And here we go with the Minnesota Goodbye. Let's start off with this one
from Chow. Who is you know what I'm gonna start naming regular contributing writers
of the Dave Ryan in the Morning Show Minnesota Goodbye, because we're gonna call
you contributing writers contributing it by because you send an email in your contributing to
the show, and we really need that because that is what this entire podcast
is based on, is your thoughts and your questions and the random stuff that
you come up with. Are they going to start demanding we pay them though?
Luck what kind of title we give them? Yeah? Sorry about that,
Hey, guys from Chow. We always turn on our front and back
door lights at nighttime. We live at the end of the street where there's
no neighbors in front of us, only trees, et cetera. So at
night you can get pretty dark. There's only street lights at the corner houses,
so after you turn the corner it is almost complete darkness. Plus,
I remember one time there was a guy who was running from the cops.
He was hiding in our backyard when at the time we didn't leave the backyard
light on. Good thing the police were able to find him and capture him.
Now this is a little bit out of context, but I think we
were talking about leaving your yard lights on or porch lights on. What was
this last week? I think you brought it up on air saying that you
should leave your lights on at night, and I was like, I never
leave my lights on. And people think that you're sketchy if you like,
don't leave your lights on in the neighborhood. But I was like, I
don't leave my lights on. And then someone brought up last week, I
think it's bad for birds, right, they're migration. Yep, that's what
they say, to have lights on or something. But the funny thing is
with you know, one house in the whole neighborhood is not going to be
bad for the birds. We had like a park ranger or somebody right in.
I have I leave my front door light on all the time, and
the lights in front of my house that light up the driveway and they're just
lights, they're not spot lights, are very bright, but I just have
it out there because I figure if I wake up in the middle of the
night to somebody at my door when I look out, I want to be
able to see who's out there. If I get something in the middle of
the night on my ring cam, I want to be able to look out
and see who's out there. But I do have a big floodlight in my
backyard. There's two of them. There's one that points this way and so
it lights up the entire backyard. I don't leave that on at night because
I don't want to bother in the neighbors. You know, it's not even
an electricity thing or a bird thing. I just don't want to bother in
the neighbors. So for sure, thank you Chow for that one. Moving
on to the next one, she says, don't say my name. I
don't think my friends listen to the podcast, but if they do, I'd
rather them not know it's me. First of all, I love you guys
so much. I've listened to y'all since I've been in the moom as.
My mom always listens on her commute, and now I listen on the iHeartRadio
app while I'm getting ready in the morning at college. That is awesome.
Here we go, I want an outside opinion. This summer, two of
my friends separate friends and occasions, invited me in a couple of others to
hang out at houses they were house sitting at overnight, to look at the
dog, to look after the dogs. We're all college students, so the
first friend did that did this. She's a friend from high school. It
was later at night she offered the house that she was house sitting for us
to talk through plans for an upcoming trip we were doing. There were three
of us plus her. Now remember, she's house sitting and you're probably not
supposed to have people over. But at the same time, you know,
big deal. We even ordered pizza and ate at their house. We cleaned
up after ourselves, of course. The second friend was one of my college
friends. We were planning a group activity for the upcoming school year. She's
house sitting. We all come over. We dipped our feet in the pool
and then went inside a chat. There were a total of eight of us
hanging out. I just find it weird hanging out in a house that is
not one of our own when the owner of the house isn't there, and
I'm pretty sure in neither case were they notified that we went or over.
I'm aware that they probably are both close to the families of their house sitting
for but when I look at it from my perspective, I would not appreciate
random people hanging out of my house when I'm not home. However, my
parents have always been particular about having even my closest friends over and usually want
at least a couple of days notice. Additionally, they've always been super particular
about how my brother and I treat our house. Even if we accidentally slam
a door, we'd get a glare. Is it just how I was raised
that I find this weird or is it actually weird? Thanks and keep up
the good work with the podcast. And I won't say your name, but
I would say no to me, it's not weird. I guess I'm pretty
open and welcoming if I had. For example, we've had somebody who's been
watching Josie when we go out of town. You know, if they're an
adult, they want to have a couple of friends over and sit in the
backyard and you know, have drinks or whatever, order pizza. I don't
care, you know, be respectful like you would. And I would expect
the person who is house sitting to be kind of the you know, the
supervisor, and be like, hey, make sure you clean up. Let's
clean up the dishes and stuff before we leave. I think that you should
definitely ask ahead of time. In my opinion, I think I'd be kind
of an anoyed if I found out that somebody that was house sitting for me
had like a bunch of people over. I wouldn't care if they asked me
ahead of time. If I found out later, I probably would get a
little annoyed. But I do remember one time, like this is probably six
seven years ago now, Tina was house sitting or watching Steve Lettard's dogs,
okay and or dog. He might have only had one dog at the time,
and so she had to go up to Rogers and her and I were
working on it was somebody's birthday, and we were working on something for the
morning show, like a project to put together for the birthday, And so
I went up to Steve's house because we were using his glue gun or something
like that. Okay, So, but I felt like a little bit weird
that I was there when like, I wasn't the one that was supposed to
be there house sitting. It was Tina, and I knew Steve, I
worked with Steve. I wouldn't have cared one way or another but I also
don't think we like let him know ahead of time we were going to do
that project like at his house, And so it felt a little bit strange
to me, but in the end it didn't matter. He didn't hair.
No, you wouldn't cared. No, I don't think we asked ahead of
time. If you minded that we were hanging out at his house doing that,
I would not expect, like, like, let's say the Tina was
watching Josie and Tina wanted to have like you and like a couple of other
friends over to watch movies and eat popcorn. I don't care. I mean,
I wouldn't even care if she asked me first. I would be pleased
if she did, and I would probably say, oh, you don't have
to ask, just go ahead. Babysitters are a different story. Think about
this. When Alison was about six or seven, we had a babysitter and
we came home, and the babysitter had friends over, and the babysitter was
probably fifteen or sixteen, and the we were pretty sure that kids were sneaking
out the back door when they heard us come home, because we heard the
sliding glass door open and close, and the babysitter seemed a little bit like
wah hi hey, and so Alison of course narked and said, yeah,
she had friends over. And I didn't like that because when your babysit my
kid, you have a responsibility. Yeah, you're supposed to be watching my
kid. And if you have friends over, sure you're probably doing nothing.
But even if you're watching TV, you're not doing what I paid you to
do, and that is exclusively watch my kid. Right, So there i'd
have a problem. But with a house sitter, no, yeah, I
don't really care. Yeah what about this? What if somebody like borrows your
house for the weekend, like Jenny, Yeah, I'm going to stay over
there, or you're gonna be out of town? Is okay? If I
stay at your house or whatever and they have a boyfriend come over and they
hook up in your bedroom, well I would be such a fucking hypocrite if
I said I was upset about that, because really, there was a time
when I was in between places and I was crashing at my sister's place with
her now husband. They had a tiny, one bedroom apartment. I was
literally sleeping on an air mattress in their living room, and I like had
a month of time where I was sleep like staying with them, and so
in the in between, I had another friend on who was out of town
for the weekend, and so she's like, you can just go crash at
my place for the weekend so you can have some space. And I was
like, Oh, that'd be so great. Well what did Jenny do.
Jenny went out and got a little drunk that night, and I'm looking up
someone and bringing the guy back to my friend's place. Oh, looked up
with him in her bed in her bed. Yeah, okay, that is
fun. What would you think of that one? Send an email with any
thoughts on this one. I know you get to the end of the podcast
and you forget, so send an email to Ryan Show at KDWB dot com.
I once hooked up with a girlfriend when I lived in Ohio in her
parents' bed. I don't know why. I think of what the reason was.
We were over at her parents house. They were gone and my girlfriend's
bedroom was now used as a hobby room or a workout room or something,
so we couldn't hook up there. So the easiest place was not going to
be her little sister's room. Gross, So we hooked up in her parents'
bed, which to her was like no big deal. But to me it
was kind of like, it's just weird. Was I wasn't hooking up with
people in high school. That came later in life for me, But in
high school, at like parties, people were always hooking up in parents' beds
because it was like a high school party. And it's like, yes,
yeah, there's like a few bedrooms open. One of them happens to be
the parents' bed, And if you don't know the parents, well it's no
big deal. But even if you don't, you're horny, you're going to
find a place to hook up. Dave Jenny Drake. Just a quick thought
on how to cook a pizza from a professional. This is from jem Jay
Hamilton, who is a chef. Oh yeah, let's hear Jem. So
last week it came up somebody had called in on No Phone Screener Friday and
said, I argue with my husband, which is right. He likes to
cook the pizza on a pan. I put it directly on the rack.
He gets mad because the cheese drips down into the bottom of the oven and
then it burns on I say, I like it on the rack because then
it's crispier. So we had a whole debate about that didn't but also she
didn't want to wash the pan afterwards. Okay, that's right with having to
wash a pan. He goes on to say, I would say there's no
right or wrong way to cook a pizza, but there's pros and cons to
each. The pizza pan is a simple, lightweight way to cook a pizza,
and they're often non stick and give you a soft, lovy crust if
that's what you want. However, pans do not promote air circulation and tend
to trap steam, leaving your crust not evenly cooked and a little bit soggy.
The pizza stone is the preferred medium. They use the word medium for
hardcore pizza ficionados. There's a reason they've been around since ancient grease. When
you preheat them in an oven, they cook your pizza evenly and faster than
giving you a crispy, light crust with caramelized cheese like a restaurant. They
absorb excess moisture and you can use it for more than pizza, like cookies
and bread, but they tend to be expensive and a bit harder to clean
and care for. Also, if you don't preheat them, they will actually
take much longer to cook your pizza and can be worse than a pan.
I didn't know yet to preheat a pizza stone. Yeah I didn't either.
The no pan option will also give you a crisp crust. Crisp crust due
to air circulation, but they can also droop over the rack of and of
not bait quick enough to set the crust, and this tends to dry out
your crust, making it hard and chewy. Also, unless you have a
confection of it, your outer edges cook faster than the center of your pizza
and result in burnt spots. But if that's your preference, it's your pizza,
not mine. However, you cook your pizza as long as you like
it, you're doing it right. But I personally prefer a pizza stone lightly
dusted with cornmeal. Thanks for reading my email. That is from Jim Jay
Hamilton, another regular contributor and official writer of The Dave Ryan Show. So
thank you, Jim. Here is one about airplane etiquette etiquette. Here we
go, Hello, favorite morning show. I have an airplane etiquette etiquette quandary.
I'd love to run past you. Now I'm going to try to explain
this because I had to read it a couple of times for it to make
sense to me. But here we go. I'm recently on a long flight
two Huston for Minneapolis. When I go on flights longer than two and a
half hours, this one was three hours. I all always sit on the
aisle because I need to pee every two and a half hours, like clockwork,
and I want more space. Well, I bored the flight, and
there's a woman sitting next to me in the middle, and she said,
will you switch spots with me? Because her husband was on the aisle on
the other side. So, in other words, the writer is on the
aisle across from her as the woman's husband. The woman wants to swap seats,
so they're the woman and her husband are sitting next to each other on
the aisle. She was about seventy five years old. For context, I
really didn't want to say yes because I paid for this flight, and she
clearly did not pay to pick her seat, and she took a random assignment,
so in other words, it was kind of her problem, and the
person had paid specifically not to sit in the middle or on the window.
I politely asked if she could switch with the man who was in the middle
seat sitting next to her husband, So, in other words, she basically
said no. She said, but maybe you can switch with the guys sitting
next to your husband, swap middle seats now that you'll be next to her
husband. And she said no, I'd prefer the aisle. I was in
shock, so I just said sure, I'd switch with her. When reality,
I felt it was so rude. Am I being dramatic by thinking she
is being rude? Or is she in the wrong. If she really wanted
an aisle seat and also next to her husband, she should have paid for
it so they could be together. By the way, the couple was not
elder If they had not been elderly, I probably would not have switched.
Thank you. I'm gonna say she was not rude, but a little bit
clueless. She didn't know that you had paid for your seat on the aisle.
She didn't know that you had picked it. She probably just thought you
were randomly assigned there where. She was rude. Nobody wants the freaking middle
seat, yep. Asking to swap somebody an aisle seat or a window for
the middle seat is no, it's just clueless. You just don't. It's
kind of like, hey, would you mind having the smaller piece of pizza
so I can have the bigger one? Well, no, I want to
have the bigger one. So what do you think, jen Oh, I
think that that. I know that she said that they were a little bit
older, so you give kind of some more grace to that. But I
just think that it is so rude to ever ask anyone to switch. If
you have a middle seat, nobody wants are switching, either for a window
or an aisle. It is so rude. Yeah, I don't want to
sit in the middle. Then you're dealing with two people wrestling for the arm
rusts like I don't. I am shocked that she switched. Honestly, I
would have said. I would have said, listen, I paid for this
seat, and also I have to go to the bathroom pretty often, so
like, I'm gonna still sit here. I'm sorry. I think it's one
of those things you think later about what you should have said, because that's
what she should have said. I got to go to the bathroom a lot,
and I paid for this seat, so no, I'm sorry. But
in like the kind of like surprise of her asking, you don't really know
what to do, and you also probably are wondering like, is it going
to be the worst plane ride of my life? Then? Is this woman
going to make me feel miserable? Then if she still has to sit in
the middle seat, because I get to deal with the awkwardness of that once
you say no. I had a woman on a flight. Susan and I
were flying somewhere and it was kind of a similar situation. I don't remember
exactly, but I said, hey, would you mind switching and so I
can sit next to my wife? And she literally said no, I prefer
to sit right here. And I was like, God, what a dicky.
But then I thought, you know what, good for her she wanted
to sit there. If that's what she reserved, and we didn't book our
seats together, that's not her problem. So I was a little bit annoyed
and I probably texted Susan like, yeah, this B word over here,
won't switch would a B word? But you know what, that was her
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