Speaker 1: Starting off the Minnesota Goodbye with an email about how
Speaker 1: to meet people in a new town. Thanks for the
Speaker 1: daily entertainment. My question is for the entire show, how
Speaker 1: do you deal with moving to a new state and
Speaker 1: not knowing anyone? I just moved to a new state.
Speaker 1: I don't know anyone. My partner's coming out a few months.
Speaker 1: At the moment, I'm bored. I want to learn how
Speaker 1: to meet new people along with homesickness. Thanks for all
Speaker 1: you do. Some people are really good at it. I
Speaker 1: have a friend named Tricia. She moved from here to
Speaker 1: Colorado Springs and then Denver, and she didn't know anybody.
Speaker 1: But she was one of those people who a lot
Speaker 1: like you, Bailey. She would seek out women's groups like
Speaker 1: single friend women's groups and I don't know how you
Speaker 1: find them online, but to me, that would be really
Speaker 1: uncomfortable to walk into a room full of people and like,
Speaker 1: you know, like I guess I'm supposed to make friends
Speaker 1: with somebody. But that's just a natural to her, obviously,
Speaker 1: joining organizations like you want to join a you know,
Speaker 1: a pickleball league or whatever appeals to you. I found
Speaker 1: my friends through work. Yeah, I mean pretty much everybody
Speaker 1: that I've met when I moved to a new city
Speaker 1: is become a friend at work or a friend through work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all of the people, most of the people I
Speaker 2: know are from some kind of community organization. So either
Speaker 2: I was in community theater and I met my friends
Speaker 2: through theater or through taking improv classes.
Speaker 3: A lot of my friends are from that though.
Speaker 2: I like what you said, Dave, Like you can find
Speaker 2: singles groups like on Facebook and it's like singles women's
Speaker 2: groups or whatever, and yes, it's awkward, but when you
Speaker 2: show up to the stuff, everyone's there for the same reason.
Speaker 3: So there's also like single women hiking groups.
Speaker 2: And then there's like I go to Silent book Club
Speaker 2: and you can make friends at Silent book Club.
Speaker 3: You just sit with people you don't know. Obviously you
Speaker 3: don't know anybody.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of different like activities and like
Speaker 2: community events outside of like you know, taking a class
Speaker 2: or a community education course or something where you can
Speaker 2: meet people.
Speaker 4: Jenny, any ideas, Yeah, I mean pretty much just the
Speaker 4: same as what Bailey said. Just find something that you
Speaker 4: enjoy doing, enjoin it. There's a Facebook group for absolutely everything,
Speaker 4: so I'm sure if you google like Minneapolis chess club
Speaker 4: or chess group or something like that. Like there'll be
Speaker 4: something on Facebook that you can find.
Speaker 2: And honestly, they'll probably be thrilled that they have like
Speaker 2: new people showing up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's definitely true. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: clubs that need new members. Like when I was in Toastmasters,
Speaker 1: we would get so excited when a new member or
Speaker 1: a guest would show up because we had the same
Speaker 1: core of like eight people. It's like Ukulele club. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we have the same core of like seven or eight people,
Speaker 1: but we always love it when somebody new shows up
Speaker 1: and we kind of fall over ourselves to make them
Speaker 1: feel welcome. So because we're so happy that they're there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, don't feel shy about joining some activity. Maybe
Speaker 1: I would like a cross country skiing club in the
Speaker 1: winter would be really cool for me. Or a hiking club.
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna do Dave's Hiking club when the weather
Speaker 1: up and every Saturday, well not every Saturday, but like
Speaker 1: one Saturday a month or every two weeks, meet out
Speaker 1: at Apton State Park or somewhere, Like there's the Louisville
Speaker 1: Swamp Trail down by Jordan. Oh, there's one in Minawashta.
Speaker 1: That's probably about a four mile hike that I like
Speaker 1: to go on. So yeah, I would say that, or
Speaker 1: find you know, people that work to hang out with,
Speaker 1: because that's yeah.
Speaker 2: If you don't like you know, active things and you like,
Speaker 2: oh I just like sitting and watching movies at home,
Speaker 2: well there are movie watching groups too. You can go
Speaker 2: like see cinema a cinema group.
Speaker 1: And then after we'd go out for a little appetizer. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm can read this all the way through. Do not
Speaker 1: roll your eyes, do not react until I get to
Speaker 1: the end. I hope you're happy, like it or not.
Speaker 1: He's the man in charge, and I have to say,
Speaker 1: so far, I agree with almost every decision he's made.
Speaker 1: Some of these decisions. Some of these decisions have been
Speaker 1: very controversial, and I know a lot of people don't
Speaker 1: like him, but he surrounded himself with some of the
Speaker 1: greatest and most talented people in the world. There is
Speaker 1: absolutely no and his amazing leadership qualities, and I'm confident
Speaker 1: that history will judge him as one of the best,
Speaker 1: if not the very best, in this country that we
Speaker 1: have ever seen. I know not everyone's going to agree
Speaker 1: with me, but these are just a few of the
Speaker 1: reasons I support Andy Reid Go Chiefs.
Speaker 3: Wow, I knew that was going to be some kind
Speaker 3: of well.
Speaker 1: Cause I give you a heads up at the end. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the coach of the Chiefs. By the way.
Speaker 5: I thought it was going to be like something for you. Yes,
Speaker 5: that's what I thought. I love Dave Ryan.
Speaker 3: Dave Ryan is amazing.
Speaker 1: That would be I mean, sure, that would be fitting. Sure,
Speaker 1: this one says not a first time emailer, but it's
Speaker 1: been a while. I heard another listener email in about
Speaker 1: asking about sponsors, which is funny because a similar thought
Speaker 1: dawned on me yesterday. You guys have been advertising a
Speaker 1: lot lately for six one two injured, But what about
Speaker 1: fear of the flannel? You used to talk about those
Speaker 1: guys all the time, and you think they'd be competitors,
Speaker 1: would they not? Granted I know nothing about the subject,
Speaker 1: so forgive my ignorance. I just found that interesting. Similarly
Speaker 1: to how I wonder how a real estate agent would
Speaker 1: respond if a client expressed interest in a home that
Speaker 1: they were listening. But that's a question for Andrew. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure I understand the real estate part, to be honest,
Speaker 1: but these people like Nicolay Law, they paid to be
Speaker 1: a sponsor of Dave's Dirt. It's a difference between an
Speaker 1: endorsement and a sponsorship. So they say, you know, like
Speaker 1: if six ' one two Plumber was the endorsement, was
Speaker 1: the sponsor or, and then they didn't want to do
Speaker 1: it anymore, and so then Coca Cola became the sponsor.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean we are favoring one and we are
Speaker 1: like rejected the old one. It just means that our
Speaker 1: deal ran out. And so Nicolay Law had a great
Speaker 1: run on KATIEWGB. They got a lot of responses. When TSR.
Speaker 1: The Injury Law was on our show, they got great
Speaker 1: responses to and then sometimes they'll be like, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was great, We're going to move our advertising money
Speaker 1: to something else, like a side of a bus or
Speaker 1: a billboard or whatever. And so that's kind of what happened.
Speaker 1: I mean Nicolay Law is they're brilliant with their advertising
Speaker 1: and they spread it around and I think that maybe
Speaker 1: that's a really good way to get your word out,
Speaker 1: is to don't just focus on one medium. Nikelay laws
Speaker 1: on billboard, they're on TV, they're on the radio. So
Speaker 1: they do really well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then I think other people see how well
Speaker 4: these companies do or businesses and they're like, well, shit,
Speaker 4: we got to start doing that now too.
Speaker 1: Well, it's funny because I read like a not a poem,
Speaker 1: but an ode. I guess I would say, like, you know,
Speaker 1: in the world of radio advertising, you'll go to somebody
Speaker 1: who owns, let's say, a bakery, and you'll be like, hey,
Speaker 1: would you like to advertise on the radio? And it
Speaker 1: used to be they wanted to advertise in newspaper and
Speaker 1: the reason was and nobody does advertising the newspaper anymore.
Speaker 1: I mean that literally some people do it. But the
Speaker 1: reason they love newspaper was because they could cut their
Speaker 1: ad out of the newspaper and tape it to the
Speaker 1: wall or tape it to their register. So if you
Speaker 1: own Jenny's Donut Shop and you advertise in the Star Tribune,
Speaker 1: you're going to spend a lot of money on an
Speaker 1: ad about the size of the palm of your hand.
Speaker 1: But you can look at it, cut it out, tape
Speaker 1: it to your register and go look at this. And
Speaker 1: you can't do that with the radio. So but radio
Speaker 1: is remarkably effective for advertising. Yeah, it just really is.
Speaker 1: I also resonated with your comment about only advertising for
Speaker 1: products you believe in. It makes you come across as
Speaker 1: genuine and believable. I can relate because I post a
Speaker 1: fair amount of cruise content and I've had travel agents
Speaker 1: say hey, can you shout out my agency? And I've
Speaker 1: had to politely decline because I've never used the business myself,
Speaker 1: so to speak on it wouldn't be genuine on my
Speaker 1: part anyway. Not to make this too long, just wanted
Speaker 1: to add some food for thought. Thanks for always being
Speaker 1: my go to podcast during the workday and always responding
Speaker 1: kindly to my emails. No need for a sticker, as
Speaker 1: I already have one all right with a side of
Speaker 1: dart lick that is from Kevin. Uh. Yeah, I I
Speaker 1: totally get and I appreciate that they want to shout out,
Speaker 1: but you don't know anything about their business.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I don't like that at all.
Speaker 4: I've had a friend who asked me to like go
Speaker 4: on Google and review their business, and I was like,
Speaker 4: I've literally never utilized it yet because I don't want
Speaker 4: to get specific to what it is. But I just
Speaker 4: haven't gotten to that part of my life where I
Speaker 4: would use their business, and so I was like, no,
Speaker 4: I'm not going on Google and writing a false ad,
Speaker 4: even though you're my friend.
Speaker 3: They're old folks. Home, what's they're old folks. They haven't
Speaker 3: used it yet, but.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I'm yeah, I'm not doing that.
Speaker 4: I've also had travel agents reach out to me and
Speaker 4: ask for my itineraries to trips I've done so that
Speaker 4: they can use it to to like give clients like
Speaker 4: insight because like they haven't been where I've been. And
Speaker 4: I was like, I'm sorry, Like you make money off
Speaker 4: of that. That's not fair that I would just give
Speaker 4: you my IT giving.
Speaker 1: Them your Yeah, what's funny in radio is that, you know,
Speaker 1: part of the reason that I get paid then I'm
Speaker 1: still here for so long is because I come up
Speaker 1: with a ton of ideas, and in radio, it is
Speaker 1: just the most common thing in the world to steal,
Speaker 1: shamelessly steal other radio stations ideas. That's why you hear
Speaker 1: bits like second Date Update on every top forty radio
Speaker 1: station in every city. I don't do Second Date Update
Speaker 1: because I don't want to sound like every other city.
Speaker 1: I do War of the Roses, which other radio stations
Speaker 1: have done. But that's because we've done it for twenty years.
Speaker 1: But when the Booger and Peanut Show signs on in Knoxville,
Speaker 1: Booger and Peanut and they steal War of the Roses, Well,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do that if I was Booger and Peanut
Speaker 1: because I'd come up with my own shit. But a
Speaker 1: lot of radio shows they really I mean, I'll be
Speaker 1: honest with you. When Steve first worked here, Steve came
Speaker 1: from being a producer in Rochester twenty years ago. And
Speaker 1: this is not a knock on Steve, but what he learned,
Speaker 1: and it was preparing for the show was going online
Speaker 1: to seeing what other big radio shows were doing and
Speaker 1: stealing it the end. That was what Steve was taught
Speaker 1: was show prep, going online, finding out what this show
Speaker 1: is doing, this show is doing what the Dave Ryan
Speaker 1: Show is doing, and stealing it. That was their show prep.
Speaker 1: We rarely borrow an idea, but once in a while
Speaker 1: we'll go, oh, man, did you hear what Booger and
Speaker 1: Peanut are doing in Knoxville. They're doing a really funny
Speaker 1: thing called poop and Win. We should do poop and Win.
Speaker 1: That sounds really fun, and we do that maybe one
Speaker 1: bit a month, maybe two bits a month, Jenny, would
Speaker 1: you say, is something we saw that Booger and Peanut
Speaker 1: or somebody else is doing.
Speaker 5: Yes, I would say like once or twice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was something else that's going to add to that,
Speaker 1: and I don't remember, but I think I've said enough.
Speaker 1: Moving on. It is Natalie from Rochester, and Natalie starts
Speaker 1: your email, Well, hey, Dave, is Natalie from Rochester. I
Speaker 1: noticed at the beginning of yesterday's Minnesota Goodbye you said
Speaker 1: it's Wednesday, February fifth, and state of the year as
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. I might be the only one, but
Speaker 1: this is such a pet peeve. We should have all
Speaker 1: stopped saying two thousand in the year two thousand and nine.
Speaker 1: It should have jumped to twenty ten, twenty eleven, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Nobody called nineteen twenty five, one, nine hundred and twenty five,
Speaker 1: for fuck's sake, Our current year is twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Y'all know I'm right. I promise I'm not a Karen,
Speaker 1: but this one might be a fun one to discuss.
Speaker 1: Thanks for your great show and listening. Since I was
Speaker 1: a kid and loved being able to tune in any
Speaker 1: time with the iHeart app. I don't know why I
Speaker 1: said twenty twenty five. It sounds more dramatic, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it it's not important to me.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm trying to think now. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I would always say like I didn't obviously grow up
Speaker 4: in the twenties of nineteen twenties, but nineteen nineties. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I wasn't say one thousand, ninety nine, you.
Speaker 5: Know, like, so that does that is funny? Twenty twenty five,
Speaker 5: twenty twenty five the year, Well, I guess.
Speaker 2: I mean, it literally takes you one extra syllable to
Speaker 2: say two thousand, then it does twenty, so it doesn't
Speaker 2: bother me necessarily versus one thousand, nine hundred and ninety
Speaker 2: nine would take way longer say that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but nobody said that. Nobody said one thousand, nine
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy two, one thousand, nine hundred and ninety eight.
Speaker 3: I love one thousand, nine hundred two thousand.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Twenty twenty Okay, you know what you are, Karen, No,
Speaker 1: I'm kidding. It's it's funny. What bothers some people, It
Speaker 1: bothers me when people say nuclear, like oh, there's a
Speaker 1: nuclear bomb or a nuclear war, nuclear waste, it's nu clear,
Speaker 1: new clear. Nucular has to do with the nucleus of
Speaker 1: an atom or a cell, because that has to do
Speaker 1: with the new clean. I think now I've confused myself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's nuclear war nuclear.
Speaker 3: Right since George W messed it up.
Speaker 2: Every time I have to say the word nuclear, I
Speaker 2: see nuclear nuclear. Every time I have to say it,
Speaker 2: I think I said it wrong, and then I go
Speaker 2: back and I correct it, and I never know which one.
Speaker 1: And I'm the same way with nauseous because Cricket, my
Speaker 1: old girlfriend, when she was pregnant, she was nauseous. She's like,
Speaker 1: I'm nauseous. I'm like, no, you're not nauseous. You're nauseous.
Speaker 1: You're nauseated, Yeah, nauseated. And then every time I say nauseous,
Speaker 1: I have to think about whether it's nauseous or nauseous.
Speaker 1: I think I've grown out of it now, but it
Speaker 1: really annoyed because often Cricket was one of those people
Speaker 1: that even though she was wrong, she was never wrong.
Speaker 1: And that's one of the reasons we didn't last because
Speaker 1: she was I'll go ahead and say it. She was
Speaker 1: not the brightest bulb on the tree, but she was
Speaker 1: a very stubborn person. So imagine somebody who is not
Speaker 1: very bright, but they're stubburned. So it'd be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: the sun comes up in the west, except on Thursday
Speaker 1: when it comes up in the east. What no, No, Oh,
Speaker 1: don't you fucking tell me? Because I know? And she
Speaker 1: would defend herself. I remember when she was pregnant with Beth,
Speaker 1: she said, it's going to be a boy. And I said, well,
Speaker 1: you really don't know whether it's going to be a
Speaker 1: boy or a girl. Don't you tell me? I know
Speaker 1: it's going to be a boy. And I'm like, well
Speaker 1: you really don't. Don't you even uh, don't you tell me?
Speaker 1: I know my body, I know it's going to be
Speaker 1: a boy, and it was a girl. So can you
Speaker 1: imagine dealing with somebody who was not the brightest bulb
Speaker 1: on the tree, but they were so set in their
Speaker 1: ways and stubborn. So I will admit freely when I'm rude,
Speaker 1: hold on, when I.
Speaker 3: Am out, sound out.
Speaker 1: Okay, when I get something and I misstate something and
Speaker 1: I get a fact incorrect, I will admit that I.
Speaker 3: Was yepkay, sound it out.
Speaker 5: Shit yourself trying to do the bit.
Speaker 1: It's a good bit though. Yeah, it's strong. Do you
Speaker 1: know where I got that bit? What do you want
Speaker 1: to know the truth? It's not my own original bit.
Speaker 1: It's Fonsie from Happy Days.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Did you guys know this?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 5: I knew that. I thought it was your bit.
Speaker 4: And then someone I think said it once, like said oh,
Speaker 4: you got it from this, and then I was like,
Speaker 4: that's not yours, and you're like, no, that's mine.
Speaker 1: It's totally because he's talking to Richie and he puts
Speaker 1: his he's like talking to Richie about something and he
Speaker 1: was he was wrong, and he's like Richie and he
Speaker 1: puts his hands on richie shoulder and he goes, Richie,
Speaker 1: I want to tell you I was im. I just
Speaker 1: want to okay, I wouldn't want to admit I was rude.
Speaker 1: And I thought that was funny. So I've always remembered
Speaker 1: that another bit I stole. And we're just talking about
Speaker 1: stealing bits. But I think it's fair to I grew
Speaker 1: up watching a lot of TV and game shows, and
Speaker 1: I think a lot of that infiltrated into my head,
Speaker 1: and I think that kind of like what has made
Speaker 1: me so fucking funny. The bit where I go yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: I put on a sock and a shoe and a
Speaker 1: sock and a shoe, and people go, why everybody puts
Speaker 1: on a sock and a sock and a shoe on
Speaker 1: a shoe, and I say, no, not me. I put
Speaker 1: on a sock and a shoe and a sock and
Speaker 1: a shoe because if the house caught on fire and
Speaker 1: I had to run outside and it was raining, you'd
Speaker 1: be in a sock and a sock. I'd be in
Speaker 1: a sock and a shoe. I could hop around and
Speaker 1: stay dry. I got that from watching All in the
Speaker 1: Family when I was a kid. I didn't come up
Speaker 1: with that bit. And maybe once in a while some
Speaker 1: old fart will be like, Dave, if I know where
Speaker 1: you got that bit. I'm like, you and me are
Speaker 1: the only ones that know that we are either.
Speaker 4: Of those bits, like long running through those shows just
Speaker 4: one time, okay, So that makes it easier because I
Speaker 4: was like, if they were constantly doing it, I'm surprised
Speaker 4: more people haven't called you out for that.
Speaker 1: But I got another one that I like to do
Speaker 1: that people don't know I stole this one. Did I
Speaker 1: do that?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I stole that one too. Yeah, but a lot
Speaker 1: of people what.
Speaker 3: They've never heard.
Speaker 1: They've never heard it.
Speaker 3: Did I do that?
Speaker 1: No, I forget that.
Speaker 3: That's a joke.
Speaker 1: Really, that's a joke. Talon used to do that. When
Speaker 1: she's like, did I do that? I never even watched
Speaker 1: that show? What was it? Growing not Growing Pains? Family matters,
Speaker 1: Family matters with her call, never watched that show, not
Speaker 1: even once. All right, that is it for the Minnesota Goodbye.
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Speaker 5: More of a constipation sound than you have