Well, hello there, Dart Liquors. That's what I'm gonna talk open every
PODCALLO. They're Dart liquors that are fan names like there's the Believers, right,
Swifties. Yeah, what is Ariana Grande's Oh I should know this.
I know Rihanna's got the Rihanna Navy. Uh Yourrandnator Ronators. I think so
something's stupid like that. But anyway, you're right, Dart Liquers, good
morning or whenever you're aft listening. I send out a whole bunch of staff
writer stickers last night, probably about fifteen or so, so if you are
waiting for one, you're going to get one along with a Dave Ryan Show
sticker in the mail in another couple of days. So thank you for writing
in. If you send in an email and we read it on the podcast,
we always send you a staff writer sticker if you ask for one and
put your address in there. For example, Kelsey in Scandia, Minnesota says,
good morning, Peep's Kelsey here. I was thinking about strange injuries that
I gotten in my life, and I wanted to see if you guys had
any I'll go first. I was young. I went to my older brother's
basketball practice. I was throwing a ball and running and then sliding on my
knees and my shins to catch it. Accident prone me ran face first into
the wall and knocked out my two front teeth, So I was a toothless
wonder for a couple of years before the adult teeth finally grew in. Oh
she was little, okay, uh, of course super crooked when they grew
in. I also went down to slide once as a small child and bit
through my tongue out at the bottom of the slide where it drops off,
so now I have a scar on my tongue. I have numerous stories as
to my parents siblings being accident prone as genetic right Jenny right, Yes,
Oh, I am a super accident prone person. I would say the silliest
injury I've ever given myself was one I was up in the middle of night
having a little snacky and I was cutting myself a piece of cheese and the
knife fell off the counter and stabbed me in the towel. And it was
it was like not a fall drop or a high drop, so there wasn't
like tons of velocity coming down towards my toe. But I definitely cut my
toe a little bit, like it hit my foot, and yeah, that
was probably the strangest one. That is a strange one. I don't really
have a strange one. I mean I was riding on my bicycle one time
when I was probably twelve, and I had a parachute on the back,
and the parachute got tangled up in the back wheels and I was going really
fast and then I slid tangled up in the parachute and the bike and I
was, you know, sliding down a gravel road and I had scars on
my side. But it wasn't like the It was just a little bike accident,
Yeah, with the parachute. I'll tell you a kind of an unsavory
story. My old girlfriend Cricket, my daughter Beth's mother. Yeah, she
was a little kid, I don't know how old, six eight ten,
and she was up on the cupboard on a Saturday morning sneaking cereal because I
guess she wasn't supposed to get whatever. She was trying to get cereal out
of the cupboard and she wasn't tall enough to reach it, so she had
to get a chair stand on top of the counter and then reached cereal,
and she slipped and fell and did the splits, landed on a fork that
was sitting on its side, so the pork wasn't sitting times up, it
was sitting on its side. Landed on her labia and cut her labia,
so instead of being one laby as she now has two on one side.
Wait, is this a joke? It's And I was like, right,
hold on, And I thought, oh God, how painful and embarrassing for
a little kid. Yeah, and I don't know, it's been so long
ago. Know, she ran to tell her parents or you know, put
a towel. I don't know, But I was like, why you got
two? And she and she told me the story and she laughed about it
then. But god, what a fucking a horrible story. Yeah, all
right, let's move on. I've been trying to think of a new way
to sign off the email, and I remember Dave trying to make nip it
in the bud happen, and my thirty two year old self says nip it
quite often, So that's my sign off. Nip that shit. Anyway.
Thanks for making the drive to work more fun. If you feel like sending
a staff's a writer sticker, and yes, I will let me take a
picture of that. Nip it in the bud was a little backstory that's obviously
not mine. That came from I think the Andy Griffith Show, which was
a show back in the sixties, and the sheriff Barney Fife would say nip
it in the bud. And so we said it on the radio once,
maybe five years ago, and a big consultant said, don't let Dave say
nip it in the bud because that is from a sixty year old TV show.
And I'm like, okay, fine, yeah, I mean I wasn't,
like, you know, dedicated to saying nip it in the bud.
But I don't know, Kelsey, I think we're gonna stay with Dart Lick
or all right, thanks for the email and this say that's for on the
air. I'll do that on the air. So here we go. David
Flugelbind to Ryan. I am sitting here catching up on the Minnesota Goodbye,
eating my cottage cheese, and I have decided, without your permission, that
we become best friends. You said you had four spoonfuls for a snack a
few weeks ago, and I couldn't relate more. You have no choice but
now to be my friend, lol, because I was the other day.
I was like hungry, but I didn't want to eat a lot, so
I had four spoonfuls of cottage cheese and put it back in the fridge.
So any who keep licking anus? Yes, Jenny, I said anus,
you're dart licking pe. One Daily listener Chris from Northfield. I don't need
a stick her. I've already got one on my garbage fridge because he wrote
in it's on my garage fridge and I thought he said garbage fridge. Hashtag
dart lick hashtag diddling the bean. Thank you, Chris, I appreciate that
that one is far on the air and this one is not. Yesterday,
we talked to somebody who they had just quit their big corporate job and now
they're going to be a stay at home mom, and they're like, I
just, is there any advice you can give me on staying home? And
do you remember what all? She asked? In general, she wanted advice
because she's never she has always been a career person herself, but then she
just fell in love with motherhood and like being home with her kids. So
she just has no idea because she's always been a career person what she should
do with herself with being a stay at home mom. Now, okay,
she writes, I'm writing response to the new stay at home mom. I've
been a stay at home mom for thirteen years and it works really well for
my family. My advice is to add a few activities each week for you
and baby. For example, ECFC classes. I don't know what that is.
I don't either, ECFC, but baby story time at the library,
music classes, et cetera. They're a great way to meet other parents.
Also, if it helps to think about it like a job, takes some
time to learn about child development. I'm always reading a parenting book, especially
now that my kids are hitting the teenage years. Parent education is never ending.
When Carson was little, I got one like how to Raise a Boy
or The Little Boy Book or something like that, and I think I had
one for Alison, like you know what. We first we had What to
Expect When Expecting, which is a classic book. You've heard of that one,
yeah, And then what to Expect during the First four years or something,
And I got The Boy Book, and I honestly, I never really
read it. And I kept telling myself, I got to read that book.
I don't want to screw this up. But he's doing okay, you
know what he's doing good. He's leaving for Singapore to tour with Love in
like ten days. So here was an interesting thing about Carson. He's a
very mild mannered, non aggressive kind of a person and he does work for
this tour and he'll do things like book airplane, their book flights, and
book hotels and book lunches and make sure that everybody's got their boarding passes and
their passports. And he does all of that from his house. But it's
work, and he didn't get paid for something. And he's like, yeah,
I send an invoice a month ago and I didn't get paid for it.
And I said, well, just you know, send him a little
reminder and say hey, friendly reminder. And he's like, no, if
they're not going to pay you, they're not going to have said no.
I said, you've got to stand up for yourself number one, because you
worked and they owe you the money, number one. Number Two, you've
got to show them that you are a professional and they need to take you
seriously. Number three, they probably just forgot to pay. But I said,
one of the biggest things is you've got to show yourself that you don't
tolerate people that don't pay you. Yes, so you're twenty three, you're
educated, you did work, you're a professional. You need to show yourself
that you can stand up and advocate for yourself because a lot of you know,
a lot of us are like, well, they didn't pay, and
I don't want to rub them the wrong way. So so he wrote to
them and he said, hey, just a friend of friendly reminder, and
ten minutes later they paid him. Yes, we got like four hundred and
twenty eight dollars. So they owed him four hundred and twenty eight dollars that
he wouldn't have got. That's a lot of money too, especially for a
kid who's twenty three years So I was gonna say I would I needed that
advice, like a handful of years ago, because I had helped host an
event somewhere and it wasn't through the radio station, but they agreed to pay
me for it, and they never paid me. And it was a friend
who like worked for this company that I set it up through, and I
felt uncomfortable confronting my friend. Of course, so I never got paid for
that. And I also like where it was at. I purchased things,
so I basically paid for my own event that I was being told I was
going to be paid for helping host. So that was fun and you and
you got to advocate for yourself and a lot of the time people they just
forgot, Like Natalie, who does the voice on our show. She'll be
like, and now it's time for Dave's Dirt or back with more of the
Dave Ryan Show. I will send her a script every month or so,
and she charges five dollars a line to read them, and that's a really
good deal. And she likes doing it. She likes being on a big
station like KATIWB and we love her voice. And sometimes I'll forget to venmo
her the money, so she'll send us like twenty twenty lines, and so
now I owe her one hundred dollars and I'll forget, yeah, and she'll
remind me, and I'll pay her right away. And I said, Natalie,
don't ever hesitate to remind me that I need to pay you. Don't
ever hesitate because I always want to pay you, and I nine times out
of ten I pay her without being reminded, but once in a while I
forget, so advocate for yourself. You're a pro, that's what you do
and you've earned it. Finally, if you haven't already, be sure to
talk to your husband about the household division of labor. Are you responsible only
for child care or do you take on cooking, cleaning, laundry as well.
This might change as your child grows, but it's good to be clear
on those responsibilities. L'st thing put on Katie during the day. It'll help
pass the time. I love that. Play KWB in the background. Love
your show from a regular listener, Susan. Thank you, Susan, I
appreciate that. Do you did you do your own laundry when you were a
kid? No, mom did your laundry. Yeah she did, yep,
yep. A lot of kids do their own laundry. I never did.
Yeah. That was probably the only chore I didn't help out with. I
mean, like I did the dishes. We never had a dishwasher. I
helped with yard stuff like clean my room, vacuumed all that stuff, but
never had to do laundry. Yeah. I never did either. I mean
we grew up in you know, an older model of a household where mom
was a pretty much pretty much stay at home She was a lunch lady that
worked a few hours during the day. But Mom did the cooking and mom
did the cleaning. We kids did the chores. Like I cleaned out the
chicken house, which was five or six wheelbarrows full of straw packed with chicken
shit, and you had to use a pitchfork to put it in the wheelbarrow
and push it about two hundred yards to the garden where it was used for
compost and fertile And I had to butcher chickens and pluck chickens. We had
to chop wood, we had to There was just a lot of outdoor gardening
chores. But we did not do laundry. I don't know why. I
mean, we could have hello, says Kaylee. Yesterday on the podcast,
somebody wrote in about a TikToker who had a sixteen hundred dollars a month car
payment. I saw that same TikTok and that creator was behind on her payment.
Thus her payment is really eight hundred dollars a month, still a huge
payment, but nowhere near the double that the TikTok creator was trying for.
A state to state for shock value. There is no reason anybody can have
should There's no reason anyone should have an eight hundred dollars car payment that cannot
afford it. Absolutely sorry, but you don't need to have a new car
every year if you can't afford it. I hate tiktoks like that. Meanwhile,
I drove my four Tourus until the transmission blue. It was given to
me by my parents, so I drove it in high school, through college
and into my first year teaching. You know what, she signs off?
All right, thank you, Kaylee. I love that I drove. My
dad got me a Volkswagon. First. I inherited my dad my brother's Volkswagon.
It was a piece of crap, broke down all the time. It
finally broke down so bad my dad had to buy me another one for a
couple of thousand dollars and I drove that for years. Then I finally made
enough money to buy my own first new car. But I could afford it,
yeah, you know, and it was very affordable. I mean it
was a couple hundred dollars a month and it was very affordable. So yeah,
I never got a car until I was a senior in college. So
I went all through high school, all through college until my senior year having
a car. I actually when I got this internship, I was only able
to do it because of my awesome roommate who let me borrow her car.
Really, because there was what I took buses everywhere in college, and I
wouldn't have been able to do this internship without a car because buses didn't run
that early. Yeah, so yeah, she let me borrow her car and
I just paid her gas money every week for the internship. That was really
nice that she. I never knew that about you. That was really nice
that she let you borrow her car. That's a good friend right there.
We had somebody apply for this job one time, and it's kind of a
side story, and she came in from a town out of state but within
driving distance, moderately within driving distance, and she was talking to us and
she applied for the job back when Fallon was interested in the job. And
she came in one day and she talked about how her brother was waiting for
her in the parking lot. Her brother drove her from this other state.
It turned out that she couldn't drive because she had had so many duy's that
she had her license taken away. And she was nice and she was sober
and recovering supposedly, but I was like, how are you going to get
to work? And she was like, oh, I figure out a way.
And I'm like, I can't hire this person if they can't drive.
Yeah, this is a job that I really think you do have to have
a car for unless you walk, unless you live in within walking distance,
because I know, like Colt so that he is in afternoons now, he
used to live at the apartment around the corner when he used to do nights.
So like, yeah, that could be doable. But outside of that,
like, you got to have a car for this job, Yeah,
you really do. I mean for probably most jobs you do. Speaking of
drive tomorrow, I'm here's a little plug. I'm driving tomorrow to the Maplewood
Barnes and Noble on Saturday for a book signing for my kid's book, Little
Dave's Amazing Day Tomorrow Saturday from ten thirty until eleven thirty. You can buy
the book there at Barnes and Noble and I'll sign it and we'll get a
picture and we'll do a selfie and we'll chat and then after that I'm going
to the t Rex Cookie Bakery in Egan. Just map it, you'll find
it, and we're selling the Dave Ryan Cookie and also the books. So
we'll be there for an hour from one until two, so come by.
Part of the proceeds from both goes to charity. One his Children's Minnesota and
one is pause for pause. All right, good morning, says Nikky.
Something happened today. I immediately thought of Dave. Here's the story. Walking
my two dogs on the beach, which is a huge beach. It's early,
very little people and no dogs out. I let my dogs off the
leach so they can run around and get some exercise. Two guys walk by
and I say good morning, and they say, way to put your dog
on a leash. And my first thought was f you, And then I
thought of Dave. I know how it's one of your pet peeves. I'm
really interested to see what she's gonna say. Here's my issue. What is
wrong with letting your dogs run a little bit when no one is around.
If there'd been another dog around, I would have put them back on the
leash right away. I completely understand the need for putting your dog on a
leash, but really, what's the harm if no one else is around?
Was just curious if your lease issue has some wiggle room. Are you one
hundred percent dog on a leash or are you okay with letting them rome if
they are behaved and no other dogs are around in an open space. I
would also like to know Jenny's thoughts as well. I know, since the
dogs you walk are not yours, you may not be comfortable walking them off
leash, But if your dog, if it was your dog, would you
just curious what you think? Nikki? Respectfully, I don't think it's okay
because that's the rule. That's just the rule. You keep your dog on
a leash. If you got your own backyard, or you got your own
private property or it's a dog park, then you do whatever you want to.
But on a public spot you never know what. Like let's say,
like somebody's I don't know, somebody brought their puppy out, or a little
toddler and your dog ran off to look at the toddler, or here comes
two guys. So you weren't alone on the beach, you were within talking
distance for them to say, way to put your dog on a leash.
So there are other people that walk by, and to me, it's like,
you know what, the rules are put there for a reason, and
I get the temptation to let your dog because the dog loves it. What
do you think, Jenny, I'm very okay what dogs me off fleishes in
certain situations such as what she's talking about the beach where there was no one
originally and then some people came along. I do agree that maybe I would
have tried to get the dogs to be closer to me slash on the leash
if I did start to see people. So I'm okay with that. Like
when I've gone to Oregon in California and I've done a lot of hikes,
dogs are never on leashes in any of those situations, and I'm okay with
it. Like really in California or Oregon and people are walking around without the
lease I mean, And I was at a beach in Oregon and it was
I don't know, ten in the morning. There were quite a few people
there. There were dogs running around everywhere off leash, and I just I
love dogs so much, so like for me, and I know you do
for me, I just don't mind it as long of course, as there
if they're really well behaved dogs, if there's like some kind of potential aggression
with them, then of course I do not think that that dog should ever
be allowed off leash. But for me personally, yes, if I'm watching
a dog, the dog is always on a leash. They are not my
dog. I do not have any idea what kind of like my things could
happen. So I would never ever walk a dog off a leash for me,
But those if I had a really really well behaved dog myself and it
was on like a big hike in Colorado or something, I might have a
dog off off a leash. Yeah, you know, I see it once
in a while, and to me it's like, well, that is part
of the responsibility of owning a dog, as you keep the dog on a
leash. And I've hikeing Colorado and most people, if I see them hiking
with their dog, they've got the dog on a leash. But occasionally,
you know, I'll be hiking over here, even by like Lake Midawashta,
and here comes a dog running up to me, excited to see me,
and there's the owner fifty yards behind them on the trail, and I thought,
you know what if I had a daughter that once got bit by a
German shepherd and she's like eight years old and she's terrified and she screams and
like jumps at me and cries, Well, then you're being a dick because
you don't know what you're going to encounter, right. I do think that
in a situation like that, yes, the owner should have been closer to
the dog and probably kept the dog near them slash put them back on the
leash coming up to you. So I do agree with like once you're going
past people, but like on an open trail where there's not many people around,
I think like they can run a little bit, but make sure they're
not like twenty feet ahead of you where you don't know if they're going to
encounter someone without you being there. Okay. I think one other thing is
that if your dog takes a dump and you're far behind them and you don't
see it, or they run into the woods to take a dump, well
then you're not going to clean it up. Yeah, And that's one of
the reasons why dog parks are so covered with shit is because people sit there
at the picnic table on their phone while their dog runs around and takes a
big shit, and you don't know. I've told the story before. I
was at the Lakeman of wash To Off Leash dog Park and there's a big
lab and he's over here taking a dump. And I'm like, okay,
where's the owner, where's the owner? And this is a vast dog park,
and so coming up the trail, about one hundred yards behind the dog
is your typical what I call this day ereotypical chan Hassen woman who is about
one hundred and twenty pounds, she's got blonde hair, probably arrived in a
giant Yukon, and she's with her friends. And I said, I went
over to her and I handed her a bag. Yeah, And I said,
oh, your dog just pooped right over there, as my polite way
of saying you didn't see it because you weren't paying attention, but clean up
the dog shit. And she she's like, I've got a bag, and
she kind of gave me a snotty attitude, which I don't blame her,
but she would not have seen it and would not have cleaned it up had
I not called her on it. Right, And they actually had to close
down the chan Hassen dog park for a while because people would not clean up
after their dogs. I mean, I think that that's extremely rude. I
watched the dogs that I takes it to the dog park to make sure I'm
always cleaning up their poop. I will admit one time in the last month,
I could not find the poop to save my life. Like I was
maybe twenty feet away, but I saw the dog pooping. So I walked
up as quick as I could, and it was just kind of like the
leftover spring mud leaves situation that I searched for like ten minutes and I finally
just picked up what I thought might have been poop, but I think it
might have just been mud. I have no idea. Yikes, it is.
I mean, that's part of the thing. I'm not here to preach
about going to the dog park because that you know, you let your dog
run off and roam whatever. But it's just clean up after your dog.
You know that. Hey, send me an email. I'm really curious if
you want, and I'm not going to judge you much, but send me
an email. If you are a believer in letting your dog off the leash
at your local park or on your local trail, I want to find out
what your reasoning is because I'm really curious the same way I'm curious as to
the reasoning of picking up your dog's poop and a bag and setting it on
the side of the trail. What is the reasoning? What is the logic?
And people go, well, maybe they're going to come back and pick
it up later, But you can tell when one has been sitting there for
a few days, because it's got like rain and mud splat on it,
and it's got some you know, like it's been sitting there, and you
can tell. So give me your justification. I'm curious. Angela says,
I broke up with a friend about four months ago. It was hard,
but it was needed. We talked the other day about breaking up with friends.
Her daughter and my daughter were also best friends. I picked up her
daughter every day after school and brought her to my house. I did a
lot for this friend, but it always seemed one sided, like she was
taking advantage of me. She never reciprocated. Then one day it was discovered
that the daughter was bullying my daughter at school behind her back with other girls.
I brought it up to the friend to see if we could resolve it
with the girls between each other, but she blew it off as girls will
be girls they are thirteen. Yeah, no, not with my daughter.
I gave her some time over winter break to think it over, and I
didn't hear from her. So I told her that she would need to find
an alternative ride or care for her daughter. It was for the best.
She never reached out to try to work it out after that. It's been
hard for my daughter not to have her best friend through some hard times,
but we are moving on. I have come to realize maybe she was only
meant to be around for a season. Yeah. Maybe. So that is
it for the Minnesota Goodbye. Send me emails about dogs or friends or whatever
you want to talk about. Send it into Ryan's show at KDIWB dot com.
I hope I see you at the book signing at Maplewood tomorrow Barnes and
Noble at ten thirty until eleven thirty, or the t Rex Cookie Bakery and
Egan Tomorrow Saturday from one until two. Have a great weekend, and thanks
for listening to the Minnesota Goodbye.