I'm going to start the podcast off with a discussion that Jenny and I were having off the air that I said, oh, let's talk about this on the podcast on the Minnesota Goodbye, And it's going to be a little bit of a confession. Now we get this quite a bit, and I'm not going to be specific and hurt anyone's feelings, because I just you know,
you never want to hurt anybody's feelings. But once in a while people will say, hey, you remember the time that I called in and I was on the radio and it was all about my dog and my dog and my gotta blud away and I and we don't remember. And Jenny had a story too. Again, you're not going to get specific about somebody who swore you would remember something, right, And it was a very touching story. And I was like yeah, yeah, yeah, and I just like tried to
rack my memory. I just don't remember it at all. And it's and so I told Dave, I just I feel like we do have pretty unique jobs where we hear so many stories and we create so many segments ourselves that were just like constantly, there's like something new every single day with us. Yeah, but it's so hard to really like latch on to specific things that happened during the show and always remember them. And people will come to me all the time and say, do you remember the time that you had Ben
Affleck on the show and he called you stupid? And I'm like, honestly, I don't, And I just I think it's because the way my brain works is kind of like we don't remember dreams for a reason. Like you'll wake up and you know you just had a powerful or interesting or fun dream or whatever, but you can't remember it a lot of the time, yep. And I think there's part of our makeup that says, you don't need to remember that dream. Your mind doesn't need to be cluttered up with meaningless
shit that never happened, So you don't remember dreams. And I think it's a good thing we don't remember dreams, because a lot of the time you'd be like, did I dream that? And I think that sometimes I wish I could remember things that happened on the show. But I think my mind if it remembered everything that happened on the show, it would be full of thirty something years of stuff. And I wish I could remember, trust me,
there is some that I remember, no question, Yeah. But a lot of the time when people say, remember you had me and my husband on one time because we were deciding blah blah blah, and I feel bad. But many times I don't remember. Hm. I mean I just I think okay, And also I think we talked about this, I don't know in the last year that like you have to forgive yourself that like when you walk into a room and you like forget what you walked into that room for.
You just kind of have to forgive yourself because like we're just like constantly consuming things every single day with our phones now too, we're just constantly consuming things. That's just not your brain just it's going to pick and choose what it wants to remember, and it definitely latches onto things that are really hurtful or are really amazing. You know, like it's kind of like one of
the two. You know, maybe that's it is. Because you know, somebody came in and they like, oh, we were on the show and my husband and I were arguing about whether to get a puppy. To me, that's fine, but to me it was just another day at work. Whereas for them, they got to be on the radio, and they got to be on KTWB. But for me, it was just another day at
work. So maybe it's like a football player might not remember a particular football game if it was just an average football game, but if it was one where they broke their collarbone or won the championship, they'll remember. Of course. Speaking of phones, we were talking about the rectangle yesterday and whether what's the rectangle? Oh, it's the phone, Sarah writes in, and she said, yes, I use the term rectangle for my phone. It could
also be for a computer or TV. I suppose I like it because it devalues it in a way, like it's not some huge important focus of your life, just a rectangle. I hope that makes sense. Yeah, Sarah, I appreciate that. It's funny. I think sometimes about what a miracle it is our cell phone. Yep, and just like just miraculous. Can you stall for a minute because I want to look up something. It is an old radio shack ad that. Do you know what I'm talking about?
I don't know, Okay, I don't remember. I just know that it's it's weird to think that only about ten years ago, I didn't even have a smartphone because I was one of the last people to get a smartphone because I had to pay for everything on my own whatever. I didn't want to pay the money. And now it's like, I can't imagine going through life without like a GPS on my phone and being able to like Google something really quick. And just ten maybe a little more than ten years ago, probably
more like twelve. Yeah, I finally like got that first smartphone. And now it's like everyone who is born now and is growing up, they don't know a life before that without a smartphone. They just don't. This is so crazy. It's an older article that came out ten years go exactly everything from this nineteen ninety one radio shack ad you can now deal with your phone. So it shows an ad from nineteen ninety one that was a newspaper ad
for radio shack. Everything in this ad you can now do with your phone. Let's dive in everything that's advertised. First of all, here is a all weather radio. Your phone is a radio. Now Here is a AMFM clock radio. Your phone, of course, now is an AM FM clock radio. In ear stereo headphones, well, you got your air pods or your earbuds or whatever, and that is now part of your phone. A micro thin calculator. Advertise at radio shack. A radio shack if you don't
know, it was like a mini best buy. They sold electronics, and here they sold alator. Now your phone is a calculator. Next one is a computer, and your phone, of course, is now a computer that does so many things. Emails, word processing, good, well, whatever, you have a question about Google. Yes, another one, a mobile cellular telephone is in this advertisement, and it is of course that's your phone.
Deluxe portable CD player. Well, your phone doesn't play CDs, but you don't need it to anymore because you can do you know, iHeartRadio, A compact ten channel digital desktop or desktop scanner. This is like fire calls, police calls. There are apps that you can listen to fire calls, police calls. Another one a easy to use phone answerer. Now your phone's got voicemail, a voice actuated cassette tape recorder. You got voice memos and
record. Another one's speakers. Your iPhone's actually got a decent speaker on it. Yeah, you know, a decent speaker. And finally a vhscmquorder. Well, your phone is now a camcorder as well. So all of these things that are in this ad from nineteen ninety one are now on your phone. It's crazy. We can't live without them. No, all right, next one. This is a longer one, and I might save it because it's a little bit dicey and it's got some racist accusations in there, and
it's not exactly the brand for the Minnesota Goodbye. But basically, they went to a hotel downtown and they went to celebrate and go to the Twins game whatever, and they stayed at a place downtown and they said, I've been in Minneapolis my entire thirty years of life for Twins games, Vikings games. I used to call this place home for six years. I went to school there and worked there. Now sadly, I don't know if I'll ever be
back. Basically, it makes me uncomfortable to read about it. But they said they were falsely accused of being racist and of using racial slurs and acting in a threatening manner. This is not true. We simply asked the front desk staff about parking after we got to the hotel after the game. The lady working at the front desk was rude, very uninformative and acted like she didn't have time to talk to us. My mom then asked to speak to
a manager because we were getting nowhere with her. She stated he would be in the morning, and my mom said great. We went to our room. About an hour and a half later, we had two men pounding on
our door stating we were being kicked out of the hotel. And it goes on a little bit longer, but we said we didn't do anything, We didn't do anything, We didn't do anything, and the cops came, and the cops said, you know, you really don't want to kick out these people at twelve o'clock in the morning with two kids, four and a half hours away from home. The cops even said we don't think it's right,
and the manager said, I don't care. So they contacted corporate multiple times, saying, please look at the video, please look at the audio to clear our names. Can you imagine being accused of doing something racist that you did not do. Yeah, and of course it's a he said she said thing at this point, but they said, look at the audio, look at the video to clear our names. And they said that the hotel will do it and get back to us, but they have not gotten back to
them, and it's like they read the reviews of the hotel. They said, this is not an isolated incident. I've read one hundred plus reviews on different sites about this hotel. There seems to be a common theme. Rude front desk staff, hotel staff, unsafe, environment, run down, dirty, etc. The list goes on. And they said it's not right that a hotel can accuse anyone of anything and get away with it, and that they are standing by their employees one hundred percent and refusing to look at the
video or audio to prove our innocence. I'm sorry you went through that. I don't know what the truth is. Yeah, I mean I really don't, but I'm sorry you went through that. That would be horrible. I don't really have anything to add to that except that I think that downtown Minneapolis is fine, but a lot of people don't want to go down there because the perception is it's not fine. Yes, and I am one who does go down there a lot, and I find it to be perfectly fine.
But I know that, like some things make other people uncomfortable that I'm okay with. So, like if there is a homeless person on the corner trying to talk to me. That doesn't bother me. And I know that some people get uncomfortable with stuff like that, you know, so like to them, they just look at it differently than I do. True. You know what's interesting, Jenny is that the sticking by the employees one hundred percent sounds
admirable. But I think that's a mistake and a little experience that I've told you about on the show before myself. Twenty five years ago, I ordered a pizza and breadsticks and the pizza cane, but the breadsticks did not so I called the pizza place and I said, yeah, we got the pizza, but the breadsticks did not come. And the guy said, well, let me check with the delivery guy. Well, the delivery guy said that he delivered the breadsticks, and I said, he didn't deliver the breadsticks.
I promise you, And he said, well, you know what I'm going with my employee. I believe my employee. I have trusted my employee, and it sounds like you are just trying to scam us out of an order of breadsticks. And I'm like, I don't need and order a fucking breadsticks badly enough to lie about it. Yeah, And I was more frustrated, not because I missed out on the bread sticks, but because I was accused of lying. And I'm not one of those people to go the customer is
always right, because the customer is really not always right. Sometimes the customer is an asshole. But I was like, you're accusing me of lying about a three dollars order of breadsticks because your employee, who is lying said that he delivered them. And I was so frustrated it kind of ruined my night. The next day, I called and I'm not going to say the company, but it's a big company that everybody's heard of. And they said, oh my god, I am so sorry. I talked to them, you
know, the district manager, and they said, I'm so sorry. You know what, it sounds like a problem we've had with this store before. And he said, I will get you your bread sticks. I said, no, no, no, I don't want the breadsticks. I don't want them. I just didn't like being accused of lying. If anything like that happened, it's kind of an unusual situation. I you know, off the top of my head, I don't think I have but I you know,
me. I always try to think of every scenario in a situation, and I'm like wondering, I'm like, did the guy who dropped off of your dropped your pizza off? Did he genuinely think he probably did drop the breadsticks off because he can't remember because he just dropped off like ten houses in a row of stuff. But it's not fair to you. You're still they should have righted there wrong no matter what, and believed you. But I was
like, maybe the guy genuinely who did deliver it didn't remember. Okay, But if you let's say that you work for a pizza place and you, like Jenny, the guy called these online too, he said you didn't deliver his breadsticks, you would probably say, God, I thought I did. Yeah, Shoot, I mean maybe I didn't. Do you want me to take over another order? I mean? Fuck? I don't think they would lie about And that's what pissed me off, was like, I don't need
your breadsticks bad enough to lie and scam you. No, whoever you talked about the actual store who believed their employee should have still sent out new breadsticks for you somehow, Like that should have been what it's done, because I worked I worked at a restaurant, so I know what we did. Even though yes, it kind of was like the customer is right, we still always made sure that like even if we knew they were wrong, we believed
that. Yeah, and that kind of gets to me a pain. I know somebody who worked in the They worked at the Chilies for a very long time. They were like a Chili's district manager, but they worked their way up, et cetera. And he said, the shit that people would pull, they would come in and they would eat half of their food and then complain about it and try to get it and you know, like something like it was it right, so you know, bring me out another order.
Or people would bring in expired coupons and fight and bitch and say, I didn't know it was expired. I wouldn't have come down here if I knew it was expired. So they would honor the expired coupons and then other shitty stuff. And then the number of people that wouldn't leave a tip. He said it was outrageous that they just people just thought, well, I can get away without leaving a tip, so I won't leave a tip. Yeah, it's crazy. Next one, Hello, Gang don't say my name.
Do either of you have any stories about getting too drunk at a company party. I went to a company party recently, drank way too much and turned into the drunk bathroom girl complimenting everyone. Haha. I haven't done anything embarrassing that I know of other than that, but hearing other stories would help me feel like I am not the only one who drank too much at a company event. Thanks. Send me your stories about drinking too much at a company
event. I would love to hear it. I don't have one myself that comes to mind. I do do it, Jenny. It was when I was an intern here and another intern I got let go after this, but we were all at Star Party, and all the interns had gotten together before Star Party, and we didn't have to work, mind you, we just had tickets because we were interns and we were all twenty one, So we got a hotel room by myth and we pregamed in the hotel room, got
pretty drunk. I didn't do anything bad, but one of the other interns, I think she was like right, she was trying to get into a meet and greet, and then she was writing things, promotional stuff that she shouldn't have been touching and stuff at whatever. She was let go like the next day after that, but we all definitely drank way too much. I
was very intoxicated, and once again I didn't do anything wrong. But I remember Nabisco still worked on the show okay, and he had told me after that that he was like telling me, and I don't remember because I got so drunk that he was like telling me I needed to go back to my hotel because I was like such a mess. He's like, you should go home, you should go home, and I was like, bab fine,
no, what do you mean back in the days? Yep. Luckily I didn't do anything bad or dumb, but I was way too drunk for my liking of It's always the worst feeling to wake up the next day and be like ew yeah. I remember. This was probably twenty or more years ago. There was an intern that was working Star party and we were at one of the local casinos, and at the time, this casino was a dry casino, no drinking. They had pregamed and brought in some booze and little
bottles and they were in intern drinking underage. Then they got in their car and got pulled over by tribal police and that was her last day, never worked to be again again. I don't think that I've been drunk at a station event. I might have, but it's been so long I just don't anymore. But I remember when we were doing Star Party at the quest or
Glam Slam Downtown, which was Prince's old club. It's still there. I think was called Epic for a while, but I don't know what it's called now, And there was one DJ who was a prominent DJ and maybe somebody you've heard about them, not I can say their name, and they got sloppy drunk, like fallen down, sitting, like laying on the floor drunk. And it was like, God, seriously, dude, you you're really
not at a party. You're at a work event. And I've told Carson when you and your buddies from the Love Tour, when you're done with a tour and you all go out for cocktails, you're still working. Remember you're still working. You're not there for fun and you get drunk and you know, throw up on the table and you know, take your pants off. Even if you're out drinking and party and you're still working and he's like really. I'm like yeah, because your boss is still watching you and if you
get drunk and stupid, they'll never forget it. All Right, that's it for the Minnesota Goodbye. We got to wrap up. Send me your stories about getting too drunk at a company party. I love that theme. Thanks for the ideas. Send your emails to Ryan's show at KDWB dot com.