You ready to do the Minnesota goodbye? I'm ready. Oh you a biatcha.
Let's see what we got. Let's start in with you. That's a
long one, but let's you know, let's give it a shot and see
what we got. You ready, I'm ready. I usually only listen at
the gym, and I always thought I want to reply to stuff and end
up making a list to reply to so many things over several weeks. Although
the last time I did this, Dave said I was adhd So I'll try
to be more organized and linear with my thoughts. I'm hoping this is read
Thursday or Friday so I could listen on a trip to exotic Imperial, California.
Fingers crossed. Dave, You've heard it once, You've heard it a
million times, but you really are the best. Thanks for being a father
figure to the Twin Cities for so long. I've taken you guys on all
of my travel nurse assignments, starting in Vegas, Sacramento, Omaha, and
now back here to the twenties Twin Cities. I love having a slice of
home at my fingertips. Thank you very much. I never ever ever stop
appreciating that, appreciating that I've had an idea for a while. When Dave
calls HR on Jenny, I think you should change it a little bit,
and it'd be funny. It goes like this, Hello, HR, Dave.
Jenny says I have chicken lips. HR, well, you do have
chicken lips. And then Dave says something back to Jenny, well like your
eyes are too big of your face. Totally untrue, by the way.
And then Jenny calls HR and HR says something like, well, no,
she doesn't something short, since she's usually a woman of few words. I
just think it would be hilarious if HR turned on Dave. Maybe even play
the long game with it, and when Dave finally retires, have him get
in big trouble again, have him pull him out of the studio and talk
to him and never return. Go out with controversy Dave. So in other
words, when I do leave, make it sound like I got fired.
Yep, Okay, I mean, you know what, that is a funny
idea, but I would never do that and leave that legacy like, I
mean, that's a funny bit. But no, to pass on that one.
All right, onto the next email. Let's see what we got I'm
gonna push the right tab here. Here we go, Dave Jenny Drake,
I could use your opinion. I enjoy going on walks around a neighborhood.
I usually walk every day. There is a house that is fairly close to
mine where they let their dog run around the yard unleashed and unsupervised. The
dog is not friendly. It has come up to me aggressively several times,
and I've even had to almost go a full block walking backwards while this dog
was following me. Yesterday, I saw the dog was out in somebody else's
yard, so I went a different way, hoping it would be inside when
I came back, but it was still out twenty minutes later, so I
had to backtrack my entire walk to avoid it. If you try to walk
by the house, even across the street, the dog will come up and
aggressively approach you. I never see the owners, otherwise I would say something
in the moment. My husband think I should call animal control next time it
happens. That's what I was going to say, call animal control. I
love dogs. I would feel bad for punishing the dog for having an irresponsible
owners. Well, you're not punishing the dog, You're actually helping the dog
because the dog can get hit by a car. Yeah, it can get
stolen. Somebody can get fed up and poison the dog. People do poison
dogs that are aggressive and like come into their yard. Do you hear stories
about that once in a while, you know, I've heard stories about Yeah,
the neighbor's dog keeps coming over and doing this and fighting with my dog,
and it killed my chihuahua. So I eventually poisoned the neighbor's dog.
Do you hear about things like that? I think I might have to because
I don't know what else to do. I can't be the only person this
is happening to, and I find it hard to believe the owners are completely
clueless. If I could just avoid the house all the time, I would,
but it's just spot in the neighborhood that makes it really difficult. I
appreciate your helplessen every day, truly appreciate all the time and attention you give
us listeners. Staff writer Kristen and she would like a staff writer sticker.
So I'm going to take a picture. I haven't sent any out in a
while, so it'll be a couple of days. I'll get some more out
what do you think, Jenny, I mean, I think, I don't
know. I do think just do what your the husband said, because I
wouldn't feel bad about that situation, and I just I don't know. It
like blows my mind that there are dog owners out there who like, do
not take better care of their dogs. Totally, like it just it's wild
to me because it's like dogs are like to some people, they're like kids,
you know, like some people who don't want kids, they dogs are
their kids. So it's weird to hear someone who does not take good care
of them. And I don't get the purpose of having a dog if you
don't take good care of your dog. Well, I think some people don't
take good care of their car, don't take good care of their kitchen,
don't take good care of their roof or whatever. And I think if you're
a lazy homeowner car owner, you're also going to be a lazy pet owner.
Pets are a lot of work, They make a mess, they need
to be trained, they need to be and discipline is the right word.
So I'll go back to trained. And I think that, you know,
I mean with Josie, we were really lucky. Susan and I I did
a good job of raising our little Josie and gave her lots of love,
but also gave her lots of training. So she learned how to go outside,
and she learned not to jump on people and be aggressive or you know,
get up. I have a friend and I love this friend, and
I went to her house not long ago, and she has a little dog
that knows no boundaries. The dog will jump up on you, crawl up
your chest, get on your lap, and put their paws on your chest
and get right in your face. God forbid you try to eat yes while
you're there. And it's like, I know you love dogs, but you've
got to train this dog to be better or she's never gonna get it.
Next one from Kristen, She says, Dave Ryan Crewe, I was listening
to the podcast section where you were saying that mental illness shouldn't be an excuse,
I e. Kids on tablets, etc. We were talking about was
it on this podcast? It was on the podcast about someone is at a
fine dining restaurant and the table next door had a kid listening to a tea
tablet on like the loudest volume. Uh and and somebody you know. And
this comes up a lot where somebody will see a misbehavior and say, well,
you don't know if they have mental illness. And I said, well,
mental illness is you know. Of course you've got to be understanding and
empathetic, but when it interferes with my life, now it becomes a problem.
And I gave the analogy of like, I was at the airport a
couple of months ago and I heard an adult yelling and I was like,
oh, what's weird? And it turned out it was an adult with some
sort of mental disability and they were yelling really loudly, and they were there
with their dad, and they were probably twenty or so. And it was
like, oh, well, I'm not going to complain because yeah, it's
affecting me, But what are you going to do? You know, you're
going to be understanding, but with a kid with a tablet, and if
the kid's got a mental illness, you really you can be somewhat understanding.
But she goes on to say, there is a phrase that I heard and
I share it with others. Mental illness is not your fault, but it
is is your responsibility. And I like that one because think about this one.
If you are at the Dave and Busters and you bring along your relative
and they have a mental illness or they have something and they get aggressive and
they get violent and they break the machines or whatever, and I'm just making
up shit off the top of my head. That is not okay. It
is your responsibility, and I think that's really true. Christin says super short
email that I had to write in right dart Lick Kristin. Thank you,
Kristin. Next one, Hello, my favorite morning show. It's Charise,
one of your favorite staff White writers. This is probably more of a question
for Jenny, but I'll take your input to Dave. My boyfriend wants to
introduce me to his mom. Normally I wouldn't be nervous about this, but
I'm slightly nervous because I am fifteen years older than him, and I'm worried
about what she's going to think about me. I wrote you guys a few
weeks ago about our relationship and age difference. I remember series things are going
well, by the way, any advice on how to get on his mom's
good side? Jen, Well, I mean I think that you just have
to be yourself, Like I don't think that there's like anything super different of
meeting someone who's a little bit younger than you and then meeting someone in your
own age their parents. I think it's always just be yourself, show that
you care for her son, and yeah, I think it should go smoothly.
I understand the concern because of the age difference, and there might be
like some judgment from the mom or something like that, but I don't know.
I think that, like all most parents, all they care about is
their kids being happy for the most part, and I don't think that fifteen
years is like that big of a difference once you get to a certain point
in life, Like I think a twenty and thirty five year old, that's
very different. I don't think a twenty year old really like knows that much
better at that point, But like a thirty five year old and a fifty
year old, I feel like that's a little bit more normal. I guess
at twenty five, a twenty five year old and a fifty thirty five year
old and a fifty year old yea, yeah, I feel like you've experienced
a lot of life. You've gone through career, you maybe went to school
already, you're done with that. But like at twenty years old. No,
you're still basically you're barely at a high scho Yeah, right, Like
so, I feel like there's a big difference there in a thirty five year
old. I think that that would come with a lot of judgment from a
parent. But I think Charesa's maybe said that maybe he's thirty or something,
So I don't know. It sounds like you guys are probably closer in forty
five and thirty. You've had enough life experiences and stuff for it to not
be as weird with that big of an age gap. I'm going to be
straight up, Bath. My daughter is eleven years younger than her husband,
and when they met, she was about twenty or twenty one, which would
made him about thirty one or thirty two. And I didn't like it.
I was like, why would a guy that's thirty two be interested other than,
you know, like sexually, somebody that young. And I didn't like
it. And I was like, I just didn't like it because it was
like, there's no way that a thirty one, thirty two year old should
want to date a twenty one year old college girl. But they're still married.
They seem to be very, very happy and they seem to have a
great relationship. My mom and dad were nine years apart. Susan and I
are about four or five years apart, something like that. But I do
think that you're right, Jenny. I think if you're younger twenty and thirty
five, then that's messed up. But if you're thirty five and fifty,
I would say this, Jenny's right. Just be yourself, be nice and
she might kind of like be a little shocked at first. Maybe you should
have him tell his mom in advance, Hey, just let you know she's
forty five years old. Yeah, all right, last one. We're gonna
save that one for another time, and that one for another time, and
that one for another time. So I think we actually might be out of
emails. Let me go back and see what we Okay, here's one day
was talking about some piece of exercise equipment. The last month or so.
He was talking about how much he liked it. The company sent him a
free one. What was it it is? You know, first of all,
I bring this up once in a while, and if you listen to
the show, you've heard me bring it up. It is the InMotion stepper.
I do not get paid for it. They never sent me a freebee.
I've probably sold it. I don't think you've ever gotten a free one,
right, we don't really get free stuff. I mean, you know,
once in a while it'll be like, okay, someone will bring buy
a pizza from their new pizza place. Yeah, and we'll give him a
plug and be like, hey, so and so's pizza. Thanks. But
no, it's called the InMotion Stepper and they have several different varieties on Amazon.
And I was on mine last night for thirty minutes while we watched suits.
And again, I don't get a freebie. I don't get a discount,
I don't get paid. I just recommend it because it's portable. It's
about one hundred maybe one hundred and ten dollars, and it's better than you
know, if you don't have a treadmill, then it's you know, it's
great, and it's portable. When you're done, you pick it up by
the handle and stick it in the corner next one. You know, Honestly,
that's it. I think that's it. Yeah, Okay, I'm looking
at other ones, and that is it. So thank you for the emails.
If you have an email that you want to send for the Minnesota Goodbye.
Obviously we are out of them, and we are We're We've only gotten
ten minutes into the podcast. Is there anything you want to talk about?
Jenny, I don't know that I have much else. We've talked about all
the things today. I have been watching Survivor and you missed it last week
because someone emailed into the Minnesota Goodbye and was like saying that I should do
an update about Survivor and stuff, and I was like, I just feel
like there's a pretty small portion of people who watch Survivor nowadays. But but
there must still be enough because they're on season like five hundred I swear,
Okay, that's an exaggeration. Obviously, No, they've been doing it for
like twenty minutes. Still, you're doing while on network TV, so they
must have somewhat of a viewership, you know. You know, it's funny
because we used to do American Idol updates every week after American Idol, and
we stopped because you know, the viewership went down and the fad kind of
died away. And I watched American Idol the other night, it was like,
oh, it's still good. It's not as good as it used to
be. But I would never do an update on American Idol. Same way
with Survivor, because even though it has its following, it's just not as
big. You heard the dinger a minute ago. We just got an email.
Let's check it out. Here we go, David Jenny, I want
to thank you for being amazing. Well, thank you. I listened live
via iHeart every morning six to ten and then the Minnesota Goodbye on the way
home from work. You always put me in a great mood, and I
talk about you all the time. My family and friends know you by name.
Now with a little smiley laughing emoji, just a little content for you
on the Minnesota Goodbye. My best friend's cat has his own TikTok page.
It's called Gray the Cat, g r e y the Cat. Well,
you know what we're gonna do right now saying what does Gray do on his
TikTok? I'm going to go look right now, I'm going to open up
TikTok and I'm going to search in the upper right hand corner g r e
y the Cat, And there they are. Okay, first thing looking at
is there's a cat that's got they have. The cat have wonky eyes and
I'm trying to see how many followers Gray the Cat has. I will say
that this particular post has twenty nine hundred likes, one hundred and thirty seven
comments. What are you seeing, jack? Oh? I was. I
didn't know if I should open mind too, because I didn't want like a
bunch of TikTok. God it said, I was like restricted for a second.
The stupid I gotta take this damn screen lock thing off of my things.
Yeah, because I put a screen lock on my TikTok so that I
can't open it, or that I can open it, but it tells me
how many times I've done it or how long. But hold on, I'm
looking for Gray, Gray the Cat gry right, Yeah, but you know
what I honestly i'm finding I'm not finding Gray the Cat. I'm finding connections
or links. So anywhile continue the email. It goes on to say he
likes to make puking faces a lot. Certain foods they put in front of
him make him gag. I think, get another cat you had a long
long time ago that talks about this. Gray is so funny. If you
get a second, please check out Gray the Cat on TikTok. I'll be
honest with you, Paula. I looked and I did not find. In
searching, I found other cat videos, but I didn't find Gray the cat
or you having any luck check I'm not either. So it's g r a
y the grey gry okay gr ey side. Then I did that wrong because
while you continue to look, I will read this one. I know you
both go to the gym a lot you touched on the subject, but I
want to vent. I go to the gym during my lunch break, so
I have one hour to get in, get my workout in, and get
back to work. Luckily, my office is only blocks from the gym.
It drives me crazy when people sit or stand by the machines and gab.
I do not feel comfortable saying anything to them, And then I have to
skip that machine because they are holding it up. Also, not cleaning the
machine after they are done is a big pet peeve too. Why do people
think that's okay? I don't know. I mean that's kind of a cardinal
rule, like pick up your dog poop ye and wipe down the equipment.
Let me ask you a question. When you use dumbbells at the gym,
do you wipe them off. No, I usually do. When you use
the dead ball or the medicine ball at the gym, do you wipe it
off? No. I always wipe down the benches because I sweat and I'll
leave like marks on that or any other kind of like bench kind of sweat
mark that I leave. But usually during like a sculp the Warrior Skulp class,
where I'm aggressively drenched and sweat, yes, I wipe those down.
But when I'm just doing like an upper body day at the gym, I
typically grab the weights, use them, put them back. I don't always.
I don't usually wash those off. I usually, you know what,
I I put all the equipment away, and then I wipe down everything from
the skier to the bike, to the bike seat, to the benches whatever,
because it's just I don't know. Yeah, for me, it's kind
of a cool down and I don't mind if I'm like lifting or like doing
squats or whatever, and I got a medicine ball in my hand and now
I need a little breather, so I wipe down the medicine ball and go
put it back. Yeah. Not just because I'm a wonderful person, which
I am, but because it gives me a little break. I love looking
at your Weekend in five Pictures too, And Jenny, I'm so happy you
and Fallan are doing your podcast. I miss herund the morning show, but
you guys are killing it still and I would love to listen to her in
the afternoon, but I just like listening to you guys, not so much
the music. So I am happy to get my fall and Phil from the
podcast and her Weekend in five pictures. Keep all Keeping all dart lick.
That is from Paula. Thank you Paula. And that truly is the last
Minnesota goodbye for the day. And like I said, once in a while
we'll skip one and don't get your feelings hurt. And I know it sucks
if you're write in and we don't read it. But sometimes we look at
them and they're not exactly you know, like they're a little bit too long,
or they repeat something that we've kind of you know, beat into the
ground. And once in a while, and this does happen with Jenny,
once in a while, I'll be reading an email and I'll realize halfway through
it that it just it's not right. Yeah, for the Minnesota goodbye,
it's a little bit too inside or a little bit whatever. But I don't
want you to be discouraged from writing in. I just want you to like
write in and whatever's on your mind. And if you just are you doing
it just because you want to be on the Minnesota Goodbye, that's fine with
me. But you know, we're always looking for something to talk about.
So we want to talk about like, you know, the dogs in the
neighbor's yard, or wiping down equipment of the gym, or Jenny talked this
morning. She had a really interesting story about getting your butthole waxed or butthole
laser. I was getting laser hair removal and I was very bloated yesterday,
having some stomach issues, and so I was genuinely concerned when she got into
that area that I was going to fart and I was trying to go to
the bathroom ahead of time to make sure that I got whatever out I could
to get out. And it's luckily like nothing happened, no incident, nothing
happened. But yeah, so we were talking about that this morning, and
those are the kind of things that we can talk about in the Minnesota Goodbye.
Whether you want to talk about something really personal and intimate, something disgusting,
whether it's a bodily function or whatever. Hey, you know what,
We'll talk about just about anything, so send your email. Becomes a staff
writer, Ryan Show at KDWB dot com. And I really appreciate listening.
I really do. And I appreciate all the kind words. When somebody writes
in and says, hey, listen in the morning, then you listen to
the podcast in the afternoon, it really means so much. I mean you,
we we really appreciate. Just like you know when you draw a when
your kid draws you a little crayon art and they bring it over to you
and you make a fuss over it. That's how we are. When you
like say hey, thanks, that really means a lot. We really appreciate
that. And it hurts so much when you say you guys suck. So
all right, thanks for listening. We'll see you next time on the Minnesota Goodbye.