Speaker 1: Minnesota Goodbye on KDB. Well it's not on KWB, it's
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. But you get the idea. If
Speaker 1: you're new to the show, welcome to the Minnesota Goodbye. Basically,
Speaker 1: it's fifteen to twenty minutes or so of shit we
Speaker 1: can't talk about on the radio or emails that are
Speaker 1: specifically for the Minnesota Goodbye from people who listen to
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Goodbye. So let's start with this one. Hello,
Speaker 1: wanted to write in get feedback on whether I got
Speaker 1: scammed by a door to door salesperson. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: I did. I usually usually wouldn't answer the door, but
Speaker 1: she approaches me in front of my house as I'm
Speaker 1: returning from a walk. She says she's from Empowered Sales,
Speaker 1: which is a company that helps single moms make income
Speaker 1: and raise money for tuition to go back to school.
Speaker 1: She said one of the things they were having to
Speaker 1: work on was her interpersonal communication skills, which is why
Speaker 1: she's going door to door. She was selling magazine subscriptions.
Speaker 1: I feel like magazine sales are always a red flag,
Speaker 1: and if you don't read magazines, you can donate to
Speaker 1: a kid's charity. Mine was going to be children's hospital.
Speaker 1: She had a clipboard with lots of information that seemed legit.
Speaker 1: She also had a sheet that all of her customers
Speaker 1: signed giving her compliments on her communication skills. I ended
Speaker 1: up giving her thirty eight dollars and didn't have cash,
Speaker 1: so I thenmote her seriously, what the fuck is wrong
Speaker 1: with me? It went to a name that wasn't her,
Speaker 1: and she said it was her supervisor. She gave me
Speaker 1: a handwritten receipt, and when I looked at it after
Speaker 1: she left, I realized it had literally no info on it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I looked up the company but couldn't find anything.
Speaker 1: Part of me thinks, even if it was a scam,
Speaker 1: maybe she at least really needed the money regardless. Also,
Speaker 1: how am I supposed to turn someone away when they
Speaker 1: say they're a single mother trying to better themselves and
Speaker 1: that I would be donating to a children's hospital. It
Speaker 1: was also like ninety five degrees out and I felt
Speaker 1: bad for am I stupid or too empathetic or both?
Speaker 1: Just wondering if anybody else has had an experience with this,
Speaker 1: appreciate your consideration. Can you also email me back and
Speaker 1: let me know when you're going to read this on
Speaker 1: the show or the podcast. I want to make sure
Speaker 1: I don't miss it. Thanks, love you guys from Molly.
Speaker 1: I don't think you're stupid. I think you're human. I
Speaker 1: think you did what most of us would do. And
Speaker 1: she did catch you at an inopportune time where you
Speaker 1: really couldn't, like, not answer the door. Yeah, and she
Speaker 1: pushed all the right buttons. Sick kids, single mom, learning
Speaker 1: how to do one on one communication, she pushed all
Speaker 1: the right buttons. So you did the right thing. I
Speaker 1: am certain it was a scam, and I'm sure that
Speaker 1: she probably shares the money she gets with this lead scammer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: any thoughts, Jenny, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, yeah, you're not stupid. Don't feel bad. It's totally fine.
Speaker 2: I'm just a big advocate of don't answer the door.
Speaker 3: But she didn't have a choice, right, But.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, don't feel bad because I think you got
Speaker 2: put into a corner.
Speaker 4: And I would have done the same thing.
Speaker 1: Oh, I wouldn't feel bad, I'd feel stupid. I told
Speaker 1: her the story, and I've told this several times. I
Speaker 1: was in Safeway, which is their version of Cub Foods
Speaker 1: in Colorado, and I'm pushing my cart around. I'm back
Speaker 1: by the back in the dairy section. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: But a woman comes up and English was not her
Speaker 1: first language, let's put it that way. And she's got
Speaker 1: a cart full of groceries, and she's got a couple
Speaker 1: of kids, and she's like, excuse me, sir, can you
Speaker 1: help me pay for my groceries? And I said no,
Speaker 1: and I spun around and I walked away. And then
Speaker 1: I immediately felt bad, and I thought, man, what if
Speaker 1: she really is struggling and she's got groceries and kids.
Speaker 1: And so I went back and I gave her a
Speaker 1: one hundred dollar bill. Now, the first thing I noticed
Speaker 1: was she didn't look at it and go, oh my god,
Speaker 1: thank you. That's right, because maybe she would expect five bucks.
Speaker 1: I gave her a fucking hundred dollar bill. She didn't
Speaker 1: even look at it, and she said, oh, thank you,
Speaker 1: bless you. And I felt good about it, and I thought,
Speaker 1: even if she's scamming me, here is somebody who probably
Speaker 1: doesn't have a lot of money. This is going to
Speaker 1: help her somehow. And then I heard later from many
Speaker 1: people who said, no, it's a scam. We kicked them
Speaker 1: out of our grocery store. All the time. They'll push
Speaker 1: around a cart full of food. They'll bring along a kid.
Speaker 1: This is why I don't give money to people who
Speaker 1: are begging. And I'll call it begging. I don't fucking
Speaker 1: care begging on the side of the road. I don't
Speaker 1: give it to them. I gave twenty bucks to a
Speaker 1: woman who looked like my sister Donna one time because
Speaker 1: I felt bad for you know, they don't have a
Speaker 1: good life. You can tell they don't have a good life.
Speaker 1: But I won't give it to somebody who's like twenty
Speaker 1: eight years old wearing army camouflage as if I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to think he's an army veteran. He's holding up a
Speaker 1: veteran sign. They'll lie and I just don't. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know what, we give to charity, and we pay
Speaker 1: a lot of taxes for like programs for people who
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of money. So I do feel
Speaker 1: like I do my part, but I'm not going to
Speaker 1: give it to one individual who seems shifty.
Speaker 4: I don't ever give money to anyone.
Speaker 3: I and you're a kind, generous person, yah, I I.
Speaker 4: Just don't do it.
Speaker 2: And I also for safety purposes, if I do come
Speaker 2: up on a corner and someone has a sign and
Speaker 2: they're asking for money. I just always have my windows up,
Speaker 2: and I if they do try to like make contact
Speaker 2: with me, I kind of wave a hand away. But
Speaker 2: that's just because it's like a safety.
Speaker 4: Thing for me.
Speaker 2: I do remember being in an uber once and my
Speaker 2: uber driver got stopped at a section and there was
Speaker 2: a woman there asking for money, and he felt bad
Speaker 2: because she was a woman. So he's like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: like I just feel bad, and he rolled his window
Speaker 2: down and gave who gave it to me?
Speaker 4: My Uber driver Uber once and he was like, I
Speaker 4: just feel bad that she's out here.
Speaker 2: And of course you feel bad, like it's not like
Speaker 2: we're not human, like we still feel bad that whatever.
Speaker 2: But no, I don't. I just don't give money to
Speaker 2: anyone who asks. Or someone comes up to me and
Speaker 2: asks for something, I say no.
Speaker 1: What about when people come to your door? Because we
Speaker 1: were going to talk about this on the show today
Speaker 1: and we didn't quite get to it. So we were
Speaker 1: talking about how we have a no soliciting sign by
Speaker 1: our front door and it simply says no soliciting. And
Speaker 1: I see people on the ring cam walk up. They'll
Speaker 1: look at the sign and they'll stand there for a second,
Speaker 1: like deciding whether it means them or not, and then
Speaker 1: they'll walk away. Once in a while, once a year,
Speaker 1: somebody will ring the doorbell and I will open the door,
Speaker 1: and I'll be the last one there was too lately.
Speaker 1: I said, you see the sign over there, and he
Speaker 1: looks at it. He goes, oh, I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: sell you anything. I said, I'm not interested. I don't care.
Speaker 1: The other night, somebody, I think I told his story.
Speaker 1: Just the other day, somebody came at eight thirty at night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what the fuck are you doing.
Speaker 3: At eight thirty at night?
Speaker 4: That's not okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I just don't know. This kind of it
Speaker 1: reminds me of the violin players. Remember the violin players
Speaker 1: a few years ago?
Speaker 4: Still around?
Speaker 3: Are they still around?
Speaker 4: I think so.
Speaker 2: I mean usually people say it's in like Targets and
Speaker 2: like the suburbs, but there's someone always around, like the
Speaker 2: Costco area here in the West End that we'll play
Speaker 2: like saxophone and I'll see a little speaker and I
Speaker 2: always roll my window down to see if I can
Speaker 2: tell if it's you. Know legit sure he's actually playing,
Speaker 2: but whoever plays around the costco I think actually is
Speaker 2: legitimately playing.
Speaker 1: Usually I am doubtful. Yeah, I just think that it'd
Speaker 1: be too easy to go down to, you know, pawn
Speaker 1: America by a saxophone and a PA and a CD
Speaker 1: or a bluetooth or whatever, because I totally fell for
Speaker 1: the violin thing the first time I saw it, I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, fuck, he's really good.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Then we learned it was just a big scam. Another email.
Speaker 1: The other day, you guys were playing lyric Shuffle. It
Speaker 1: was Dave's turn. The word met came up and Dave
Speaker 1: was clueless. Now, lyric Shuffle is the game where we
Speaker 1: have a word like blue, and then you have to
Speaker 1: come up with a song with the word blue in
Speaker 1: the lyrics, like.
Speaker 3: I'm blue, dabity daba I or a woman. Can you
Speaker 3: come up with a song that's got a woman? Is
Speaker 3: that a song?
Speaker 4: Yeah? It's a cash song.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, Yeah we played it.
Speaker 4: A little bit, but obviously we didn't play the motherfucker.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Obviously the word met came up and Dave was clueless.
Speaker 1: I was yelling in my head, hey I just met you.
Speaker 1: Oh and that song is my ring tone. It is
Speaker 1: my ring tone because I think it's funny. That is
Speaker 1: my ring tone.
Speaker 2: So that's your child, Hilly Goose. I can't believe you
Speaker 2: didn't get that one.
Speaker 1: You know drew a blank next one, Hey, gang, My
Speaker 1: brother in law and I used to go cycling a
Speaker 1: lot together. He never wore a helmet. I told him
Speaker 1: that he should. He finally went out and got a helmet.
Speaker 1: One day, he fell off his bike. He got hurt
Speaker 1: pretty badly. He thanked me for telling him to get
Speaker 1: a helmet because his helmet cracked during his fall. He
Speaker 1: also had large scrapes and had to go to the hospital.
Speaker 1: I think they're aiming this at you, Jenny and your
Speaker 1: non helmet wear errant wearing ways only.
Speaker 2: For rollerblading and I only roller blade. Like I said,
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. I don't have to keep reiterating No.
Speaker 4: I know, I get it. I get it. I understand
Speaker 4: what you guys are saying. I get it.
Speaker 1: This is a really cool email and basically a guy
Speaker 1: that listens in Turlock, California. His name is Joe Gonzalez.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's ever been to Minnesota, but he
Speaker 1: is going to come and visit us in June. And
Speaker 1: he's like, I've heard you, guys. I found your show
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. My wife and I, Amanda, are
Speaker 1: going to come out to visit and I'd love to
Speaker 1: come by the radio station to meet you. Guys were like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, Yes, please. That is so fucking flattering.
Speaker 1: There was a girl that came to Star Party. I
Speaker 1: can't remember her name and I haven't heard from her
Speaker 1: in a while. She was from Atlanta, she'd never been
Speaker 1: to Minnesota. She listened to KATWB and she wanted to
Speaker 1: come to KTWB to Star Party. There was David and
Speaker 1: his wife Lisa there from Detroit. They'd never been to Minnesota.
Speaker 1: They love KTWB, so they came out here to visit.
Speaker 1: What a strong connection we have with some people, and
Speaker 1: I hope we have a connection with you. If you
Speaker 1: listen to Minnesota Goodbye, I'm gonna get you're a little
Speaker 1: bit more connected than the average person who just listens
Speaker 1: to the radio show, and we'd love you for that.
Speaker 1: Who else? There was a girl named Jill. Jill lived
Speaker 1: in New Jersey and Jill found us on iHeartRadio and
Speaker 1: she started listening. Became a big fan supporter of the show,
Speaker 1: and so she came out here. This is way back
Speaker 1: in the Leana days, fifteen of years ago. We took
Speaker 1: her to the five eight Club for a juicy Lucy.
Speaker 1: We took her on Booty Cruise, We took her to
Speaker 1: Mall of America to Nick Universe, and she came by
Speaker 1: the show and she and I haven't heard from Jill
Speaker 1: in a long time. I'm going to guess her life
Speaker 1: changed and you know she doesn't listen anymore or something
Speaker 1: like that. But it's just so cool and Joe, we
Speaker 1: will welcome you with open arms if you come by,
Speaker 1: and if you listen out of state and you ever
Speaker 1: want to come by, and you ever find yourself in
Speaker 1: Minnesota and you ever want to come by and say hi,
Speaker 1: let us know, send me an email and we'd love
Speaker 1: to have you come by. Okay, next one, let's see
Speaker 1: if I can find something else here. Okay, writing in
Speaker 1: because I heard somebody complaining about Nats g Nats Nats
Speaker 1: on one of the last week's episode.
Speaker 3: Do you remember this?
Speaker 4: Maybe yes?
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: My husband swears by absorbing Junior to keep the gnats away,
Speaker 1: keeps a bottle in our boat and when in his
Speaker 1: golf bag. I've attached a photo for reference if you've
Speaker 1: never heard of it. It's an arthritis kind of a
Speaker 1: rub Oh okay, yeah, pain relieving liquid for sore muscles
Speaker 1: and arthritis pain. And it looks like a Bingo Dauber,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Yeah, but you rub it
Speaker 1: on yourself to keep Nats away. I had no idea.
Speaker 2: That's interesting. Good to know because I maybe I should
Speaker 2: get that. I'm probably heading up towards the north Shore
Speaker 2: this next weekend and the Nats are definitely going to
Speaker 2: be out.
Speaker 1: Get some absorbing, Junior. I think it's what you should do.
Speaker 1: And then finally we come to Juanita's random rant. So
Speaker 1: let me push the proper buttons because I'm never quite
Speaker 1: ready for this one because it takes a realignment of
Speaker 1: some of the controls here, and I have to push
Speaker 1: and make sure that I'm not pushing the wrong one,
Speaker 1: and then I double check it, and then I think
Speaker 1: we're ready to go. You're ready, Jenny, Okay, let's go
Speaker 1: with Juanita's random rant.
Speaker 3: Hold on one second, Di Di Di? Did do? Here
Speaker 3: we go?
Speaker 5: Hey, my favorite peeps, So yesterday, Dave you kind of
Speaker 5: called me off guard. I caught chimed into the show
Speaker 5: a little late yesterday morning, and the first thing I
Speaker 5: heard was you're no more than thirty minutes away from
Speaker 5: uh post Malone and Hubo Steaks. I'm like, who the
Speaker 5: fuck is Huba Steaks? Sounds like something my son would
Speaker 5: call my daughter. Well, anyway, this week's week's rant is
Speaker 5: about UH people who don't get the hint. So you know,
Speaker 5: when you have a get together whatever, people come over.
Speaker 5: You know, they have a couple of glass of wine,
Speaker 5: We sit around, we talk, might play cards. But then
Speaker 5: when you start singing, the host yawn or you don't say,
Speaker 5: oh oh well it's getting late, you know it's time
Speaker 5: to go. But then you always have that one or
Speaker 5: two people who like to just linger around. Unto the
Speaker 5: last seconds, it's like get out. So when you see that,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm starting to put the food away. They
Speaker 5: still don't get the hint. I'm starting to sweep the
Speaker 5: floor and wipe out the table. They move over to
Speaker 5: the to the living room. Nin I went upstairs and
Speaker 5: put on my momve and I start playing Jojo get
Speaker 5: out right.
Speaker 4: At the course, I still.
Speaker 5: Don't get the hint. I come downstairs with my momo
Speaker 5: on and my and my bonnet, and they're like, you
Speaker 5: want to play some dominoes. No, I don't want to
Speaker 5: fucking play good dominoes. Get the fuck out, it's time
Speaker 5: to go. That shit pisses me off. Well that's why
Speaker 5: I rant for this week. I love you, guys.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 1: It's so funny, don't I think she's got to be
Speaker 1: exaggerating that she goes, he gets her moomoon, her bonnet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that is actually really funny. Thank you, Janita. Send
Speaker 1: your ideas, emails, your audio rants, whatever to Ryan Show
Speaker 1: at kadiwb dot com