Speaker 1: If you can't afford to tip, then you stay home
Speaker 1: and you eat your own food. I say this to
Speaker 1: get your attention, kind of like you know when you
Speaker 1: watch an Instagram reel. If it's got something really exciting
Speaker 1: in the freeze frame thumbnail, then you'll watch it. But
Speaker 1: if it's like a box of ramen, you're gonna be like,
Speaker 1: fuck this, I'm not gonna watch this. I don't care
Speaker 1: about a box of ramen. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Attention getter.
Speaker 2: Start You can't paragraph essay with right.
Speaker 1: An attention getter. If you can't stay, if you can't
Speaker 1: afford to tip, then fucking stay home. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: get your attention. And this is part of the theme
Speaker 1: of the email here. So I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: an attention getter or I'm just being annoying.
Speaker 3: I think but getter in my opinion.
Speaker 1: But well, the reason I bring it up is because
Speaker 1: somebody writes in and they say, I've got a random topic.
Speaker 1: Curious you guys had any additions to my list? Made
Speaker 1: me think of this as these are a few things
Speaker 1: that have come up recently on the Main Show and
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Goodbye that I have strong opinions about says Rachel.
Speaker 1: These are not things that are illegal, but more like
Speaker 1: unwritten rules of society, and if you can't follow them
Speaker 1: that I think you should be not be doing set activity.
Speaker 1: Here we go. I agree with Dave, says Rachel that
Speaker 1: he said in the past, if you can't afford to tip,
Speaker 1: you can't afford to go out to eat, because tipping
Speaker 1: is part of eating out in the United States, even
Speaker 1: if people don't like it. I mean, I've said that before.
Speaker 1: I would also say that it does suck if you
Speaker 1: are on a limited income and you want to go
Speaker 1: to Red Lobster and get some cheddar Bay biscuits and
Speaker 1: fire a bad surloin steak down your throat that you know,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe you can't afford to tip enough or a lot. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean I think once in a while. But you know,
Speaker 1: if you are a no tipper because you say the
Speaker 1: restaurant should pay them enough, well they don't. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you are responsible for making up that difference.
Speaker 3: Any thoughts, I mean, I fully agree, I don't. I
Speaker 3: just feel like it's been a societal standard for a
Speaker 3: very long time. So, like the whole argument of the
Speaker 3: restaurant should pay them more. I don't really get that.
Speaker 3: It's like that's just how it's always been tip at
Speaker 3: a restaurant.
Speaker 2: And you can't really say, like, well, back in my
Speaker 2: day we have to tip, and now we have to
Speaker 2: tip all the time. Shouldn't we have been tipping this
Speaker 2: whole time. Like you said, it's a societal thing. It's
Speaker 2: been since the dawn of time. I get the whole
Speaker 2: like spinning the little screen around and it starts at
Speaker 2: twenty two, goes to twenty five, thirty percent. Just do
Speaker 2: customize and do twenty percent or customize eighteen percent or whatever.
Speaker 2: But you should be tipping every time you go out.
Speaker 1: We were in Manitou Springs, Colorado, at a very popular
Speaker 1: some burger place. They specialize in burgers, but it's basically
Speaker 1: like bar food, all kinds of sandwiches and just I mean,
Speaker 1: like an amazing menu. We waited forty five minutes for
Speaker 1: a table because it's very touristy. We finally got in
Speaker 1: and we sat down and it took a little longer
Speaker 1: than it should have to get our waters and our drinks.
Speaker 1: Then the server killed it. She was there every five
Speaker 1: minutes to check on us. The food was great. It
Speaker 1: was hot, it was quick, she was very prompt, and
Speaker 1: I tipped her that probably fifty percent instead of twenty percent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I said you did so great. I mean, you
Speaker 1: were so good and we really came in expecting slow
Speaker 1: service because you're so busy, and she's like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: the cooks in the kitchen they really do a great
Speaker 1: job too. And I didn't say, look at me, I'm
Speaker 1: tipping you fifty percent, but I said you did really well,
Speaker 1: and therefore you earned a really big tip, because shit, yeah,
Speaker 1: I really thought we'd be waiting for a long time,
Speaker 1: but no, it was very good.
Speaker 2: Right, even if the service isn't great, I still tip because, like,
Speaker 2: like we said, like, they don't get paid a lot,
Speaker 2: so here's a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's and it always.
Speaker 2: Ends up not being that much anyway, because like, who
Speaker 2: here is going to a fancy, fancy restaurant and tipping
Speaker 2: one hundred dollars?
Speaker 1: Yeah right, not very often. Also, I think if you
Speaker 1: can't afford it or don't want to buy snacks at
Speaker 1: a movie theater, then you should stay home and watch
Speaker 1: it on streaming, or go see the movie and not
Speaker 1: eat snacks for those two hours. This has been a
Speaker 1: big ongoing discussion, and nobody agrees with me. But it's
Speaker 1: not me that it's being you know, it's not me
Speaker 1: that's getting the ben fit of you not bringing your
Speaker 1: own food to the theater. People are proud that they
Speaker 1: bring in their own food and candy and dots and
Speaker 1: doctor Pepper to the movie theater. People were proud of that.
Speaker 1: But I've talked to several theater owners, including Michelle Mann
Speaker 1: who owns Like the Man Theaters, and she's like, we
Speaker 1: make nothing on movie ticket sales. We make nothing. It's
Speaker 1: all on concession. So even Jenny, who was anti buying snacks,
Speaker 1: went to the movie last night, and now you have converted.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say I converted. I just simply didn't have
Speaker 3: time to buy snacks at No, it's not because that.
Speaker 3: It's the fact that, honestly, the snacks were much less
Speaker 3: at this movie theater I went to than they normally
Speaker 3: are at other theaters. Like it's eight dollars for a
Speaker 3: junior men's pack at most movie theaters. It was three
Speaker 3: or four dollars at the one last night, And I
Speaker 3: was like, well, that's actually reasonable, even though there's still
Speaker 3: like a dollar twenty five at a gas station. So
Speaker 3: I did buy snacks at the movie theater last night.
Speaker 3: Here's one thing I'll say, and people can come at
Speaker 3: me for this. It's not anything new that people bring
Speaker 3: their own food in to movie theaters. So why go
Speaker 3: into that industry, in that business if you know that, like,
Speaker 3: the business model is not the best because people bring
Speaker 3: their own food in.
Speaker 1: That's because people used to be ethical. I think people
Speaker 1: used to respect the rule, and now people are like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want to it's too expensive. And again it
Speaker 1: goes back to if you can't afford to eat the
Speaker 1: junior Mints at the theater, then don't fucking go to
Speaker 1: the movie theater. It's like, if you can't afford to
Speaker 1: go to Red Lobster, you don't get to go into
Speaker 1: Red Lobster and enjoy the beautiful atmosphere and bring in
Speaker 1: a Jimmy John's. You just don't, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: The movie theater. And if I'm like, well, I don't
Speaker 2: want to pay twenty bucks for a bucket of popcorn,
Speaker 2: I'm just not going to eat popcorn.
Speaker 1: But I can right, you don't need snacks during a movie.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just feel bad for businesses that
Speaker 1: are trying to be ethical and they're like they charged
Speaker 1: too much. Well that's they think about what it costs
Speaker 1: to make a cup of Caribou coffee or Starbucks coffee.
Speaker 1: It probably costs for Mike a cup of coffee every morning.
Speaker 1: It probably costs him maybe a quarter, and if you
Speaker 1: throw in labor costs, it might be double that. So
Speaker 1: maybe it's fifty cents. They charge four dollars for a
Speaker 1: cup of coffee at Caribou, and I don't go into
Speaker 1: Cariboo and go this should be fifty cents because that's
Speaker 1: what it costs you. The businesses make a profit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they got to pay their employees. Carol Ane needs money.
Speaker 1: She got rent due, you know what I'm saying. Next
Speaker 1: one all from Rachel. Thank you Rachel. If you can't
Speaker 1: put your cart in the cart corral after taking the
Speaker 1: things to your car, you should not be taking a
Speaker 1: cart out of the store. You got kids or something
Speaker 1: that makes it difficult to return your cart. There are
Speaker 1: many other options like having groceries delivered or doing drive
Speaker 1: up and having things put in your car, so you
Speaker 1: don't need to use a cart yourself. Sincerely, Rachel. You
Speaker 1: know it's just there's just common courtesies you do. I mean,
Speaker 1: I would forgive somebody who if they were a mom
Speaker 1: and they had a screaming toddler and another screaming toddler
Speaker 1: and they got it, they've got diarrhea and they need
Speaker 1: to get home and they you know, sometimes once in
Speaker 1: a while there's an exception, but for the most part,
Speaker 1: you have put your cart in the corral. Right.
Speaker 2: If you're a chronic, not put your cart in a coraler,
Speaker 2: you're what's wrong with the world.
Speaker 1: Yes you are, Thank you, Rachel. Next one and it's
Speaker 1: your fishing buddy, Stephanie. I went fishing with Stephanie on
Speaker 1: Lake Minnetonka a couple of years ago. We got skunked,
Speaker 1: but we had a great time. She's a professional angler.
Speaker 1: She's been on the show a few times. Dan Cool
Speaker 1: writing in for the first time because I'm hoping for
Speaker 1: a staff rider sticker to put on my ice fishing buckets. Okay,
Speaker 1: have any of you ever been at one of your
Speaker 1: live events and someone started heckling you like they would
Speaker 1: a stand up comedian. If yes, how did you handle it?
Speaker 1: The only time I remember, I was doing something to
Speaker 1: the State Fair and somebody walked by and it was
Speaker 1: like a boy, probably twenty years old. He's like, Katie,
Speaker 1: WB sucks and I said, your mom likes us, and
Speaker 1: the crowd laughed. But other than that, no, anybody.
Speaker 3: Else, No, never, I've never experienced any kind of heckling.
Speaker 2: I have a weird not for me, but I have
Speaker 2: a weird heckling story that you reminded me of. At
Speaker 2: the State Fair. You know have they have like mascots
Speaker 2: that are like the chipmunks. Yeah, was a mascot once
Speaker 2: at the fair, maybe like fifteen years ago that was
Speaker 2: a dog and he was kind of like made out
Speaker 2: of rags, and he came out and me and my
Speaker 2: sister were like, you know, petting this fake dog. And
Speaker 2: these little boys came up to this dog and he's like,
Speaker 2: They're like, we know you're not a real dog. We
Speaker 2: know that there's a person in there, and just like
Speaker 2: heckling this dog mascot, and the dog mascot was like
Speaker 2: being a dog. And then he stopped, looked at these
Speaker 2: boys with his big dog head and he said, listen, pal,
Speaker 2: you gotta believe it, or you gotta leave. And it
Speaker 2: was like, this dog's not supposed to talk, but he
Speaker 2: was over these kids and they just were like ooh,
Speaker 2: and then left. But I remember that guy in that
Speaker 2: dog suit all the time, like, listen, boys, you better.
Speaker 1: Believe that funny good for the dog.
Speaker 2: Anyway, if anyone ever heckles you, you say, you better
Speaker 2: believe her, you better leave.
Speaker 1: I like it. I love it. When I was probably ten,
Speaker 1: we went to a circus and they had a little
Speaker 1: side show and there was a guy he is a clown,
Speaker 1: and he sat on a board with nails sticking out
Speaker 1: of it. So just imagine a board with a bunch
Speaker 1: of nails driven through it and they're maybe an inch
Speaker 1: apart and they're probably five inches long. And as part
Speaker 1: of his show, he sat down on this board of
Speaker 1: nails and everybody's like, oh my gosh. Well I knew
Speaker 1: how he did it, because even at ten years old,
Speaker 1: I knew like somehow magic tricks, some of them worked,
Speaker 1: and your weight is so distributed on this bed of
Speaker 1: nails that you're not going to sink into the bed
Speaker 1: of nails and kill yourself. So after the side show
Speaker 1: was over, me and my friend Scott stayed and on, guy,
Speaker 1: let me do it. I want to do it. I
Speaker 1: can do it. I can do it. I want to
Speaker 1: do it. Give me the bed of nails. I want
Speaker 1: to do it. I can do it. I can do it.
Speaker 1: I can do it. I want to do it. And
Speaker 1: the clown just sat there with the most annoyed I'm
Speaker 1: losing my patient's look. He no longer looked happy because
Speaker 1: it was just a guy. It was just a guy
Speaker 1: in clown makeup that was putting up with a couple
Speaker 1: of little ten year old assholes that were trying to
Speaker 1: blow his cover. So Jenny, no, no, you yeah, next one.
Speaker 1: I feel like the radio station says, pay fifteen dollars
Speaker 1: to the person to add the blue check mark to
Speaker 1: your accounts, making your individual Instagram's official. I would hate
Speaker 1: for someone to take your photos and start another profile. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know, how do you do that?
Speaker 3: You can pay to get a blue check mark?
Speaker 1: Oh well, let's do it. Why can't we do it?
Speaker 3: I mean, it's up to you if you want to pay,
Speaker 3: how do we do it? Going to pay? Because I
Speaker 3: think that like the people who get the blue check
Speaker 3: marks like earned it. But then there's like I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna lie. I know someone that like does not have
Speaker 3: a huge following and they pay for a blue check
Speaker 3: mark and so they feel more official. But it's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: you have like a thousand followers.
Speaker 1: Like some tell me how to do it, and I'll
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 3: I haven't even looked into it. I'm sure google how.
Speaker 2: To get a blue check mark on Instagram.
Speaker 1: Okay, hell do that later. Yeah. Have you ever done
Speaker 1: a segment on the radio asking people to tell their rescue, dog, cat,
Speaker 1: etcetera story. I'll bet there's some touching roadside or shelter stories. No,
Speaker 1: we've never done that. I have a rescue dog story,
Speaker 1: but it's not exciting at all. Rex was our Collie
Speaker 1: and he was a breeding dog and he got too
Speaker 1: old to breed, so then they retired him and he
Speaker 1: was a foster dog. We drove all the way to
Speaker 1: Wisconsin and Alison and Susan picked him up and he
Speaker 1: was a delightful dog. But it's not an exciting story.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I feel like most rescue dog like rescue pet situations,
Speaker 2: is just that you get them from a rescue, but
Speaker 2: you don't know like the conditions that they were in. Yeah,
Speaker 2: well he was outside in the bitter cold and he
Speaker 2: was beaten off other cats, like leave me alone. But
Speaker 2: I don't know that about my cat. I just made
Speaker 2: that story up about good story. Yeah, he lived in
Speaker 2: the streets.
Speaker 1: Seventy says. I've been a listener since the beginning of
Speaker 1: Dave's KTIEWV career. Love y'all, Thank you, Stephanie, we love
Speaker 1: you back. Next one, don't say my name. I want
Speaker 1: to let you guys know the impact you have of
Speaker 1: my life. I listened to the morning show each morning
Speaker 1: on my way to work, and listened to the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Goodbye on my way home each day. Yesterday I was
Speaker 1: having an ab normally anxious day. The last two hours
Speaker 1: of my day were spent on the verge of a
Speaker 1: panic attack. I drove home in eighteen degree weather without
Speaker 1: the heat on because my anxiety was so bad. But
Speaker 1: after turning on the podcast, I felt a little bit better.
Speaker 1: It was almost like a phone call with my best ease.
Speaker 1: It was calming. I just wanted to say that I
Speaker 1: appreciate you all and all that you do. Happy holiday season.
Speaker 1: Thank you. That is very nice, and I'm really I
Speaker 1: mean it is. One of the best things about our
Speaker 1: job is that we get to make a difference in
Speaker 1: people's lives and their moods. And I think one of
Speaker 1: the reasons that I love radio so much is because
Speaker 1: that's what it did for me when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of people who are on
Speaker 1: the radio for their own self gratification. And I'm not
Speaker 1: going to name any but I could easily name a
Speaker 1: handful of people that are on the radio for their
Speaker 1: own self aggrandization. Is that a word, a grandization?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but gratification definitely is.
Speaker 1: Yeah. There because they want to be famous, they want
Speaker 1: to get attention, they want to be celebrities, they want
Speaker 1: to be special. And I feel special, but it's because
Speaker 1: of you. So I don't get on the radio because
Speaker 1: I want to, and I go home and I watched TV. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't go out in public and go, hey, it's
Speaker 1: me Dave Ryan, do you want to come meet me?
Speaker 1: I don't. I go home and I watched TV, and
Speaker 1: I get on my computer and I play on my phone.
Speaker 1: I am not here to be anything more than there
Speaker 1: for you. It's kind of like a I'm going to
Speaker 1: compare myself to a doctor in that the doctor is
Speaker 1: not well. Maybe they are doing it to get rich.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, you know what I mean. Doctors get
Speaker 1: satisfaction because she makes you feel better and gets rid
Speaker 1: of your disease, right, And if I get the privilege
Speaker 1: of making you feel better, it's for you, not for me.
Speaker 1: And I think that's one of the reasons that I'm
Speaker 1: old is the fucking hills and I'm still on the radio.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the hills.
Speaker 1: But don't you know some people in radio Jenny that
Speaker 1: are like they're all about how special they are.
Speaker 3: I mean, I can name a couple they have been
Speaker 3: in this industry quite as long as you. So yes,
Speaker 3: I think that I name like at least two or
Speaker 3: three people, But I hope that most people are doing
Speaker 3: it the same reason that you and I are doing
Speaker 3: it and Bailey and vont and stuff, which is just
Speaker 3: to like entertain people and hopefully bring some joy to
Speaker 3: whoever's listening.
Speaker 1: That's my reward.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know what I was thinking about yesterday speaking of
Speaker 2: like rewarding and this job is so I was talking
Speaker 2: to my former coworker and I was kind of like
Speaker 2: looking back on my old job, which I liked my
Speaker 2: old job, but there were days where a specific thing
Speaker 2: that you had to go and do that day wasn't
Speaker 2: appealing so it's like, oh, I have to do a
Speaker 2: school visit today.
Speaker 3: Oh God.
Speaker 2: And those days were just like they weren't bad days.
Speaker 2: There just weren't days that you were looking forward to.
Speaker 2: And I don't have any like any day of the
Speaker 2: week here where I'm just like, oh god, it's Friday,
Speaker 2: that means we have to do no phone screen or Friday.
Speaker 2: I don't have any days like that, which is really
Speaker 2: comforting because like you don't like dread going to work, no,
Speaker 2: and then getting through it, and then at the other
Speaker 2: side you're like, oh, thank goodness, I got through it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I seriously, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna sound corny, but I love all three of
Speaker 1: you guys, and you three are Oh god, I'm getting
Speaker 1: get emotional. I love hanging out with the three of you,
Speaker 1: you know, for different reasons. I mean, everybody has added
Speaker 1: something different, brings something different to the party, and I
Speaker 1: love all of you guys, and I really have a
Speaker 1: good time doing the show. There are certain things that
Speaker 1: are a pain in the ass, like doing website stuff
Speaker 1: and the roses.
Speaker 2: My day we didn't have to do websites.
Speaker 1: We didn't have interesting Instagram and the facebooks, all right,
Speaker 1: next one, Hey, it's your fave mary Anne. Mary Anne,
Speaker 1: thank you for the egg the hard boiled egg cooker
Speaker 1: that you gave me a couple of months ago at
Speaker 1: Pilgrim Dry Cleaners. We appreciate that, right, Jenny?
Speaker 2: Hi?
Speaker 1: Yeah. Jenny remembers going back to the conversation about whether
Speaker 1: or not to say I love you, love you? Or
Speaker 1: are and are you mad about the sign off crap
Speaker 1: before you Okay, I'm lost. I'm gonna read it again
Speaker 1: because it didn't make any sense.
Speaker 3: Been out when we have this conversation, I think you were.
Speaker 3: We talked about how are you upset when someone that
Speaker 3: you're dating or married to just says love you instead
Speaker 3: of I love it?
Speaker 1: I see? Okay, yes, okay, the sign off crap before
Speaker 1: you hang up the phone? Yeah I love you or
Speaker 1: I love you? Yeah? Okay? Which is better?
Speaker 3: Which is worse?
Speaker 1: Et cetera. So recently my husband started saying who loves
Speaker 1: you before we hung up the phone. We've been together
Speaker 1: for twenty years, and he busted out this piece of shit,
Speaker 1: Are you serious? Who loves you? Meh? First time, I
Speaker 1: let it go, but it gave me super ick vibes.
Speaker 1: He kept saying it, and finally I told him it's douchey.
Speaker 1: He was like, what, I'm trying to use some new material, Nah, bitch.
Speaker 1: That gives me the fucking douchebag vibes, That drives a
Speaker 1: yellow convertible, gives you a punch on the bottom of
Speaker 1: your chin, and then likely steals the frozen pizza you
Speaker 1: didn't eat the night before. Peace, what's that fact? Give
Speaker 1: me the old material. It's what kept me here for
Speaker 1: two two decades. A dipshit. I love you guys the most.
Speaker 1: Thank you for keeping me and Smuckers company every day.
Speaker 1: That's her dog cute. Thank you, mary Anne, Thank you Marianne.
Speaker 1: We love you. That one, no to that one, and
Speaker 1: I think that is going to cover everything on the
Speaker 1: Minnesota goodbye. So thank you. We can use more emails anytime.
Speaker 1: Send to Ryan Show at KDWB dot com.