By the way, I sent out I think about fifteen or twenty Minnesota Goodbye
staff rider stickers this weekend. And I sat there at my desk yesterday and
sloppily hand wrote every single one. So you get a Dave Ryan Show sticker
and a Minnesota Goodbye sticker. And here comes the latest email from Jackie,
because the Minnesota Goodbye is mostly all about emails. Here we go, Hello,
Morning Show. I have a funny tipping culture story. I know this
topic is basically on Stfu Island. Is that still a thing? Yeah?
Kind of. Anyway, Saturday morning, I took my three daughters to Quick
Trip for a donut for breakfast as a fun way to start our day.
As we were ringing up in paying, my middle child, who is seven,
was appalled that I was not tipping the Quick Trip cashier. She even
had a dollar or two of her own money in her coat pocket and really
wanted to tip the woman. It was hilarious, so sweet and innocent of
a seven year old. But my goodness, we need to stop tipping every
one. Our future depends on it. Lol. Thanks for the continued last
with the show and the podcast. You all are crushing it. Respectfully,
A long time listener. That is funny. There was something brought up on
the podcast when you were out Dave about something I've never thought of. Servers
have to claim like tip money and they have to be taxed on tip money.
So excuse me, So, like all these people that are starting to
put tip jars out, are they actually being taxed on the tips that they're
making, Because a lot of people who work at subway probably aren't being like
taxed on the sales that they make during that shift and like the tips that
they earned. And so that was like an interesting take to think of,
how like who's the appropriate people to tip? Yes, I might have missed
some of that, Jenny, because I'll be honest with you, I was
like looking at that. I was prereading out of the corner of my eye
the next email because I hadn't got a chance to preview it. So what
do you think I mean? I No, I don't think you tipped the
quick trip person. Oh no, of course not. No, no,
no, no, no, I don't I think that, Like I think
baristas probably have to claim their tips. I think like servers have to claim
their tips. Like I just think that there are services that tips are included
in their income and they're getting taxed on it, and that like makes sense
that they get tipped. And then there's people who work at subway who make
an hourly wage and they aren't getting taxed on like the sales that they make
and then the tips that they make, which is probably too honestly, it's
too confusing to explain if you've never been a server before, how you get
taxed on things. But it was a good point that I never thought about
before I ask you this one. If you're a server, and especially back
in your time serving, there was much more cash than there was credit cards.
Did servers ever lie about Let's say I'm a server and I get a
twenty dollars tip and it's a couple of tens. Can't I pocket one of
the tens and lie that I only had a ten dollar tip? Did people
ever do that? I mean, absolutely they did. Really yeah, I
mean it was a rule at it was a rule you're supposed to claim at
least ten percent of your cash tips. You had to claim at least ten
percent of your cash tips, so it can divvy up the sales of credit
card sales versus cash sales, so you can take ten percent of your cash
sales even though maybe you made twenty percent on all your cash sales, and
then you are claiming less than what you made in tips. Yes, okay,
so it was a little bit shady. Yeah, I mean it can
be. Yes, there's I don't know how the government is going to figure
it out. They're never going to be able to figure it out. Boss.
I mean, your boss wouldn't really know they find that out either,
They wouldn't really Okay, Next one, it's a little bit of a longer
email. And sometimes we get into a longer email and we go, ah,
we've kind of covered this before, but let's take a chance. Good
morning, my favorite morning show. Family. Got to tell you what happened
to me over the weekend and see what you guys would have done. Here's
what went down. This took place in sun City, Arizona, and not
the Twin Cities. My husband and I just pulled into a parking lot.
My husband ran into the store. I'm sitting in the car, just messing
around on my phone. A non marked utility worker pulled in right next to
us. It caught my eye and I looked up in This guy tried opening
his door and it was too close and it wouldn't even open it was so
close, I guess to their car. So he pulled forward some more,
slightly bumping the curb, then opens his door again and bumps my car with
his door and pushes my side view mirror in with his ass and then starts
bitching, learn to fucking park, you fucking bitch as he walked away from
As he walked away, pulling my side view back out, I was stunned,
like, what the fuck just happened? You bumped into my new car,
ass hat, and why are you calling me a bitch? Well,
my husband didn't come back before asshat came back, so I got to see
him again. So here he comes again, cranky pants bitch and again fucking
learn to park. That's when I opened my window and I said, do
you see me sitting in the driver's seat, when he responded with fuck you.
Then I said, if you had a problem with us parking in white
lines, maybe you should have parked in the other open spots in the parking
lot, because there are quite a few, to which he said fuck you,
you stupid sea word. I just replied with God bless you, sir.
Have a good day. I don't understand how anybody like that can yell
at me for a parking job. I didn't even do. What the hell
is wrong with people? And there were a ton of other parking spots open.
My husband said, I shouldn't have said anything, but I'm a douche
canoe. But but I'm okay. My husband said, I shouldn't have said
anything, but I'm the douche. There's a typo in here somewhere. But
this douche canoe hit our brand new car. I think it's what she's trying
to say. Come on, like, I'm not gonna say anything. I
know you guys have an opinion. Love you mel can I get a staff
writer sticker, love to have one down here in Arizona. She lives in
Buckeye, where actually went skydiving at the Buckeye Airport one time, many years
ago. Okay, so there was something in here that gave a little bit
more clarity. It sounds like your husband parked kind of straddling the white line
a little bit. So in other words, maybe he didn't your husband when
he parked, he didn't do the best center of the white line parking spot,
parking job. But so when the guy pulled in next to you.
Maybe he was a little bit close, but that's his call because at that
point he did not have to park there. Yes, you didn't park there,
but he looked at your bad parking job by your husband and decided that
he did not have to compensate for your husband's bad parking job, that he
would just go ahead and ding your car and push the mirror in. Yeah,
that's so strange because he had other options. You said it, and
you parked somewhere else. And like you hear about people getting upset because they've
been like parked in, so they went and parked ahead of time. They
come out to their car and they're like parked in because someone parks like an
idiot. But this was so the opposite of like he had a choice,
he had a decision he could have made, and he could have gone in
a different direction and avoided it all together. It totally could have and he
not only could it park somewhere else, but to it's kind of like,
I don't know, I can't I can't really think of an example, but
if you know, it's like walking by a hot stove and putting your hand
on it and go god fucking hot stove is right here in my way.
Well you knew the hot stove was there, you could have just avoided it.
Yeah. I really try to do a good job parking. Like the
other night we went to the Chan Has Some Dinner theater and I parked and
then I got out and we were walking away, and I looked back and
I said, uh, I parked too close to the car next to me.
Let me repark. So I backed out and then parked a little bit
more centered so the car next to me would have enough room because I didn't
want to be the person part too close next one. Dave and Jenny,
you can use my name. Her name is Katie. Long time listening to
the show and podcast, first time email or to the Minnesota goodbye and let
me take a picture of it. Before I forget. I have to start
by saying, you guys are the best. This show is something I look
forward to every day, and as somebody who works from home, you both
feel like my co workers Drake too, and I love having your show to
listen to whenever I can get through. I get to it throughout the day,
So thank you for the constant entertainment and camraderie. So the email goes
on for a little while, but basically, should you tip your cleaning person?
And her and her mother had a dispute about this one. Her mother
used to clean houses. Her mom is sixty. For context, should you
tip your cleaning person? She says, Dave, you have somebody clean your
house, do you tip them? No? No, we just pay their
going rate whatever it is, but we don't leave a tip on top of
that. I guess I would say if we had, like, Okay,
if Josie threw up and it was all over the walls and I was like,
and I wouldn't ask her to do that, though I clean that up
myself. If there was something like okay, would you do this the guest
room because we're having people come this weekend or whatever, then I would maybe
throw in an extra But no, I don't tip my cleaning person. That's
they just get what they get. I don't have one, but I would
have never thought that you would. And my mom owns a landscaping business where
she does like maintenance on people's yards. She does like full landscapes as well,
but the people she does like maintenance for. I feel like you can
equate that to a cleaning person, and my mom would never expect a tip
for that, Like that's just like she has a going rate and this is
what she does. This is like the maintenance she does on the yard.
So I would have never thought that people were tipping the cleaning people. Uh,
here's a funny one from Katie or Kate wanted to write in Minnesota Goodbye
for a while. Me and my dad listen to your podcast all the time
in the car. I love that, And also later in the morning,
we're actually listening as I write this, and I have a random conversation topic
because I'm actually writing a debate topic on this. What is your opinion on
socks with sandals? Thanks for reading dart Lick Kate. Kate, what the
funny thing is with me with your email is that you and your dad share
the dart Lick joke. How uncomfortable would that be to share a joke about
the dart lick ending of the Minnesota Goodbye with your dad? So that I
thought was really funny. I don't care socks and sandals. That there used
to be a rule you would joke back in the eighties about somebody who looks
so stupid wearing socks with sandals. I think now you do whatever you want.
It's kind of a trend for I think gen zers. I think it's
kind of a look for certain people. I wear socks with sandals when I'm
like going to the gym, and I wear sandals into the gym, and
I have my socks on already, and then I changed into my gym shoes
in the gym. So I'm guilty of it, but I don't typically wear
it out as like a fashion statement. Yeah, and I think that it
used to be. It's kind of like they used to say no white after
Labor Day, and now they say no, that's dumb. You can do
whatever you want. Was that anyways? What was the reasoning before? Because
white was a summerish kind of a car and then after Labor Day you want
to fall into more I don't know, earth tones, seasonal, that type
of thing. Yeah, I have no problem socks and sandals. I think
it's fine. I think that, you know, seriously, I saw people
at the Academy Wards last night. I saw guys wearing what looked like one
pant leg. It wasn't quite a dress, and it well, I mean,
there's so like baggy that it almost looks like a skirt together or something.
Yeah, it looks like a very long one pant leg, and I'm
like, what the fuck is that? But that's the thing about fashion anymore
is I don't think that there are really the rules that there used to be.
I'm going to make a statement, and I wanted you to tell me
whether I don't. I'm not a big fashion fan. I go to Old
Navy, I go to Marshall's, I go to Target once in a while.
If I need something nice, I'll go to a nicer store. I'm
not a big fashion fan. I'm going to a statement, and you tell
me whether I'm full of shit or not. Okay, okay. Fashion is
the most non in one of the most non inclusive interests or activities you can
engage in, because when you buy high fashion items and out of one corner
of your mouth you're talking about inclusion and that type of thing, you are
basically being very non inclusive if you're wearing high fashion, because you are telling
people that can't afford it, I'm wearing something you can't afford. There is
nothing inclusive about expensive fashion, Prada, Gucci, Kate Spade. There's nothing
inclusive about it. And when people do fashion shows and talk about fashion that
out of one corner of their mouth. A lot of these people are also
talking about inclusion, but it's very non inclusive to wear four hundred dollars shoes
and a seven hundred dollars jacket because poor people can't afford that. I think
you nailed it. I don't disagree with that whatsoever. I think that there
is a changing trend because of like environmental friendliness and stuff of people trying to
Oh my god, what's called thrift? So you find like thrift and then
now it's like a fashion statement because you thrifted all of these random things and
you did thrift something that was Prada or Gucci or Versash. I don't even
know. I like don't even know if those places make more than persons.
That's how much I know about it. Gosha, Yeah, you're not really
a fashion person. No. Yeah, So I think that there's like a
changing trend in certain aspects. For the most part, the fashion world,
yes, is still surrounding all of these really expensive brands that nobody can afford
it or not nobody, but like the good majority of people can't afford yeah,
right, right, and so it's very non inclusive. But a lot
of the people in the fashion industry, they are always chatting about, you
know, distribution of wealth and socialism and inclusivity, and it's like you wearing
a seven hundred dollars sweater is sending the exact opposite message. Yeah, so
all right, give your thoughts on that one. Send me an email to
Ryan Show at katiewb dot com. Let me check our time here and make
sure that we are still doing Okay, yeah, I think we are,
So let me do this one. Hold on one second, I opened the
wrong tab. Okay, here we go. I'm so confused, says Becky.
What happened to Zach? Colt is back? I may have missed a
few days, but I feel like I missed a few weeks. Now can
you still? Can you explain on the Minnesota Goodbye what happened? No,
because I don't know what happened. It is not my story to tell.
Some people asked about this a couple of weeks ago, when Colt first came
back, and Zach now does the afternoon show on City's ninety seven. It
is not our story to know or tell, So I don't know I would
say you could ask or Colt or Zach, but it's not our story to
tell or no. I can feel your frustration because I'm sure like everyone goes,
you get like really into like characters on a TV show, or like
you listen to a podcast and then suddenly, like the podcast broke up and
the two main people aren't doing it together, and you sit and you dive
and you try to figure out what happens. Like on Call Her Daddy,
I've been asking you for a long time, what happened to the two girls
on Call Her Daddy? They hate each other? Now right, they do
hate each other? Well, I don't know. I mean, maybe they've
squashed it, but they don't work together anymore. But yeah, so I
understand the curiosity. We just don't have an answers for you. I will
say I get how people become so invested in a radio show or a podcast.
And I think one of the things that I love to hear is when
people feel close enough to the show that they say, I feel like you
guys are my friends, and whenever we go out, like at Girls' night
out the other night, I probably heard that a dozen or more times,
I feel like you guys are my friends, and I love that. And
I was talking to my friend Nate last night and I've said, I think
one of the things that appeals to people about a show like ours, whether
it's the podcast or whether it's the real regular radio show, is I think
that one of the things that's appealing is people feel like they could sit down
at our table and join right in the conversation and do just as well if
they if you were to cut Like, for example, if you listen to
Minnesota Goodbye, and you like it enough and you feel comfortable enough that you
feel that you could come down and sit down at this table and join this
conversation. I think that's one of the things that really feels appealing about our
show, because you feel like you could do it too. And I mean
that, and I find that very flattering. I'm glad that it connects and
feels easy enough that you feel like you could come in and do it.
No, I completely agree, because I feel like there's other people I tried
to like listen to, or like there's people I've given a chance to and
I immediately can just tell that like it's not someone I would hang out with
in a public setting. And then that turned me off about their podcast and
like them as a person, and I just stop listening. And so it
makes me happy to know that someone listens to us and then feels like,
Okay, maybe we could be friends outside of listening to us on the radio.
Yeah, and that you could come in and you could do the show
with us. I listen to these two women. They do a podcast about
plane crashes. I brunt them up a million times, and I feel like
I could sit down with them and sit there in chat and talk about like
plane crashes. Next one, I love this one. I must say we
need to cancel Jenny right away. Why because she's hiding that bombastic physique behind
the radio. That girl's night out outfit was so hot. There's a phrase
that goes, you have a face for radio. Not Jen b e a
U tith full. Jenny is a slam dunk love the show a right,
Kristen. Now you probably expected it to be a guy that was saying that
I got nervous for a second. Yeah, Kristen's the one who thinks that
you have the bombastic physique and you looked hot. So I will just never
forget. Like one event in the last couple of years a girl messaged me
and said, Jenny, the hoots are hootin' and then she apologized the next
day and she's like, I'm so sorry. I had had some cocktails.
I shouldn't have said that, and I like laughed so hard. And then
this outfit from Girls' night Out. Everyone's like, yeah, it's definitely girls'
night out girls of the cut of my dress and stuff, but that is
a very sweet message. Thank you so much. At work, I hide
the curves and the body and stuff. Right now I'm in a bag sweatshirt
today, so you don't really get to see me like that too often.
If you didn't see Jenny's picture from girls Night Out, go look on our
social media and you can see what they are talking about. I saw your
video where you do the thing where it's like your tech camera and it does
it does the transition, it doesn't work, and so you do another transition.
It was very clever. Last one, my question for you is why
do two different songs play at the same time on different platforms. For example,
Friday morning at seven oh seven on our Alexa, What's My Name was
playing while on my phone in the iHeartRadio app, it was playing Waterfalls.
Thanks for all that you do from Stacy. I don't know, Jenny,
do you know it was on an Alexa and then on the phone. Yep.
I don't have an answer for that, and it's frustrating, especially on
days like last Friday when we did Grow Group Friday, where we like really
want you to hear the songs that we're playing, and then like the app
is playing something different for you than what we're actually playing on the radio.
But I unfortunately don't have an answer. Okay, and that's really all I
got for now. So if you want to contribute to the Minnesota by if
you want to comment about what I said about fashion and how hypocritical that world
is, that's great. Want to bring up something we have not brought up.
We're done with tipping, So let's move on from tipping because everybody agrees,
and we can talk about it all day, but I think we've said
pretty much everything we need to say about tipping. Anything else, let us
know. Love to hear from you. Ryan Show at kadiwb dot com