Speaker 1: Well, let's do the Minnesota Goodbye. It smells like smoking
Speaker 1: the studio right now because I'm smoking. Who says does
Speaker 1: at work? I'm smoking a turkey breast in the hallway?
Speaker 1: Yeah baby, but I am smoking on It's a little
Speaker 1: crockpot looking thing that's a smoker and it smokes it
Speaker 1: for an hour and a half and it cooks it
Speaker 1: for an hour or something like that. And I made
Speaker 1: it a couple of weeks ago and it was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is really good. So the other day I said,
Speaker 1: you want me to come in and smoke a turkey
Speaker 1: on Monday? And the girl who's always hungry on the show,
Speaker 1: Heck Bailey Jay said yes. Jenny's like, well, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get a little healthier, but I'm in and vont
Speaker 1: was in too, So right now there is a turkey
Speaker 1: smoking fifteen feet away in the hallway.
Speaker 2: Yeah baby, I'm so excited.
Speaker 3: Honestly, it smells. I mean, it smells really good. I
Speaker 3: don't usually like smoked foods in general, but I want
Speaker 3: to try it because I like food period.
Speaker 1: I also made not to turn it into Dave's cooking corner,
Speaker 1: but I made lobster mac and cheese yesterday. So I
Speaker 1: went down to the grocery store and I had to
Speaker 1: buy frozen lobster tails. And guess how much a frozen
Speaker 1: lobster tail is?
Speaker 2: Well, usually they do it by pound, don't they?
Speaker 1: Or no, it was the size of cut your forearm
Speaker 1: in half, and that's how big your look.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say it was probably thirty five bucks.
Speaker 1: Twenty bucks, wow, twenty bucks for a frozen lobster tail.
Speaker 1: And I had to buy two of them because it
Speaker 1: needs a cup. So this was forty dollars worth of
Speaker 1: lobster just for me. Yeah, and then three different kinds
Speaker 1: of cheeses. We had the cheddar Gouda and pomp up
Speaker 1: pH not parmesan. God, I can't remember. Yeah, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter anyway. It was really, really really good, maybe the
Speaker 1: best thing I've ever made in the crock pipe.
Speaker 2: Wow, so it looks good. I saw what you post
Speaker 2: it on your story.
Speaker 1: Or it was on my story again I saw and.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, ye meh.
Speaker 1: So So to get away from Dave's cooking corner, let's
Speaker 1: move on. Good morning, says Jenny. Listen to Friday's Minnesota Goodbye.
Speaker 1: You had some questions about maternity leave. Each date. An
Speaker 1: employer operates differently with maternity leave, but most of the
Speaker 1: time maternity leave is unpaid unless you have sick time
Speaker 1: or PTO saved up to cover it. The only way
Speaker 1: is to typically paid is if either your employee offers
Speaker 1: paid maternity leave or offers short term disability. I didn't
Speaker 1: know that. I honestly thought all this time maternity leave
Speaker 1: was paid. I really did.
Speaker 2: Really isn't no. My sister works for Chobanni and she
Speaker 2: always had her maternity leave paid. But like it depends,
Speaker 2: like that person said on the company.
Speaker 1: It says beginning in twenty six or twenty twenty six,
Speaker 1: Minnesota will have paid leave available for all residents that
Speaker 1: live and work in Minnesota. This will be another tax
Speaker 1: added to all of our paychecks, as that is how
Speaker 1: the program will be funded. You will need to complete
Speaker 1: an application with the state and your payment will be
Speaker 1: made to you by the state, so it is essentially
Speaker 1: paid FMLA. There is still a lot of unknown with
Speaker 1: this new program beginning, but I'm sure more will unfold
Speaker 1: next year. Hopefully this fund tidbit helps everybody in Minnesota
Speaker 1: that there is hope to eventually have a paid maternity
Speaker 1: leave well, I'm going to guess that the resistance to
Speaker 1: paid maternity leave is people don't want to pay more taxes. So,
Speaker 1: in other words, if I am not going to have kids,
Speaker 1: and I've already had my kids, I'm probably not going
Speaker 1: to vote for paid maternity leave. Doesn't sound like it's
Speaker 1: up for a vote anymore. Sure, but it's the same
Speaker 1: reason old people don't pass school board issues or school
Speaker 1: bond issues because they don't have kids in school anymore.
Speaker 3: But that's the future, That's what I.
Speaker 1: Think it is. But people are struggle. I think the
Speaker 1: thing is, especially old people might be struggling and then
Speaker 1: to have to pay a bond issue because the school
Speaker 1: needs a new gymnasium or you know, they need to
Speaker 1: build a new school. A lot of old people. I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to show both sides that there are people
Speaker 1: who go I don't want to pay any more taxes.
Speaker 1: I already can't afford to fill up my car. I
Speaker 1: saw somebody Venmo the other day. They were stuck. They
Speaker 1: were I think an Uber driver or a Lyft driver
Speaker 1: or something, and they were stuck. They needed five dollars.
Speaker 1: They needed somebody to Venmo than five dollars to get gas.
Speaker 1: And the first thing I thought was, well, do gas
Speaker 1: stations take Venmo? Do they know?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: No, you could put it into your account and use
Speaker 2: Apple pay and like stuff like that. You can do
Speaker 2: that all on your phone. But then there's like transaction
Speaker 2: fees to get it, like directly in and out of
Speaker 2: aroun So five dollars it's probably now like four to
Speaker 2: twenty five.
Speaker 1: What do you think about that? I mean, I know
Speaker 1: that I think that that paid maternity to leave sounds
Speaker 1: like a really good thing. But do you want to
Speaker 1: pay for it if you don't have kids?
Speaker 3: See? I get your reasoning where like why people would
Speaker 3: not want to. But I feel like if it's like
Speaker 3: a community thing that I'm going to be helping out
Speaker 3: somebody else, I'll pay a tax for it. But that's
Speaker 3: just me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't mind, but I do try to be
Speaker 1: sympathetic to people who don't have enough money already and
Speaker 1: now here comes another ten dollars or whatever out of
Speaker 1: your paycheck, and that that could be a I mean
Speaker 1: a big fatty. You could roll up a big fatty with.
Speaker 2: That m that would be better for them, right.
Speaker 1: Well, absolutely, get take your mind not for misery the
Speaker 1: future yeah, okay. Next one, Sharis writes in I wanted
Speaker 1: to comment on my experience with maternity leave. I had
Speaker 1: both my girls in Las Vegas. I worked at the Blaggio.
Speaker 1: The insurance I had allowed six weeks of paid leave
Speaker 1: eight weeks if you had a c section anything. Anytime
Speaker 1: you took after that, you had to use your vacation
Speaker 1: days or long term disability for both pregnancies. I had
Speaker 1: a c section, so I took the eight weeks and
Speaker 1: then an additional four weeks using my long term disability.
Speaker 1: I think it varies by whatever company you work for.
Speaker 1: I hope this helps, all right.
Speaker 3: Sherees is fascinating the fact that she's, oh, I worked
Speaker 3: at the Bolaggio, Like, yeah, no, big deal, that is
Speaker 3: so cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I wonder what she did at the Bolaggio.
Speaker 1: Were you a dealer? Did you work in finance? Were
Speaker 1: you I don't know? And accounting?
Speaker 2: I'm almost positive she told us one time, but I'm blank.
Speaker 2: You know, I forgot what it is she did there.
Speaker 1: I'm going to guess that if they Cherise was probably
Speaker 1: the person that they caught you counting cards. She took
Speaker 1: you back outside and broke your fingers, like with a
Speaker 1: bat or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Thereesa is the least intimidating person you'll ever meet.
Speaker 2: So I feel like that might not be it, but
Speaker 2: I think it's a.
Speaker 3: Good So maybe that's that's why they used her.
Speaker 1: I think that if you ever saw the movie Casino,
Speaker 1: it was it took pace Blazed back in the seventies,
Speaker 1: and there was a couple of people who would come
Speaker 1: in and they would count cards, and so they would
Speaker 1: be like, hey, can you follow me, sir, And they'd
Speaker 1: take them to the back room and they would break
Speaker 1: their fingers with a bat, and I was like, shit,
Speaker 1: that sounds terrify. The funny thing is, I'll bet they
Speaker 1: really did. Really, I'll bet they did back in the seventies.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll do it now honestly. Oh no, because
Speaker 1: they're all owned by the Disney Corporation or by MGM.
Speaker 1: They're owned by I mean. The funny thing is, I
Speaker 1: used to live in Las Vegas at the end of
Speaker 1: the Mob era. The Mob ran Vegas from like the
Speaker 1: fifties or so through the seventies, and the Mob owned
Speaker 1: all the casinos and that's how they would fund their
Speaker 1: nefarious operations. But then the Mob kind of got broken up,
Speaker 1: and so now they're all owned by like the Wind
Speaker 1: Corporation or Disney or the Marriotte Corporation.
Speaker 3: So no more breaking fingers.
Speaker 1: No. I think in the movie Casino, there was one
Speaker 1: guy that they was caught counting cards. They put his
Speaker 1: head and advice and they squeezed it till his eyes
Speaker 1: popped out.
Speaker 3: Oh god, why every time you tell me something that
Speaker 3: is so gross, you say it so quickly that I
Speaker 3: can't tune out in time to get to my end.
Speaker 2: Try to stop him?
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh you I can't.
Speaker 1: I've got other things you want to hear other things? No,
Speaker 1: I got some. Let's move on fine. Carolyn writes in
Speaker 1: need some advice on a tricky situation with my boyfriend.
Speaker 1: We've been in a long distance relationship for about a
Speaker 1: year and a half and things are are decently solid
Speaker 1: between us, but I'm uneasy about his ongoing contact with
Speaker 1: a four professor. Backstory, This professor showed romantic interest in
Speaker 1: him back when he was a freshman at Montana State.
Speaker 1: He was eighteen, she was twenty five. He turned her
Speaker 1: down with a stayed in touch and still texting Snapchat
Speaker 1: every day.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: She is now twenty seven. My boyfriend and I are
Speaker 1: twenty one seniors in college, him at MSU, Me and Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: She doesn't work at his school anymore to switch jobs
Speaker 1: a lot in the past few years. Their chats are
Speaker 1: usually casual, but a few months ago she started venting
Speaker 1: to him about super intimate and detailed mental health issues
Speaker 1: and insecurities about her appearance. I understand the need to
Speaker 1: talk to somebody, but it felt too personal, and especially
Speaker 1: considering her past romantic interest in him, it seemed like
Speaker 1: she was looking for validation, and it made me more uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: I brought this up. He was understanding and agreed to
Speaker 1: take things light, but he doesn't really get why this
Speaker 1: whole situation bothers me. Now, she's comeing to his town
Speaker 1: and asked him to meet up for coffee to care.
Speaker 1: He said he wouldn't go if I don't want him to,
Speaker 1: but I'm torn. I trust him, but something about this
Speaker 1: feels off. Is it wrong to feel uncomfortable? Should I
Speaker 1: just tell him fine, go meet her? Any advice would
Speaker 1: be appreciated. Thank you. Dart lick Lick, dart lick. All right, Jenny,
Speaker 1: you're a worldly woman. You've been cheated on before. What
Speaker 1: do you think is going on here?
Speaker 2: I would say that you feel uncomfortable, and that is
Speaker 2: your answer, so you ask him not to go. I
Speaker 2: think it's pretty simple. I think that that's how relationships
Speaker 2: work out. You communicate your uncomfortableness, and you still feel uncomfortable,
Speaker 2: and you let him know and you tell him I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to be controlling, but I don't like this,
Speaker 2: and I think he probably, by the sounds of it,
Speaker 2: would respect you saying that and wouldn't go.
Speaker 1: I wholeheartedly agree. If it makes you uncomfortable, then that's
Speaker 1: the answer. Yeah, And you've got to be reasonable about it.
Speaker 1: It's like kind of like if okay, let's say Bailey
Speaker 1: and I went to lunch and Susan was unreasonable and said,
Speaker 1: I don't like you going to lunch with another woman. Well,
Speaker 1: I think that's unreasonable. But if I was, like, like
Speaker 1: it was an old girlfriend or somebody who used to, like,
Speaker 1: you know, flirt with me or whatever, then yeah, then
Speaker 1: it's reasonable.
Speaker 3: Right, And you would hope that he wouldn't make that
Speaker 3: choice in the first place, like he would think like, hmm,
Speaker 3: you know, this seems like something that she wouldn't be
Speaker 3: all that thrilled with and then choose appropriately. But it
Speaker 3: doesn't seem like that's the case.
Speaker 1: Okay, I think that you're right, and I think that
Speaker 1: you can decide to be gracious if you want to
Speaker 1: call it that, and let him go. But I definitely
Speaker 1: think that there's I don't think it's right. Okay. Next
Speaker 1: one says heyo after two days of discussion, I can't
Speaker 1: believe nobody was brought up. Just cut the keywi in
Speaker 1: half and eat it with a spoon.
Speaker 2: Oh did we not talk about that? Maybe that was
Speaker 2: just my head. Yeah, I always thought that you ate
Speaker 2: kiwis you just cut it in having you with spoon.
Speaker 1: My mom used to make this a challenge for my
Speaker 1: brother and I when we were little. Cut the key
Speaker 1: and half, give one half to each of us, dig
Speaker 1: out the kiwi with the spoon, and eat it to
Speaker 1: try to get the inside as clean as you can
Speaker 1: before the other person. If you rip the skin, you lose.
Speaker 1: Is it not common to eat kei we with a spoon?
Speaker 1: Signed Britney.
Speaker 2: How brilliant your mom wants to get you guys to
Speaker 2: eat healthy. She made a little competition out of it,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Yeah, she was like eat
Speaker 2: the key, we don't break the.
Speaker 1: Skin, instead of just like eat your kiwi, which would
Speaker 1: be like, no, I don't want to. You know what's
Speaker 1: funny is I am always hungry and nobody ever tells me,
Speaker 1: like Dave, you need to eat, you need to eat.
Speaker 1: What's funny though, is I took the girls to McDonald's
Speaker 1: on Friday. Kids never eat that much. They just don't.
Speaker 1: I got a McNuggets and fries and they had apple slices.
Speaker 1: Surprisingly enough, their favorite of the meal was the apple slices.
Speaker 1: Oh the nuggets were you know, they're cute. They'd give
Speaker 1: them four McNuggets in a box. They each ate about
Speaker 1: a nugget and a half and about four French fries.
Speaker 1: Fuck that noise if it had been me on your
Speaker 1: fries car more.
Speaker 3: No. My niece is like that too, where she'll eat
Speaker 3: like a bite of something and then we have to
Speaker 3: like convince her to continue eating it. You just did
Speaker 3: not eat anything. How are you like sustained nutritionally right?
Speaker 1: And I would say, okay, you can go on the
Speaker 1: play place if you finish your let you know, finish
Speaker 1: the nugget you have in your hand. And there's also
Speaker 1: and I want to do a reel for Instagram about this.
Speaker 1: The way two year old z eat is the funniest
Speaker 1: thing ever. They don't have them find motor skills to
Speaker 1: pick up a nugget and bite off a piece. So
Speaker 1: they will pick up a nugget and all five fingers
Speaker 1: in their mouth and then chew on it. Same with pancakes.
Speaker 1: I made them pancakes on Saturday. They wouldn't eat hardly
Speaker 1: any but they would pick I forgot to give them.
Speaker 1: I give them forks, but I forgot to cut up
Speaker 1: their pancakes, so they didn't use the fork. They use
Speaker 1: their fingers. They pick it up and they put their
Speaker 1: entire hand and her mouth.
Speaker 3: Gross.
Speaker 1: And that's how they eat pancakes.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: My niece says that with fries she puts she dips
Speaker 3: them in ketchup and then just throws the entire hand
Speaker 3: into her mouth and then licks the ketchup off and
Speaker 3: pulls the fries out.
Speaker 2: My nephew was doing this past weekend. I watched him
Speaker 2: do it, and I was like, oh my gosh, just
Speaker 2: eating essential just a spoon at this point. Gross.
Speaker 1: Another one about maternity leaver, Chelle writes in with some
Speaker 1: movie recommendations, and I'm gonna get right to She says,
Speaker 1: I totally agree with Jessica, who wrote in about maternity leave.
Speaker 1: I had see sections. It's insane that mothers are expected
Speaker 1: to go back to work so soon. When crafting legislation
Speaker 1: to give state employees some weeks of paid but paternity leave,
Speaker 1: the men in charge first suggested four weeks. A mom
Speaker 1: in the room pointed out that daycare won't even take
Speaker 1: babies under six weeks, so they changed the legislation to
Speaker 1: six weeks. I love this example of why representation matters
Speaker 1: and getting voices at the table matters. I would say
Speaker 1: across the board as a gross generalization that parental leave
Speaker 1: is unpaid. If you get paid leave, then you are
Speaker 1: the exception, and you are probably in a salary position
Speaker 1: at a large company. Short term disability doesn't count, because
Speaker 1: that is insurance you pay for, not income. About forty
Speaker 1: percent of women working jobs that don't even qualify for
Speaker 1: them for FMLA or short term disability. Imagine your household
Speaker 1: not getting four to six paychecks in a row. It's
Speaker 1: a real problem. Yeah, okay, Jessica says, Hello, Dave Ryan Show,
Speaker 1: here's my rant. I work from home and with a
Speaker 1: nice weather, been trying to work outside as much as
Speaker 1: possible to enjoy the sunshine. Why do all my neighbors
Speaker 1: leaf blow their yards in the middle of the day.
Speaker 1: Don't they have jobs? It's so loud and obnoxious when
Speaker 1: I'm working, and once one is finished, another one starts.
Speaker 1: It's like they're working together to annoy me. Arg she says,
Speaker 1: why do you need to blow them around anyway? Such
Speaker 1: a stupid waste of time. They will biout a grade.
Speaker 1: You numb nuts rant over. Love you guys, Jessica, garden
Speaker 1: lover and park ranger who can officially tell you no
Speaker 1: amount of leaves in your yard will kill your grass.
Speaker 1: So retire the leaf blowers and enjoy the sounds of fall,
Speaker 1: like birds and wind. Jessica, I love this. There is
Speaker 1: no worse sound than a leaf blower and or a
Speaker 1: trimmer or a mower.
Speaker 3: Especially if they can't like just get it done.
Speaker 1: Where they go. Well, you and I nap during the
Speaker 1: early afternoon in the summer, it's the mowers and the
Speaker 1: weed whackers right underneath my window. And I wake up
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, fuck that, there goes that. This
Speaker 1: time of the year, it is the leaf blowing crowd,
Speaker 1: and it'll never go away. We've talked about how leafs
Speaker 1: on your lawn are good for nature and bugs and
Speaker 1: things like that, but people still want to have a
Speaker 1: clean lawn. Do you think that in forever, in the
Speaker 1: fewtre like in fifty years, we'll even still have lawns.
Speaker 3: No, I think they're gonna all turn into like wild
Speaker 3: flower reserves.
Speaker 1: Or maybe gravel or river.
Speaker 2: Rock or Yeah, that'd be cool too.
Speaker 1: I think that lawns are such a fuck and they
Speaker 1: look nice, yeah, but they take everything water, water effort, herbicides, fertilizers,
Speaker 1: the waste of time, the waste of time, and then
Speaker 1: the waste of gas for mowing your lawn. I mean
Speaker 1: they really are. They're beautiful, yeah, I mean they are,
Speaker 1: but they are so wasteful. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I feel like we could make wild grass look beautiful too.
Speaker 3: We just have to convince ourselves that it's also beautiful
Speaker 3: so we don't have to mow ever.
Speaker 2: Again, do you guys not have any white noise that
Speaker 2: you put on when you try to sleep?
Speaker 3: No, I actually sleep pretty deep. I can fall asleep
Speaker 3: to absolutely the thing, though, unless you're like my upstairs
Speaker 3: neighbor who walks around at like five thirty in the
Speaker 3: morning and wakes me up in the morning.
Speaker 2: That sucks. I hate that because we always have a
Speaker 2: fan on in our room. So like if I take
Speaker 2: a nap in the middle of the afternoon and I
Speaker 2: hear a leaf blower, I usually can round it out
Speaker 2: by like the fans fan. So I'm pretty used to
Speaker 2: that now. I pretty much can only sleep with a
Speaker 2: fan on. Now I can't fall a sleep if I
Speaker 2: don't have white noise. And I did that to me.
Speaker 2: You always had a sleep with a fan, and now
Speaker 2: it's how I am too.
Speaker 1: I feel that though I don't need to sleep with
Speaker 1: white noise. I can, but I don't need to. When
Speaker 1: I dated Cricket, she had to have the TV or
Speaker 1: the radio on to shaw.
Speaker 2: Oh that sounds awful.
Speaker 1: It was awful.
Speaker 3: I mean, I got you're listening to that and then
Speaker 3: you're like listening to what they're saying and following what
Speaker 3: they're saying.
Speaker 1: It worked for her, not for me, But I know
Speaker 1: a lot of people who have to have a fan
Speaker 1: on or white noise of some kind. All right, that
Speaker 1: is it for the Minnesota goodbye and any comments on anything.
Speaker 1: I think we kind of cover the maternity thing unless
Speaker 1: we miss something. Unless you want to comment on whether
Speaker 1: you would be happy to pay more taxes, I would
Speaker 1: love to hear your opinion on that one. Maybe you're like, absolutely,
Speaker 1: it would, but maybe you're like, no, I can't afford anymore.
Speaker 1: Send an email on whatever you want to talk about
Speaker 1: to Ryan's show at KDWB dot com