Fumbling the Bag

It's the Minnesota Goodbye, good morning, and it's Jenny and Drake today. Drake was gone in Wisconsin this past week, well a little more than like just the weekend. You were there for a few extra days. Yeah. Yeah, I went back on Wednesday just kind of like visit some family, and we had set it up where there was this like city close to Green Bay. It's called New London, and every year they kind of like rebranded Saint Patti's thing. They renamed the city New Dublin and it's just like all

Saint Patrick themed. Really fun, did all that and it was a good time, but I wanted to bring up something. I fumbled the bag two times, Jenny, like with a guy. Okay, I just want to make sure I understand what you're talking about, because you and your gen z terms. I'm like, what are you fumbling? Fumbling the bag like your double bag at the gym, Like what do you mean? I'm just gonna understand what it means. But okay, what happened the first and this is

gonna get messy. You might make fun of me. But there was a strike guy that I had a crush on in high school and I had saw him at the because I honestly I had like a mini reunion with a bunch of people I went to school with on Saturday night because we were not bar hopping and whatnot. And there was the guy here that I had a massive crush on, and I was like trying to like hint at wanting to like

hook up with him. He wasn't getting like any of the hints. He is definitely straight, but I always kind of got the vibe that he was in the closet a little bit, so like maybe if I could, you know, be nonchalant about it and not be like super expressive, maybe he would get the hint. He didn't get the hints, and then like I could have been a little bit more aggressive with it, but I didn't,

so I one hundred percent fumbled the bag there. I kind of embarrassed myself because I like I cracked a joke about I don't even know what I said, but I said something about wanting to hook up in like kind of like a joky way, and he didn't laugh, and then we was just like kind of awkward. After that, I was like, oh, no, I so screwed. I screwed it up so bad. So there was that

okay. And then on the way home yesterday, I was driving back from Green Bay and I had stopped at this like I don't even know what town it was. It was middle of nowhere, Wisconsin, and I was pumping gas, and out of like the corner of my eye, there was this foin such a foint gentleman in a military uniform, and he walked into the gas station and I literally I canceled the payment on the pump because I'd paid with a card so I wouldn't have to go inside. Literally canceled it and

redid it so that they would have to go inside and pay it. And I saw him and we locked eyes for a second. I was like, oh, this is it, this is it. But I puss it out. I literally I didn't. I didn't go out. I didn't ask for like a Snapchat or an Instagram. But he was so fine, and I'm so mad that I didn't like go and just ask. Oh my gosh, I was so mad at myself. I left. I was like, I cannot believe I did not go talk to him, Okay, the guy at the gas station, And I feel like, you don't have a good shot

of that. I don't work it out. But hometown, I know there's still opportunity there maybe, But I'm so upset with myself. I was so mad because he was and he was so hot. He was like everything I wanted in a man. It's just he was so hot. I just don't I if I ever found myself to be single again, I do not foresee that happening. I don't know how I would handle being out in public and trying to hit on anyone, Like I don't think I have that in me

anymore. Like I would not be able to see a hot person at the gas station and be like, oh, I'm gonna go like open cup, open a cup, open a conversation with that. Like it's just it's so such a foreign concept to me. So I have literally no advice, no tips, no nothing other than like, just get in there and do it next time. Just go. Well, the scary thing about doing that is there is this is the math that I have on It is, especially in

a small town like that, chances are they're stray. Okay, they're probably not gay. It is like night when you go up to somebody you don't know, it is about a ninety percent chance that they are straight. Ten percent chance that they are into you know, they're they're playing the same team

as you. You know, So that was going on in my head as well as like I don't want to go up there and try and make a move and have them just like punch me in the face or something, you know what I'm saying, or get like hate crimed because like a and I hate that that's even like a thought that has to come across your mind. But I understand where you're coming from with that. So that was my little misadventures, my fumble of the bags this weekend. So I didn't get any

action, unfortunately. I'm sorry. It's okay, there's always next weekend. True true that I have some faith in you for next Okay, we don't have too many emails, but we'll get to the ones that we have so far. This person says, Hey, guys, I was just hoping to find out if there was going to be a podcast for the show. The day after Girls' Night Out. I'm currently listening to the Minnesota Goodbye, but the show isn't up any who. I hope you are all having a wonderful

week. Love you guys. So we didn't do one that day, because we actually did Girl Group Friday that day where we played girl group songs all day, and we can't do a podcast of music, so that is why there is not one. Even if we could chop up a little bit of it, it wouldn't have been much. Did you we did post like something, I posted a couple of different like there was like two dave of dirts

and like you can't make a stuff I got posted. But yeah, other than that, did you label them like six am hour just did a no. Yeah, we agreed on just doing like just one. We posted like two best ofs from that week, and then there was one that was just like I don't even know what I tiled it it. I think it was literally Girl Group Friday. Yeah, and that's all it was. Okay,

so that's your explanation there, So sorry about that. But we just we did a very different kind of show that day where we couldn't even come up with any content to put together in a podcast. So Drake didn't put up like a normal podcast because we didn't have that to put up. Moving on it, says David Jenny, Please don't say my name. I lived in Columbus someone day was here as a DJ and I moved to Minnesota and was there for more than twenty years. I've been a loyal listener and love you

guys. I moved back to Columbus a few years ago, and I am so happy that you do the Minnesota goodbye. I feel like it allows me to keep the Minnesota connection. I am in my mid fifties and find that I get weepy when I watch some movies like Shawshank Redemption. No idea why I am so sensitive to this now? When I did? When? When did I turn into such a p word? They say, has this happened to you guys or other listeners? Thanks again for all that you do.

And my address is a below for a staff writer sticker, and then it's to send me your Venmo name and I'll throw a few dollars in the pot. They say, Lick Dart, Lick Dart, Minnesotan at Hearts. I will send this along to Dave so he can get you a staff writer sticker. I mean, I have my days where I get very emotional about things.

And I was just watching a show over the weekend and I don't want to say what it is because someone it's a newer show on Netflix, and someone kind of ruined it for me because they told me I was going to get emotional at the end, so I was like, great, someone dies. Like I knew that that's what was going to happen. So I'm not going to say what show it was, but I was bawling like a baby watching it. I was so sad, and I was like, oh my gosh, he is a character, like they died. It's a character on

a TV show, you know. So I think that for me it probably has gotten a little bit worse as I've gotten older, But I'll never forget as a child going to the movie theater and watching Leelo and Stitch and bawling when I thought that they were going to like take Stitch away from everyone, and oh my gosh, I was crying so bad and I was trying to hide it from my mom. She was sitting right next to me. I was like, I'm so embarrassed right now, but I cried so hard during

that movie. So maybe I've I've always been an emotional person. I think, yeah, talk about one of the most heart wrenching movies. Oh my gosh, I was. I actually did cry a little bit this past weekend. There's a show on Netflix called Young Royals. It's like kind of like

it's an LGBTQ show. It's Swedish, but it basically follows like these two guys that are like going to like I think it's like a college school in Sweden, and they fall in love and one of them is like in like the royal family, and it turns into like this whole like since he's in the royal family, he can't like date a guy. And it's good. But yeah, I was watching it because there was a new season, bawling my eyes out at one point this weekend, So yeah, I get it

all right. Let me just make sure I keep this email to send off to Dave and then up next it this comes from Nikki. It says, Wow, I wanted to call in so bad on Friday about this email, but I live out of state. So we had an email about kids in sports and how it's gotten out of control, like with the amount of tournaments and the practices and the expenses and stuff like that. So it says, I am so happy to hear someone actually brought this up. Kudos to the

emailer. The reason why she had to give a fake name is because the other family would use that again. I can't tell you how many times I complained with my kids when my kids played sports and it seemed as if I was always alone. Either they really did love it. Some of these parents are crazy or they would not admit they were miserable like me, for fear it would affect playtime. I live in Arizona and we play baseball all year round. My ex put my kids in club ball and it basically took over

their whole childhood. Financially, he went bankrupt as I could not afford to help with it all. I could never take them on a vacation on my own as every holiday, weekend, etc. Was filled with baseball. Both my boys were burnt out and what did it get them nothing. My oldest stopped when he went to college, and my youngest plays in college while he's on the team at least, but did not get a scholarship for baseball.

The entire time I would argue with my ex about the time and money suck it was, he would tell me I don't support them, that's what they want and this would help lead to scholarships. It his defense, that is how they sell it, and unfortunately, since everyone does. If you don't, you won't make the high school team. I have no problem with Little League in school ball, but the club stuff is too much. Again, I always felt so alone, like I was selfish for hitting my life having

to revolve around baseball. So thank you as Morelda or I think it was

she used the fake name of Esperanza or something like that. She used a very unique name, and that comes from NICKI, yeah, it's I mean, I am not a parent with kids in sports, and I did participate in sports myself growing up, but my parents were very restricted of what they could afford to have me do, to the point that I cried because I was on this traveling soccer team and we had a tournament up in the Twin Cities, and it was our only out of state tournament, so we would

have had to spend the weekend up here, and my mom couldn't afford it. So I was really sad and I cried, and I was like I felt like a shame truthfully, that I was like the poor kid on the team who couldn't afford to go to this tournament when everyone else was going.

Like it was really hard on me as a kid because I wanted to go so bad that my really good friend on the team her family worked it out so that I could come with them and stay in their hotel room, and like then my mom didn't have to come up buy a hotel room all that, and I think my mom gave them a little bit of money to help, but like that was only one tournament and my mom could not afford it. I can't imagine living this life of constantly going all the time to different,

like different places. And I know, like not every tournament is like a situation where you have to stay overnight, but yeah, it's so expensive to have your children involved in activities like this. So I hear where you're coming from, Nikki. I mean it sounds like your ex just didn't have a good grasp on like reality of finances versus like the kids being in a sport. I don't know, so anyways, thanks for your email, Nikki.

I forget. Did you play sports? No? I did, Like I did football, I did flag football, entry schools, some like baseball, and then the last one I did was like actual tackle football in sixth grade. But I was just I never really liked sports. I'll be honest, it just wasn't wasn't me. Yeah, I think it definitely was more of like a music artsy, fartsy type of kid when I was in school.

So no, I never really never really got into it, but I had friends, like a lot of my friends were in sports, and it was like it got really annoying sometimes because they just every weekend they wouldn't be able to do anything because they were off going to go do a game somewhere or they I don't know, it was always something, so it was super annoying and I just like couldn't believe how busy they were. Yeah, yeah, it's wild. Okay, And then I think we just have one more

email for today, so feel free to send us some emails please. This says, Hello, Dave Ryan Show crew, Please don't say my name. I wanted to give you the rundown on the Uber slash Lift situation. So we touched on this briefly on Friday morning. So this person says, basically, the Minneapolis City Council wanted to put an ordinance into place that raises wages for Uber and Lyft drivers. Cool, totally fair. Who wouldn't want that.

However, the state legislature was in the process of doing an analysis report for what the wages should be statewide. A couple council members wanted to push the vote back a cycle to report to read the report since it was coming out the next day, but that got voted down, so the mayor vetoed it in the hopes that they could get could then use the report to make a more reasonable proposal in the ordinance. The wages that the ordinance proposes are

significantly higher than the recommended wage increase in the state report. The mayor proposed a change to the ordinance that would bring the wages of these drivers up significantly, but would also keep Uber and Lyft in the city. The council decided to not listen to the report and move forward with their proposed ordinance, hence making it more likely that Uber and Lyft could actually pull out of driving in the city come May first. Hopefully that provides some context to the situation.

Sincerely, a regular listener. I yeah, and what I'm hearing is they are pulling out, like they're pulling out of I mean, it's a Minneapolis thing, but I heard that they're not going to be servicing like the airport area either. Like I don't know if it's like, Okay, then maybe they'll work in Saint Paul's still like, I don't fully understand it, but I'm pretty positive that they decided they'll pull out, and I'll be honest,

I don't follow this. This is like much more clarification on the situation from this person, but I haven't followed it enough to fully understand. I did know that the mayor had vetoed it, and then the city council like they voted that they overdid the veto whatever the wording is. But it's going to suck to not have uber and lifts. That's what I was going to say. What are we going to do? Yeah, just regular taxis or what I think we're going to have to. I don't know that there's another option.

I think that once this happens, the city is going to realize what they did. But then it's like, how do they take it back? You know what I'm saying, because I'm pretty sure at the city council meeting whatever they had, there were drivers there that were like on the side of obviously with the city council proposed. But now it's like if Uber and Lyft are completely taking themselves out of the twin cities. Then those people don't have jobs. So what they just got like the go ahead on which was a

higher wage, now they just don't even have a wage. So it's backfired, I think. And there's so many people like that's all they do. Yes, we have a lot of Uber and Lyft drivers that listen to the show and they'll call us in a lot like we've done so many like Uber Lyft driver horror stories and stuff like that. So I don't know. I feel like there's got to be something that's going to change. And this won't fully happen, but maybe it will happen at first, and then maybe they'll

have to take something back or Uber left. He'll figure out something, but who knows. I mean, a business is set up to run based off of obviously finances and how much they pay people and stuff. And if Uber and Lyft are like, well, this goes against our business, like this is not how we function as a business, than like what are they supposed

to do? They do have to pull out of the area. I do think Uber and Lyft are Honestly, I don't think they're the greatest in terms of, you know, treating people who work for them good, because what I've heard from Uber drivers is like, you know, they've been raising the prices the last couple of years, and like it's oh my gosh, we paid so much for ubers now compared to pre covid. I'd paid ten dollars for most of my Ubers around the Twins or around Minneapolis. Now it's at

least like twenty plus for one Uber. Those drivers though, that have been doing it for years say they have not seen any of that extra Mondy Well, and that's what I think I've heard. I was like, well, where's all this money going to going to the company? Right? Yeah, I don't know. I mean it. I like hope for the best for both the Uber and Lyft drivers and everything, and for everyone using Uber and Lyft. I'm sure everything will hopefully get figured out, but it crossed.

I guess we're gonna see. All right, Well, that's gonna be it for the Minnesota goodbye. Dave is just on vacation today and he's back the rest of the week. But we are a little low on emails, so feel free to email us whatever kind of topic you want to chat about. Dave still has some staff writer stickers he can send out, so if you got a good topic, make sure you include your email in it so he can send you a staff writer sticker. But that's going to be it for

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