you don't get you try
to take a trip, absolutely right. But I think there's some people who
say, and it's an interesting philosophy, you could die tomorrow, you could
get hit by a bus tomorrow. So I think in life you've got a
plan from like I could get cancer and be gone in a year, or
I need to save in case I live to be ninety four years old.
So it's just a big conundrum in life, especially you know, you get
older, You're like, do I have ten good years left? Do I
have twenty five good years left? Or do I have three good years left?
You know what I mean? And a lot of people start spending money
when they're like fifty eight because they're like, my dad died when he was
fifty six. I don't want to retire with seventeen hundred or seventeen I don't
know, let's say a million dollars in the bank and never get a chance
to spend it. Yeah, Okay, I was listening to you guys talk
about fashion being non inclusive, and I totally agree. I talked about this
yesterday, I said, the Academy Awards, or maybe I talked about on
Monday. All these people that love fashion and they're wearing a seven hundred dollars
Prada sweater and they got a coach bag and they just had their hair done
for you know, fourteen hundred dollars, and they got like, you know,
seven thousand dollars, shoes on whatever. Are the same people who say
we want to be inclusive. We want to be inclusive. Yet that's kind
of like making a jacket out of one hundred dollar bills and wearing it around
where poorer people can see you, and you are sending a message, even
if it's unintentional. You're not like me, you can't afford. So I
philosophically don't like fashion, because yes it looks nice, and yes you look
cool. But also so if you're going to be a hypocrite and say I
want to be inclusive and include everybody, you are deliberately being non inclusive.
So they go on to say, I totally agree. My book club just
read a memoir by a disabled young woman who talks about this stuff on social
media. She points out that the inclusive campaigns usually just means someone who is
slightly less thin or slightly less white. I started seeing it everywhere after I
read that book. Well, think about this. You go into I'm not
gonna pick on anybody, go into a retailer. The mannequins maybe are no
longer a size zero. They're still there, but now they're a size like
they're a little bit bigger, but they're not big mannequins, you know.
Yeah, I think I've seen a couple places that have some bigger mannequins.
But then how big can you go. Let's say there are four hundred people,
four hundred pound people in the world. Do you have a mannequin modeled
after a four hundred pound body? Well? No, But I will say
that in Target they do a lot better job of being more inclusive. I
see probably more people of color on their posters than I see white people.
I can walk through the clothing aisle, it's a black guy holding a black
kid, and they're dressed so cute and fashionable. But I think that there's
still probably a lot of slightly less white examples. I think that that speaks
a lot of truth. Because I saw Ben Leber, who's like a friend
of the radio station. He goes on a kfeanalot. He just posted something
about being at a store and there was a mannequin who had It was a
guy, and he had a beer belly, and it was a very realistic
version of a guy. Yeah, And I was shocked by that because I
was like, I really haven't seen anything like that, So that shows how
few mannequins I have seen that aren't your stereotypical size zero. I like it.
I think that it's good because I think that I don't know, we
can get into the whole body positivity thing. And I'm not a big champion
for body positivity. I'm a champion for health, and I think that,
you know, it does kind of get ridiculous when somebody who is morbidly obese
will say that this is a healthy model. It's not. And we know
that, I mean, being obese is. We don't need to get into
that. Let's go on to say I was a size four to six growing
up, then a size eight into my twenties. Now, after c sections,
children in a pandemic, I'm a size ten to twelve, and I
feel pretty good about myself. I'm five eight, about one hundred and seventy
pounds. I don't think I'm particularly heavier fat, and statistically, probably half
the women in America are larger than me. However, when I go shopping
in a store like made Well or Loft, I'm often grabbing the largest size
they got out of the bottom of the pile. Sometimes they don't even have
a thirty or thirty one sitting out for pants, I find myself quote frustrated
with my body in the industry. How is it possible that I'm the largest
person they supply clothes to in the store? Why do all the larger size
people what do they do to fine clothes? What do they do in a
world filled with size twenty five to twenty eight people, which translates to being
quite thin if you're tall. When I explain this to my husband, he
is shocked because he's very fit and also thinks I look good. After years
of pointing out to him that those outfits are in the magazine only work if
you have no boobs and therefore no need for a bra or anti bounced support,
then he gets it. Anyway, those are my thoughts about it.
Have a good day, Jenny. I need your thoughts. I mean,
I'm right there with you, girl. I am also digging to the bottom
of the gene pile to find something that fits me, because you know,
he got a big kaboos. But it's not just that I have like I
have thick thighs, and I'm okay admitting that. As a younger girl,
I didn't love that, but I do. And I just love the fact
that you let me get away with saying you got a bigkboze. But it's
not getting away with it. It's just a fact at this point in my
life, Like I have been told since I was in second grade that I
had a bubble butt, which made me cry back then and then and then
luckily, I like having a curacious body was a thing that people strive for
now and so now I love my body. But yeah, I'm right there
with you that it is kind of wild that I also am in pretty good
shape and I like am healthy, and yet I am digging to the bottom
of the pile of jeans at these stores that she's talking about too to get
them. Oh, I know what you mean by digging to the bottom of
the pile, because when I was at my heaviest a couple of years ago,
i'd graduated from thirty fours to thirty six is to thirty eights, and
you know they have thirty eights in waiyte size. But yeah, I know
what you mean by digging to the mine. I would go past the larges
and the mediums in the shirt section and go right for those xls, And
I think I'm probably wearing an XCEL right now, so comfy. See how
roomy room? I was gonna say, look at all the room on that
bad boy, how much room? Joe writes in yesterday we were talking about
ketchup hoarding and how Jenny will go to like I don't know your Burger King
and McDonald's and get extra ketchup packets. I'm going to defend you on your
ketchup hoorting, says Joe. Whenever I door dash, I always add in
any kind of it's in plastic where they offer. I can't tell you how
many times I needed a condiment or spoon and my everything drawer save the day.
Or my wife needed parmesan for a sauce one time and luckily, guess
what I had it saved. My best story is one time a door dasher
texted me have a nice day, and I responded thanks. Then they replied
again, but I was confused as why you needed a straw since you didn't
order a drink, and I said, because it's free. They responded with
an l ol. That is Joe, who's all the way out in Turlock,
California. I was kind of confused. I thought that they were saying
that they're a door Dasher like they do DoorDash At first, so I was
confused. I was like, is he stealing all of their condiments out of
their food when he's delivering their food? But now I get it. Moving
on to the next one. This one I'm going to preread just a little
bit. There In Nashville, I was listening to the show podcast and during
group therapy, I wanted to scream, what is it with parents not thinking
about their child's name past them being a toddler. This came up on group
therapy when somebody said, my wife wants to name our new baby boy Elmer,
and I said no, because Elmer, you're gonna think of Elmer Fudd
and I don't want our kid to be called Elmer Fudd. Mom said,
well, nobody knows who Elmer Fudd is unless they're an adult, so he's
not going to get made fun of. So and I think it is.
Really it's one of those things where a teacher called in and said, Elmer
is an adorable name while they're a toddler, but when he is in fifth
grade, that's when it won't be normal or adorable and he'll start using his
middle name. They go on to say, parents seem to forget that these
people are one day going to be twenty and thirty and looking for a job.
Kids are brutal, for sure when it comes to making fun of names,
but adults are just as bad, even if you like to think they
are not. Besides, not everyone wants to go by a nickname or their
middle name for the rest of their life just because a parent decided something was
cute when they were a toddler. You're not naming a toddler, You're naming
a person. That's a good point. I don't have any kids, but
I have faced many issues with having an uncommon name. I love my name
a lot. I've been made fun of and mispronounced my entire life, even
at twenty eight years old, just my two cents. Also, I got
a Minnesota Goodbye sticker, but never a Dave Ryan sticker. Could I have
one? Please? Yes? And of course you're wondering what her name is.
Yes, I am Sesna. Okay, she's written to the show before.
Yeah, it's spelled almost like the airplane, except with an S instead
of a C. But I'm sure people have said Ceesna or I don't know
what else you would say, but you know, I think most kids would
be like, oh, like the airplane, you know what a sesna is.
I don't. I would have put that together. Yeah, Andrew writes
in and he says, wanted to comment on two things from yesterday's podcast,
and by the way, he says, hey, my favorite radio morning show
family. The first being skinned effects. I actually for two solid years,
my junior and senior year of high school, I had on the tip of
my nose a pimple or cyst or some sort of skin de fact that would
not go away. Tried everything, cleanser, washes, I tried to basically
burn it off with hot water when I showered, to no avail. Finally,
I'm not sure the exact date, but after graduation it was just gone
and it's never come back. I never saw a dermatologist, just dealt with
it, and after some of the assholes I went to school with commenting about
it while attempting the treatments above the shrink flation topic, I wanted to actually
mention that I went to McDonald's a couple of days ago get in breakfast use
their app, so I got a discount from a sandwich. But I noticed
at the drive through that a single hash brown was two twenty nine. They
used to cost a dollars. I know that I won't personally pay that much
for one hash brown if you got multi potatoes like you do with fries,
maybe, but two twenty nine for a single potato seemed outrageous, especially considering
they used to be one of the cheapest items on the menu for breakfast.
All right, Dart Liquors, I want that bitch wet, official staff writer.
That is our buddy Andrew in Ohio. If you don't get to make
that bitch wet reference, Jenny explain that reference. Uh. Drake had asked
us if we like our burger's wet or dry, and I said, I
want that bitch dripping. And then Dave said the I think you said I
want that bitch wet. I don't remember. I thought I want that bitch
dripping. Yeah, so I think you were the one who said the wet,
which just brings to mind pictures of just things and it's like just not
it's a burger. A wet burger to me sounds like you dunked it in
the sink, you know what I mean. And it's like I get wet
and sloppy. I like that in many things in life. But let's move
on. Okay, let's see that one not so much. Here we go.
I have a random thought or topic that it would be on maybe no
phone screen or Friday, but I was thinking I would email you instead.
Disclaimer. I mean no disrespect to those who do this. I just want
some insights. So. I grew up in a small town in southwest Minnesota.
Moved to Shakape two years ago. Since I moved here, I cannot
get over how eighty percent of the cars in front of me pump their breaks
each and every time they're going to stop. I get it if you're on
the freeway in traffic slowing down or coming to a stop and you want to
warn the cars behind you, I get that, But why do they have
to pump their breaks when there's an obvious stop sign, stop light, et
cetera. On the intown streets and roads. You rarely see this done in
small towns, so I think it really sticks out to me. I don't
know, I just don't get it. I've done a little research that says
some breaks are now factory made to blink when applying pressure on the brakes.
That's true, but I know for certain older makes and models do not have
that. There got that rant off my mind. Thought i'd share, and
also looking for some insight into this, maybe so it won't ski, it
won't bug this shit out of me. Have a great day. Thanks for
all the laps and upbeat content you guys give the listeners daily. Thank you,
Kelly. I don't know what you're talking about. I never see that.
No disrespect to you, Kelly, but I never see that. I
will only say you remind me that when I drive with my wife, we
take turns driving. If we're in her car, it doesn't matter. We
take turns. She stops so fucking far behind the car in front of us.
I can't stand it. And it's like, You'll be fifty yards behind
the car and in front of us at the stoplight and she'll stop. I'm
like, pull up, and she's like maybe she'll pull up a foot.
Why are you so far back here? Okay? I was going to ask,
if you know what the rule is of how close you're supposed to be
to it right on your ass right? Well, the rule, at least
what Wisconsin school taught me was that you have to be able to see the
back of their tires. Oh really yeah, so like the full back of
their tires and that's a good enough distance. Okay, fair enough. What
do you know about pumping brakes in a bigger town? No disrespect. I
don't know that I've ever noticed that. I really don't think I have either.
I'm right there with you. I but maybe I just don't pay enough
attention because I'm always zooming past everyone anyway. Right, Yeah, Jenny tries
way too fast all the time. Next one starts off with, please don't
say my name, And I really appreciate that when you say that, because
I definitely want your email on the air and I don't want to slip up.
I listen to Tusday's podcast where you all discussed whether the thumbs up emoji
is rude. For a little backstory, there was a woman on TikTok who
was probably twenty to twenty five years old, and she said, Hey,
everybody over forty, stop using the thumbs up emoji. To my generation,
it's like saying fuck you. And we asked Drake, and Drake said,
yeah, kind of is I said, why, he said, because it's
just such a half asked effort to acknowledge what I showed you. For example,
if I got a new puppy, Hey, I got a new puppy,
thumbs up, it's kind of like fuck you. And I said,
that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. It's just an easy, gracious way
to say I acknowledge you. Uh huh. So oh, she said,
I'm pushing forty, but interact with a lot of twenty somethings through my job.
But I've heard the same thing, which shocked me. Since I used
that emoji and reaction all the time, I didn't really care about whether using
it made me look old, but I definitely can't care if became off as
rude. So I asked a young'in, I like the way they spell that
a young'in about this, and he explained to me, like this, here
we go. Using the thumbs up emoji as an acknowledgment is like responding to
someone with a terse k like the letter K. Imagine you send someone a
text like meet you at Applebee's, or I just read that book you recommend
it and I loved it, and they respond with K. That's basically how
these young kids interpret our thumbs up. I hope that helps, But between
us old folks, and they said they're pushing forty, so they're old.
Yeah, they're so old they're thirty seven or so. You guys can thumb
up me anytime. I'd love a staff writer sticker. If you have a
hedy left, I'll include my address. Blah blah blah, have a dart
licking thumbs up and good time. Anonymous staff writer in Minneapolis. I sometimes
heart emoji, Like if Jenny will send me something and go, hey,
I'll be there in five minutes. I saw you get coffee, I'll give
you a heart emoji. Or if my friend Nate sends me his wordle score,
sometimes I give him a thumbs up and you know he doesn't care.
Or sometimes I give him a heart emoji, which is a little bit over
the top for a word score, but I kind of use him interchangeably.
Yeah, I mean, I use the thumbs up all the time, so
I don't I know, Apparently I am. And I almost sent you one
yesterday because you had texted me. You texted me about your choice for winning
song Wednesday, and I was going to send you the thumbs up, but
then we had just talked yesterday about that, and I was like, maybe
I shouldn't say that, and so I like actually set a conversation instead.
But I'm never gonna be offended by the thumbs up emoji. Ye. Next
one is one that I kind of preread and it doesn't really go with what
we're doing here. So I might read it on the radio, but now
that I've talked about it, let's just read it here. Love the show,
Love it like I talk about y'all, like you are my friends.
Thank you. However, I will not be listening to your show on iHeart
at least until after the presidential election, if ever. Actually I've deleted the
app on my phone so I don't have to subject myself to ads not once,
not twice, but three times. When iHeart added its own commercials,
which is already super frustrating, it was political and this was only in one
and a half hours of listening. It doesn't matter what candidate or party I'm
voting for. Those ads are way too early. I do not want to
hear political advertisements seven months before the election. I don't blame you a bit.
Again, it goes back to I think there are people who don't care
about your experience with the iHeart app. We deeply care and it's frustrating to
us because we make our living and keep our job security by whether you have
a good experience listening and up the food chain. Somewhere is somebody going,
well, it's a cash grab. We can make money by selling you know
Joe Johnson political ads, So let's do it. And I get that because
we are a business and we're in business to make money. But at the
same time, if somebody can. Let's say you have a restaurant and a
guy says, I want to bring a really cool fart machine into your restaurant.
Now I'm going to pay you seven thousand dollars a month, and this
fart machine over here is going to sit in the corner and rip loud farts
and smell up the restaurant. You're looking at seven thousand dollars and you're going,
god, I need seven thousand dollars. But then the people who come
in have got to deal with the experience of the fart machine. Yes,
this is a great analogy, and the restaurant of your best analogies you've done
in a while, thank you. And therefore, the people who are eating
and they order a grilled cheese or a blt they got to put up with
a fucking fart machine in the corner, and you're happy to do it because
it doesn't affect you. You don't eat at your own restaurant. Uh,
But they have to smell the farts from the fart machine while they're trying to
have their BLT. That's what iHeart is doing. Holy shit. I hope
I don't get in trouble for this one. But that's what I mean.
And I'm exaggerating a lot, but that's what I mean. It's like I
care about the experience, and there's some people whose job is to not care
about the experience, but to care about the revenue. Yep. I mean,
get yourself in deep with me, Jenny. If I'm gonna get fired,
you're gonna get fired with me. I mean, I now, quiet
shoe. I just know. I know that my little sister was listening to
Mine and Folence podcast the other day and there was an advertisement for a car
dealership near my hometown in Wisconsin on Mine and Founce podcast, which seems very
random that they just placed a Whisky Johnson dealership on our podcast. So I
just feel like advertisers are promised certain amounts of tag on to podcasts that do
well in our company, and it doesn't make sense a lot of times,
like you might think that you'd hear political ads on like a news talk station
podcast or something not on our morning show stuff. Yeah, but I do
think that people are just pro advertisers are promised so much exposure through our podcasting
and they just shoot them out in the dark and they get placed somewhere.
I think that's true. And I think that The Minnesota Goodbye is still one
of the company's top podcasts, so that's probably why you hear some of these
weird and I know the Morning Show is one of the company's top podcasts too.
They go on to say, and I'll wrap this up because we're run
a little bit long on a mail carrier already have to deal with ads that
are sent out. I don't have the option of listening over the airwaves,
so I must rely on iHeart not anymore. Wow, I'm sorry to hear
you go. Yeah, I'll try to catch up on the reruns and podcasts
if I can. I do listen to other podcasts, so we'll see if
you make the cut. This has nothing to do with your show, obviously,
absolutely nothing. It's the political ads on iHeart that are making me leave.
If you can in any way make these go away, thank you,
and I'll continue to listen. Otherwise, I guess this is goodbye. And
she did copy the boss and Bob Pittman, Oh wow, the CEO of
our company. And if Bob Pittman listens to this podcast and compares those to
the fart Machine, A, it's been nice knowing you. Yeah, it's
been nice working with you. I'm going to get the phone call that says,
Dave, can you come in so we can fire you say the firing
part. They just say, can you come in? But bring all your
stuff? Yeah? And that is it for the Minnesota Goodbye. This was
a fun one. Are you gonna call it fart Machine? I was thinking
about that. Yeah, I'll do that. Okay, thanks for being here
for the Minnesota Goodbye. Let us know your feedback on anything, whether it's
fashion, the fart Machine, analogies, Bob Pittman. If you want to
talk about Bob Pittman, No, I'm kidding, We're not going to do
that. Bob Pittman's a genius, he really is. He invented MTV,
so pretty impressive. Send me your emails to Ryan Show at KDWB dot com,
have a great day.