I gonna start off the Minnesota Goodbye with a complaint, it says bff's and usually not a complainer, but I get a bone to pick with you, Dave. I've sent a couple of emails to the Minnesota Goodbye that we're read on the podcast and requested as staff rider sticker, but never got one. Four weeks I've been excitedly going to the mailbox only to find some stupid fucking Christmas cards with pictures of families that I don't want. That shit goes right
in the trash. I love you already right about now. I'd be happy to get Ralphie's fucking little orphanani bullshit to coder ring Ah got then, just to add insult to injury, I'm listening the other day and some lucky girl got too. What even, Dave? What have I done? And then she puts the laugh emoji and the heart emoji, so I know she's kidding. She says, I love you guys so much, brighten my day every day, you make my workday better. Thank you. Can I please get
a staff writer sticker? I promise I'll slap that bitch right on my laptop. That is Mary Anne in Blaine, Mary Anne. Absolutely, it is totally possible that I did not send you one. I don't know how it slipped through the crack. I thought it was doing very good at that But if you sent too and I never sent you a sticker, my bad. It'll be a couple of days because I'm in Colorado. But watch for it and I will get you a staff writer sticker. Another one says I added
this Joslin, I added my stickers to our new garage fridge. Thanks so much for sending it seems to be a popular place for our stickers. She put the Dave Ryan Show sticker and the staff writer sticker on her garage freezer door. Nice, So thank you, Joslyn. Appreciate that one. That is spam. That is junk. That is junk. This one says they are our local book author and they look for a shout out. So I'm going to read that one a little bit later on. This one says,
you know, I'm trying to find one with content. There's a lot of ones that are saying, hey, can I get a staff writer sticker? I never got one, so there it goes that one. Next one Jenny as I started whatever happened to your poop clips that you used to make? Where can I find one interesting story? Now? We can talk about them on the Minnesota Goodbye because it is not regulated by the Federal Communications Commission.
So I can plug Clip a Doo's on the Minnesota Goodbye because we can't plug them on the radio because the radio waves are protected by the Federal Communications Commission, where I am not allowed to apparently try to sell something that I'm not that I have an interest in that, you know what I mean and business jargon, you know. Yeah, But on the podcast, I can mention it, but I'm not going to overdo it because I don't want to, you know, step in any grey territory. But yeah, I make clip
a do's and they are amazing. I invented it, but it's it's not incredibly unique. It's a clip that goes on your dog's leash and then there's a clip on the end that easily clips onto their poop pag. There are other products like that that are out there, but I really like mine the best because it's simple and it's expensive. I think it's nine to ninety nine for one of them. They make a great stocking stuffer and you can get them on Etsy just search clip a do Ce, l Ipado or Dave Ryan
Dave. Finally think, oh, I was gonna say, Dave gave me one the other day. Finally, And I'm so pumped because there's one dog I watch who literally like it's her goal to not poop in the yard, but the instant you take her on a walk within like a block, she poops every single time. And I am so sick of carrying the poop until we get to the high school that's near my house and get to a garbage like a public garbage can that I can throw it in. But so I'm
pumped and finally have one. No, they're great. I mean seriously, I used to before I invented the clip a do seven or eight or nine years ago. I remember I used to take the Josie's poop and I would tie it to her collar because I was like, it's your poop, You're going to carry it, and so you know, she didn't like it, but she didn't really have a choice. And then I said, oh,
well, what if I clip it to the leash? And then I got an idea and then I clipped one into the leash and the other one was the one it looks like pe and you slide down like when you clip a dog's leash to their collar. And then that was a little bit cumbersome. So I just used tube clips two alligator clips to hold the poop on there. So if you want one, let me know. Next question, why is the app sound sped up? When Drake laughs, he sounds like a
chipmunk. Is it just my phone? And yeah, it is your phone because when you listen to a podcast, you can listen to it at one point oh speed, which is the normal speed one point twenty five one point five, and then two point oh you can even listen to half speed. So I'm gonna guess look at your phone and tap on it, and then
you'll see that it's probably sped up to one point five. Yeah. I've caught myself a couple times being like this sounds weird, and then I look down and I was like, oh, it's on one point high speed. Yeah. I listened to most podcasts on one point five. I listened to that air disaster crash with those two women that do the air disaster podcast. It's called Take to the Sky, the Air Disaster Podcast, and I listened to it yesterday, and I always listened to it at at one and a
half speed. Let me ask you a question, Jenny. When you listen to a podcast and you're listening to like these two people that host this podcast, they're great, and I've listened to it for years, but they always do about ten minutes of fluff and personal stories before they get into it, yep. And it'll be anything about their dog or about their trip, or their husband or school, or their mom or health or whatever. And it's
to me, it's like, I don't care. It's interesting that they have personalities and whatever, But do you listen to any podcasts where it takes them minutes to get to the content? There is the fluff. Yeah, there's one girl, her and I share. Her podcast is called be There in five, and she kind of does that and I usually skip ahead to like
once she starts getting into the content of her podcast. And it's not that I don't care, but like I guess, I haven't like grown to like her to care about her personal life as much as she was as much as I like to hear about the time topics that she talks about. But then I also listen to podcasts where it's like all about their personal life. Like there's one podcast it's very filthy. It's called the Guys We Fucked Podcasts, and it's easy. You serious. It's these two comedians out of New York.
They're super they're super funny, and they started it based off of talking about guys that they had slept with, and now it's transformed because they've been doing it for like eight years. So eventually you run out of stories. But I like to hear their stories and like how they have a comedy show even though I'm never going to go to it because it's in New York. I like to hear their stuff because that's more of the kind of podcast it
is where I care about their life. Okay, I think that's interesting. If people are good storytellers or their comedians, then you want to hear their stories. And these two women, they're great storytellers. I just don't always care. It depends, honestly, if I'm going out for an hour long walk, I'll listen to it. If I'm like, I got thirty minutes I get to be to work, then I will not listen to it.
Yeah, yeah, I think that's I think that's all I had to say about that one except to say there are some really bad podcasters out there because there's no training, there's no licensing, there's no standard to do a podcast, and sometimes you listen to a podcast and it's like, God, you're
a terrible storyteller. Get to the point. So I will say one thing real quick about podcasts, because I think I think a lot of people were like bored during COVID, so they started one, and some people absolutely took off and did great. Some people probably still only get, you know, their mom and dad listen, and maybe some friends. But when Andrew started real Estate, him and one of his friends in his office were like,
we're going to start a podcast. And I hate to be the like Devil's Advocate Debbie Downer person all the time, but I kind of was like why, Like what are you going to talk about it? He's like, well, real estate, And I go, what makes you think that you're going to grow this listenership based like you don't have the experience quite yet, like you just started, and he goes, well, I don't know, like
we could just try. And I like kind of explained to him how a lot of people start podcasts and it becomes this extra thing that they do and it serves them no purpose in the end, and it's this extra time that they spend doing it. And he like finally agreed, Like I wasn't trying to be like not be supportive, but I was like, I gotta be
honest, babe, you just started in real estate. If you're only talking about real estate, I don't really think you have like the resume yet to be a podcaster about real estate, even though he had like properties before that. But yeah, so I kind of crushed his dreams for a second. But he did admit like a week later that I was totally right in what I said. You know what, you were just trying to be realistic.
It's kind of like if your kid wants to move to Hollywood and drop everything to go become, you know, a big star, you might want to say, well, you really gotta be realistic about that. Whatever. So, you know what, I don't think you did anything wrong, But I will say I know that I've heard somewhere that most the Great I don't about the Great majority, but a lot of podcasts have one episode because they recorded the podcast, they saw that nobody really responded to it. They said that
was tough. I don't have anything else to talk about. I think if you're going to start a podcast, map out five or six or ten episodes, so you're like, I know, I've got enough content. And you can't map out or plan five or six or ten episodes in advance, then maybe it's not a strong enough topic to do a podcast on. And then some podcasts run their course too. I mean, Fallon did the Heartbroken podcast, which was huge yep, but after a while it kind of ran its
course yep. And there's nothing wrong with that. This is She ends it by saying, can I please get a staff writer sticker? But she does not give her address. So Nicole, send me another email with your address and your name, and I will send you a staff writer sticker. She does say dart lick dark. No, she says dark dark, dart lick lick Ooh. Changing it up a little bit. You can't always do the same thing, Dave, what's that? I said? You can't always do
the same thing. No, you gotta change it up. There was a comedian and I'm gonna tell you a disgusting story, but it's kind of funny. And he said, when you are performing oral sex on a woman. You don't just like up down, up down, up down. You know what you do, but you lick the alphabet. Okay, I've heard this. Have you heard this before? I've heard I think it's been in like rap songs or something. Yeah, like you do the ABC's with your tongue. Really, yeah, Okay, I'd never heard of that before. I
don't really, I don't. Nobody wants to hear about anything I want to say about that, so I'm gonna move on. Don't use my name. I'm responding to the gluten free question from today. There was a woman who wrote in yesterday. She said, we're doing an office cookie exchange, and everybody in the office is doing gluten free because one person can't have gluten. And she said, amine asshole for saying, screw it. I'm not going
to buy a bunch of gluten free ingredients that I'll never use again. I'm going to go ahead and make gluten cookie, you know, non gluten free cookies, and if she doesn't like it, then she doesn't have to eat them. And I said, no, you're not a jerk at all. I said, do you have every right to do that? And I said from what I understand, a lot of people think that gluten free is a good dietary choice, kind of like fat free or sugar free, where most
of us don't need to eat gluten free, but some people do. So Let's see what she says. My spouse has siliac disease, which means we eating one hundred percent gluten free for the rest of his life. The superb basic sum up is that gluten causes erosion to the small intestine, so you cannot absorb nutrients. People have died historically from malnutrition before doctors figure out what
was happening, and it dates as far back as the Egyptians. You can range from violent immediate reactions to basically no noticeable symptoms even though the hidden damage is still happening. Siliac people have to watch out for cross contamination, meaning you can't cut regular bread and then use the same cutting border knife to cut something for someone with siliac. Even flour in the air at a pizza shop can be enough to make someone sick. It's a big pain that makes eating
out nearly impossible. Some people are gluten sensitive or gluten intolerant, which is not the same as celiac and usually not worried about cross contamination. All to say that even though those well meaning co workers who are making gluten free food are likely making contaminated food, so it depends on who they are planning servit to. My spouse has learned not to accept homemade food from anyone, even if they describe all the methods they do to avoid they did to avoid contamination.
It's nice to feel included, but I don't think the person who wrote in needs to feel pressure to make anything gluten free. Simply mentioning that you didn't want to accidentally gluten the person should be sufficient to anybody who makes a fuss. I'm glad that she put it that way, because you know,
there's some people who are so I don't know, crazy about passionate. You could say about that that she didn't go down the road of like you are a terrible person that you don't want to So I'm glad that she was able to see both sides. And that's interesting. I did not know that there were people who are that sensitive to gluten. So thanks for educating us. H a little bit. Appreciate that one looking at the next one to see if it's you know, it's more spammy email y kind of stuff. Joe
from Turlock, California, regular supporter of the podcast. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like door Dash, grub hub, uber kind of thing took off right before the pandemic because people were getting laid off and this was an alternative to unemployment. Like, this wasn't supposed to be a career. It was meant for people to raise a few bucks while looking for another job, similar to fast food, where fast food was meant for entry level
employment to gain work experience. But then people tried to make it a career and are now demanding twenty dollars an hour. I've got nothing to add to that, Joe. I think you summed up my opinion on that exactly. I don't think that every job should pay a minimum should pay a livable wage. And I know that people go, well, the president of so and so she makes or the CEO she makes twenty four million dollars a year. They should be able to pay there, you know, but that's what she
earns, that's what her the mark could place pays. And I think if you work at like you know, my wife Susan, she doesn't even make a livable wage herself at her shop, much less be able to pay somebody a livable wage. Yeah, some jobs just don't pay a livable wage, but there certainly are some people who will bitch and moan and say that it should. I don't think that certain job. When I was in you know, when I first started working, I worked at a radio station. Probably
was in radio for three years before I made a livable wage. Yeah. I also think that livable wage is very much your own perspective. So some people might think a livable wage includes being able to buy an niced coffee every single day, and at that I say, no, that is not what you get to get out of doing like bare minimum work in my opinion.
But I think livable wage is also something that's kind of like up in the air of what you consider a livable wage, because for me, I was barely enough to get by for like most of my twenties because I just had very entry level positions and stuff. But like, I wasn't going out and I was making a livable wage, but I wasn't going out and doing the extra things that some people might find like going out to eat and stuff. And that was fine. With me because but some people would argue that that's
not okay. I should be able, I should have been able to like go out to eat and whatever. You know, a good point. I mean, really it depends on what you consider is a livable wage. If you can't afford to go out to eat, if you can't afford a vacation, that is a good thing, I mean, the good thing to talk about because it means different things to different people. Right next one and says you can say my name. My main reason for emailing is to ask for
the link to the light that Susan opened on the show this morning. I recently learned how to crochet, and man, is it a struggle to see what's going on? Sometimes she wears a neck light. You know what, I'll try to get it for you, and I don't have it off the top of my head. While I'm here, I want to say how much I appreciate what you do for Christmas wish this year. It's really given me some perspective on my life. I've struggled with depression and anxiety for a long
time, and the last year has been especially rough. As a result, I find myself getting impatient with my kids and husband faster. Hearing the stories on Christmas Wish has really made me realize how lucky I am to have all that I do and inspired me to start taking steps to better myself for my family. Good. Honestly, even writing this email is huge for me since one of my problems is reaching out to others, and I think that's great.
That's one of the things that I think Christmas Wish does is it makes you feel grateful about how lucky you are. And I think that we absolutely can appreciate what we have and improve ourselves for the people that are around us. Whatever that is, whether it stops smoking or to get healthier or to whatever it is, I don't know for sure. We got to wrap up, Dave. Sorry, I don't want to cut you off, but we're getting close on time here. Thank you for sending your emails to Ryan Show at KDWB dot com