All right, let's get started with the man is soa goodbye. I just sent out a bunch of staff writer stickers the other day and I ran out of envelopes, so I ordered a bunch on Amazon. I ordered five hundred envelopes. Nice, so I think it was maybe twenty five bucks for five hundred envelopes something. Not a bad deal. That isn't too bad. Not a bad deal. Postage is what kills me because when I send out letters or stickers, it's a sixty six stamp on each one. So you send
out ten, you already you're out ten six dollars. You got to get start being targeted by Instagram ads like my mom because she has been targeted about some stamps where she can get like a whole roll of them for a very cheap price, like probably half a percentage, And it sounds like it would be illegal, but she's done it once before and the stamps worked fine.
So she like just got targeted ads again on Instagram like two months ago, right before Christmas and bought a whole nother role and it was super cheap for the stamps. Okay, that sounds the illegal, I know, That's what I'm saying. If they work, they work. Shout out to my friend Nate and also especially to a guy named Patrick Ohlsen who venmoed me a bunch of money a couple of weeks ago to keep the podcast expenses to a minimum.
Yeah, and he didn't have to do that. I mean, there's no budget for the podcast, So for the stickers and the letters and the envelopes and the postage, that's all on me. But also thanks to Nate and Patrick for jumping in, because you certainly didn't have to do that. Let's jump into the emails and see what we got for today, guys, was just thinking that I'm curious if you'll ask this question for me, if you're not from Minnesota like myself, or you've never been there, how and
when did you find the Dave Ryan Show? Well, that's really interesting now, Andrews in Ohio. A lot of people have found the show by going on the iHeartRadio app and they were attracted by the tag line that said now with nearly seven listeners. Yeah, and I'm really proud of that because the company, because the company, in a company like this, everybody wants to be safe, safe, safe, and not take chances, but to get
anywhere in life, you gotta take a chance. You gotta go to school, which is a big risk because you're gonna spend a lot of money and you might not get a job in that field, or you might move out of your mom and dad's house. That's a risk. You got to take the risk of failing because you know you can't. So anyway, I wrote the tagline now with nearly seven listeners, which people liked because it said this show's funny and they make fun of theirselves. So a lot of people found
us that way. Yeah, Andrew goes on to say, for me, I was working as a janitorial maintenance associate in twenty six twenty twenty seventeen, and I was looking for something just besides Dave and Jimmy my local morning zoo in Columbus to tune into. I found your show, Elvis Duran, and a few others, and you guys top my list of entertainment Elvis Duran coming in sec And I honestly never will fully understand why that show gets so much hype from your company. But anyway, to this day, your show tops
my list. I actually listened to it more often than the local show and anymore anymore, since honestly, they've gotten pretty uninteresting most of the time, and you guys continue each day to find new and entertaining content and I love it. Wow, that's very very flattering. Thanks you guys for keeping us entertained and making a great show in multiple great podcasts. Dart Lick Andrew in Ohio. Let me go back to Dave and Jimmy. I used to work
on that station. Oh really, Dave replaced me when I left. It's WNCI. Dave Kaylin replaced me. And it's funny because we were Dave John and Sean Dave John and Seawan on the Morning Zoo, and they laugh because when I left, they didn't have to change the name. It was still Dave John and Sean. Oh okay, because Dave Kaylen replaced me. And Jimmy, who is a they're both such great people. They really are just
such great people, and Jimmy is everybody's friend. Everybody loves Jimmy. When I was there, he was an intern and he went to Ohio State and he was just funny and lovable and he is so talented. Elvis Duran, I'm not going to knock Elvis Duran, but I will say that there are a lot of people who say our show is better than Elvis Durant's, and I think it's because, you know, I think our show is really good. And I don't know anything about Elvis duran show, but I know that
there are an ass load of people on his show. But I'm not going to make him us they're like twelve people on the show. I'm not going to knock Elvis Durant show because I don't know anything about it, but I do believe our show is a really good show. So thank you. I appreciate that Nexed we Dave, thanks so much for reading my words. I know it was long as hell and probably uncomfortable for morning show podcast fodder. I actually appreciate that you didn't read my email on the air because I didn't
want people to recognize her story. Basically, she wrote in and talked about an abusive not abusive, but an awful husband yep, and how immature he is, and she went on for I mean probably a full screen of text, and it was and my question was, why do you stay with this guy? I don't know why she stays with him. Your show truly helps me feel better and brings me a sense of normalcy. When the emotional roller coaster is dominating my mind, I realize my current situation is unsustainable, unhealthy,
codependent, fucking mental whiplash all up in her. I could give examples of some of the dumb shit that I've gotten yelled at over the past month, but it's probably best to trauma dump on a licensed professional instead. I'm starting to think I might have to end the relationship. What she wrote in absolutely says that, and again I didn't read it on the air, but
absolutely just a terrible, spoiled, awful, self centered human. Yeah, and the she says with love and dart licks and I'm not going to say her name, going to skip that one because they're just asking for a sticker. Here we go, Dave, what does Alison do for a job? I don't need to know where she works if you're not comfortable sharing that, just curious since we know what Carson is doing. You probably mentioned it and maybe I missed it. Also, Dave, did you and Susan want more
kids after Carson? My mom told me she always wanted to have a fourth kid, but they never did. I was very surprised when she told me that Alison works at Target Corporation. She's a buyer, yep, and that means that she will, you know, they'll reassign her, like one day she was in like little girls accessories like hair bows and bracelets and things like that. When she first started, she was in laundry baskets and coat hangers.
I was gonna say, how often does she switch? Because I've had so many friends who have been buyers for a Target, and I feel like they stick somewhat to the same section of Target. I guess you'd say, yeah, I don't know. She doesn't really talk about work that much much. I know she loves her job, but I also if she wants to bring it up, she'll bring it up, and I'll bring I like,
how's work, She's like, oh, it's fine. But instead we actually got to talking about politics yesterday, and I'm not going to get into it, but it was really It's really interesting how Alison and I don't agree on everything politically, but we openly and respectfully discuss it, and it was really interesting to It's so fun when your kids get older and they're no longer your little kid, but there's somebody that you're so bonded with and you can talk
to them on a whole different level. I mean, I hope you can with your parents. Yeah, I mean, I definitely think I can with my parents, but we stay away from the politics topic because, yeah, pretty opposite of what my mom believes. I know, Jenny, do you think you and Andrew would still be together if you hadn't broken up? My now husband and I broke up for a while, and I know if we hadn't broken up when we did and gotten married when we were engaged, it
probably would have ended in divorce. We were not ready for marriage, and I think it would have ended badly. So do you think that you would have been together if you hadn't broken up years ago? That's a really good question. I would say probably we could have made it work. But I think our relationship is so healthy and what it is today because we went and lived separate lives for a while and we grew up, like we really grew
up in those years that we were apart. So I think that, Like, I couldn't say for sure, but I think it's probably better that we did break up. I would not say that in the moment. I was very heartbroken back then, but I am happy now because I lived like a good life of becoming super independent in those in between years. So yeah, a heartbreak is so tough, it and sometimes it just seems like it's never going to go away. And I know several people right now going through heartbreak
and it is just it is just it's the worst. Yeah, it really is. No until it happens, like I feel so bad because my sister always had boyfriends, my older sister, and she would like when they would break up, I'd just be like, get over it, like come on, And I never understood it until it happened to me, and I was like, man, I was insensitive back then, but you don't know.
And it's like, go date somebody else, get over it. And I will tell you that dating somebody else puts you back on that high for a while, and that person likes you and you get to make out and make
pizza and go to dinner and hook up and all those wonderful things. But I think that sometimes the whole rebound relationship doesn't always work because then once you settle in and once the excitement wears off, you go back to I really miss what I had with that other person, and that's when we talked about last week, gravitating towards the safe relationship yep, instead of the one that really made you feel a loe. All right, last paragraph email, you
guys were talking about songs reminded you have things? What about smells? Every morning, when I walk down to the kitchen and smell my coffee, it reminds me of all my trips to Las Vegas and I would walk to Starbucks by the Flamingo Hotel and get my coffee. I've been in Starbucks in different states, but for some reason, it always takes me back to that particular
Starbucks. You know what. I love that one. When there's a certain coffee smell that I smell, that reminds me of my first radio station because I'd walk in it would smell kind of like burnt coffee. It was a small, small radio station, so the coffee pot drifted all over the building, and so when I smell burnt coffee, it takes me back to when
I was eighteen years old and worked at my first radio station. I can't think of any right now except for sunscreen will always take me back to the many years we spent in the Wisconsin Dolls because my Oh, my uncle always he worked for a radio station. He got us free tickets to Noah's Ark, so we went to the dolls a lot. And I was always lathered in sunscreen for that. So, yeah, smells are so like, I
don't know, powerful to take you back to a certain place. I know, and I think that they said that smell is one of the strongest senses to bring you back to your memory, Like it's not. You think it would be sight, but I think smell is higher up than sight is for some reason. I think it's really true. A late addition to the emails that deals with something we just talked about a moment ago on the radio show Hello, longtime listener, love you guys so much. Listen to you guys
to Jenny's fun facts. Want to add another weird fact about kangaroos because Jenny had a fun fact about kangaroos. Yeah, they can't jump backwards, but also that their pouches are really gross inside. That's what I don't want to look. You will not believe it, but female kangaroos have three vaginas and two uteruses, and male kangaroos have a two pronged penis. So random but I thought it'd be good fodder for the Minnesota Goodbye. Thanks you guys,
let me know this qualifies for a staff rider sticker. Yes, and her name is Siri, but you did not your address series, So right back and I will be happy to get you a Minnesota Goodbye sticker or yes, a staff writer sticker. The next one. The entire time watching the Grammy Awards, I couldn't stop thinking the background was a giant buttthole. Anyone else that is from Stephanie, I know what you're talking about. It was like a hole in the middle of the stage. I don't know what it's signified,
and I did not notice. But I did not think because I'm not twelve years old, Stephanie, that looked like a giant butthole. But I love the way your mind works. Next one, I listen all the time, and you guys have really helped me become a better adult. I'm really interested to hear what you all think about the saying agree to disagree. Okay, so when you say something like, well I really like the cherry in the spoon, I think the cherry in this poon is garbage, Well,
will agree to disagree. I think it's kind of annoying when you say we agree to disagree. But at the same same time, I think it's a way of saying, you know what, let's not argue about it anymore, you know, like, yeah, yeah, any thoughts. I don't think I ever really use that saying, and I don't think many people have said it to me, So I don't think I have many thoughts because it's not really in my life very often. But I've definitely probably used it before I
could. I just don't think I care. I will agree to disagree. I'm a bit frustrated. I really want to stick her from my favorite radio show. I talk about you guys all the time, but I've written in twice recently for a sticker, and both have not been read. Am I on a blacklist? If I am, no worries, No you're not, I will still listen and just stop bothering you guys. No, we love
it. A lot of the time, we don't read them because it'll be a repeat of something that we've talked about a whole lot, or it's a little bit too long, or or honestly, sometimes it just is not great
content. So somebody, here's something that we get quite a bit. Somebody will say, hey, listen to this audio or watch this video, and then I'd love to hear your thoughts, and we just don't because we're it's difficult in our primitive equipment to set up listening to audio that you mail in and funneling it into the audio for the Minnesota Goodbye, So we don't often do that, but we will send you a staff writer sticker, and that is to Caitlin. Let me take a picture of that. Okay, we're
hitting the lead on that one. We still got more to go. In regards to the lady who does not have health insurance, it says it because she owns her own business, it would be eighteen hundred dollars. I own my own business and I'm a single parent, so it's me and my five year old son, and my insurance that I pay is under five hundred and fifty a month. So I don't know why would be so expensive for her. Is it because you're over fifty? And it probably is. Does it
go up that much? I would say that person definitely needs to do some research and looking around at different companies. I have health partners just as a reference. I hope you all have a great day, your non dart licking staff writer, Christy. Christy, you're missing out number one. Number two. Good for you. I mean, I really think that health insurance is important because you don't want to get stuck with a thirty thousand dollars bill for
a broken collarbone. No, you don't. I've had my fair share of medical incidents, and you know, I'm just always dealing with the medical debt usually right, Yeah, and it can be very expensive. Well. Next one from Jody. She says, when you were mentioning the three things you notice first about someone, we said it is teeth, grammar, and self confidence. They say grammar was totally on my list and surprised to hear it from you. Grammar is a pet pee for me and something I find attractive.
I am a total travel buff and my husband and I even have scratch off maps for where we have traveled together. Where are you each planning or hoping to go next? Thanks for being you from Jody, Thank you, Jody. I love the scratch off travel maps. Susan and I are not big travel motivated people. A lot of people are like, oh, I want to go to I don't know, I'm going to name something stupid Turks and Cacos. Is that a real place. It's beautiful place in the Caribbean,
Okay, no desire to go there. Greece, no desire to go there. Maybe New Zealand, Yeah, just because it seems so remote. I would like to take a cruise to the Antarctic, like a down like off the south tip of South America or after the Drake Passage something like that. Yeah, you got to go through the Drake passage usually what is the Drake Passage? It's basically where I mean, it's just this insane part of the ocean that you risk, like, I mean, you don't risk anything.
They make it through safely. But I just follow some people that have recently done Antarctica trips and they had to delay their ship going a couple of days because the Drake Passage was too aggressive and really and aggressive weather wise. Yeah, like the waves were so aggressive, so like, and though you're on a bigger a cruise ship kind of thing, it couldn't handle it.
So they had to delay it a couple of days. And that's the part of going to Antarctica that I would not be I don't think i'd be able to handle I think I'm more of an adventure traveler. I don't really want I mean, I like going, you know somewhere and go into the pool and you know, go a horseback riding or whatever. But I'm kind of
I think more of an adventure That's what would maybe motivate me. I do want to eventually go to a part of the country I've never really been to, and that's the Cascades in Oregon and Washington, because I've heard it's absolutely beautiful. There's so much history out there, and it would be great to ride the motorcycle. That's the only place that I really definitely want to go to. You should. I haven't been to the Cascades, but I love
Washington and Oregon. Like, I also want to ride the motorcycle to Alaska. That's going to take you know, a week or so to ride up there, like from the Twin Cities. From the Twin Cities ross Canada and ride the motorcycle to Alaska. I mean, that would be an absolutely beautiful ride for the most part. Right, lots of mountain I think are like so landscapes at least, well, I think that Canada is a lot of prairie yep. But I think they also have the Rockies in the western part
like the US does. Next one, let me see whether hold on, I'm checking it to see. Okay, I'm gonna skip that one. So it's just not the perfect Minnesota Goodbye email. And here is another one. Okay, this one's funny. I'm sitting in my car by myself, laughing about the time you had a contest for the band why Don't We and you had to call in when you heard like two why Don't We songs or something like that, and you had to say, I love why Don't Weep?
And why don't We was a boy Why don't We was a boy band. Somebody called in and so excitedly yelled, I love Wyoming remember that? Of course? Sorry, remember that, clearly having no idea what they were winning tickets for. And this randomly pops into my head and makes me laugh because the first time I heard it, I was in tears. I've tried finding the clip on podcast, but I have no idea in the timeframe. Are you able to find that clip and play it on the Minnesota Goodbye or let
me know what podcast episode it's from. I would love to listen to it again. Laugh emoji, love you all, Becky. Would there be a way to find that? I don't even know five years ago or so. I could maybe find the isolated clip of it, but there's no chance I could tell you where to find it on a podcast. That is too difficult. I don't have the research capabilities to do that. I can try to find the clip, though. We could play it tomorrow, Yeah, sure, why not? Yeah, and we'll make an effort to play it.
So basically, we were doing a contest and you called in to win why don't We tickets? But I think you had to hear the song and then you call in and you had to answer the phone. I love why don't we? Well, we always kind of like it's kind of a running thing in our business that people will call to win something even if they don't know what it is. It's kind of like signing up for a raffle and you don't know what the prize is. And I don't blame people. Here's an
example. Porch pirates. You're a porch pirate if you are stealing something off my porch, and it could be a box of tampons, it could be a brand new iPhone, it could be a hairspray. It could be eye drops, it could be anything. You don't know what it is, but you're a porch pirate and you want it. So you take it home, you open it up and go, oh fuck, it's eye drops, and
you throw it away. Wouldn't that be a good analogy? Or people who call in that don't know what they're winning to an extent, I mean, they're not stealing the tickets from oh yeah, good point, but like to an extent. Yeah, So that's what we're going to call people who call in and don't know what they're winning porch pirates. Okay, so, and and we think it's funny because people will often, not often, but sometimes say it will be like, hey, you want tickets or Gail and I'll
be like Gail who it's like Gail the artist. I've never heard of her before. It's like, well, bitch, why did you call in? But people do it all the time, and it kind of sucks because that takes tickets out of the hands of somebody who really wants to go see Gail or why don't we? And that I think is going to wrap it up for the Minnesota Goodbye. I might have one more Oh yeah, Okay, I don't think we've done this one. No we Okay, let me read
it and we'll see what happens. I was listening to the podcast yesterday I stopped dead in my tracks when I heard Jenny talk about canceling a date with somebody from Bumble. About twelve years ago, it was my first time on match dot Com and I linked up with some guy. We talked about going for a walk around the lakes for a first date, and I was nervous since it was my first potential meeting in person date from a dating site.
He requested that I wear tight workout clothes weird, and I decided not to go and I canceled the A hole guy just responded saying how fat I looked and didn't even fit those workout closed nightly nicely or something like that. I too, was in the prime of my fitness and probably twenty five years old, so I know I looked damn good, and he was probably referring to a picture on my profile of doing a fun mud run. And I was like, okay, whatever, are we eight years old just calling people ugly?
I reported him and blocked him. Jenny, what if it was the same person. I hope he is single and live is in mother's basement with a cat. Have a good weekend from Alissa. Uh, probably why he was still single. It could have been the same person, because my story was almost exactly the same. We're supposed to go for a walk around a
lake. I canceled on them last minute and asked to reschedule the next day because I got busy at work that day And then he called me like a hip bearing see you next Tuesday, said that word I don't even like saying it, and just made all kinds of references to my physical appearance. And I was like, she just said I was like the skinniest I ever was at that time, So I'm like he but he was like almost calling me
fat in the way that he was referencing me. And then he did block me after I hadn't responded to him, but I got to see those messages first. So that was that, you know, And it's a shame that there are guys that act that way because then you just get jaded on dating and guys and things like that. And I will tell you you did the right thing if you said wear tight workout clothes for our first date. What a fucking weirdo. Sorry, Okay, I think I have one more.
I've been listening to Dave Ryan Show since elementary, but definitely in middle school. For context, I'm a twenty six year old male grew up in Burnsville, have very fond memories of listening to War the Roses sitting. I think we might have read this when sitting in my high school parking lot waiting for Dave to announce the jingle ball lineup. So I either read it. I think we might have read it. Okay, anyway, so if we already read it, then I'll go ahead and skip that one. But I do
have a staff rider sticker on the way. Bailey, thank you very much, and that's going to do it for the Minnesota goodbye. Go ahead and send your emails to Ryan's show at KDWB dot com