And here we go with a Minnesota goodbye, and let's see what he is
going on now. I will tell you that I have not preread these,
so we'll see what we get. I'm gonna tell you that there's one thing
that we don't. If I see a really, really long email, I'll
skim it really quick, but I'll be usually be like, this is really
way more than we can do on the show. So shorter ones are sometimes
better, But if it needs to be long, that's fine too, Dave,
as far as you make it up with your friend. I also have
a friend that I find so exhausting. This is talking about my friend Brentley,
and I was thinking about calling him yesterday because I really do miss him
and there are things I want to talk to him about and see how he
is. But I also don't want to get the brent lead that I don't
like. Yeah, I want to get the Brentley that's like, hey man,
what's going on? You know how you doing? Not the one like
yeah, what what do you want? Because you never know which kind of
Brentley you're going to get. Yep, they I want to say. We
don't talk nearly as much as we used to. Every time I do,
I get a guilt trip from him about how much we don't hang out and
how I like all my other friends more than him. I told them already.
I've got a wife. I don't need another one. I think if
a friend as a chore to have, they're not really a good friend.
I'm going to read that again. If a friend is a chore to have,
then they're not really a good friend. I like that, Todd,
Thank you very much for that one. All right, here we go listening
to the Minnesota Goodbye episode from May twenty fourth, talking about college costs.
Get this, The state of Illinois family court systems so different than in Minnesota.
If one parent petitions for college costs to be shared, then the courts
are required to order each parent to pay a portion of their kids college costs.
My ax got pissed at me for filing a petition for his NonStop court
violations, so in retaliation, he filed a petition for college costs. Basically,
it's that's one thing that I've noticed. Two things take away from this
without reading the entire thing. Sometimes people do things just to retaliate. In
other words, you do something and they're like, oh, f that I'm
going to retaliate. And there was something going on in my family in the
last few months where it was like, don't retaliate because they are also going
to retaliate, and sometimes it just sucks to just not do that. Moral
is do not get divorced in Illinois. Yikes. Okay, I love you
by I'll keep that in mind. Yeah, good to know. Listening last
week, some of these would be better on the air, but I'm gonna
go ahead and read this anyway. You weren't here, but we were having
a discussion about running in a cemetery, whether it's rude to go for a
run, ride your bike, or walk in a cemetery. I saw the
video because I saw Jenny thought it was fine and you thought it was rude.
Yeah. I was listening to the show her the discussion, and I
want to pass this along my wife and I've been pondering, is everything is
being buried in a cemetery selfish? When you're buried in a cemetery, you
are there for eternity, taking up space that can never be used for anything
else ever. Again, I live pretty close to Lakewood Cemetery, which sits
right on lakefront property in the heart of Minneapolis. That huge plot of land
can never be used for anything else ever again, because you can't dig it
up, dig up the graves, or put something else like housing, trails,
etc. On top of them. While a recently buried person might have
people that visit their grave for a few years, let's be real, few
are going to visit after a handful of years, and nearly no one will
visit after that. But that grave will have to be there for hundreds of
years with populations larger than ever. Is it selfish to take up a space
in a cemetery? Wow, that's from Henry, He sayss Lakewood Cemetery is
beautiful. They're trying to rethink what they can They're trying to rethink what they
can be to be a place where people who've lost anyone, whether there or
somewhere else, can come to remember. Maybe we need to all rethink cemetery.
Hey, I agree. I think about that occasionally too. It's like,
Okay, you're buried, You're going to be there for unless society gets
so fucked up at some point where future generations three hundred years down the road
say these people are dead, we don't care about them. We don't honor
their memory. You know, as the world changes, there might be people
that come into our country and say, hey, we don't care about the
past of America, or maybe just our generations will evolve where we go.
Cemeteries are awful. We need the land. Yeah, So I guess my
question would be because I absolutely see your point of view, Henry, and
I've thought about that myself as well. I think I know Jake put in
his power whatever his will, to be cremated, and I think I may
be selected the same thing, but there are My question would be, where
do you bury people then that is against their religious beliefs, because that is
very much against certain religious beliefs cremation, I think. So, yeah,
you're supposed to, like I think, go to heaven in your with your
body fully intact or whatever it is. I'm getting it wrong, Please forgive
me, you know what I'm saying. So I wonder what would be the
option for those people whose religious beliefs are against it. That's a good question
because I'm sure there are I don't name know what they are, but there
are definitely some that don't like cremation. I would rather be buried, but
I don't have anywhere that I would want to be buried in by. In
other words, I don't have a family cemetery. Susan's got a family cemetery
in somewhere in Ohio where her mom and dad are buried in their mom and
dad and their mom and dad. But Susan probably wouldn't be buried there because
I would want to be buried there. But I guess I'll be cremated.
My mom and dad are sprinkled on the hill behind Scattered is a better idea,
I guess scattered on the hill behind her house in Colorado. And I'll
be honest with you, there's I don't feel them there. I don't.
I don't experience any like connection when I go there. And I have a
friend who lost her sister when her sister was about nineteen, and she's buried
somewhere in Saint Louis Park and she visits her grave once a year, and
she says she's not there. There's no connection, there's no She misses her
sister, she always will, but she doesn't feel her presence when she goes
there. With cremation. I wouldn't want my family to feel like they had
to keep my ashes in an urn forever, you know what I mean?
Like I joke that if I die, Jake has to keep my ashes and
a photo of me next to the bed so he can he can remarry,
but that photo and the ashes have to stay there to make them uncomfortable.
Oh god, joke. But I would not be upset if they, yeah,
like sprinkled me as you said somewhere. Yeah, I don't think a
lot of people keep the urn anymore. I think obviously some people do,
and I think especially when children die, I think people are more they want
to keep the urn. That would be different, Yeah, totally. But
for example, Chase's mom died. She wants to be scattered in San Diego
because they love the beach in San Diego. Guess what it is illegal or
not permitted to walk up to the water and pour ashes in or people would
do it all the time. Chase's plan is to go under the cover of
night, yea and pour her in the sand that like they do. You
think of the scene I do from White Lotus when Jennifer Coolidge is trying to
drop the ashes, but it's like Wendy and she can't get a good spot.
I think it is and it's just like so funny. Yes, anyway,
I'm gonna tell you that is a thing. We've scattered ashes before,
mom and dad and a brother in law. And be careful when you do
it, because you'll be surprised how the wind will pick it up and you'll
get it on your clothes and now you will have dead relative dust on your
clothes. I am not making that up. Henry a really good point,
that is really thought provoking. And I you're right, because how long I
mean, as people die, cemeteries get more and more and more full.
What happens in four hundred years when the country in the world is completely different
and just like you know, listen, when Europeans came here, there were
Indian mounds all over. Indians had different traditions. Natives had I'll call them
natives instead of Indians had different traditions. Some natives would put you in a
tree or bear you on They would put like a rack made out of logs
and wood and set them body on fire. But the lot of Indians natives.
And there's some down in not Shakopee, Chaska, in the center of
town, there are still Indian mounds, burial mounds and a lot of the
time. Back in the thirties, forties, fifties, Europeans are building roads.
They come across a burial mounds. They didn't care. They just plowed
right through it because it was just so disrespectful. So, in other words,
what I'm saying is future cultures might not give a shit yeah about our
current cemeteries. Okay, moving on, all right, Okay, that's a
little bit long, so I'm gonna come back to that one, all right,
Please don't use my name. I have a co worker sixty two.
He's difficult to say the least. Oh she is not tech Savvy's an understatement.
She doesn't understand Google Docs, Outlook, dropbox, email, trouble shooting,
how to scroll on the laptop, track, padded setter. She's always
talking about, oh, I'm not that tech smart, as if it's cute,
and always asks other co workers for training on how to do things.
It slows down everybody's workflow and meetings are off installed because of her. For
reference, I'm twenty nine. If I don't know how to do something,
I google it or troubleshooting before talking, taking up somebody else's time and asking
questions. My own parents are older than this co worker, and they do
the same as me, so I know it's not all boomers that do this.
It's frustrating because I would have not have I would not have been hired
if I didn't know how to do these basic things. So how was she?
The same co worker also interrupts people, talks over them, and does
that thing where she says what you just said, but louder, as if
to take credit. When she asked me a stupid question, I find myself
suppressing the urge to say Google is free. At what point do I approach
leadership with these concerns or do I suck it up and wait for her to
retire. If she's gotten this far without learning basic tech, who's to say
she will change. Maybe you can make a PSA for the older generation that
your younger co workers are not your personal IT tutors. Being older, I
would say, you're right. It is not cute for her to say,
oh, I'm not tech smart. I don't know how to do this.
I don't know who to do this. But I always ask myself, like
I asked Fallon, how do I do this on Google? How do I
do this on Instagram? And honestly, sometimes Falin knows and sometimes she doesn't,
but a lot of it I learned myself, Like there's an app that
I use to make videos for the show called Vixer, and I learn how
to do it, and I'm really it's so she can learn these things,
but it's not up to you to say you need to learn it. I
think maybe a talk to your boss, talk to your manager and say,
Marjine has to stop asking me how to use dropbox. We had a really
similar email to this, I want to say it six months ago, and
it was so similar, and a lot of people were more on the Margie
side of it, and what they said was they the older generation spent years
teaching your generation how to do things, so guess what, now it's your
turn to help teach them a little bit. It's a good point, and
it was a good point, but I also would absolutely feel your frustration.
So I can sit here and be like, no, no, it's your
turn to teach. But that doesn't mean my mom. It's funny, I'll
get frustrated with my mom trying to show her something. She gets so frustrated
with her mom, And Jake gets honestly annoyed watching how frustrated. My mom
gets with her mom. Jake's like, why is she so like short tempered
with her mother? She's eighty something years old. Of course she doesn't know
how an iPhone works, like think of all the things she's seen in her
generation. But I do agree that, like, if you're going to continue
working in a atmosphere where things are going to continue to progress and most are,
you have to like do the things you need to do to learn.
And so I think Dave's right. Maybe it's just like a quick chat with
your boss of like, this is slowing down my production and that's not fair
to you and old people. It's a cliche, but it's true. They
don't like technology, and I think the reason is they've seen it change so
much that they're not aware there's a new fucking way to do it. Are
you kidding me? My father in law had a VCR and he recorded his
Prices right and Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy every day. And we got him
a TiVo back when it was called a TiVo, and we got it for
him and I showed him how much easier it was, and he did not
want to understand it, even though it was so easy and I kind of
forgive him a little bit because in his life he's seen the advent of television,
he'd seen the rise of radio, the cassette tape, the compact disc,
Beta Max cable, and it was like, fuck, I'm tired of
changing technology. And I think that made part of it. But it's a
very good point, all right. Next one, Dave, It's true what
you said about it will only get better from here. As my past life
experiences, I know that to be true. Also last week my car broke
down and my wife's car broke down, but I kept listening to what you
said because I know it will get better. Thanks for reminding me that.
From Chow Chow, I will tell you I'm glad you got it. Something
out of that that wasn't mine. That was somebody who wrote in and they
said they've used that all their life or in a recent anyway, that things
will get better. The word this is the worst it will be was the
phrase they use. This is the worst it will be, And sometimes that's
not true. But sometimes if you tell yourself that, and it went back
to my phrase, no hill goes up forever. But Chow, I'm glad
you got something that. Thank you for writing. I think one of the
new scams is people asking for your email address because they say they have a
Venmo business account instead of a regular Venmo account. Not sure, but I
have two people asking for my email so they can venmo me to place my
marketplace items on hold. I don't give them my email address. That is
a random fucking email. But I agree with what you're saying. There's so
many scammers out there. Don't even heard of that one. But you do
not need someone's email address for Venmo. So no, you don't write,
you just need code. Thanks for the heads up on that one. Okay,
let's go to this. One says howdy this morning, six seven you're
playing games, which included oh this is from this morning, which included password
Alexa. And it made me think of a possible idea. Is Dave smarter
than Alexa? You can ask David a question like why do radio shows promote
giveaways at seven am? Then ask Alexa to see how close Dave was to
the right answer. That's kind of funny. Maybe have to pre check the
questions asked to ensure you get an answer from Alexa. Do you want to
try a round of it right now? Sure okay had her Okay, okay,
go ahead and pull a microphone over there by, Alexa, and then
I know it's kind off the top of your head, but plugged in.
She's Alexa. Good morning, Oh don't good morning? Here we go.
Birthday to actor Liam Neeson, born on this day in nineteenth. Every time
the star of the take In film series has a very particular set of skills.
Stop Alexa, stop God okay, question morning, Happy birthday to Alexa.
Stop okay? So what questions should have happen? I mean anything,
just the general knowledge question that's not a yes or no. Okay, Alexa,
when did you ask me first? Okay, David, you'd act like
her. It is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture. Cree Alexa. Stop one
in fifteen oh four? Alexa stop so far good David. What was the
last port the Titanic sailed out of? What city? Uh? Morning before?
It was somewhere in Ireland? I don't exactly know, but she'll know
that one. So I think it's got to be more of a description,
like what caused the Civil War? Or um, I don't know, how
does a rocket work? Or something like that. I don't know, though,
right, Yeah, example, let's try the radio one. So that's
let me let me try this one. Um So, how does a rocket
work? Well, a rocket works by burning liquid or solid fuel h and
it will then propel the rocket into space after the fuel is ignited and it
burns off to propel the It's kind of like am I close? Isn't it?
Alexa? How does a rocket work? According to NASA, rocket engines
are propelled forward by their exhaust as they burn fuel into hot gas. Rockets
can fly into space because they don't need air to operate like other engines.
Yeah, okay, good, you know what, we'll try it out.
That's not a bad idea, but it's a little bit like am I close?
And I don't want to be shown up by Alexa every time? But
I do like that, Thank you, Sidney. See if there's another one
that is a shout out? Let me scroll down a little bit because here
is an interesting one. Dave, how did you come up with your stage
name? This is from Christy Owen's real tur so Christy, I would say,
when I was seventeen years old, they got a radio job at a
top forty radio station in my hometown of Colorado. Springs, and they didn't
ask me if I wanted to come up with a fake name, but I
thought, oh, well, so many people on the radio, especially back
then, had a fake name. And so I sat there and I thought,
what, I don't want to be Dave Kibbler that's my real name because
it's kind of a funny name. People spell it wrong and it sounds it's
just not a like a graceful, cool name. So there was a DJ
named Dan Ryan that worked at a radio station in Denver that I used to
listen to. So I thought Dan Ryan Dave Ryan. So that's where I
stole it from. And I used it for a few years. And then
I think I've told you the story that when I got my job doing mornings
in Las Vegas, I almost changed it to Dave Saint Germain, which I
think would have been a badass, motherfucking name, because it's just it's got
more pizzas to a Dave Saint Germain, you know, look like Elvis Duran
or Bobby Bones or Howard Stern. They have a unique name. Dave Ryan
is so vanilla. That's all those names you just gave are very simple though,
and Saint Germaine's too much, but it's stuff that AAA sound to it.
Dave Saint Germaine, more long lines of Bobby Bones like Howard Stern's simple
kind. I guess you know Billie Island. No, that's another cool unique
name. That's a that's a cool unique name, and that is going to
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