When we did the Minnesota Goodbye yesterday, we did it in parts, and so we had to stop a couple of times and then to restart because we'd run out of time and we were about to read a certain listener's email, and we said, oh wait, we're out of time. We'll come back in a second. We came back and we ended it. So they wrote in they said, well, you started reading my long email on Thursday's podcast and you had to cut it off and come back. But after you came
back, you just ended the podcast. So I hope you read mine tomorrow. And I'm going to do that right now. So let me scroll down and find it, and be careful not to say her name. And where is she? It was here a second ago. Hold on, there it is, I got it. Okay, Ready, here we go. I'm going to a favorite things party on Friday, so today with a bunch of
friends. If you're unfamiliar, we're setting a dollar amount where each person brings one of their favorite things or several items that end up to that dollar amount, but by three total, and each person gets to pick out one of someone else's favorite things, and we do that for three rounds. That way, everybody gets a few different things, and it's gonna be a lot of fun. It's kind of a spin on a white elephant exchange. So I was thinking, if you went to a party, what would be your favorite
thing to bring? I couldn't choose just one, So I'm bringing my favorite Detangler conditioner spray, a bag of peanut butter cups, and one can of my favorite hard Seltzer or Seltzer hard cider. Okay, what would I bring for my favorite things? I would say a summer sausage from the grocery store, like a you know, an eight inch long summer sausage boy. After that, I would probably bring some of my favorite green tea. I love green tea. And after that, maybe a bottle of vodka. But I
don't really drink anymore, so I don't know. That's off the top of my head. What about you. I probably would bring nutty bars, like those little Debbie nutty bars that are okay, are good. And then I'm just gonna go with like two different drinks, Die Coke. I'd bring like some ice cool Die Coke and then some what's that the pistachio beer from Indeed Brewing. Okay, it is so good and I want everyone to try it. So those are the three things i'd bring, Okay, not bad,
delicious okay, and that's really interesting. Think about fun party? Yeah, well what you bring? That's an interesting little thought starter And they go on to say another thought starter here. I can't help but feel weird asking this question, But do you ever think about your ex'es and where they are, what they are doing, how they are if you haven't spoken to them in a long time. I was with someone for four years after high school and
the breakup was messy and they ended up blocking me on Facebook. To this day, I'm still blocked. They're not on other social media that I know of. I thought about reaching out to a family member i'm friends with on Facebook and asking, but is that weird? My curiosity is getting the best of me, and I just want to know, as I have not spoken one word to this person in over ten years. Wow, would it be
bad to reach out and ask how they are? I am a happily married woman with a kid, so I'm honestly just wanting to know how they are. Opinions. I absolutely think that's normal. I would reach out if you're a wonder if you're curious about what they're up to, and you could just frame it as like, hey, just been thinking about our time together recently, but like how are you how's it going, without being like, hey been thinking about you a lot late at night. Right. Obviously not that
way, but I mean a guy would probably respond to that. He'd be like, yeah, come on, men, I think that's totally normal. I have found several old girlfriends on Facebook, and the funny thing is you find them, you go, oh my god, that's Liz. I used to date her in Ohio, and your message your friend, and then they recognize you, so they friend you back, and then you're like, hey, Liz, how are you good? What has your life been? Like Oh, well, I'm married and I've got a couple of kids and blah
blah blah. And then after that, a lot of the time it turns into nothing. Yeah. There was one girl that I liked in elementary school and and we were never really you know, it come out. It was elementary school and we have been on friends on Facebook for a long time. But she messaged me about something a couple of weeks ago, and it turns out she's fascinating. She works in the aviation field. And I don't know what she does exactly, but she supervises something with airplanes, like the literal
physical airplanes. And she said, and we were talking about I said, I like to go snowboarding and I like to you know, fly and whatever. Oh we have this in common whatever. And she said, I could never go snowboarding, but I don't have a problem with hanging my feet off the back of a military airplane at twenty thousand feet. And I'm like, what. So she'll be like, you know with the soldiers, how they'll like dangle their feet off the back of a sea one thirty. You don't
know what that is. And it's like, fuck, you're really cool, cool, I really like you. Yeah, But then we kind of petered out, and you know, it's like, so my point is, yes, ask how he is, reach out, say I was thinking about him, how is he doing? And they could be like, oh, he's really good, he's really happy, or you know, it could you never know, and it's fun to know. And if he's rude to you, then it's like okay, then by never mind, I will talk to you
again for another ten years. But I would say one step further Bailey is you can ask his relative, like, hey, how is Bob doing? If there's nothing wrong with you? Yeah, the worst they can say is nothing, so might as well reach out. Was this content worthy of a staff Rider sticker? Yes? If so, I'd like to put one on my off brand Stanley water cup because I think of those the hype of them
dumb ass stupid cups is ridiculous, and the fucking price is ridiculous. I saw the article the other day of a family that spent three thousand dollars on those cups. So there's a sixteen year old daughter could have one in every color. Oh geez, so fucking stupid. She says, thanks for all you do and look forward to listening to podcast every day. And here is my address. I've got it and we will send let me check on the
next one. Here scrolling up a little bit. Okay, here we go from I won't say her name because sometimes I get through the email and at the end they go, don't say my name. Hey, hey, everybody riding in to share my what did you have sex against? Story? Here we go. It is from a woman. By the way, for context, I was seeing a guy for a few months mainly just hooking up. No serious relationship ever came out of it, but the sex was spontaneous and
usually pretty good. We're at a bar one night, classic small Wisconsin bar, probably had one too many beers, and when he went to the bathroom I followed him in. Thanks. Got hot and heavy quickly and we were just having fun. Well, we needed somewhere to lean against, and the toilet was not an option gross, so I settled for sitting on the edge of the sink. We were going for about twenty five seconds, and I felt movement underneath my ass, and then split second I was almost on the
ground. Thank god he caught me, but the sink fell off the wall, and thank goodness, only a small piece of the porcelain cracked off. He was able to hang the sink back on the wall. Half assed, we zipped up and left the bathroom laughing. I still haven't told that bar what happened. In ten plus years later, that sink has still not been repaired. Ew what I love that? What a dump? What a what a dump? Dump? Anyway, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to
share this funny story. Happy Friday. That is Brook from Wisconsin. So Wow. Thank you, Brook. That means that the like, I wonder what kind of sink this is, because I just think of the sink that has the like the cock all around the edges and it came off of that. Yeah, dang, and they haven't repaired it. Shoot yeah, shoot, let's see. Uh, Dan writes in, and this is Dan, who we talk about on the show quite a bit, because Dan he's a
big supporter of the show. And Dan is a very fascinating guy because he's very smart and very funny. And a few years ago he got a serious traumatic brain injury. He wrapped his four wheeler around a tree to the point where the two front tires touched so they wrap around. He got a traumatic brain injury. So Dan speaks differently than he used to, but he is just as sharp and a big smart ass, and he's very funny. Sure, he said, I've written before, but I'd love to hear it set
out loud twenty twenty one or two thousand and one. Two thousand and two, I lived in downtown Farmington banging a girl on a desk of the apartment while cars were driving by on Highway fifty Dart Liquor. When called for nice to know. Sincerely Dan from Apple Valley. Thanks Dan, there you go, Dan Renito, writes in and another regular staff writer. She said him listening to Wednesday's podcast, and you would ask people how they got through tough
times. This was on the show yesterday, Like we talked about what did you do to get through a tough time? That was yesterday, No Wednesday? Okay, gotcha, well, Dave. When my daughter Bella was in the hospital leukemia, people said to me all the time, I don't know how you do it, referring to I guess just functioning, not losing my mind or crumbling. Truly, what other options were there? Anyway? I got to the point where I literally just told people the truth. I'm medicated.
I think there's such a stigma around medication for mental health that has not talked about openly enough. My doctor also was Bella's doctor, so she reached out to me as soon as she got the news of my girl's diagnosis and offered to put me on medication. I needed to be strong in front of Bella. I could not let her see my fear, and the medication allowed me to do that. I am not saying medication is the answer to everything. But in those dark, scary times of life, it certainly can help
one maneuver through better have a stellar day. Ranita, I kind of know her story with Bella. Bella was only young, ash sixteen or so, and she got leukemia and she went from a bubbly, happy, wonderful, smart ass ordinary kid to losing her hair and not being healthy. And I think that she's fought it for quite a while and I believe she's recovered, but I don't really know. But yeah, you know, it was a fair question. How do you get through that when your child is that sick?
Yeah? How do you get through it? Medication? Yeah, not a bad answer, and not a bad answer. Next one, Okay, the subject line is worst lyrics Kanye West. I'm in It, nearly perfect song that ends with the dumbest lyrics ever written. I love the randomness of the emails today, They're just all over the place. Here we go, dumbest lyrics ever written. I'm finest start a new movement being led by the drums. I'm a rap lick priest getting head by the nuns. They don't
play what I'm playing, they don't see what I'm saying. They be balling in the d League, I speak, can swag heey and then they put the laugh emoji, the eye roll emoji, and the piece emoji. So yeah, Davis, I would agree. I think swag heey, swag heeley. Yeah. I remember when Kanye used to call himself a musical genius, and I think Kanye definitely was talented, But I don't think he was a musical genius. I think he was talented. Sure, I think his talent
has fallen by the wayside. But when you think of a musical genius, Bailey, who do you think of a musical genius, Yes, Stephensonheime, I don't know who that is. He writes musicals, so he wrote like Into the Woods. He's and like Sweeney Todd. He's, you know, a composer and a lyricist, and he writes really like complex musicals which are really cool. So everyone calls him a genius in musical theater. I would
say outside of musical theater, yes, Prince was a musical genius. Yeah, I mean just crazy talented, taught himself to play like twenty different instruments cool, and his songs were amazing. I think some of Prince's lyrics were a little stupid. Yeah, I feel like they kind of have to be stupid sometimes to like reach the masses. Okay, you know, I thought it was more because when you write so many songs, you run out of good ideas and you write a bunch of shit. So the shittiest Print song
was Raspberry Beret. I like that song. It's fine stupid, but I'm the general public needed to be dumb dump. I was working part time at the five and dime. I know this my memory. My boss was mister McGee. He told me several times that he didn't like my kind because I was a bit too leisure lee and then then he goes, I wouldn't change his stroke because baby, I'm the most of the girl as fine as you were then or something like that. Yeah, And it was like, I
wouldn't change his stroke, really stroke of what genius stroke? Yeah? Yeah, but you didn't know that till now. No. I know what stroke means, but it doesn't seemed to fit in the song in that because are making love out in the rain? Oh oh yeah, my bad, I didn't know that. Yeah. I don't sit and analyze Prince songs, not usually. I think Prince's lyrics in some of them are good as good as any other pop song, but I think Prince's lyrics have always been a little
bit stupid. Sure, yeah, all right, let's move on to the next one. Hold on, I gotta find which one I just read and then I got to hit delete. So here we go, next one. All right, Hello, morning show crew. If you could have a potato in only one form for the rest of your life, which will it be?
Which would it be? You got your baked potato, mashed potato, scaloped potatoes, French fries, tato todd steak fries, crinkle cuts, potato skins, out, grotten potato chips, hash brown loaded baked potatoes, etc. For me, it's a crispy waffle fry jazzed up with season sour cream that tops my list. Also happened to hoping to get a birthday shout out for my cousin Sonny Marie for her birthday tomorrow. That's today. She's an avid listener to the show and podcast. So let's stop for a minute and
happy birthday shout out, Sonny Marie. Have a great day, thanks for all you do. That's from Katie, So let's back up. I'm gonna review the list for you. Baked potato, mashed potato, scalop potatoes, french fries, tato tots, steak fries, creakle cut fries, don't forget curly fries. Potato skins are grotten potato chips, hash browns, loaded baked potato, et cetera. You only get one for the rest of your life. French fries. Make Donald's French fries. Yeah, hold on one second,
I gotta do a commercial. Okay, seamless interruption there, because we just picked back up and you don't even know. It's like time travel. So let's finish this email. I would say, I gotta go with crispy waffle fries with the seasoned tower cream. Well that's because they said that they reminded me. But that is I mean, when you're really good, when you go to a restaurant and let's say you go to you know, Axles, Sure, and they say, what kind of fries would you like?
We have tater tots, we have regular french fries, and we have waffle fries. I do always pick waffle fries, but I don't know. There's something about out McDonald's fries. Oh they're so good. They're so good, and I feel like I eat them too much, And people are always like, oh, I never go to McDonald's, like really, cove were all. I stop there all the time for French fries. Do you get ketchup with your fries? No? I don't. They don't need it. They
don't. Yeah, you don't like ketchup at all? No, not really. I don't like that ketchup is cold and then you dip a hot fry into and then you have a weird cold, hot mush in your mouth. Okay, I do you like Okay, do you like ketchup on eggs? Because I like ketchup on scrambled eggs. I like siracha or like hot sauce some sort of Yeah. Yeah, I don't put ketchup on McDonald's fries. They don't need it. And when I go to a restaurant and I get
crinkled cuts or French fries, and I always do. I like housemade ketchup, like if they have like a red cow has a housemade ketchup, and that's good. I don't like Hines because it tastes it doesn't taste like a tomato, okay, and it tastes like sugar, like just sugary. It's I think there's a lot of sugar and ketchup. It's funny because I love how everybody's different. When Fallon was on the show, so she would get
so annoyed with local restaurants that have their Housemaid ketchup. She's like, it's shit. It tastes like shit. Your Housemaid ketchup is shit. Oh it's so good. And I'm like, Okay, I mean, I think Housemaid ketchup is a good attempt. Yeah, but I leave it to the pros down at Heins, you know what I mean. Or Del Monte or Hunts ooh, Hunts. There's a Hunts factory in Ohio somewhere and every time you drive by it, it smells like tomatoes. Okay, that's funny. There
is definitely a pie baking or muffin baking facility in Chanhassen. Oh, no question, because if you walk around near Paisley Park or by the high school at the right time of the day, there's no questions. They're bacon muffins. They're bacon biscuits or something, and it smells just like you walked into your house and you're bacon cooking Oh my gosh, that sounds lovely. It is really and if you live down there, you know exactly what I'm talking
about. Uh, Okay, this one's interesting. I hope you get this message before Bailey is back on the show on Friday, or you could save this for a future time when she is on the show. Anyway, I used to work with Bailey what at the Oliver Kelly Farm years ago. Hey, wow, now I'm gonna read part of this silently to myself because they're talking about something I'm supposed to not let you know about. Okay, sounds Why don't you maybe do something you can hum? Okay, I talk about
anything you want that's on your mind while I read this. Okay, okay, okay. I'm gonna sing a song from Leserrab called one Day More, One day More, one more day till Revelucian. We will nip it in the but will be ready for these school boys. They will rid themselves with blood. Watch. I don't know these words. Touches so weird that you come up with like a theater song, that's how you kill. It's a really great song. The prank is really cute. He wants me to bring
up how much you fucking hate the movie hocus Pocus. Oh yes, and it'll get you going. The other farmers and I would purposely say something about the movie or start talking about the movie in front of Bailey, or tell Bailey we're going to get it on TV, just to see her complain about how bad she thought the movie was, which is a great movie. So Bailey, what's up with hocus Pocus? And now listen, you guys,
hocus Pocus is not as great as everyone says it is. And honestly, I think the real reason I don't like hocus Pocus is because my mom doesn't like hocus Pocus. And I don't like anything my mom doesn't like, so I just do what she does. And she doesn't like it, and I don't like it either. But it's over it's overdone. It's oversaturated in Halloween time, and I'm just kind of sick of seeing it all over the place all the time. Okay, Yeah, it was not the rant that I
expected. I really thought you would like start pulling out your extensions and like, you know, listen up, let me take on my earrings. I hate hocus Pocus. I don't know. I like Sarah Michelle Geller's character, and that's it. I don't really care for that movie at all. Okay, that's an interesting question. So maybe for the next podcast, you could write in and tell me what movie is not as good as everyone says it is. I don't have anything. Off the top of my head. I'd
say The Hangover was not as good as everybody says it was. I thought it was good, but not. I'dt Wedding Crashers. I'd never go back and see it again. Yeah. I had to watch Wedding Crashers with my dad and my uncle. That was one of the most traumatic experiences I've ever had in my life because there's boobs like right at the beginning of that movie and they're just all over the place. And watching that with my dad, I kept getting up go to the bathroom or get snacks, and you'd be
like, do you want us to pause it. I'd be like, no, that's fine, just keep it going. I'm just gonna leave for a while. Any interesting note on that. If you're watching a movie with somebody, or you're watching a show and they get up to go to the bathroom or they get up to good as snack, do you automatically pause it until they get back, even if they're just going for a couple of minutes. I usually do. I do, yeah, unless it's wedding crashers and you're
my dad. And you're my dad because Susan and I watched we watched Fargo together last night. We watch a lot of shows together. It was suits. I'm burnout on Suits. Honestly, I wish it would end. But Fargo, we're on season five, Episode nine of ten is coming up, and it's so good. But when she gets up go to the bathroom, I always posit and she always says, you don't have to pause it, and I said, no, I do for two reasons. Number one, to be courteous to you, yes, but also I like to watch it
with you so we can discuss something. And a lot of the time there will be something I don't get and I'll say what happened to the guy with the mask or what happened to the guy with the cows or whatever, and she'll be like, well, remember they killed him two episodes ago. Yeah, you need her and I need hers. Yeah, So let me know what movie is not nearly as good as everyone says it is. I have no idea nor will I have no desire, nor will I ever see Nightmare
before Christmas? Oh that movie, I don't care. You can tell me how what I don't care creeps me out. I don't care. I don't like Tim Burton's style. I don't like The Creepy Puppets When it came out twenty five or thirty years ago, he was an immediate hard pass for me. No, have you seen Coraline? I will not see that either. Oh that's so gotten now Careline's even better, even better. Gosh, I love those movies, doesn't No weird Creepy Puppets do not do it for me,
And I don't fucking care. By the way, there's a picture that this guy sent in of you and you're holding a cat. Oh yeah, he is standing next to you in a barn. You were like fifteen in this one. No, I was like twenty twenty three, twenty four. Yeah, I really love that farm. That was really fun. All right, thank you, Andrew, appreciate that one. Here is one from Katie, long time listener here and staff Ryder and sticker holder for the Minnesota Goodbye.
I had a dream last night. Dave was playing clips over and over from that song Party Till I Die by Kim Petris to Annoyenny, Well, it's actually not by Kim Petris, it's by Amy Bibobby. I guess it's not that far off from real life because Dave seems to like to play clips from that song lately. But I thought it was funny to mention that I had a song stuck in my head all morning because of this dumb dream. Thanks a lot, Dave, love you guys. Keep up the good work,
Katie. I still like that song. I think it's so stupid and catchy, and I love the fact that we had Amy Bibobby on our show several times, and it was always the most awkward interview because it was such a delay because she lives in Amsterdam and she was very charming and very kind, but her persona in her videos is that of a woer. I mean, she is just a woer in the videos and that's her persona. But
she's like a kindergarten teacher and she's so sweet. She's so nice. But it was always awkward because I'd ask her a question and the audio would take her like, you know, take like three seconds to reach her, so it would sound like she didn't hear me, and it was just this really awkward. All right, do you like hot fudge Sunday? Jenny? Okay, that's for Jenny. We'll come back to that one. And we'll come back to that one. Let's see what we got here. What's up,
dart Lakers, don't say my name. I've been a fan of the show since my mom used to drop me off at school every morning. I'm twenty five and in the workforce and listen to you guys every day as a delivery driver. I'm gonna make this as short as I can. I really need some advice. My girlfriend and I six years together, almost seven. We have been together since she moved away for college to man Cato, and I would bust my ass making the drive back and forth daily. Definitely worth it.
Fast forward. We now live together and we have an awesome, loving pit bull there, my little family, and my entire life. I've been planning to propose to her for months now and was waiting for our seventh anniversary to come along since it's going to be our golden anniversary. We started dating on the day seven of October twenty seventeen. It's funny how you don't want to use your name, but you're giving me so many details that anybody could
recognize this story. I want to be perfect because she deserves this. I'm certain I want to marry this girl. I've looked at engagement rings. I have been planning to surprise trip and saving money to make it happen. I was so excited at planning all this until a tragedy occurred. Here comes unexpected sadness. Her father was shot and killed just days before Christmas, which was also his birthday. He leaves behind four children, including her and one on
the way. As you can imagine, it was a shock and devastating, to say the least. We are struggling in every aspect of life, emotionally, mentally, physically, financially. Everything was going perfectly for us until this happened. I'm writing because I need advice. There's no doubt in my mind. I want to propose to her. Still that has not changed. But now I wonder if popping the question in October would be too soon? Should I wait longer? How long should I wait? Should I talk to her
mom about it? Should I follow my gut? Should I not change my plan and stay with it? I could really use some advice from both of you guys during this very confusing and different cult time. Really hope to hear back from you guys, be truly would mean a lot. Thanks for putting a smile on my face, especially during these hard times. You guys have made my day slightly easier. I love that. I really appreciate that, and I couldn't be more grateful. Thank you for what you do. Dave
and Jenny, and I'll throw in Bailey too, Jenny's out today. You guys do more for people than you think. Okay, my first reaction is you do what you feel is right at the time. If you get into October and you're still such in deep grief that it's the wrong time, you'll know you wouldn't want to ask now because this just happened just before Christmas, so not even two months ago, so obviously now is probably not the time. I'm going to throw in a couple of thoughts. I think she's looking
for some good news. She will be looking for some good news. Do you know that she wants to marry you too? You never want to ask anybody to marry you at a way to get them to like you. Right, it should be a surprise, not a shock. Yes, that's a good way to put it. Yeah, that's really Smartly talk to them about it before proposing to them, so that they know or so that you know that they do want to marry you. Yeah, that's a really good way
to put it. We should title this podcast surprise. But I think that that's really wise because number one, your gut will tell you. I think when you get into October, is it too soon? Is the timing right? Maybe she's totally changed and she doesn't want to get married to you anymore. I don't think that's going to happen, but a lot can happen between now in October. But if you are, if she is your one,
she'll still be your one. But I think that if she gives you the vibe and you talk about being married someday, she's going to be looking for some good news. Yeah what do you think, Bailey? Well, I mean I think so too. And if you know that you know you both want to marry each other, then I think by October Burr at least like she'll have some healing under her belt. Like, definitely, right now is
too soon. But if if you talk about it and you know go into it where it's it's going to be a surprise that you're going to propose, but not shocking. Then I mean, if you both want to marry each other, then I say you should go for it. But yeah, you definitely know when the time is right. And then when you do get married, you can like honor her father in some kind of special way. That's a really good idea. That's a really good idea, honor her father.
Yes, that is very true. When I got engaged one time, I mean I knew that she was going to say yes, but there's no question, right and because we had talked about getting married. And that's a long story for another day. All right, we are done with the Minnesota goodbye for the day. Thanks for all the emails. I appreciate that one.
If you want a staff writer sticker, you earn one by sending us an email, and if we read it on the show, we'll send you a staff writer sticker, And a lot of the time, even if I don't read it on the show, I appreciate the effort, So I'll send you one anyway. Send those into ryanshow at KDWB dot com. Maybe a fun theme to go off on is what movie is not as great as everyone says it is, and then why so let me know, or of course the
old what's the craziest thing you banged against? Either one. Ryanshow at KDWB dot com