Okay, for the second time. Today, we are doing the podcast the Minnesota Goodbye. So we recorded this earlier and I went to hit the stop button on our equipment and it wouldn't stop and it wouldn't stop, so I didn't know what to do, so I kind of is the computer op app So I minimized the window and then tried pushing stop again. That usually works. It didn't stop this time, so I actually exited the program, hoping that would save the fifteen minutes of Minnesota Goodbye, and it did not.
We lost it. So we asked the engineers. What did the engineers say about this? They literally said, there is no solution. We have the oldest equipment there ever it was, and we just have to deal with it. And it's a very They agree that it's an extreme inconvenience to all of us. So that is the solution. Without a solution, it is, and you know what we really do have, like you know, it works.
It's kind of like you know, if you got like a nineteen ninety two camera, it might still work, but it doesn't work reliably maybe, so it is frustrating. I'm going to do like a check every five minutes on this podcast. Make sure we're still recording. Make sure there's still a wavelength going no, And that's the thing. I do that myself, because I can actually open the window and look and there's a wavelength right now. But it doesn't anyway. Nobody cares. But we're gonna go back and we're
going to redo the motherfucking podcast Magic. We brought to it earlier that it shouldn't be a recurring theme though. You know you don't see Jimmy fallon go God. Sorry, guys. You know, we recorded the entire show. Because we got to the end, we put this push the stop button and it wouldn't work, so we've got to redo the entire show. It's just frustrating because you know, you and I are pros, and we expect to have equipment that works up to a certain standard. Yep. And it doesn't
happen just once in a while. It happens every two weeks. I will tell you if anything will urge an early retirement from me, it'll be the lack of budget at this fucking radio station. Because it is frustrating that I have to buy everything extra that we want. I got to buy it myself. The webcams, I had to buy myself a little Dave Ryan microphone flags. I bothols myself, the stickers, the pens, and it does get frustrating that it's like, hello, iHeartRadio. You could pitch in and help
us out. Yeah, So if anything will lead to an early retirement, it'll be the fact that I'm tired of buying shit for this radio station. You got to just start putting in expense reports and see if you can get away with it. I mean probably you wouldn't get away with the cameras because those were very expensive. But just like we're little things here and there and be like, oh, it was parking for a concert that I did a pre party for, and they'll be like, oh, yeah, that's right
because they wont to remember. Yeah, right, you know. And that's funny because we I think we I don't know how your company is, but I think they deliberately make it hard to turn in expenses. Like if we go to jingle Ball, for example, and we got to park across the street and it costs US twenty eight dollars to park, they deliberately make it hard to turn in your expenses. So people, a lot of people just
go fuck it. I'm not going to bother. Yeah, I've only done an expense report one time, and it was only because it was a lot of money and it was towards something that they said that they would pay for, and so I only did it one time because it was probably like three
hundred dollars or something like a lot for me. So I actually made that for But I have never put an expense report in for any kind of parking that I've done for any event that we could do it for, I've never done it because it's just complicated and it takes forever and it's like eighteen bucks or ten or so whatever. So now getting back to being positive and reading the same emails that we read a few hours ago, here we go.
I need to share this encounter I had with somebody on Facebook the other day. One of my Facebook friends that I barely know posted on their story a picture of an insurance card stating Christmas Special two for fifty dollars now by insurance Carding, And I guess they're selling fake insurance cards. So when you get pulled over, you can show it to the cop and it'll say like progressive and the date of expiration and whatever. So it's fake. There really is
no insurance. I look closer and yes, it was fake, homemade car insurance cards. I responded to this Slay's saying, smh, this is so wrong. He then said, why does it bother you? I'm just trying to hustle and make some money. Don't be a hater. I responded back, saying if somebody cannot afford insurance, they should not have a car, and that it could potentially affect myself or a loved one if they ever got into an accident with one of your clients. This went back and forth for
a while. I ended up with you are just as responsible selling someone fake insurance cards as they are buying it, and he said, what are you a fucking cop? Go to hell? And they blocked me. I'm not sure why it irritated me so much, but it definitely made me boil. So it leaves the question, have you ever had a time where you hope somebody would get caught doing something, whether it's something illegal or with work or
someone cheating? Love y'all. That is Amy from Dallas, and Amy says she already has a staff writer sticker, and she did send me a picture a couple of weeks ago with it next to her two slinkies on her desk. So I remember you, Amy, that is really irritating. You are absolutely in the right. First of all, it's illegal, it's really shitty. But you got to figure the kind of person that's going to buy a fake insurance card. They're a fuck up everywhere in their life. Yeah,
they're probably underemployed or unemployed. They probably steal and work the system any way they can, and don't give me the excuse that they're poor, because poor people don't equal break the law of people. I know a lot of people that don't make a lot of money. They donate plasma, or they work extra hours, or they don't take expensive vacations or buy expensive tattoos and cell
phones. So you can be poor and not break the law. You can be broken not break the law, but you can be like I'm gonna guess if somebody does something like this, they fuck up in a lot of areas. How many times have I said fuck on this podcast? Only a few can. I think it's only because we both feel a little amount of extra rage today because of the lack of working equipment. So I think it's I
give you a pass today, and people also love when you swear. It's like my favorite thing to see when people on a Facebook live and you're like, I love watching this behind the scenes stuff because watching Dave swear as I see I don't know the Easter Bunny, Like, it's just such a rarity and you don't expect it and it's exciting. That is funny, She says. Has there ever been a time you hope someone would get caught doing something?
I thought of something since we recorded this earlier this morning. There was somebody who used to work here at the radio station, eh who was involved in some shady shit and they would get I don't want to be too specific, but they would get favors from people who gave them favors, and everybody knew it, and everybody looked the other way, and we were like, are you serious. You're letting this person get these favors in exchange for favors
and you're going to look the other way. And we used to joke about it. Everybody knew about it, and I wished they would get caught and they never did. And then I also mentioned, not quite on the same thing about people who are not doing anything illegal but they're just assholes and everybody thinks they're a wonderful person. There was a DJ in Phoenix, and I don't want to get too specific because he's still out there. He was an asshole. Everybody that knew him knew that he was a liar. He once
accused. There was a guy that worked on our show named Pat Eberts, and he once accused Pat Eberts of they found his cocaine somehow on him and he said, oh, that belonged to Pat Eberts. Because this guy was an asshole. But everybody thought his public, his listeners thought he was just the most wonderful guy, and everybody that worked with him was like, no, he's a fucking asshole. So, and that's one that I wish people would get caught. I wish there's some certain people that I wish people would
realize what assholes they are. Yeah, all right, Next one. It's a little tricky because I'm in the deleted email file. This is kind of funny. I like this one. Hey, fam, don't say my name. My office is having a Christmas cookie exchange. We have a sign up sheet on the bulletin board. I noticed that most people are making gluten free cookies to bring in. I found out we only have one employee that is following the gluten free diet, and most of my co workers have been accommodating
to her dietary choices. However, am I the jerk if I don't bring in gluten free cookies? Nothing I bake with is gluten free and I got to go buy and go out and buy special ingredients to do it. I don't want to make waves or be inconsiderate, but I also don't want to spend extra money on baking goods I might not use again. Love you guys, thanks for helping me decompress on my drive to and from work every day. I would love a sticker from my laptop, Dave Done. I think
gluten free is important for people who can't handle gluten. Yeah, but I think there's a misconception and I might be wrong. But let me know that gluten free is healthy for everybody else. Like, Oh, gluten free is what I want. It's going to help me with my diet. It's like fat free or sugar free. I don't think that gluten is It's innocuous and benign for most of us, and we can handle it just fine, it's
not harmful. If I'm wrong, let me know. But I think a lot of people think that, oh, gluten free is a good choice, whereas it's really not necessarily. You don't need to make that choice unless you can't handle gluten, right. I was going to say, Dave's not saying that people don't have issues, Like there definitely are people who have serious issues, And I forget what it's called when you need to be gluten freely as disease. This is what I thought, but I didn't want to speak.
But I was gonna say because I was out with a girl who she is one of the most chill people I've ever met in my life, and she aggressively was asking our server about gluten free stuff, and I didn't realize she had such a sensitivity and she was like so stretched with cross contamination and everything.
And I know a lot of time servers like it's their worst nightmare to have to deal with someone who has an allergy, because you don't want to be that person who tells them the wrong thing and then they like having a reaction or something. So I do believe that there are some people who obviously have reactions. Yeah, but I also agree that it almost became like a diet fad, like people thought that being gluten free was healthy. Yeah yeah, and think I don't think it is. But if I'm wrong about that,
let me know. This one's from Naomi. She says, thanks again, Dave for all the last tears and shocks through the years, your irreplaceable, We love you man, love your bestie Dart Liquor in one of your seven listeners since nineteen hundred. Ha, Naomi, Seriously, my whole fifty years have been on KATWB Love You, Jenny Drake, Fallon, Steve, Bethany, Lena Corey, Lee Stevo, and all the rest. And she sends a picture of something that we can't figure out what it is. But
it looks like a refrigerator covered with stickers. And the reason we can't figure out what it is is there's nothing around it to really get even a context of like what it is. It's just a surface with a bunch of stickers. But I think we decided it's a refrigerator. I think it looks like a mini fridge to me, like something you'd probably hold your beers or something in like the side thing, or maybe you keep your lacroiz in there something
like that, because it looks like something I had in college. All right, I like it. I've been catching up on the podcast episodes and one of the episodes was talking about a serious medical condition episode which reminded me to write in about how I'm grateful that my dad was one of those people that
is still here with us today. Basically, Dad was put on a transplant wait list for a double lung transplant just before the holidays a few years ago, like three years ago, and three years ago almost exactly, he got a double lung transplant. He stayed in the hospital for four months, and they said Father's Day the next year was one of the best I've ever had.
This doesn't really have a point other than I'm so lucky my dad was given that opportunity, and I don't want to ever forget it because I'm aware that many other people are less fortunate. It is really I want to wish all of you and your loved ones and wonderful holiday season. Thanks again for another season of Christmas wish. There might have been a few tears and glasses removed during the wish granting lol, And I would love to receive a staff
writer. Sticker, thanks for being my favorite radio show. Fallon and Zach are next. Lol, And that is from Annie, Thank you Annie. Next one. I think that might Oh wait, there was one from Jim. Jim is a supporter of the show. We love Jim. And it's interesting because I think he's Scottish. He's got an accent. I've never met him in person that I remember, and I'm sure I would. But he is also an ex marine and he is a chef. So we talked about
we have different friends, like I have a carpenter friend. Yeah, that's Mike. Whenever I need some carpentry building advice, Mike is like a master cabinet builder. He'll help me out. I hung a TV on whatever, and he helped me measure it just right. And I've got my Apple genius friend Nate. I've got Nurse Wendy. I've got Lee Volsvik's partner who is a doctor. And yeah, so I've got the array. I don't have a mechanic. Ooh, that's a good one to have, because I don't
know how to do anything with cars. That's someone we don't have. Andrew has a lot of people too, because he works in real estate, so he's got like a contractor for everything. So when whenever something goes wrong, we don't typically hire some big name company, we go to his buddy Carl, who's been doing plumin for five years, you know, and that's great. I mean, I love that Dave knows. I listen to KWB for the morning show and all the Minnesota based DJs, which means I tune out
during Ryan Seacrest. Is that common? No, it's not uncommon at all. Ryan does a great job, but everybody knows he's not from here, so a lot of people don't get the joy that they want to get from here in a local person who knows where Mall of America is and knows where One's sixty nine is, so you know. I mean, Ryan does a great job, but it's everybody knows it's pre recorded and everybody knows he's not from here. During that time and on the weekends, I listen to Cool
One Away for Christmas music. I don't consider shares new song a Christmas song. It's upbeat and catchy, but not a Christmas song. If it were played any other time, I would like it, But I can't stand the Rudolph song by Dean Martin where he calls the title character Rudy, where he goes Rudy the red beig Rain Deer. Because Dean Martin back in the fifties and sixties was the epitome of cool. He was the Matthew McConaughey of his day. He was just cool as fuck. And he's been gone for years
and years now. But give me Gene Autry over Dean Martin every time, says Jem, question for the three of you, what Christmas song can you absolutely no longer stand? Is it the hippopottom of song Christmas Shoes? You can't pick the one about the plane crash because that's not in rotation. Actually it's a bus crash. But I know the one you're talking about. Yeah, I would say my least is rocking around on the Christmas Tree. I didn't like it when it was when I was a kid. I don't like
that. I love that song. Yeah, I don't really think I have one, to be honest, because I don't think we listen to Christmas songs enough to get sick of them, you know, like we listen to Fascar by what's his name? God, what's the name Luke Holms a million times a day, and it plays and it plays and plays, and so I do get sick of it. But Christmas songs only plays for a few weeks a year, and then it's like, all right, it's a new song when you hear it again the next year. Yeah, I don't hate it.
I just don't really. I never go oh rocking around the Christmas tree turn it up because I just don't like her voice. It's just kind of god like a he'll billy little sound to it. I don't really like it, and I've heard it a million times, and I think it's stupid. Most Christmas songs lyrics are stupid. If you listen to don We Now Are Gay a Pair? Or follow La La La la la, deck the halls with bows of holly? What does that even mean? I don't know,
the halls with bows of holly? What does that even mean? Hang up a ree. You also, probably up until a certain age, always said balls of holly because I never knew it was bows until later. Because I don't even know what that means. I didn't even know what that meant as a kid. It's like a limb or a something. I don't know Yeah. Anyway, I was talking earlier about how rocking around the Christmas tree.
I can't get away with it, away from it. Last night, Carson was at work and he face timed us while he was at work, and he was sitting there at smash Burger in a food court somewhere, and he is facetiming while he's waiting for his smash Burger. In the background in the food court was rocking around the Christmas tree and I'm like, oh my god, make it stop. Let me see if there's another one. We got to wrap up here, Show, we're going to wrap up. Then well,
there we go. Simple as that. That is it for the Minnesota Goodbye, Cross your fingers and hope that when I push stop it works. Send your emails to Ryan Show at kadiwb dot com