Speaker 1: Let's start off with an email that says, I just
Speaker 1: got done listening to today's episode, and I am shocked.
Speaker 2: I am shocked.
Speaker 1: That all of you guys, every single one of you,
Speaker 1: likes Domino's pizza.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh love it.
Speaker 2: I think it's disgusting.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I love it, but I eat it well.
Speaker 1: We talked about this on the show yesterday. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Goodbye, where we basically read emails of all
Speaker 1: flavors from all parts of the country, from every demographic
Speaker 1: and all opinions, and we love the Minnesota Goodbyes. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I like doing this better than the show. If I
Speaker 1: could do Minnesota Goodbye all day, can you know?
Speaker 2: You know why?
Speaker 1: Cause most of the time on the Minnesota Goodbye, I
Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen. On the show, a
Speaker 1: lot of the time I don't know. Like on War
Speaker 1: of the Roses, we tape it a couple of days
Speaker 1: in advance. I know what's going to happen. With group therapy,
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what's going to happen, but I've
Speaker 1: pre read the email. But these I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going to happen. So let's continue, Okay, of the chains,
Speaker 1: Devanny's is by far my favorite. Then probably read Savoys
Speaker 1: than Carboni's. Little Caesar's is even better than Dominoes. Anyway,
Speaker 1: to each their own taste buds.
Speaker 2: Lol.
Speaker 1: So we had a big discussion about pizza yesterday, and
Speaker 1: I think we were asking of the chain pizzas, not
Speaker 1: your mom and pop local places, what is the best pizza?
Speaker 1: Did we come with a consensus or did we just
Speaker 1: agree on Dominoes was all really good?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think we all agreed that Dominoes was good, but
Speaker 3: also like our places like Devanni's are those I kind
Speaker 3: of thought Devanni's was local in the Twin Cities.
Speaker 1: It is local, But what I mean by like local
Speaker 1: is like you know, the mom and pop like Troy's
Speaker 1: Pizza Palace down the street, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: not a chain. And you can't really put those in
Speaker 1: the mix because I might have a Troy's Pizza Palace
Speaker 1: in chan Hassen, but you don't have one in Oakdale,
Speaker 1: for example.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Well, the three that they listed I have never eaten
Speaker 4: at any of those reds of Boys, meaning are Carbonies.
Speaker 4: I feel like the only fast like fast food pizza.
Speaker 4: If that, if you could say that that I've had
Speaker 4: is Dominoes and Punch pizza. And Punch pizza is delicious.
Speaker 2: But it's not really good.
Speaker 4: It's not like comparable though. It's like not the same
Speaker 4: kind of pizza, which is why it's so good. It's
Speaker 4: like different and delicious, so good.
Speaker 1: I think one thing that everybody loves is pizza. I
Speaker 1: do have a friend, an ex girlfriend, that she she
Speaker 1: was kind of give or take pizza. She's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, not really. I'm like, what, but everybody loves pizza.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't think I liked pizza until I was in
Speaker 4: third grade, and it was like a big ordeal when
Speaker 4: people be like, let's have pizza, and I was like,
Speaker 4: and I don't like pizza, and they'd be like, because
Speaker 4: that's a big deal when you're like eight years old
Speaker 4: that you don't like pizza.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
Speaker 1: Isn't school Do you remember school lunch pizza being good
Speaker 1: or not good? I will start with school lunch pizza
Speaker 1: was always really good. I mean for school lunch pizza.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like by today's standards that if you ordered
Speaker 1: it to be like, it's not very good.
Speaker 2: Piece kind of bland. But when you're in.
Speaker 1: Five fifth grade school lunch pizza was pretty fucking good.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 3: I think it was good in terms of every other
Speaker 3: option you were given, but in terms of pizza compared
Speaker 3: to anything else, absolutely not.
Speaker 2: Urs was not good.
Speaker 4: Ars was not good either, and it was the rectangle
Speaker 4: that fit in the like tray. I don't remember ever
Speaker 4: picking the pizza as the option at school.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, she goes on too. I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell you one more pizza story. And this is just
Speaker 1: something I'm kind of proud of. I taught when I
Speaker 1: was I was a boy Scout leader. I'm not really anymore,
Speaker 1: but I was an assistant boy Scout leader. And we
Speaker 1: took the boys up to Rum River Scout Camp and
Speaker 1: we canoed down the river, and then we stopped and
Speaker 1: we camped overnight, and I showed them how you can
Speaker 1: make pizzas in a Dutch oven. A Dutch oven looks
Speaker 1: like a big witch's cauldron, kind of but smaller. And
Speaker 1: they thought it was so cool that you could make
Speaker 1: pizzas in a Dutch oven. I said, anything you can
Speaker 1: make in a regular oven, you can make in a
Speaker 1: Dutch oven. And it was just kind of a cool thing.
Speaker 1: So if you are a Scout leader, girl, Scout boy,
Speaker 1: Scout whatever, teach your kids that they can make a
Speaker 1: pizza in a Dutch oven and they're gonna love it.
Speaker 3: Dutch ovens are so heavy though.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, bring a lot on your camp. Oh not really,
Speaker 1: it's mostly for car camps.
Speaker 3: Okay, I was gonna say. I was like, Andrew just
Speaker 3: made something on a Dutch oven the other day. The
Speaker 3: thing weighs like twenty pounds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it really did.
Speaker 1: Another question, Dave, how come Susan never goes to Colorado
Speaker 1: with you? Is it just because of the animals at home?
Speaker 1: Just curious because you say you guys don't do a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff together. I hope that can change for
Speaker 1: you in twenty twenty five. She doesn't come to Colorado because,
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of my escape and it's not
Speaker 1: an escape from her. It's just an escape. And she
Speaker 1: does come sometimes, But for years I've come out here
Speaker 1: by myself. I'm out here by myself right now and
Speaker 1: I really enjoy it. Like yesterday, I you know, the
Speaker 1: Orcan guys came, so I had to like clean everything out.
Speaker 1: I watched everything the mice had proud, you know, like
Speaker 1: walked on silverware, utensils, muffin tens, all of that. I
Speaker 1: had to find a place to put him because I
Speaker 1: can't so I always have something to do. I watched TV,
Speaker 1: I got on the treadmill, I took a great nap,
Speaker 1: And so why doesn't she come? She comes sometimes, but
Speaker 1: I think that just like sometimes a mom will be like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm going to go away to a
Speaker 1: hotel for the weekend. That's kind of me. I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's just and plus I love it here. It's beautiful
Speaker 1: and it's peaceful, and it's sentimental to me. Love. Let's
Speaker 1: see a special shout out to Vaunt even though he's
Speaker 1: not in the Minnesota goodbye. But I really feel like
Speaker 1: some people get down on him for no reason.
Speaker 2: Have a wonderful.
Speaker 1: Friday and weekend. Not really a dart liquor. So all right,
Speaker 1: Vaughnt's been kind of down you guys, because he feels
Speaker 1: like nobody likes him. Yeah, you guys can jump in here.
Speaker 2: Yeah you thought you were going.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought you had more to say. I mean,
Speaker 3: I didn't know that he hasn't said that to me,
Speaker 3: so I did not realize that, But I have like
Speaker 3: tried to come to his defense on air quite a
Speaker 3: bit because I feel like so many people hear one
Speaker 3: little thing about him, which is usually stirs the pot,
Speaker 3: and he's always pretty controversial on that, and then they
Speaker 3: assume that that's the only part of his personality and that's
Speaker 3: like so unfair because it's not. It's a tiny portion
Speaker 3: and it's literally a bit. It is the point of
Speaker 3: the bit. So I've tried to come to his defense
Speaker 3: this last week to be like, guys, this is the bit,
Speaker 3: like he's trying to stir the pot. Like, if you
Speaker 3: thought about it really hard, you could probably stir the
Speaker 3: pot every single day yourself with some controversial opinion that
Speaker 3: you have, but that doesn't define who you are exactly.
Speaker 1: What was what was it that he was up because
Speaker 1: he does this like he's like nobody likes me in
Speaker 1: I mean, like, no, people love you, no, people hate me.
Speaker 2: But also Vont likes to be a little bit dramatic
Speaker 2: sometimes he does.
Speaker 1: And if he gets one comment or one text message
Speaker 1: that says Vants an idiot, Vauant's a manchild. Somebody called
Speaker 1: him a man child earlier this week, and he's like
Speaker 1: people don't like me. They call me a manchild, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's one person. Person. So because Vont doesn't
Speaker 1: listen to the Minnesota Goodbye, maybe if you listen, you
Speaker 1: can maybe send a text during the show and say, hey, Vaunt,
Speaker 1: that was really funny, or Vont he's my favorite whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, it just just to kind of boost
Speaker 1: him up a little bit because he's kind of a
Speaker 1: little bit down on himself because he thinks that people
Speaker 1: don't like him. Yeah, and people, and I don't wanna
Speaker 1: tell you this one. Vont is a really likable kid.
Speaker 2: He really is.
Speaker 1: He's funny, he's silly, he can be serious, he's a
Speaker 1: hard worker, he's just a nice He's a kid that's
Speaker 1: doing well for twenty three years.
Speaker 3: Old, super well. And also he's twenty three. We have
Speaker 3: to like remember that, like the amount of life experience
Speaker 3: he has, Like I feel like so much of my
Speaker 3: life experience in my thirty four years came in my
Speaker 3: like late twenties to the point where I'm at now.
Speaker 3: You know, when I was early twenties, I feel like
Speaker 3: I was still a kid, Like I wasn't really fully
Speaker 3: experiencing adulthood yet. So a lot of his comments will
Speaker 3: be about things like the other one the other day
Speaker 3: that riled people up was that you shouldn't you should
Speaker 3: get your present back if someone decides to get married
Speaker 3: a second time from the first wedding, and it's like, okay,
Speaker 3: von to like, how many weddings have you been to?
Speaker 3: There's such a lack of life experience for him to
Speaker 3: say things like that. And there's one thing I remember saying, Dave,
Speaker 3: when I think I was like either brand new on
Speaker 3: the show or as an intern, that I would absolutely
Speaker 3: take back now today at this point in my life.
Speaker 3: And it was my friend from high school. She had
Speaker 3: posted these pictures on Facebook and had like almost hennah
Speaker 3: or something creative kind of put permanent or semi permanently
Speaker 3: on her stomach for photos when she was pregnant, and
Speaker 3: I thought it was like too much for me. I
Speaker 3: was like, I don't know, I just feel like you
Speaker 3: shouldn't have to be like sharing stuff like that that
Speaker 3: should be private whatever. I would take that back times
Speaker 3: one hundred now at this point in my life. Show
Speaker 3: off your stomach. You should be proud of that. That's
Speaker 3: like a moment in your life. Yeah, growing a human
Speaker 3: and stuff but for me inexperienced Jenny, this is too
Speaker 3: much like why are you doing that?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: Yeah, And so there's definitely things that I look back
Speaker 3: at now that I'm like, God, you're so young and young.
Speaker 4: I have way less judgment now than I did when
Speaker 4: I was twenty three. I was so more, way more
Speaker 4: judging and being like I would never do that, like, no,
Speaker 4: do whatever you want, live your life.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, let's be honest, though we do always
Speaker 1: get a little bit judgy when you know, it's like
Speaker 1: that is part of our culture. Is like if we
Speaker 1: see that our nephew spent his five hundred dollars tax
Speaker 1: return on a Sony PlayStation and he doesn't have a
Speaker 1: working car, you don't go, you know what, king live
Speaker 1: your life that you'd like another dumb, motherfucking thing for
Speaker 1: my stupid fucking net and so and that's what we do, right,
Speaker 1: And so you know, it would be hypocritical to say
Speaker 1: none of us ever judge, because if there was no
Speaker 1: judgment in our society, then everybody be running around doing
Speaker 1: whatever they wanted. So there is one of the things
Speaker 1: that keeps us all a society is we do judge.
Speaker 1: Like if somebody is talking really loud on their phone
Speaker 1: on an airplane while you're waiting to taxi. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't say anything, but you'll elbow Bailey and go, God,
Speaker 1: what a what a dumb ass?
Speaker 4: I feel like the judging that I don't do anymore
Speaker 4: is based on looks, like what Jenny said about, like
Speaker 4: getting henna tattooed on your stomach and judging someone for that.
Speaker 4: I'd be like, who cares, Like, live your life. If
Speaker 4: you want to cut your hair short, cut your hair short,
Speaker 4: if you want to have long armpit hair, have long
Speaker 4: armpit hair, I don't care. I'm not going to judge
Speaker 4: you for it anyway. So that's what I've given up.
Speaker 4: But like behavior, yes, I will dog your behavior. I
Speaker 4: will judge your behavior till the cows come home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we have to, all right, Moving on to
Speaker 1: the next one. This is from Joey. Joey says, good morning,
Speaker 1: Morning show crew. I've got some radio production questions for
Speaker 1: you guys. As a topic. When you guys are playing
Speaker 1: reruns of the show during Christmas and New Year's was
Speaker 1: anybody physically in the studio or was it all just
Speaker 1: showing music digitally scheduled play as I tuned into the
Speaker 1: throwbacks of the show as I get ready for work,
Speaker 1: I just pictured an empty, dark studio with computer just
Speaker 1: slave it away broadcasting the past year of Dave Ryan's
Speaker 1: show Memories. You are not far from the truth. It
Speaker 1: is really weird because radio now it's there's a way
Speaker 1: to do it without a live person attending to it.
Speaker 1: Jenny knows more about it.
Speaker 3: I mean, exactly what you think. What that emailer said
Speaker 3: is how it is. I meant, and Vont does most
Speaker 3: of the work at this point. I used to help
Speaker 3: a little bit more, but like we just kind of
Speaker 3: work on a schedule together and then Vont puts everything
Speaker 3: into a system and then it just runs. And so
Speaker 3: it's pretty much just like that. I mean, right now,
Speaker 3: as we're recording this, there's commercials running on our computer
Speaker 3: that are just going like minute by minute that we're
Speaker 3: not doing anything with. It's just how the computer runs.
Speaker 3: So that's the exact same way that our best ofs
Speaker 3: run over Christmas break or holiday or something like that.
Speaker 1: And it is it's it's in a dark studio and
Speaker 1: it's really I mean, I really think and this is
Speaker 1: maybe something the boss wouldn't want me to say, Katie
Speaker 1: WB was definitely unattended, probably for a week or so.
Speaker 2: Is that do you think that's acting?
Speaker 3: No, because Colt was in, he had to come in.
Speaker 3: He didn't have as much vacation to be off during
Speaker 3: that whole time, so I know he was in like
Speaker 3: a handful, well not a handful, but at least like
Speaker 3: three or four times throughout the break.
Speaker 4: And I think Vont was here too, and I mean
Speaker 4: I was recording stuff as well, so like I was
Speaker 4: here a little bit over break, but like we weren't
Speaker 4: like completely black but mostly yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's it's interesting because you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's a luxury and it's a blessing because it used
Speaker 1: to be when the morning show would go on vacation,
Speaker 1: let's say twenty years ago, some you know, part timer
Speaker 1: would have to come in and sit and change the
Speaker 1: CDs and change the recordings and change this and would
Speaker 1: load this and whatever. And now it's just automated. I
Speaker 1: don't have an analogy, but yeah, it's all automated. But
Speaker 1: it sounds really good and it's really smooth. But it's
Speaker 1: no different than if somebody was sitting in there pushing
Speaker 1: the buttons. But I'm going to tell you a quick
Speaker 1: little observation. I made this to Jenny, and I'm not
Speaker 1: sure Bailey heard it. So I'm in Colorado Springs and
Speaker 1: I grew up here and my mom and dad used
Speaker 1: to listen to a radio station that I don't want
Speaker 1: to name because they're actually in the iHeart family and
Speaker 1: I don't want to get in trouble. But this radio
Speaker 1: station has been around since I was before I was
Speaker 1: a kid, before I was born. My mom and dad
Speaker 1: grew up listening to this local radio station with like
Speaker 1: local DJs, and they would play local music, and they
Speaker 1: would do the weather, and they would do the sports,
Speaker 1: and the news and the farm report, and they would
Speaker 1: do all these It was all live and local and
Speaker 1: it was just a very sweet mom and dad Neil
Speaker 1: Diamond kind of a radio station, Okay, just very comforting
Speaker 1: kind of a radio station. And I hadn't listened to
Speaker 1: it in year. I the other day I said I
Speaker 1: was here in Colorado, and I said, Alexa, listen to
Speaker 1: blah blah blah on iHeartRadio. And it was so fucking
Speaker 1: sad because it wasn't local anymore. It was some far
Speaker 1: right wing and I don't care that it was right
Speaker 1: wing or left wing, that's not the point. It was
Speaker 1: just a depressing syndicated right wing talk show of a
Speaker 1: guy ranting about how politicians hired someone to start the
Speaker 1: California fires. And there was and it was all commercials
Speaker 1: about you know, penis erection pills and investing in gold
Speaker 1: and memory memory aid pills and hearing aids, and it
Speaker 1: was just fucking depressing because this wonderful radio station. One
Speaker 1: of the reasons people loved radio is because it was
Speaker 1: like from a guy across town that also shopped at
Speaker 1: the same malls and went to the same his kids
Speaker 1: went to the same school as yours. And it was
Speaker 1: a sin and it was in the middle of the afternoon.
Speaker 1: And I know, it's cheap. It probably costs that radio
Speaker 1: station five hundred dollars a month to run this program,
Speaker 1: but it was sad. It was like, fuck, where did
Speaker 1: the local radio station go that played that was so
Speaker 1: wonderful and comforting and now it was all about dick
Speaker 1: pills and buying gold and setting fires.
Speaker 2: So just an observation, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Manly stuff, dick pills start off fires.
Speaker 3: It's also sad because obviously Colorado springs isn't like some
Speaker 3: tiny city, you know. It's like I could understand some
Speaker 3: of the small towns in Wisconsin that I pass through
Speaker 3: where I hear like syndicated shows and stuff.
Speaker 1: Because they can't afford to pay for anybody to work there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah.
Speaker 4: That's that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, it was just sad. It was like, why would
Speaker 1: anybody listen to that? Because even if you're a right
Speaker 1: wing I don't there's no joy in listening to a
Speaker 1: station that's only syndicated. Okay, moving on. Also, after the break,
Speaker 1: Joey says, I caught up on old episodes. One point,
Speaker 1: there was a mention there was old tapes of the show.
Speaker 1: Has there been a discussion of archiving those episodes and
Speaker 1: segments and making them publicly available. If not, I would
Speaker 1: love to volunteer as tribute and at least get them
Speaker 1: digitally backed up, as I'm sure there's a loyal market
Speaker 1: of fans that would appreciate the history of KTWB and
Speaker 1: the Dave Ryan Show. Just a thought to archive your
Speaker 1: legacy and media for the future. That's really interesting. But
Speaker 1: there are thirty years of archives that I mean, we
Speaker 1: probably digitally go back in our system. What we just say, Jenny,
Speaker 1: it's archives somewhere ten years maybe.
Speaker 3: Oh no, gosh, no, it doesn't go that back far
Speaker 3: back anymore. Yeah, we changed systems about a year and
Speaker 3: a half ago, so a lot of things got wiped
Speaker 3: in them. But we've saved everything that we care about
Speaker 3: that we knew we needed to save, So I would
Speaker 3: say at least probably like six years for sure, and
Speaker 3: then I can find random things from before that. But
Speaker 3: it's kind of difficult also because of a lack of
Speaker 3: honestly organizational system that was put in place back then
Speaker 3: before I started on the show. So it's very hard
Speaker 3: to find things based on the person who used to
Speaker 3: organize it.
Speaker 1: Well, it's Steve, and Steve was a wonderful human being,
Speaker 1: one of the funniest, kindest people you'd ever want to meet.
Speaker 1: He was not an organized person, and he would basically
Speaker 1: throw everything into a virtual box, everything, whether it was
Speaker 1: I mean, he'd be kind of like if you like
Speaker 1: brought your food home from the grocery store, and everything
Speaker 1: from your frozen piece to your baking soda to your
Speaker 1: yogurt all was thrown into one box. Yeah, and it's like, well,
Speaker 1: how am I going to find my baking powder. It's
Speaker 1: more behind the yogurt, Is it behind the frozen pie's?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's more like the banana was in the storage
Speaker 3: room and then the pairs got somehow put in the attic.
Speaker 3: That's kind of organizational system is with what Steve put together.
Speaker 3: There was nothing. There was just no guessing there. You
Speaker 3: were hoping you could figure out a keyword for the
Speaker 3: bit you wanted, and then if that keyword happened to
Speaker 3: be it, you.
Speaker 4: Could find it.
Speaker 3: But outside of that you couldn't find certain Thanks.
Speaker 1: Totally got it, and he wraps up finally out of curiosity.
Speaker 1: You guys, are ihearted everyone didn't do tours of the studio.
Speaker 1: I work in it. The radio technology and production has
Speaker 1: always sparked my interest. Would love to see how the
Speaker 1: magic happens someday if I worked it out when I'm
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. Anyway, Thanks for everything to do, Dave, Bailey,
Speaker 1: Jenny and Vant to make our days better and bring
Speaker 1: joy in an ever chaotic world. And we're gonna send
Speaker 1: you a staff writer sticker, So Joey, thanks for the
Speaker 1: great email. If you're ever in town, give me a
Speaker 1: heads up a few days in advance, and we'll love
Speaker 1: to have you come by and show you round.
Speaker 2: No problem. You guys got time for more? How we doing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got like six sish minutes.
Speaker 1: Okay, next one. Then this one says hy All. Wanted
Speaker 1: to share that I ended twenty twenty four with identity
Speaker 1: theft that I just discovered the third day, Nikes. Long
Speaker 1: story short, and thanks for making a long story short,
Speaker 1: because it is very tempting to write out a four
Speaker 1: page article on but she made it short. I sent
Speaker 1: in my passport renewal via email that's the only option,
Speaker 1: and some ass hat stole my passport, email and social
Speaker 1: Security number. Wow.
Speaker 2: It took me three ish.
Speaker 1: Days off and on to do all the things to
Speaker 1: try to protect my identity and cover my basis for
Speaker 1: the future. To the person who did this, fuck you.
Speaker 1: And now I have to make an appointment at a
Speaker 1: passport location to get a new one, which I plan
Speaker 1: to share my story with anybody who will listen on
Speaker 1: how messed up it is to have a male option
Speaker 1: only for something like this. Anyway, after a huge turn
Speaker 1: of events in my life, it has made me reflect
Speaker 1: on how messed up a society is we live in
Speaker 1: regarding identity theft. I think this happens more often than
Speaker 1: we realize, which infuriates me and honestly makes me feel icky.
Speaker 1: Has anything like this ever happened to you? No, knock
Speaker 1: on would no. But I will say that Susan's had
Speaker 1: her I mean it's a minor inconvenience compared to identity theft,
Speaker 1: but she's had her Facebook identity stolen. And I had
Speaker 1: another friend get there and they just really they just
Speaker 1: can't get it back, so we start a whole new Facebook.
Speaker 1: But you guys have any experience with identity theft?
Speaker 3: No, But I thought I was going to give my
Speaker 3: identity stolen because when I got a job at Canterbury Park,
Speaker 3: went in for the HR like orientation stuff, had to
Speaker 3: bring my social birth certificate whatever it was, and then
Speaker 3: I went to the gym afterwards and I forgot to
Speaker 3: bring my lock because this was a gym that you
Speaker 3: had to bring your own lock to. So for the
Speaker 3: first time ever, I just like didn't lock my bag
Speaker 3: that had all of my important documents in well, I
Speaker 3: go to look for it, like a week later, I
Speaker 3: can't find it anywhere. I automatically assume that it got stolen,
Speaker 3: so I had to go get a new social and
Speaker 3: birth certificate in whatever. Well, like a year later, when
Speaker 3: I finally moved, somehow this envelope got like thrown behind
Speaker 3: my bed. I have no idea how, but I found
Speaker 3: it when I moved. But for the longest time, I
Speaker 3: was like, great, my identity is going to be stolen.
Speaker 3: They literally have all my information the one time I
Speaker 3: don't lock my locker at the gym, and of course
Speaker 3: there's no way to find out if someone stole it
Speaker 3: because there's obviously not cameras in the gym lockers. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so yeah, that was a little fear of mine for
Speaker 3: a bit, but it didn't happen, and I don't wish
Speaker 3: it upon anyone, because I've heard it's a nightmare.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: No, I've never had my anything stolen from me. I mean,
Speaker 4: knock on wood. I had like one time, something weird.
Speaker 4: I must have clicked, like, you know, a link that
Speaker 4: I shouldn't have clicked, and I called like Google Support
Speaker 4: because I thought somebody had hacked my email account. And
Speaker 4: I felt like the number that I called from Google
Speaker 4: for Google Support was some kind of scam, like the
Speaker 4: like the number re routed or something, because he was like, oh, well,
Speaker 4: we can get we can go into your computer and
Speaker 4: find out like if if you have some kind of
Speaker 4: virus or whatever, but you just need to pay me
Speaker 4: two hundred dollars and I'll remote into your computer. And
Speaker 4: I was like, what is happening because this all happened
Speaker 4: at like ten pm at night?
Speaker 2: So did you do it?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: Because I was just like, uh, because I was also
Speaker 4: like a teenager. So I was probably like sixteen seventeen eighteen,
Speaker 4: and I was at my dad's house and I just
Speaker 4: remember being like I'd have to ask my dad, Uh,
Speaker 4: I don't know, can I call can you call me back?
Speaker 4: And so then I remember going like my dad was
Speaker 4: sleeping at the time, so I was like, can you
Speaker 4: wake up? This guy wants my information so I could
Speaker 4: get back out of my email. And he's like, don't
Speaker 4: do that. It's fine, Like it's not the end of
Speaker 4: the world. But because it was like ten thirty PM
Speaker 4: and dark, and it was the first time this ever
Speaker 4: happened to me, I literally thought that like, he's gonna
Speaker 4: find all my stuff and he's gonna take my all
Speaker 4: of my money, and none of that happened. The people
Speaker 4: ended up calling me back, and I just ignored the
Speaker 4: phone call and then nothing happened from it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess there is some legitimacy if you get
Speaker 1: something that somebody remotely professionally could could like, you know,
Speaker 1: get access into your computer and you could watch their
Speaker 1: mouse move around on your screen and that type of thing.
Speaker 1: Our engineer's it guys here in the station. They've done
Speaker 1: that a couple of times. It's like, yeah, I can't
Speaker 1: get into my email or something. They're like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get access to your computer and you watch them.
Speaker 1: But I guess I would not trust anybody who would
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, I will be able to fix your
Speaker 1: identity theft. Let me just get into your computer and
Speaker 1: I'll fix it. Yeah, maybe they can. Maybe they can.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what the secrets are. I will say,
Speaker 1: you know, I recommend LifeLock. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys have LifeLock, and it's not cheap, but it's also
Speaker 1: totally peace of mind. They say their commercial on the
Speaker 1: radio says something like, if your identity is stolen, a
Speaker 1: US based rep will get it, fix it for you,
Speaker 1: guaranteed or your money back.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I like that because they say US based rep. Because
Speaker 1: let's face it. Sometimes there's a real language barrier when
Speaker 1: you're trying to do something with it. I mean, let's
Speaker 1: face it, Yeah, and we don't speak their language and
Speaker 1: they don't speak our language very well, and sometimes it's
Speaker 1: very difficult. So and then you know, and it's not
Speaker 1: a plug for LifeLock because I'm not getting anything free
Speaker 1: from them. But it definitely it's like that they find
Speaker 1: your stuff on the dark web, they will let you
Speaker 1: know that it's on the dark web, or if this
Speaker 1: password has been used too many times, or somebody tries
Speaker 1: to open up a credit card in your account in
Speaker 1: your name with your social Security number, they let you know.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of a peace of mind kind of a.
Speaker 3: Thing, right right.
Speaker 1: That's all the time we have for the Minnesota Goodbye.
Speaker 1: That was an interesting one. Thanks for being here. Send
Speaker 1: your email to ryan'show at katiewb dot com. A. We
Speaker 1: didn't get to yours. We had several that we did
Speaker 1: not get to. I'm gonna get to one more, just
Speaker 1: to make sure we get it off the plate. And
Speaker 1: this is from Brandon. He says, show recommendation high potential
Speaker 1: on Hulu. It is very very good. Just watch it
Speaker 1: and thank me later. High potential. Okay, Brandon, thank you
Speaker 1: very much. I don't know anything about it, that is it.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, have a great weekend. We'll see you
Speaker 1: next week on the Minnesota.
Speaker 2: Goodbye.