Speaker 1: We're gonna start calling this podcast. Please don't use my name,
Speaker 1: which would be a good name for a podcast. So
Speaker 1: I just think, please don't use my name.
Speaker 2: Everything is anonymous that you submit, Please.
Speaker 3: Don't use my name.
Speaker 1: Can I something interesting we brought up on the show?
Speaker 1: But on Facebook? What should we talk about less on
Speaker 1: the show? And one of the things that people that
Speaker 1: they I love it and some people love it. And
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of like split is no Phone
Speaker 1: Screen or Friday? And I'm not sure what reminded me
Speaker 1: of this, but on No Phone Screen or Friday. Some
Speaker 1: people love it, some people hate it. One of the
Speaker 1: things that people don't like is kids calling in on
Speaker 1: no Phone Screen or Friday, because you know, mom will
Speaker 1: have little Jacqueline in the back seat and be like,
Speaker 1: let's get Jacqueline on the radio. So it's like, hello,
Speaker 1: you're on the radio. What's your name? Silence, silence, silence.
Speaker 1: Hello are you there, Jackeline? Hi, Jacqueline?
Speaker 3: How are you? Tell them? How old are you? How
Speaker 3: old are you? Jacqueline? Tell them how old you are? Five?
Speaker 3: And and people hate it? Yeah, people hate it.
Speaker 4: I mean it's because the kids don't want to necessarily
Speaker 4: be on the radio, but the moms are yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: it would be cute if my kid was on.
Speaker 1: And so people have said no phone screener of Friday,
Speaker 1: you can't have kids on. But I think the only
Speaker 1: because I don't want to hurt kids feelings say no
Speaker 1: kids because they're adorable and they listen to mom, and
Speaker 1: I don't want them to think that that mean old
Speaker 1: DJ on the radio doesn't want them to be on
Speaker 1: the radio. But I think maybe we can make a
Speaker 1: rule on no phone screen of Friday. You've got to
Speaker 1: be at least sixteen years old to call in, Jenny, what.
Speaker 5: Do you think I think that's fair. I just think
Speaker 5: that a lot of times we make rules and people
Speaker 5: don't follow them. Yeah, the amount of times people call
Speaker 5: in and plug some you know, a little tournament their
Speaker 5: kids in over the weekend, or like shout outs and stuff.
Speaker 6: So I think you can do it. I just don't
Speaker 6: know that at all.
Speaker 4: I have.
Speaker 3: I have an idea.
Speaker 1: We have an obnoxious rules violation horn. Okay, so whenever
Speaker 1: somebody violates the rules with a kid on the phone
Speaker 1: or plugging their event or uh yeah, I want to
Speaker 1: do a shout out to my son Bobby hang his
Speaker 1: violation horn and then we hang up, and then it
Speaker 1: becomes kind of funny, sure, rather than cruel.
Speaker 4: See, I agree that I think it's annoying when the
Speaker 4: kids are on and they don't know what to say
Speaker 4: because they don't know how to talk on the phone.
Speaker 4: But one time, I swear we had like a twelve
Speaker 4: year old boy call and he was hilarious because he
Speaker 4: had a plan. And I think even adults call in
Speaker 4: without a plan for what to say, and so like,
Speaker 4: if you're a kid and you have a plan, by
Speaker 4: all means, call in.
Speaker 2: Because that kid was hilarious.
Speaker 1: I remember him. But that is a very rare occurrence.
Speaker 1: And I love kids, and I love the fact that
Speaker 1: they're listening to with their mom or dad or whatever.
Speaker 1: But you know, we want to keep doing no Phone
Speaker 1: Screener Friday because it fills a hole. Jenny is like, yes,
Speaker 1: this producer of the show, Jenny loves something that fills
Speaker 1: those shows, the holes in the show. So all right,
Speaker 1: here's an email, and it starts, don't say my name,
Speaker 1: Please don't say my name. Today the gods were looking
Speaker 1: out for me. I was driving home from work and
Speaker 1: I usually speed. However, for some reason, I look in
Speaker 1: the mirror, and from far away, I'm wondering, is that
Speaker 1: a cop car behind me? Of course I slow down
Speaker 1: so I'm only going about five over. Now the cop
Speaker 1: creeps up closer and bam, it is a police car.
Speaker 1: The universe was looking out for me. I usually never
Speaker 1: look behind me when I'm driving on that highway. I
Speaker 1: don't know what led me to look more closely behind
Speaker 1: me today, but the speeding ticket did not catch up
Speaker 1: to me this time. Now I must ask you you
Speaker 1: ever had a time when the universe was looking out
Speaker 1: for you? Have a great rest of the day.
Speaker 3: Signed.
Speaker 1: Please don't say my name off the top of my head. No,
Speaker 1: I really I I I'm sure there have been times,
Speaker 1: but I can't think of one off the top of
Speaker 1: my head. Jenny, have you got anything.
Speaker 5: No that's like a that's something I'd have to rack
Speaker 5: my brain on. I'm sure there are, I just can't
Speaker 5: think of one. I think the police one has happened
Speaker 5: to everybody where. You'll like, you know, be putting something
Speaker 5: into your GPS and then put your hands back on
Speaker 5: the wheel, look forward, and then see a cop car
Speaker 5: and you're like, oh man, good thing.
Speaker 2: I wasn't putting this thing into my GPS.
Speaker 3: Right when I right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But like I think those pop up and you're like,
Speaker 4: oh cop, wow, good thing.
Speaker 2: I'm not speeding right now. But there's plenty of times
Speaker 2: that you drive by cops you don't even realize it.
Speaker 4: So it's just because you see them that you're like,
Speaker 4: I've been the universe is looking out for me.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's just a coincidence.
Speaker 1: I was driving into work one time. I was coming
Speaker 1: down I think on Northwest Boulevard in Plymouth. I used
Speaker 1: to live on fifty fourth Avenue North in Plymouth, and
Speaker 1: I'm coming into work. It's dark, and I saw something.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it was that I saw, but
Speaker 1: it made me slow down. And an instant, an instant later,
Speaker 1: a deer ran in front of my car. Oh So
Speaker 1: I don't know what it was that made me slow down,
Speaker 1: but I guess maybe that was the universe looking out
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 2: And get a deer and for the deer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you for that one. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: next one. This is from Nicole obligatory, longtime listener, first
Speaker 1: time writer mention. I've been meaning to write in for years.
Speaker 1: I'm finally getting around to it. After telling myself I
Speaker 1: got to share this story with Day before he retires.
Speaker 1: I'll do my best to keep it short. I'm Alison's
Speaker 1: age so which means about thirty two. Grew up in
Speaker 1: Door County, Wisconsin, in a family that didn't have TV.
Speaker 1: Because we didn't have TV, my siblings, three of us
Speaker 1: spend our time free time that would most likely been
Speaker 1: watching TV watching YouTube videos on the family computer. Well,
Speaker 1: it was around two thousand and seven. I'm in high school.
Speaker 1: We started across your parody the Hollister song, and we
Speaker 1: had no idea who Katie will be or Dave Ryan was,
Speaker 1: but the song quickly became a staple in our house.
Speaker 1: My dad, who is sixty now, found it hilarious and
Speaker 1: was always quote and still does quote the Oh my god, Alison,
Speaker 1: give me a break. We're on a beer budget. You
Speaker 1: got champagne tastes as he was is a proud frugal individual,
Speaker 1: which is the reason we didn't pay for cable in
Speaker 1: the first place.
Speaker 2: Huh Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 1: And by the way, when I do that line, it's like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, alis soon give me a break. Great,
Speaker 1: because I'm trying to do the ludicrous place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Fast forward to early twenty fifteen. Moved to Minneapolis after
Speaker 1: graduation for a job and quickly started listening to your show.
Speaker 1: I lived in Minneapolis for two years before moving to
Speaker 1: Illinois to be with my now husband. Since I fell
Speaker 1: in love with your show in Minnesota, I could continue
Speaker 1: to listen while living in Chicago. Listen in one day
Speaker 1: at work in Chicago and I heard you mention the
Speaker 1: Hollister song and my jaw hit the floor. I had
Speaker 1: never made the connection until that moment that the Hollister
Speaker 1: song I grew up listening to was created by you.
Speaker 4: Woh wow wow, Yeah, talk about science from the universe.
Speaker 1: It felt like my world's colliding. Like, what are the
Speaker 1: odds that the parody song that was a staple in
Speaker 1: my house growing up was based on the same city
Speaker 1: I randomly decided to move to post college and created
Speaker 1: by the radio show I fell in love with while
Speaker 1: I lived there. And I didn't even make the connection
Speaker 1: before moving to Illinois. Why that blows my mind? Cool,
Speaker 1: that's really blows my mind.
Speaker 3: Yeah it is.
Speaker 1: Now years later, lived back in the beautiful state of
Speaker 1: Wisconsin and Lake Geneva with my husband of five years
Speaker 1: and our two kids still listen to the show. I'll
Speaker 1: admit not as regularly as my as I like, but
Speaker 1: my life has become so much busier than it once was.
Speaker 1: But I always make sure to save up the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Goodbye episodes to binge while I'm rocking my three year
Speaker 1: old at night. I just wanted to share this random
Speaker 1: connection and say I love your show and all that
Speaker 1: you do, and let yes, my dad still quotes the
Speaker 1: Hollister song to this day. Hmm, thanks for being great.
Speaker 1: That is from NICKI.
Speaker 2: That is so cool.
Speaker 3: That was like the email of the month.
Speaker 4: Yeah for me, that's so neat too. Because then also
Speaker 4: like the fact that instead of having TV, you would
Speaker 4: just like mindlessly scroll on YouTube and you just happen
Speaker 4: to find the Hollister song.
Speaker 2: That's just so cool of all of the things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the fact that she didn't know that it
Speaker 1: was connected to Katie WB and then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you realize, like, oh my god, the radio you're
Speaker 1: the ones.
Speaker 3: That came up with the Hart song.
Speaker 2: That's so cool.
Speaker 1: I years ago we did a video. It was trending
Speaker 1: at the time before trending was even a term, and
Speaker 1: the trend was shit Minnesotan say, or shit you know whatever,
Speaker 1: like police officers say or shit teachers say. And so
Speaker 1: I did shit Minnesotan say, and it went viral, and
Speaker 1: it was pretty funny, like shit Minnesotan say, like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know my friend's neighbor's brother is friends with Joel Mauer.
Speaker 6: Or the Halloween blizzard.
Speaker 3: Oh remember that Halloween blizzard.
Speaker 1: So you can still look it up to this day
Speaker 1: if you just look up shit Minnesotan say on YouTube.
Speaker 5: But I was open your first recollection of going like viral.
Speaker 5: Once that became a thing.
Speaker 1: The first viral we ever did was white trash people
Speaker 1: problems and that was you know, it was when Twitter
Speaker 1: was new, and so we did white trash people problems
Speaker 1: like rasslin is on the same time as Nascar okay,
Speaker 1: or don't have enough money for both beer and cigarettes?
Speaker 1: White trash people problems, and it went immediately viral, and
Speaker 1: for about a half an hour, we were the number
Speaker 1: two trending topic in the world. Dang cool, she is
Speaker 1: right behind one direction trending number two in the world.
Speaker 1: You guys, White trash people problems. And it was a
Speaker 1: blip and it was done a half an hour later
Speaker 1: and we got back down to you uncountable territory. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we all looked at each other and said that
Speaker 1: was cool. What good did it do us?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: True?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know to trend and go viral, and that's
Speaker 1: something to think about. What good does it do.
Speaker 2: You unless you get way more followers or things by.
Speaker 1: That crue And I don't know whether we did or not.
Speaker 5: But Twitter was is probably harder, I think with video
Speaker 5: now nowadays on Instagram and TikTok though, that like hooks
Speaker 5: people more, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: Like, I'm not going to start like being.
Speaker 5: Obsessed with a show because I saw a funny hashtag,
Speaker 5: you know, yeah, Like I don't even know that I
Speaker 5: would correlate it back to the show. Whereas if you
Speaker 5: like go viral for something with the Morning Show, then
Speaker 5: I'd be like, oh, they seem like a funny show, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Like if you see a funny video that goes viral
Speaker 1: of like you know Jenny, you know, using her hand
Speaker 1: on her arm, which did go viral, h yeah, and
Speaker 1: it got about five million views and it still does.
Speaker 1: But then we were told by management to not pin
Speaker 1: it to the top of our.
Speaker 7: Instagram to inappropriate, they said, And it is inappropriate, but
Speaker 7: then you know, there's other stuff that I've seen other
Speaker 7: DJs do that are just as inappropriate, but we were
Speaker 7: asked to take it down.
Speaker 1: So okay, whatever, But back to the show. Minnesotan say,
Speaker 1: I was up in Duluth and I'm having dinner at
Speaker 1: the Outback Steakhouse in Duluth and I'm sitting there with
Speaker 1: Susan and the kids, and the servers like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: are you the guy in the shit Minnesotan Say video?
Speaker 1: And I'm like yeah, and they're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I've watched it a million times. It's so funny. They
Speaker 1: didn't know who Dave Ryan was, they didn't know what
Speaker 1: KATWDB was. They only recognized me from that video, which
Speaker 1: I thought was hysteric. Okay, next one, a question for you.
Speaker 1: What would you say your comfort or average amount of
Speaker 1: credit card debt is for your credit cards with mortgage
Speaker 1: and expenses. I'm at a point where I feel like
Speaker 1: I cannot afford to pay off my credit card every month,
Speaker 1: so there's always a balance. But I'm curious on your
Speaker 1: thoughts of it all. Do you pay it all off
Speaker 1: every month or have a balance on it at all times,
Speaker 1: and what is your comfort amount? I do want to
Speaker 1: be more frugal with this just being too dang social.
Speaker 1: I guess that's from Amelia. We are fortunately able to
Speaker 1: pay off our credit card every month. We don't carry
Speaker 1: a balance at all.
Speaker 2: I pay off mine every month as well.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, I do too.
Speaker 5: But I also don't spend money on a lot of
Speaker 5: different things, like I don't really go out to eat ever.
Speaker 5: I don't go to the movies, like a lot of
Speaker 5: things that people do, I don't really do. So I
Speaker 5: can keep my credit card pretty low.
Speaker 3: Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember back when I was probably in my twenties
Speaker 1: and had a new credit card. I think I had
Speaker 1: a balance of like four or five thousand dollars on it,
Speaker 1: and I would pay off, you know, as much as
Speaker 1: I could. And I remember my daughter Beth, her mother
Speaker 1: gave her some really stupid advice, and her advice was
Speaker 1: always try to pay the minimum balance on your credit card.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, all you're paying then it's just.
Speaker 1: Going to keep it's going to keep growing. You're never
Speaker 1: going to pay it off. Yeah, the credit card company
Speaker 1: wants you to pay the minimum balance. Yeah, because it's
Speaker 1: going to you know, you're stacking up eighteen percent interest
Speaker 1: a year something like.
Speaker 2: That, Right, I have no idea.
Speaker 4: I always my thought process with it was, I if
Speaker 4: I can't afford to pay off my credit card every month,
Speaker 4: I don't need a credit card. And so I didn't
Speaker 4: even get a credit card until I was maybe like
Speaker 4: twenty eight. I just had a debit card. Okay, So
Speaker 4: it's like never occurred to me like that. I could
Speaker 4: potentially just let it rack up and rack up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 1: It sounds like everybody on the show pays off their
Speaker 1: credit card. But I would say, try to really not
Speaker 1: carry a balance. But I know that's easier said than done.
Speaker 1: If you are struggling to make ends, meat, it's you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta buy milk, you gotta buy laundry soap, and
Speaker 1: you gotta buy toilet paper, and you gotta go have
Speaker 1: a pizza once in a while.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but the minimum, don't I mean not just the minimum.
Speaker 4: I think that's something we could all agree on, like,
Speaker 4: don't pay just the minimum. See if you can add
Speaker 4: on to that.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 1: I think sometimes we get a windfall of cash and
Speaker 1: we want to go do something fun with it, and
Speaker 1: we should pay off like that credit card. Like if
Speaker 1: you win a thousand dollars on KWB, I always say,
Speaker 1: go buy yourself a kayak. Yeah fuck yeah, that's fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But honestly, if you know, the practical thing is, and
Speaker 1: it's boring that nobody wants to do, is.
Speaker 3: Pay down that debt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's what you should do, because if you
Speaker 1: don't pay it down, you're going to be, you know,
Speaker 1: paying for it longer anymore.
Speaker 4: When we got those like checks during the pandemic, like
Speaker 4: the random thousand dollars checks that we randomly got, I
Speaker 4: don't know I did. I did not, well a little
Speaker 4: fancy you anyway, I did, but I paid off my car.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I will follow them just to pay off
Speaker 4: my car because then I now that's one payment that
Speaker 4: I don't have to make every month anymore, which is nice.
Speaker 3: Good, good for you, all right.
Speaker 1: Next one, Dave Jenny Bailey vont I listen to your
Speaker 1: show ever since I can remember. I'm wondering if you
Speaker 1: guys can talk about older women dating younger men. I
Speaker 1: really need thoughts on this topic, and I think I'm
Speaker 1: going to forward this to you, Jenny, so we can
Speaker 1: use it on the regular show. I'm forty six years old,
Speaker 1: and I cannot seem to find anyone in my age
Speaker 1: range that I'm attracted to.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Remember they're forty six. I don't look my age, so
Speaker 1: I'm constant being hit on by younger men. I feel
Speaker 1: a good age range would be forty to fifty years old. Currently,
Speaker 1: there's a young man that I'm attracted to that seems interested,
Speaker 1: but he's thirty one turning thirty two in August. Here's
Speaker 1: my dilemma. My son is twenty six turning twenty seven.
Speaker 1: My brothers are thirty three and thirty five, so it
Speaker 1: feels like this new man in my life is just
Speaker 1: too young for me. He's literally only five years older
Speaker 1: than my son and basically the same age as my brothers.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I should just say fit and go,
Speaker 1: give it a go, or close the door permanently. But
Speaker 1: how do I stop thinking about the age difference to
Speaker 1: give this new relationship a fair chance. I'm hoping we
Speaker 1: can just talk about this on the radio and I
Speaker 1: can listen to the discussion and see what other people
Speaker 1: have to say about it. It seems normal for older
Speaker 1: men to date younger women, but not the other way around.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys a loyal listener. The first thing
Speaker 1: I did is I looked up her name to see
Speaker 1: whether she does look younger. She's forty six, and yes, indeed,
Speaker 1: he do. She does look much younger.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So because a lot of people think that, they think, well,
Speaker 1: I don't look my age. Yeah, Well the truth is,
Speaker 1: and it's actually in my book, Yeah you do look
Speaker 1: about your age. Yeah you might look good for your age.
Speaker 1: But the truth is we all look about our age,
Speaker 1: you know, or sometimes a little older, some are younger.
Speaker 1: But she does look younger. I think the problem with
Speaker 1: that dating the guy he's thirty one and thirty two,
Speaker 1: it's about a fourteen year age difference. That's getting pretty significant. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're going to be entering different phases of life that
Speaker 1: he is not going to relate to. You're going to
Speaker 1: start getting AARP card offers in the mail in the
Speaker 1: next two years, and he's just going to be like
Speaker 1: mid start of his career. So I think that will
Speaker 1: become a problem. But if you just want to go
Speaker 1: jump on him and have some fun and see what happens,
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with that either.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it definitely depends on like what is it,
Speaker 4: What is it that you're looking for. Are you looking
Speaker 4: for like a long term relationship or are you looking
Speaker 4: to just like, you know, have a good time. Because
Speaker 4: I'm all for having a good time. Though I agree
Speaker 4: with the like in different phases of your life because
Speaker 4: my last boyfriend was ten years older than me and
Speaker 4: I was just even that was like ten years like dang.
Speaker 1: And you and being and being like in our traditional society,
Speaker 1: if the boy is older than the girl, somehow that
Speaker 1: seems more palatable.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it was still like weird, like it felt
Speaker 4: like we were in different moments of our lives.
Speaker 1: And I heard this, Yeah, when you would talk about him,
Speaker 1: it sound like, well, he didn't sound like he was
Speaker 1: the guy for you anyway. But yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: date when I was twenty four. I dated a woman
Speaker 1: who was forty four ooh, And we were never serious.
Speaker 1: We knew it was never going to last. We just
Speaker 1: like had fun going to movies and she played video games,
Speaker 1: so that was fun. I mean, a forty four year
Speaker 1: old back then that played Bubble Bubble, What a crazy lady.
Speaker 3: It was crazy. Who so Jenny, what do you think?
Speaker 5: Uh see, I actually am all for her going for it.
Speaker 5: I just think it's a matter of are you going
Speaker 5: to be able to get over the fact that your
Speaker 5: son is very close in age to him, and is
Speaker 5: is this thirty one year old emotionally mature to the
Speaker 5: level that you would want, because I would argue that
Speaker 5: there's a good chance he's not at thirty one and
Speaker 5: you're at at forty six, and the life you've lived. Now,
Speaker 5: I'm just going to assume that that guy's maybe never
Speaker 5: been married, probably doesn't have kids, So you have just
Speaker 5: such a different life experience than he does, and so
Speaker 5: I don't know how well you would connect.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's fair.
Speaker 1: I mean it kind of boils down to that because really,
Speaker 1: I mean, how long do we usually live. If we
Speaker 1: live an average of eighty years, you are about one
Speaker 1: quarter of a life older than him, Maybe not one quarter,
Speaker 1: but maybe one fifth of a life older than him,
Speaker 1: older older. So anyway, that is going to do it
Speaker 1: for the Minnesota Goodbye. That was fun. Send your emails
Speaker 1: to Ryan's show at KDWB dot com. We'll get you
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