We had a very busy show on the morning show today and it was fun but busy, and we never really quite caught up to ourselves today because we were Hannah Flood from Channel nine was in and she was doing her live shot and we were having so much fun talking to her and then being on TV that we didn't really pay as much attention as we should have to the show. My fault. One of the things that we were going to do,
we had a really funny April Fool's idea. We're like, we're gonna play bowling alley sound effects in the background and then have people go why is there bowling alley sounds? And we would do an April Fool's joke and say, well, they put a bowling alley on the floor below us, and I can't believe it, but we kept forgetting to make the bowling alley sound long enough so it would run out, and then I kept forgetting to play it, and finally we just said, ah, fuck it. So have you
heard the show and you're like, what the hell was that? There's your explanation. You know. A friend of mine was talking about this was back when radio was different, and you'll hear how dated it is. When I tell you the April fools joke. A friend of mine did an April Fool's joke in Phoenix in about nineteen ninety or so, and he said, sad
news out of Hollywood. Bart Simpson died in a skateboard accident. And everybody knew that it was an April Fool's joke, but people would call in and play along and they'd be like, yeah, it's so sad, you know, I watch him on TV all the time. And they had a politician call in, John McCain, because he was an Arizona politician, and this took place in Arizona, and John McCain said, yeah, we're going to have him buried in Arlington National Cemetery and his you know, he's going to
have a headstone shaped like a skateboard. And everybody played along with it, and it was so clever and so not a goofy, wacky April Fool's joke. Yeah, that I really like that one. So that's a good one. Hours today was you know, we didn't try that hard, No, Yeah, kind of got shoehorned in with a million other things, a million other things stuff on the show. We have a show sheet every day that talks about what we're going to do, and I'm looking at it, and
a lot of it we did not even get to. Yeah, there's probably like four or five bits we had scheduled. There's segments that we did. And here's the interesting thing. Jenny had a skin tag and had a big update on the skin tag today. Yeah it's gone. It fell off. What's there now just a hole. So it's a very very tiny hole. But there's kind of just like the circular skin that's inflated right now and then
there's like a hole right in the middle of it. So now I feel like I'm just going to have that on my arm now instead of a skin tag. Okay, because it's going to have a scar, because I have a scar from when I pierced my belly button and then that like got messed up and stuff, so I have a scar over there. So I think I'm just gonna have sort of a scar. I mean, I'll take what I have now over the skin tag because the skin tag was really gross looking
to me. Yeah, I mean I never really saw your skin tag. I think you showed it to me one time. But let me ask you this one. You and women who have done this. I know so many women who had a belly button ring back when they were probably more popular, maybe ten fifteen ish years ago, and I don't know them personally, But now that I think about it, I don't know that many, but I know women who've got a belly button piercing ring scar. Yep, do you
regret because it leaves a sizeable scar? Do you regret it or do you not care? I don't care. I don't care. I'm not in a bikini enough to care about that. And if I do wear my high waisted crop top situation, usually that covers my belly button, so I'm never showing it off for the most part. So the few times a year somebody gets
to enjoy my presence in a bikini. Yeah, well, you know, I mean, Jenny, I'm not going to make any comments on what you might look like in a bikini, but I will say I'm going to have everybody around the show start dressing a little bit more sexy. Yeah. So, yeah, like a begin Monday, what are you going to be wearing? Probably booty shorts. Oh I like that booty shorts and like just like a halter toop of some short, we're going to need to get a sponsor
by like a spray tan company or something. Yeah, no shit, we are me and you not Vond obviously are the tailest people in this building. Very pale. I got a snail mail card. And the reason I wanted to acknowledge this is because Mandy Montagne in Lonsdale, Minnesota. I hope I said her name right. She sent me a bunch of stamps, a bunch of postage stamps for the Minnesota Goodbye. She sent me forty postage stamps.
Oh nice. And I've had her card sitting over here in the corner of the studio for a couple of weeks, and I don't want her to think that I blew it off or didn't appreciate it. So I'm going to read part of what she wrote. She sends a card and it says, Dave Ryan show here. I am finally putting a paper and sending some number one fan Mailaw. I'm a longtime listener, like since elementary school and now I'm
early forties old the good old fashioned way, I might add. You see, I'm a mail carrier, so I got to keep those letters going. My peeps keep sending those Christmas cards, Dave. I also worked part time at a restaurant. Been in the industry since I was fourteen. Jenny and I could exchange stories for days. I'm sure like nicknames for the regulars, whether we like them or dislike them. Here's some in our place, drunk mom, what's on tap? Guy, Strawberry, no teeth lady, and
fish lips. So did you have regulars that you would give nicknames to? We did have some regulars, and when I worked at the Straight Og in Northeast, but I didn't work there frequent enough to probably have a nickname for them. Bubba Gumps was a tourist spot, so we didn't really have regulars. Right, Oh that makes sense. Yeah, anyway, she says, I've enclosed some stamps to assist your sticker mailing. No, I don't get
a discount, but I'm happy to help. I do not currently have any stickers on my water bottle, but I'm hoping someday to get some, Dave, If you didn't know, the Roadhouse in Henderson is opening back up this spring as a brewery and revamp bar and grill. That's good news. I hear you say. You come through on your bike sometime. Hope to run into you. All right, sincerely, your newest staff writer, Mandy.
Thank you, Mandy. I so appreciate that. Yea, there is another email that came in and I want to find it here, just if you can give me a second. Here we go, Okay, here we go. I have two rants about two topics this morning. First, the chump of casino ads are annoying as fuck, but maybe the Lady Land Lucky Land casino ones are just as bad. Oh, this is when we read last week, I think because they said why do we still hear Fallons Valentine to
add for Lundson byer Lees before the minute so to goodbye. She wrote that on March twenty six, and it's annoying af I think Bailey's doing a great job filling in, as is Vaunt and so yeah, I think we did read this last week. We did, didn't we? That's Annie in Roseville. Okay, So I'm gonna hit delete, and that's why I try to remember to hit delete on these so I don't go back and read them again. But obviously I did not. All Right, here we go from Katie.
She lives in Virginia. She says, I don't know if that's Virginia, Minnesota or Virginia the state. I'm currently sitting at sky Zone and something's really getting on my nerves, probably more than it should thanks to raging pregnancy hormones. So please tell me if I'm overreacting. There are two kids running
around in an area that has closed off due to no staff supervision. My first thought is whatever, But as I walk further, their mom is close by, not only watching them break the rules, but videoing them having a grand old time. I just can't with how some aware, how unaware some parents are. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a perfect parent, probably on my phone too much or allow a little bit too much TV. But in public, I always know where my kid is and make him aware of
what's appropriate and what's not. Dart Lick always diddling the bean Kate from Virginia, Kate, I love that so much. I do think that if you have little asshole kids, you become so numb to them being little assholes that after a while it's just part of your day. Except for she said that the mom was recording them, so she was basically encouraging them to be little assholes and go in the area that was closed off. Yeah, I know, I don't know. There's some it's kind of the same people that don't
clean up after their dog or let their dog poop in your yard. Why how can you think that's okay? But some people just do and will never figure it out? Yeah? Why do some people never mow their lawn? I don't know. Why do some people litter? Yeah, there's just I don't know. I don't get it. That would have definitely burned me up too, but I wouldn't have said anything. You know, what can you do? Yeah, she didn't say anything, did you. I don't think
so. Yeah. All right, next one, I well, I'm gonna come back to that one, because that is maybe not something for the Minnesota Goodbye. Let's try this one. I'll jump right in and get straight to the point, says Sydney. I watched a movie on Netflix this weekend called On the Line. Spoiler free in case you have not, but the movie's about a nighttime radio host veteran played by Mel Gibson named Elvis. A craze listener calls in and says he's got his wife and family kidnapped and the building
is rigged with explosives, then makes him participate in some horrible games. Won't say much more so I won't give away the ending, but the last ten minutes or so really took me for a twist. If any of you have seen it, a to know what you thought. If you haven't, I'd recommend it wasn't the best movie I've ever seen, but one of the better Netflix movies I've watched in a while. Also, Dave, hope your son is adjusting well to the new Bundle of Joy. That's it for now,
Sydney. Somebody brought this up that sounds like an old mel Gibson movie. Is that a new one? I don't know, because it did start showing up on my Netflix too, But I think Netflix starts to push ones that just came out, but they're not necessarily new. Because I just watched a movie from like a year and a half ago, Okay, that was like
not new new, but it was getting pushed. Okay, there was a mel Gibson movie about thirty darn it about thirty years ago where mel Gibson was like a TV star or something and somebody kidnapped his family and mel Gibson said, I'm going to turn the tables on you kidnappers. I'm not going to give the ransom to you. I'm going to put a price on your head. So if people come and kill you, I will give them the million dollars. And he's like, bring me back my family was one of the
taglines. Does that ring a bell at all? It doesn't. No talk for a second, Jenny, because I get some water. I just looked at the on the line. It did come out in twenty twenty two, so that's like almost two years old at this point. But it's still new to Netflix, I think, And so that's probably why it's been getting pushed because I saw it on my recommended or pot list or whatever top movies right
now. I saw that this weekend on Netflix. Okay, God, Okay, I'm going to stop and get some water and I'll be right back and you won't even notice I'm gone. Okay, just went to the kitchen, got some water. We'll see how this goes. There is a Mel Gibson movie nineteen ninety six called Ransom Okay, and basically it says his son is kidnapped. Initially, he agrees to pay the ransom, but then decides to use the ransom money as bounty instead. It is an intense action crime thriller
that keeps you on the edge of your seat. I saw this movie. It was a dog Oh yeah, because the whole plot. It was one of those movies where the whole plot was given away in the trailer. Oh, there was nothing more that was interesting except they kidnap his son. He agrees to pay the million dollar ransom. Then he's like, fuck it, I'm going to turn this into a bounty on the kidnappers. So they're coming after you now, so then the kidnappers. It sounds like a thrilling idea,
but it just kind of fell flat after that. And the best part of the movie was in the trailer. I was just going to say you even saying that, of what the trailer was, I feel like I understood what was going to happen in the movie and I haven't seen it. Yeah, it was just so it's interesting that twenty five years later there's a movie called On the Line where mel Gibson is playing a DJ. It's so funny because mel Gibson playing a DJ. Mel Gibson's prob bubbly seventy two years old.
Think so how old is Mel Gibson. Well, I like can lunk real quick, but I guess I didn't know he is sixty eight years old. Okay, Yeah, he's not as old as I thought he was. Mel Gibson was such a hunk back in the day. Go back and look at mel Gibson. Like nineteen seventy nine, he was in a movie called The Road Warrior, which is one of my favorite movies of all time,
The Road Warrior. He was so hot. But what's funny is his Australian accent was so thick in the original Road Warrior in nineteen seventy nine or so, they had to overdub it with another actor because mel Gibson's accent was so thick. Oh yeah, I'm liking these pictures I'm seeing of him in like all leather. Mm hmmmm. I still think he's actually quite attractive for sixty
eight years old. Yeah, he's not particularly well thought of because he had some like racial and sexist outbursts recently, so he's not really looked at with the same reverence that he was. Yeah back in the day. Let's see here. This is from Amber. She says, I've been catching up on the Minnesota Goodbye. One of my favorite episodes had a listener sin in the phrase I don't give a dart's lick. I'm not sure I could work that into one normal conversation, but it made me laugh. We recently had a
handyman finishing odd jobs around the house. He usually deals with my husband, but one night he came by my husband was at work to pick up a check and finish up something. My four year old son, who is currently obsessed with superheroes, put on his superhero gear and sat at the top of the stairs to keep an eye on him while he worked. Later that night, I was reading to my son before bed, and my husband came home
from work and came into his room to finish reading with us. I told my husband our son is being a hero and protecting me and his baby brother. While the handyman worked in perfect dead pan voice, my son said, yeah, I was watching him. He was fucking weird. What My husband and I were in shock and had to correct him while not bursting into hysterical laughter. What is something surprising or crazy? Your kids said as a child, I would love a staff writer sticker. My address is below. I
don't give a dart's lick while diddling the bean. That is Amber in Imburgrove Heights. Picture taken Alison. We went to Bear Country, USA. She's five years old. The bear squaded in front of our car and Alison said, he's shitty and we laughed because it was, like Alis said, but it was so unexpected. Yeah, and her little five year old, innocent
mind, that's what came to mind. Yeah. So Tim Burger writes in listening to Friday's Minnesota Goodbye about birthdays and the person whose birthday is close to Thanksgiving. Not sure if it works the same for adults, but this is what we do with my five year old's birthday, November twenty eighth, which
is either on or right around Thanksgiving. After two years of not a lot of people being able to make it to his party, we started doing a half birthday party, so around the middle of May, when it starts getting nice outside, we throw his party. Thin. This also works in the sense that, as somebody whose birthday is also in November and could never have any type of party outside, you're not relegated to doing something just indoors.
Anyway. I know birthdays have been overly mentioned, but I wanted to share that quickly. Thank you, Tim. That's one thing about having a birthday in Minnesota anytime between probably middle of October, middle of May. You don't know what kind of weather you're gonna get. Yeah, I'm May seventeenth. So like, I've had birthdays where it's been gorgeous, and I've had birthdays
where it's been just downpour rain the whole time. I planned a huge party one year and it was supposed to be mostly like outside, and I had to shove everyone into my small, two bedroom apartment and we had like forty people there. So that was fine. Forty people, Yeah, and mostly like kickball friends. Okay, I Yeah. Alison's birthday, who's always been indoors, used to be at kid Quest. I used to remember all of Allison's birthday parties, and I don't anymore. McDonald's kids Quest, my mom
and Dad's house. She turned four, but they've all been indoors. Carson's birthday is April first. He used to go to Skyzone. They had a karate birthday party at his karate studio one time. I don't really remember. Yeah, Okay, next one, Sonya writes in Movie Theater Etiquette, Dave Ryan Crewe wanted away in on the movie theater etiquette issue that came up on yesterday's pod. I'm also a frequent moviegoer and experience issues with other patrons.
I think teenagers are often given a bad rap, but I experienced problems with the fifty five plus cruise just as often as teenagers. They talk with a band in to their neighbors during the movie at full volume. They pull out their phones on full brightness to read text or look at Facebook. The actual turn on the flashlight on their phones to find the change they drop on the floor. So often it's a fifty five plus person or group that I find
sitting in maya assigned seats. I then politely and quietly explain that they are assigned seats and they need to move to their own seats. They will respond rudely and loudly, making excuses, and often not go before arguing for a while. That's just my two cents. If teenagers get demonized for their behavior, the same should happen to fifty five plus ers. Keep up the great work and bring Bailey back as often as you can. I love that girl,
Sonya. I think that's really interesting because I wouldn't have expected that, but I can definitely see some like I don't know, stubborn, privileged, cranky ish fifty five year old plus that are annoyed and annoying at the movie. Yeah, I don't like I said, I don't go to movies enough to be able to judge any kind of age group. Oh that's right, Yeah you really don't. Okay, let's move back up to this one. Hold on one second. No to that one, and no to that one.
Here's one from our friend Mike. Okay, Minnesota, goodbye, a senior staff writer, BFF and buddy of the show Mike. Here quick thoughts on paternity leave, because we had somebody on the show today. Chase got six weeks paternity leave. Woman named Don called at about eight o'clock this morning and said men should not get paternity leave. Yeah, and basically said that they just go play golf, sleep in, and they don't help at all, So it's kind of a waste of time. Some quick thoughts. I
didn't get it. Would have loved to have had it. It's paternity leave, not a vacation. It should be used to serve mom and baby, not sleeping in, golfing, playing video games, etc. If permitted. The leave should be taking as the mom would want, right after the baby's born, or when she's returning to a routine, whatever she wants. Guys, if you're a slug, do better. If you're a servant leader, keep it up again. Thanks for all you do and impacting so many All
right, your buddy, Mike. I don't understand. And Jenny and I were talking about this on the way in today, bad parents, and we just can't. We were talking about somebody who's got a bad dad, and I said, I just don't understand why somebody it's so easy to be a good dad, or at least try that. I don't know what I would
have to do to be a bad dad. I think one thing that I would give an exception for is if you're broke, impoverished, and you're working all the time and you can't spend time with your kids, then you don't get a pass. But it's more understandable if you don't get to spend time with your kids and maybe you're like always absent or always tired or whatever. But I've known so many people with a bad mom or a dad, and
I don't understand it because I've loved my kids so much. It's been the best thing that I've experienced in my life is being a dad, And so I don't know why people would want to fuck that up. Yeah, I've got pretty great parents. They weren't great together, they had a bad marriage, but they're great as parents. So I've been pretty lucky in that aspect of things. But I do know plenty of friends. It's wild to grow up and be very naive as a child, thinking that everyone has good parents
and they live in a great household and stuff like that. And then you grow up and you realize what people actually might have gone through or are going through with their relationships with their parents, and it makes me very sad for some people that I'm friends with that have not great relationships with their parents. No, And I feel bad for him because my mom and dad were wonderful
and not perfect, but wonderful. My memories of my childhood, the bad ones are mostly me fucking up and getting in trouble, never my mom and dad, all right. Last one from rain Hey Bestie's catching up on the podcast. When Bailey mentioned how nobody came to her birthday party. As she said this, I was literally putting up balloons for my son's birthday party in
a couple of hours. This was written on Friday. With the exception of my sister and sister in law, everybody that was invited did not show up. They either ghosted or canceled that morning. So hearing Bailey talk about how sad she was made me even sadder for my sweet little boy. He's only two, so he doesn't really understand, but my heart broke for him. I had gone all out for his party. It was themed to look like
Blues Clues. Threw up in my house and stayed up until six thirty in the morning, making his birthday cake to serve twenty four people, only to send most of it home with my sister in law. And she put pictures of her adorable little boy, Oh my God, and a little table that she set up with Blues Clues decorations and cupcakes and cups and plates and napkins and a beautiful Blues Clues birthday cake. And he's two, so he doesn't understand it. I feel my heart breaks more for mom. I'm going to
get emotional because she expected a big crowd of people to be there. Two people showed up. I was super annoyed. I put so much effort at this party and made me want to never go all out like that again. But watching my baby boy's eyes light up, seeing his decorations, balloons, cake and presence just reminded me that I will always go the extra mile and be on for my kids, even if nobody else shows up. His mama will always be there. Photo a party included, because I'm pretty impressed with
it. All right, she signs off, Rain, I'm going to spin the screen around the picture. I'm going to spin the screen around. It's a little bit of a tight squeeze to spin, and I usually end up unplugging the computer when I do it. Car, But the cake, I can see why it took you amazing. Oh well, he looks very cute and you did a great job. But look at the table. This is
what breaks my heart. The table that she puts so much effort into, with all the decorations and the Blues Clues flag and the banner and everything. Yeah, and you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna come over there. I'm gonna get the list of all the people who didn't come, and I'm gonna fuck them up. Now, I'm gonna find them and I'm gonna fuck them up. Now, most of these might be the other two year olds. Oh, fuck them right up, Jenny. Now I do that
to make you laugh. Rain. So when I say going to fuck up your guests that didn't show up, I hope it made you laugh. But I do feel bad for you, you know. I think one of the things is sometimes when we feel bad for somebody like Rain, they don't feel that bad for themselves. Rain is not sitting over there going oh poor me. But I feel bad for Okay, enough and that is it for the Minnesota goodbye. Let's see how long we went today, Jenny. We're gonna
play how long did we go? Lottery? How long did we go? Twenty four minutes? I have no idea because the the reporter it stopped and then started again. But I'm gonna guess probably close to twenty minutes or so. But I think at the end of every podcast, I'm going to ask you how long you think we went? Ok So, Jenny says, twenty four minutes. I don't know because our timer is off. That's it. Have a great day. Respond with movie theater stories, birthday stories. Respond
with something new you want to bring up. Respond with what was the other one? Birthday parties and kids being assholes, movie theaters, whatever you want to talk about, we love. It's your show. You come up with the content, we just read it and send that content into Ryan's show at KDWB dot com