Speaker 1: Minnesota Goodbye on KATIEWB. Let's get started with the emails,
Speaker 1: because that is usually the heart of the Minnesota goodbye.
Speaker 1: I just have to open up the right window and
Speaker 1: here we go. Let's try this one. I was listening
Speaker 1: to the podcast I want to give my opinion on
Speaker 1: location tracking now. Yesterday during the show, I was talking
Speaker 1: about how my boy Kerson, he's twenty three years old,
Speaker 1: and we follow him on an app called Life three sixty,
Speaker 1: which I think is a free app. There's probably a
Speaker 1: paid version, but I follow him and he's on this
Speaker 1: tour with Thomas Day and they're going around the South
Speaker 1: and they're going to go up to Boston and across
Speaker 1: to Minneapolis and Colorado, and it's a big tour on
Speaker 1: a bus. But that's not why I follow him. I
Speaker 1: followed him for years because he lives in LA and
Speaker 1: people are like, oh god, you can't follow him, you
Speaker 1: can't track him. I said, he doesn't really mind. And
Speaker 1: I said, I don't follow my daughter Beth. I don't
Speaker 1: follow my son Chase or my daughter Allison because they
Speaker 1: have their partners, they have their own they have a
Speaker 1: partner that I feel is like, Okay, there's their safety net.
Speaker 1: But Carson doesn't have a partner. If he had a
Speaker 1: wife or a girlfriend or a partner, then I'd be like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: well he doesn't need me as much. But without that person,
Speaker 1: I follow him and it gives me peace of mind. Now,
Speaker 1: yesterday on the show, people said that's either terrible, but
Speaker 1: a lot of adults called then and said, yeah, I
Speaker 1: got a twenty five year old daughter. She lives in
Speaker 1: you know, Fort Myers, and I follow her all the time.
Speaker 1: So and you guys both looked at each other like, uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's sus to me, but like, I mean,
Speaker 2: you play your case and it made sense.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I see both sides.
Speaker 4: We're not parents, so we don't understand like that perspective.
Speaker 4: I just would never be probably okay with my parents
Speaker 4: following me. I do, however, in certain situations let people know.
Speaker 4: Like if I'm going on a hike, I like text
Speaker 4: my sister and I'm like, I'm leaving now, I'll tell
Speaker 4: you when I'm back and stuff. And one time we
Speaker 4: were on the Tetons and we went on a longer
Speaker 4: hike than we anticipated and she like, I get back
Speaker 4: in service range and she's like, hello, are you alive
Speaker 4: freaking out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, totally, this person says. I'm thirty three and
Speaker 1: my parents and I share our locations with each other.
Speaker 1: I live in San Francisco now and they are in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's the worst thing at all, and
Speaker 1: I know my parents like the peace of mind when
Speaker 1: we aren't checking in with each other. I normally call
Speaker 1: my mom every day to chat regardless. I think that's
Speaker 1: very sweet. It's a perk of modern technology. I have
Speaker 1: my boyfriend and about ten other friends' locations too. It's
Speaker 1: nice to have. If I try to get a hold
Speaker 1: of somebody and they don't answer, I can see why,
Speaker 1: or see that they're home, or picking each other up,
Speaker 1: or timing dinner for my boyfriend birthday surprises, somebody's on
Speaker 1: their way, et cetera. I know a lot of people
Speaker 1: text it in about the same thing, but I wanted
Speaker 1: to share love y'all. Listen to you every day on
Speaker 1: the podcast Love from San Francisco. In parentheses. I'm out
Speaker 1: walking and there's no poop in sight. All right. That's
Speaker 1: from Kelsey Jensen and San Francisco. So cool that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: parents used to parents live here in Minnesota, so Kelsey's
Speaker 1: from here but now listens in San Francisco, so super cool.
Speaker 1: Another one, Hello everybody, Kaylee again your favorite email or listener? Duh,
Speaker 1: I'll make it short and sweet. I get a burning
Speaker 1: question for Dave since he is the resident literary genius
Speaker 1: and has written books like Little Dave's Amazing Day and
Speaker 1: take a Shower, show up on time, and don't steal anything, Slay,
Speaker 1: I was wondering if you could spill some tea on
Speaker 1: the writing process. How does one gun go from star
Speaker 1: staring at a blank page to holding a published book?
Speaker 1: And how do you even know what's interesting enough to
Speaker 1: write about? Maybe Jenny and Bailey could share some insight
Speaker 1: too on what things about a book would draw them
Speaker 1: in as readers as well. I'm ready to unleash my
Speaker 1: inner author, but i feel totally clueless. Any tips, tricks,
Speaker 1: or funny stories would be amazing. Thanks a ton. That's
Speaker 1: all for today, all right from Kaylee. Well, Kaylee, I
Speaker 1: would say this might sound a little bit harsh, but
Speaker 1: unless your brain is brimming with ideas, it is okay
Speaker 1: to not have a book in you. So I think
Speaker 1: that sometimes we couldn't do a radio show if we
Speaker 1: weren't brimming with ideas. And some of the ideas are
Speaker 1: good and some of them are bad, and some need
Speaker 1: some fine tuning, and some we go, eh, let's not
Speaker 1: do that one. But I think unless your brain is
Speaker 1: really overflowing with ideas for your book, it's okay to
Speaker 1: not have a book in you yet. Maybe not yet,
Speaker 1: but I think you have to have something. You have
Speaker 1: to have a message that you want to get out.
Speaker 1: And mine was, you know, just telling these stories. My
Speaker 1: first book was just telling these stories over the years
Speaker 1: and people responding and going, oh, that's some really good advice,
Speaker 1: like you know, stop at lemonade stands, or don't borrow
Speaker 1: money and don't lend money. These are things that I've
Speaker 1: told over the years, and I thought, oh, well, I'm
Speaker 1: going to put them all into a book. And I
Speaker 1: had I think I targeted to get one hundred and
Speaker 1: one of these stories. Ries sure, and I did. When
Speaker 1: it came to the kid's book, we did an assignment
Speaker 1: on the show about five years ago where we all
Speaker 1: wrote Me, Fallon and Steve and maybe Jenny. We all
Speaker 1: wrote a kid's book, and then we had a child's
Speaker 1: author on the show to judge which one was the
Speaker 1: best that sounds one.
Speaker 3: Did Dave win?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: I won?
Speaker 4: It was only me, you and a Falin at the time. Okay,
Speaker 4: I'll be honest. I don't remember what Falon's book was about,
Speaker 4: but mine was about a little brought or hot dog
Speaker 4: or something that was scared of nighttime. And so he
Speaker 4: overcame his fears.
Speaker 2: I forget what it was so scared of hot dog
Speaker 2: to be a hot dog scared of nighttime?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and see, you know what you could turn it into.
Speaker 1: You could turn it into a book. I will give
Speaker 1: you a caution about writing a book. And I get
Speaker 1: people asking me probably once every two weeks, how do
Speaker 1: you write a book? Well, there are a couple of
Speaker 1: tips I would give you. Number one, finding a publisher
Speaker 1: is ridiculous. It is very difficult. And I wrote a book,
Speaker 1: was working on it, had it about eighty percent dime
Speaker 1: about twenty years ago, called What It's Like, and it
Speaker 1: was all about what it's like to have cancer, what
Speaker 1: it's like to be in a tornado, what it's like
Speaker 1: to win the power ball, what it's like to be
Speaker 1: on a game show, what it's like to I talked
Speaker 1: to Buzz Aldrin. What it's like to walk on the moon,
Speaker 1: what it's like to have a number one hit song?
Speaker 1: And I had some publishers that were interested, but none
Speaker 1: would commit to it, so I put it kind of
Speaker 1: on the back burner for a while. I'm watching the
Speaker 1: Today Show one morning on a Sunday and there was
Speaker 1: these two guys who'd written a book. Now, remember my
Speaker 1: book was going to be called what What's It Like?
Speaker 1: Two authors were on with a book that called what
Speaker 1: it Feels Like? Ooh, And I thought, either and I'm
Speaker 1: not going to blame anybody, because it's my own fault
Speaker 1: for not getting the book out there. And I thought,
Speaker 1: did these two authors hear about my book through their
Speaker 1: friend in the publishing business, and they had the power
Speaker 1: and the resources to do it, and they did it
Speaker 1: ahead of me.
Speaker 3: And I'm looking it up. It is exactly what you described.
Speaker 2: What it feels like to walk on the moon, to die,
Speaker 2: to be bitten by a shark, to be shot in
Speaker 2: the head.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And so I'm not accusing them of anything, because
Speaker 1: I'm just not. I mean, good for them for getting
Speaker 1: off their ass and actually doing it. And it could
Speaker 1: have been absolutely organic. But there's always been a part
Speaker 1: of me that's like, God, you dumbass, you were right
Speaker 1: there with a very marketable book. Here's my problem. I
Speaker 1: don't have publishing connections. So what you do is you
Speaker 1: do self publishing. There's a publishing company here in town.
Speaker 1: They're called why zinc wys I in k and they
Speaker 1: will walk you through everything to the cover, to the artwork,
Speaker 1: to the cost, whether you want to softcover, hardcover, whatever.
Speaker 1: Here's the last thing I'll say about it. If you
Speaker 1: don't have a built in audience, you're not going to
Speaker 1: sell more than fifteen or twenty copies. And that's just
Speaker 1: the way it is. I have a built in audience
Speaker 1: because we're on a big old radio station like KATIWB.
Speaker 1: If I wasn't on the radio, I would have written
Speaker 1: take a shower, and I would have sold fifteen copies
Speaker 1: if I was lucky.
Speaker 3: Is that why you put your face on it too?
Speaker 3: Is that? Like, is there a reason that you put
Speaker 3: like your face on the cover.
Speaker 1: My face on the cover to show that it's a
Speaker 1: fun book. Because it's a fun I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: have a copy around here right now, but if you
Speaker 1: if you look at it, what'd you say?
Speaker 3: It's behind me right there?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Because okay, thank you, Bailey. It's right behind me. I
Speaker 1: think I didn't want it to come across as preachy
Speaker 1: and I wanted to be fun. So there's a cartoony
Speaker 1: kind of a drawing of me on the front. But
Speaker 1: I know somebody who they wrote a book about dating
Speaker 1: in middle age, like forty five year old dating life,
Speaker 1: and they really thought that they would become a speaking
Speaker 1: author and touring and best selling and speaking at conventions,
Speaker 1: and they sold about fifteen copies and they were heartbroken.
Speaker 1: They really thought that this was going to be their things.
Speaker 1: Kind of like a podcast. So many people start a
Speaker 1: podcast and they do I think I read somewhere that
Speaker 1: most podcasts do one episode and they never do another
Speaker 1: one because they look at the numbers and they go,
Speaker 1: I had six listens.
Speaker 2: You know. It would be kind of fun, though, starting
Speaker 2: a podcast where you listen to the podcast that only
Speaker 2: have one episode and then you talk about whole episode,
Speaker 2: brilliant read write it down.
Speaker 3: I could.
Speaker 4: My trainer and her co founder of this gym, they
Speaker 4: had started a podcast like three or four years ago,
Speaker 4: bought all the equipment, put in the time whatever. They
Speaker 4: did like two or three episodes, and they were like yeah,
Speaker 4: it's not for us, and so they just have the
Speaker 4: equipment sitting around and they were like, yeah, we've got
Speaker 4: enough going on, we don't need to do a podcast too.
Speaker 1: I think that is very common. There's one. I can't
Speaker 1: find it right now, but a friend of mine that
Speaker 1: I used to know in Ohio, she has a knitting
Speaker 1: podcast and she's done one episode and she said, hey,
Speaker 1: I started a podcast and I listened to it, and
Speaker 1: she has a beautiful podcast delivery because podcasters kind of
Speaker 1: talk a little bit more in a different way than
Speaker 1: radio people do, with a little less energy, because it's
Speaker 1: kind of more one on one and I don't know,
Speaker 1: I hope she does more, but just.
Speaker 3: One, because is it about what's a knitting?
Speaker 1: Knitting? I don't know what do they talk about.
Speaker 3: You said you listen to it.
Speaker 1: I listened to I'll be honest, I listened to part
Speaker 1: of it. I didn't listen to the whole Thing's sine Okay,
Speaker 1: So anyway, Kayleie, good luck. Remember you're going to write,
Speaker 1: you should be brimming with ideas. Find a self publishing
Speaker 1: and do it for your own satisfaction. You're probably not
Speaker 1: going to make a career out of it.
Speaker 2: I feel like, also, if you have any other friends
Speaker 2: that are interested in writing or doing any kind of
Speaker 2: like creating of any kind, see if you can like
Speaker 2: hang out with those people and all work together. Because
Speaker 2: I'm like a huge I'm a huge like advocate for
Speaker 2: body doubling. Where you go and you do the same
Speaker 2: thing as the other people in the room, because you're
Speaker 2: more likely to get work done if you're all doing
Speaker 2: the same thing and working towards the same goal. So
Speaker 2: go like write in you know, like where you go
Speaker 2: to a coffee shop and there are other people like
Speaker 2: writing on their laptops.
Speaker 1: But not together as a team.
Speaker 3: Well you could do it together as a team.
Speaker 2: Like if you have other friends who want to write
Speaker 2: books or write a play or something, just hang out
Speaker 2: with those friends and then you'll be like holding each
Speaker 2: other accountable because that person's typing, So you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: I better be typing and you'll get more work done
Speaker 2: that way.
Speaker 1: Body doubling is body doubling, Yeah, not a real thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: next one, Tanya writes in first of all, I cannot
Speaker 1: believe you actually read my email. I didn't know someone
Speaker 1: could be so starstruck going through an email while sitting
Speaker 1: in their own apartment. My palms are literally sweating. Secondly,
Speaker 1: you're choosing to read my email on the Minnesota Goodbye.
Speaker 1: Oh my word, this makes learning hard to send all
Speaker 1: the fan mail in the nineties to be with and
Speaker 1: in sync with no reply, I may add, so worth
Speaker 1: it now that I've been emailed by by Minnesota's local celebrities,
Speaker 1: can I just say that you should do a podcast
Speaker 1: like the Minnesota Goodbye, sharing stories from over the years,
Speaker 1: having old show members, guest appear on the show and etc.
Speaker 1: Once you retire from KTWB. Not I want that to
Speaker 1: happen anytime soon. I would absolutely listen. That is from
Speaker 1: Tanya in Moundsview, Minnesota. I actually am going to start
Speaker 1: a podcast before I retire about some of the history
Speaker 1: of KTWB. And I've talked about this and I think
Speaker 1: I did an introductory kind of a bookmark podcast and
Speaker 1: it might be on Dave ryanshow dot com.
Speaker 3: The last time we checked it wasn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not even sure where to look, but under the
Speaker 1: podcast section.
Speaker 4: Not because I just had our digital guy clean up
Speaker 4: that area and it wasn't on.
Speaker 3: There then, And not.
Speaker 1: Well we are short staffed.
Speaker 3: Well, do you have a title for it. Is it
Speaker 3: a working title?
Speaker 1: Yes, I would have to look. Let me see if
Speaker 1: I can find it.
Speaker 2: I know, I think you're in your plan to have
Speaker 2: Lee Volsmick on as like a guest at some point.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, And I don't see it right now, but
Speaker 1: I did have Yeah. I don't want to sit here
Speaker 1: and during the podcast.
Speaker 3: Go it's something.
Speaker 1: But it was something like the history of like Hits
Speaker 1: and Missus. I think it was called Hits and Missus,
Speaker 1: the history of KWB of some of the things we've done,
Speaker 1: like concerts, like one of the hidden stories of KTBB.
Speaker 1: We've talked about Last Chance Summer Dance and Basstery Boys
Speaker 1: many times. But on the thirty fifth anniversary of KBDB,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a giant concert at Target Center to
Speaker 1: celebrate the thirty fifth anniversary of KTBB. And the lineup
Speaker 1: was what we thought was huge, the Bgs, Luther vandros Tony,
Speaker 1: Tony Tony and somebody else and I can't remember who.
Speaker 1: And we put the tickets on sale, and within a
Speaker 1: couple of days we realized nobody was buying these tickets.
Speaker 1: So the thirty fifth anniversary concert of KBDB never happened.
Speaker 1: And then there was the Star Party that got canceled
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago as well, So there are
Speaker 1: some things that we can definitely talk about. So yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks for the idea, but that is something we're going
Speaker 1: to work on and that is going to kind of
Speaker 1: do it for the Minnesota Goodbye for today, anything you
Speaker 1: want to talk about.
Speaker 4: Love.
Speaker 1: I really love doing the Minnesota Goodbye. And we've mentioned
Speaker 1: that some people like this is their I don't say
Speaker 1: guilty pleasure, but if they missed the show, they'll listen
Speaker 1: to the Minnesota Goodbye because that's like it's an easier listen.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, fifteen minutes or whatever. But if
Speaker 1: you listen to the whole show and the Minnesota Goodbye,
Speaker 1: we appreciate you for whatever you do. Would really love
Speaker 1: to hear you, hear your email and double get that
Speaker 1: on tomorrow. I'm just rambling. I'm gonna shut up now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're doing a show at katiewb dot com.
Speaker 1: Jenny, We'll see you tomorrow