We don't know what we're gonna get into today on the Minnesota Goodbye, so
let's find out because we have not had time to pre read. So it's
kind of like sticking your hand into a mystery box. Is there a Delicious
Hostess cupcake in there? Or is it a King Cobra? Oh one or
the other? I mean, I don't know. So are we putting in
our hands in boxes? Is this in the studio because there could be a
King Cobra if that's the case, right, I never know? All right.
I've tried and tried to call in a no phone screen or Friday to
discuss this because this memory lives rent free in my mind and I think about
it way too often. This email is directed toward Davis. He was the
only one around. Oh boy, okay, let's see. I remember when
I was young. I'm thirty six now. KDWB did this contest at Valley
Fair. People were chosen to complete compete to win something. I swear I
remember it being a car, but I could be totally wrong. The competition
consisted of people writing the wild Thing roller coaster NonStop and no breaks. Last
person standing wins. What was that? I can only remember bits and pieces.
I want to know when that happened, what the rules were, what
they want, etc. Also curious why there are no competitions like this.
Well, that one was a little bit tense anymore on KATWB, I feel
like contests used to be a lot more interactive back then. Am I wrong?
Ps? Love all four of you so much. Thanks for keeping me
saying on office days From Lindsay Lindsay, I love that question. I do
remember that we called it ride It to drive It, I think, and
I would say it was around the year of two thousand and four or so,
and we gave away a Scion, a Toyota Scion, which is as
like a very boxy looking car. And I think we did it two years
in a row, and we like partnered with Valley Fair and we broadcast from
the park at the entrance to the ride, and people would ride it NonStop.
I think they kept it off in the middle of the night so you
had to sleep in the car though, And I think they gave bathroom breaks.
I don't remember, but I think they gave a bathroom break in like
every hour to eat or whatever, because you know, we didn't want people
to be sick and dangerous and you know, burst of bladder or outs.
Yeah, and I remember there were one year it got down to two people
that would not get off. They just would not get off. And so
the Toyota dealership, and I don't remember who it was, they gave each
of them a Toyota Scion. That was cool. Why don't we do those
anymore? I think, should I tell you or should I not tell you?
I tell us what I don't know that I know. The answered that
the radio station doesn't want prizes to give away anymore. We want money.
We want money on the books. So in other words, if Toyota is
willing to give us two fifteen thousand dollars cars, the company and not KATIEWB
with the company, will say, we don't want cars to give away.
We want money on the books. So, in other words, by advertising
with cash, not by trading us a car for advertising. Sure. And
that's why you know, at one time KATIWB thirty years ago gave away a
fucking house. What it was a house, It was a one hundred and
twenty five thousand dollars. We called it a dream home. And back then,
one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars in the suburbs of the Twin Cities
would buy a pretty nice house. Yeah, that same house now would easily
go for half a million dollars. Sure, yeah, wow, But we
don't do that anymore because we want money on the books. So that's why
you don't hear us give away, you know, a house or a boat
or a motorcycle. I don't. I don't remember growing up to like a
lot of contests like that, but I do remember like the you got to
keep a body part on a car? Yes, those one. There's a
musical about that. Eh, It's called hands on a Hard Body? Are
you serious? Yeah. It's about a bunch of people who have to keep
one of their hands on on like a Ford, so that they can win
it. And then they just sit there saying, with their hand on a
Ford, hands on a hard body, hands on a hard body. That's
funny. We got to do a bit where we just got to keep their
hand on vont So in other words, if you let if you let go
of vaunt, you lose. Write that down, Jenny, because I'm kind
of half kidding but kind of half serious, where we have a bunch of
people and they have to keep touching vont the entire time. You're gonna win.
I'm gonna win. He doesn't even knowing or our listener is going to
play. I think listeners would play. I don't know what the prize would
be. I think we're gonna have to get a permission slip from Alissa,
his girlfriend first for that one. He lives in New Jersey, tried want
to be touched by many strange people. I'm going to tell you one more
giveaway story that I've probably told before, but it's such a salacious, awful
giveaway story that I got to tell you. So we teamed up with I
want to say, Denny Hecker, back when Denny Hecker was a big,
huge local car dealer. And so so let's say we had a Ford I
don't know, a Ford Escape to give away. I don't know what it
was. Let's say it was a fod escape, I don't know. And
the game was called live in it to win it, and you had to
live in a car at the car dealership on the car dealership floor longer than
anybody else, and you got a break for a bathroom or whatever, and
like every hour you got five minutes for the bathroom and you had to eat.
You could eat in the car, but any trash from your Rby's or
McDonald's had to stay in the car. And this was going to go on
for a week or two. We had two people up front, two people
in the back, and so it all goes through day number one. So
day number one is like, Aha, Jennifer, how's it going in the
car? Oh, it's getting a little hot in here, or it's kind
of smelly because somebody bought Chinese food. Whatever, And we check in all
day and at night everybody goes home except one person. Had an intern who
was probably twenty years old, probably from Concordia or somewhere. Keep an eye
on these people in the car on the middle of the night, make sure
that they don't cheat, and get out and you know, walk around.
Okay, yeah, no problem. So the next morning I get into work
and the contest was already over. Wow. The reason it was already over
was because there was one guy in the car and I think the other two
were maybe like maybe two women or three women. I'm not sure, but
at least two were women. And there was one guy in the car whose
strategy was to tell the other contestants if you don't let me win, I'm
gonna fucking kill you. That is terrifying, isn't that. If you don't
let me win, I'm gonna murder you. I'm gonna murder you and your
family. So you gotta fucking let me win. And then he took a
can of like pop and he poured it on the floor and he said,
this is my car. I'll do whatever the fuck I want with this car.
You might as well give up now, because if you don't give up,
I'm gonna fucking kill you. Oh my god. Now, we had
an intern stationed there, you keep an eye on things. They didn't know
what to do, and they were an interneah. And so the next morning,
before it was even twenty four hours, the whole contest that was supposed
to last a week or two was over. Wow. Denny Hecker's people were
pissed. Our management was pissed. And you know who got the blame for
it, Dave Ryan. And which was totally unfair because I was not in
charge of who was policing this contest. In the middle of the night,
the promotions department at the time left this person in charge with no instructions on
like if they get funny in the middle of the night, call me yeah,
or if this happened, you tell him to stop, which I feel
bad for the intern in that situation. They didn't know. Yeah, I
felt bad too, but I got the blame for it, and I took
the heat for I think because I chose the contestant because I wanted somebody and
he wasn't really a murderer. That was just his strategy. It was a
fucked up strategy. Did he They didn't give him the car? Did he?
I think they did. Really, I was just gonna ask that.
I was like, did he actually get to get it? But like,
what were the rules of the contest because you always have to sign waiver reforms
for things like that. There should have probably been something in the forum like
you cannot threaten other contestant. I don't think we had that eventuality. I
mean, it's like, now, in hindsight, it'd be like, yeah,
you cannot make physical threats against the other people, but that wasn't in
the rules and it worked. You gave him the benefit of the doubt.
This is not going to be a weirdo creep. No, and he was
actually a very nice, charming twenty three year old kid who that was just
his strategy. All right, enough of that story, let's move on.
Day. God, I don't really know that that's a strategy though. That's
a personality trait because I would never ever ever threaten someone for a car.
Uh all right, thank you, Lindsay. Next one. No, this
is somebody who was asking for New Kids on the Block tickets, and you
know, I look at those. I do look at the New Kids on
the Block tickets or what contest or ticket requests. A lot of the time
we just don't have extras, and the ones that we get, we are
obligated to give away on the radio. For example, let's say if we
had a bunch of Taylor Swift tickets, you can call in and tell me
the world's saddest story, but we are obligated to give that away Wednesday at
four o'clock or Thursday morning at seven. So we really don't have a lot
of discretion with those. But you know, I'll read your story later,
then I'll delete it. No, I'm kidding, Okay, Next one,
Hi, Gang, and I mean Gang. I love the fullness of the
show. Congrats Vonton Bailey, so good to have you in my ear holes.
I'm writing with a bit of advice as a fifty seven year old who
can relate to Susan's state of mind. I was talking this morning about how
Susan just says he's sad, she has nothing to look forward to. Dave,
I'd say, just let her feel it without you overthinking it or needing
to fix it. It's about her. She probably just needs to feel her
way through it in a comforting place like home, knowing she can share how
she feels out loud without you freaking out or taking it personally. It's pretty
important. I have one grown up child and now grandkids and a son in
law, and I still go through moments of feeling lost or aimless, what's
next for me? Grasping at who am I now? But life is full
of that shit. It ebbs and flows, for sure. I need to
remind myself of that all the time. She'll be okay. Kudos for her
saying it out loud instead of doing and kudos for noticing she was struggling and
asking her about it. Yeah, because I was like, you know,
I'm like, what's wrong, I'm nothing, And then she started to cry,
and I'm like, okay, what's wrong? Yeah, and so we
talked about that on the show today. Thank you, Kim. Just say
like, do you want to be listened to or do you want help problem
solving or something? Just validate her feelings in whatever way you can. I
only learned that a couple of years ago that a lot of the time guys
are you know. I don't want to sound sexist, so don't point this
out, but guys tend to want to solve problems. Oh I do that
too. You want to solve problems. So if I say something like you
like, you know, I'm so torn between whether I need to go back
to school or join the military, you will solve it. For men,
like what let's make a pros and cons list versus like, Oh, tell
me more about that kind of thing. Yeah, I wish I was better
at just listening. What are you, Jenny? I'm definitely a listener for
the most part and a comforter. I think they say, do you you
should tell your partner to ask you if you want comforter counseling? Oh yeah,
because Andrew is very guilty of being that person too. He's always playing
devil's advocate in scenarios and He's always giving me advice, and sometimes I just
want to talk and I don't so yeah, I I but I definitely do
it sometimes too. I think we all do. It's like I think that
I've learned in the last couple of years a lot of time women when they
say I've really got a hard thing going on down at work. My boss
takes credit for everything that I do, and my tendency has always been like,
well, let's do this, Let's make sure that you reach out to
her supervisor and blah blah blah. And sometimes women just want to be heard.
Yeah. I mean, that's that goes for anybody, because, like
I like problem solving, sometimes people just need to be listened to. Man
or woman or any next one. Don't say my name. I'm struggling to
make a decision and it will take any guidance that I can get. I
am a thirty two year old woman looking for my forever. Shortly after getting
out of my last relationship, I quickly met a guy through work. Similar
personalities compatible, very attracted him physically. Our only issues are and here they
come. Mm hm. He is forty nine, Oh god, I am
thirty two, seventeen years he is divorced with three daughters fifteen, thirteen,
eleven who live with their mom. Obviously it's not my dream scenario, but
I'm in love with the guy. Part of me feels, who cares about
the age gap? You'll chareish, however many years you have with him and
being a step mom is not uncommon. But the other part of me thinks,
seventeen years isn't a big deal now, as he doesn't look or act
like it. But what happens when he's eighty seven and I'm seventy and being
a stepmom on top of wanting to have kids on my own, My kids
and I will be sharing husband dad time with the stepkids. I'm trying to
decide whether to fully commit to him or let him go and go back to
dating to see if I find as good a connection with somebody who isn't as
old and doesn't have any kids. Any fatherly or friendly advice would be much
appreciated. All or right, And I won't say her name. I say
go for it. I say you will regret it if you don't. But
I might be wrong, but I would say go ahead and go for it.
Seventeen years is a big age gap. It's not a big deal now
because you're both young enough to enjoy each other and enjoy life and go bike
riding and climbing and whatever. But the kids, I would say, the
kids are old enough they might resent you for And I would also wonder why
did they live full time with their mom? Yeah, that was my first
thing that I thought of. Is that makes me throw up a red flag
as to what is the reasoning behind that. I know that there are situations
where like maybe they live an hour apart, so the kids stay with mom
to go to school and have like some regular schedule. But that's a little
bit strange to me. I think so too, because it's either the dad
wasn't really their favorite or they didn't like he wasn't really fond of the idea.
I don't know, but I would see do a little bit digging and
find out why the kids live full time with their mom, because you would
think that they at least share custody, right they might live a long way
apart. Yeah, And his answer is like, because that bitch is a
fucking psycho. Now you know you've got a problem. Yeah, so you
think, yeah, oh for sure that walk away immediately if that's the system,
but I don't know. I also say, like, if you like
him so much, go for it. I think you just have to weigh
like potential lifestyle differences throughout the years. That's the main thing. And I
know you mentioned when he's eighty seven and she's seventy, but there's a lot
of other factors that come into play throughout the years too. Well. I'll
tell you this one. I can do anything at my age. I'm sixty
one now, and I can do anything that I did when I was thirty
two. So he is twelve years younger than me. He is absolutely going
to be able to keep up with a thirty two year old. So I
could keep up with most thirty two year olds. I think a lot of
thirty two year olds would probably have trouble keeping up with me. But also,
does she want kids? So that's another she does want kids? Yeah?
And Helmer does he want kids? That's a brand. Yeah, if
he's starting from scratch, yeah, good luck. I say go for it.
I say, you know, but find out why he doesn't have the
kids, and you do have some things to talk about, make it clear
that you do want kids. Good luck. I'm gonna skip that one for
later. This one says bonjour, flechette lekaers. That means hello, ass
lickuerors. Fuck creativity. That sounds too fancy. Oh, dart liquors is
what it means. Okay, ah, yes, much more my style.
Dave wanted to point out in response to yesterday when you said you weren't sure
why celebrities didn't make themselves available for radio against Absolutely because they can do all
their own marketing, advertisement and endorsements through their own social media pages. So
why get up early and head into a radio station. Don't get me wrong,
I would totally get up early and come hang out with you guys.
But I'm know Nelly, I'd look ridiculous with a band aid on my face.
Okay, you're funny. You should be on the radio. That's a
really good point. But I will say that the a lot of celebrities still
do. But maybe they're more selective, like they only go to like the
Elvis Durant Show or the Ryan Seacrest show. Bobby Bones, that's another big
name. Yeah, onto my email. Some questions. I'm curious about when
you guys actually record the podcast. In the early days, it seemed like
you were actually doing it after the morning show. However, for a while
now Jenny always has to let you know when to wrap up, so clearly
it must be happening during the morning show. How does that work? What
about on days the podcast is longer, which I absolutely prefer, Please make
them all longer. Right now, we are at seventeen minutes. We're doing
it today after the show because we've had a very fun, busy show today
and there was no gaps where we had a chance to do the podcast.
But like on Fridays when War of the Roses replay is on, we'll record
the podcast between six twenty and seven o'clock. Sometimes during the week when we
do have a replay of like the Dance Party followed by War of the Roses
replay, then we can also do it. So it's like, okay,
why not economize, right, But today on Wednesday, it's eleven thirty four
in the morning and we been working on show stuff and recording some content that
we haven't any time yep, So this is a little bit later, and
you got to get out of here because you've got editing of content to do.
Jenny, and then Bailey's having lunch with Fallon today lunch with Fallon.
I hope she likes me. You're a pretty likable person. I hope you
like her because, let me tell you, I worked with that bitch for
years and I'm kidding. Yeah, Fallon's really easy to talk to. I
wish Jenny was going with me, so i'd have like a little like to
be scared of Fallon. Yeah, I'm scared, but I feel like I
am going on a date, and I know, I get it. You
know, she's really easy to be around, and you're super talkative, So
I'm not worried about you guys at all. But have we all gone to
like we have a lunch date with somebody and it's like, I don't know
what we're going to talk about. I don't want to talk. I don't
know what to say to them. And then you go and it's fine,
and you know, there might be a couple of starts and stops in conversation,
but then after a while you settle in. You're not as nervous anymore.
You'll do fine. I'm glad she's a girl, so at least we'll
have that. Don't stare at her mole, now, she got a mole,
A mole on her forehead. Yes, so don't don't do it.
Oh gosh, but I'm thinking about it now. You're gonna stare at the
mole. How are you? It's real good to It's real good to meet
you, Bailey. My name's Fallon. Okay, you can't do that.
You can't do it with an easy conversation topic like how's your hemorrhoid doing?
How's your hemorrhid? Then that's a good idea. What does it look like?
Just showy? All right? Next with same person, Next question,
what is the deal with the microphone flags? Do they have the Morning Show
on one side and Fallon and Cult on the other? Is the Fallon and
Cult won a graphic? It was previously Fallon and Zach. Then they had
it changed over so fast when cults started. I can't imagine they are being
changed between shows. Uh, they actually are. So it was. I
will go ahead and take credit for this trend because a couple of years ago
I said, we need to get these microphone flags because I look at some
of the big shows in our company, like Mojo or Elvis Duran, and
they have microphone flags that say Mojo in the Morning or the Elvis Morning's show
or whatever. So I said, I'm going to buy these microphone flags so
with my own money, and it costs probably several hundred dollars hundred. Wow.
We ordered these and then we stuck them on the microphone, and I
remember the day we put them on. We all said, this isn't going
to work because it blocks so much of our field of vision and it's right
there, three inches from our face and it's all you can see. We
got used to it within a half an hour. Yeah, you have the
hardest one of all of them because yours blocks looking between Bailey and I's microphones.
But we can still, like Bailey and I can look at each other
just side to side and look over at Vaughan. But you're the one that
kind of like has the most obstruction. M I feel like, But yeah,
you get used to it. I totally got used to it. I
don't even notice it now, not at all. And it's good for you
know, like videos and things like that, because it shows, you know,
hey, what is the show that you're watching? And then fallon when
she got the afternoon show, she stole my idea because people have been stealing
my ideas for centuries centuries. Yeah, and so she got the Fallon and
Zach microphone flag also paid for with her own money as far as I know,
And so then that changed, and so now it's Fallin and cult And
actually when we come in, I think it's kind of like, I don't
know, sometimes they change the microphone flags and sometimes they don't. But it
takes how long Bailey to change it? Once you get the hang of it,
it probably takes like, I don't know, twenty five seconds. Yeah,
but you have to get the screw in and it's upside down and it
feels like you're in tech ad class in high school. It's hard. Okay,
So but that's the story with the microphone flags. I know this is
probably getting long, so last thing and this will be the last email for
now. Content idea. I think you should do house tours aka morning show
cribs. I can't be the only one who would find that extreme entertaining.
All right, Ta ta for now, gotta go diddle the bean, which
was something that hell did that come up on the show. This is when
you were here a couple of weeks ago. I don't know why we were
talking about that, but I remember labeling the title we titled it that,
but I don't red Bean God, I don't remember. Okay, she does
say kidding, but maybe she is. Maybe she isn't. One more thing,
Dave, thank you for being a father figure to a girl like me
who has a dad that just plaine sucks. I sent a separate email about
this as this has already gotten too long, and that is from uh,
Brianna. Brianna, thank you so much. You know what, I will
accept that father figure honor. Uh. And I hear that often enough to
know that there's enough. There's a lot of people out there, men and
women who've got kind of absent fathers or fathers who don't seem to really care
that much. So yeah, that is a real honor for me. And
I will expect a Father's Day present coming up on Father's Day, which is
only a couple of weeks away from who from this person who's just seen this
bitch and everybody else it thinks that they that I'm a father figure. So
Brianna, I'm looking at you. Mail that twenty dollars Bill christ or or
some old spice. I think the old spice would be good. So I
start getting a bunch of cars in the mail out from Yeah, I want
to Father's Day. You're gonna wonder are they really my child? Can I
tell you a story? Can I tell you a story? This is a
true story. I was quite promiscuous back when I was younger, like in
my twenties, I was. It was quite promiscuous. Wow. And I
would always ask are you on the pill? After I came and that's a
joke. That's a joke. I know you were just going into being promiscuous,
so that felt at all before we got into the whole thing. I
would say, are you on the pill? Yeah, don't worry about it.
Okay, then we do our thing, but you never know. And
Philip, pills don't fail. Pills don't always work, they fail. Whatever.
Yeah, checking my mailbox and I'm probably twenty four, twenty six years
old, I get a Father's Day card with no return address. Geez,
and I don't remember what the inside said, but I looked at it,
going, do I have a kid out there that I don't know about?
Or is this somebody's funny idea of a joke? And to this day,
I don't know for sure. But I never heard from any kid ever who
wrote and said you're my dad? So I think it was somebody trying to
be funny. It was a great, great joke. Why are they gonna
let you in on the joke card? Are they gonna send you another letter
soon? I remember, this is a long time ago, and nobody ever
said, hey, do you get that funny Father's Day card? That was
me? Nope, so I don't. That's why they call you daddy Bear.
Thank you, Bailey, and we'll wrap it up with that. Send
your emails to Ryan's show at KADIWB dot com and send Father's Day cards to
well, you can look up the address online. That's it. Have a
great day and we'll see you tomorrow.