April 22, 2025 • 18 mins
We hear about your signs from the universe, paying off your credit card, and older women dating younger men.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're gonna start calling this podcast. Please don't use my name,
which would be a good name for a podcast. So
I just think, please don't use my name.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Everything is anonymous that you submit, Please.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Don't use my name.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Can I something interesting we brought up on the show?
But on Facebook? What should we talk about less on
the show? And one of the things that people that
they I love it and some people love it. And
I think it's kind of like split is no Phone
Screen or Friday? And I'm not sure what reminded me
(00:32):
of this, but on No Phone Screen or Friday. Some
people love it, some people hate it. One of the
things that people don't like is kids calling in on
no Phone Screen or Friday, because you know, mom will
have little Jacqueline in the back seat and be like,
let's get Jacqueline on the radio. So it's like, hello,
you're on the radio. What's your name? Silence, silence, silence.
Hello are you there, Jackeline? Hi, Jacqueline?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
How are you? Tell them? How old are you? How
old are you? Jacqueline? Tell them how old you are? Five?
And and people hate it? Yeah, people hate it.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
I mean it's because the kids don't want to necessarily
be on the radio, but the moms are yeah, you know,
it would be cute if my kid was on.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
And so people have said no phone screener of Friday,
you can't have kids on. But I think the only
because I don't want to hurt kids feelings say no
kids because they're adorable and they listen to mom, and
I don't want them to think that that mean old
DJ on the radio doesn't want them to be on
the radio. But I think maybe we can make a
rule on no phone screen of Friday. You've got to
be at least sixteen years old to call in, Jenny, what.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Do you think I think that's fair. I just think
that a lot of times we make rules and people
don't follow them. Yeah, the amount of times people call
in and plug some you know, a little tournament their
kids in over the weekend, or like shout outs and stuff.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
So I think you can do it. I just don't
know that at all.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
I have.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I have an idea.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
We have an obnoxious rules violation horn. Okay, so whenever
somebody violates the rules with a kid on the phone
or plugging their event or uh yeah, I want to
do a shout out to my son Bobby hang his
violation horn and then we hang up, and then it
becomes kind of funny, sure, rather than cruel.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
See, I agree that I think it's annoying when the
kids are on and they don't know what to say
because they don't know how to talk on the phone.
But one time, I swear we had like a twelve
year old boy call and he was hilarious because he
had a plan. And I think even adults call in
without a plan for what to say, and so like,
if you're a kid and you have a plan, by
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all means, call in.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Because that kid was hilarious.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I remember him. But that is a very rare occurrence.
And I love kids, and I love the fact that
they're listening to with their mom or dad or whatever.
But you know, we want to keep doing no Phone
Screener Friday because it fills a hole. Jenny is like, yes,
this producer of the show, Jenny loves something that fills
those shows, the holes in the show. So all right,
here's an email, and it starts, don't say my name,
(02:57):
Please don't say my name. Today the gods were looking
out for me. I was driving home from work and
I usually speed. However, for some reason, I look in
the mirror, and from far away, I'm wondering, is that
a cop car behind me? Of course I slow down
so I'm only going about five over. Now the cop
creeps up closer and bam, it is a police car.
(03:19):
The universe was looking out for me. I usually never
look behind me when I'm driving on that highway. I
don't know what led me to look more closely behind
me today, but the speeding ticket did not catch up
to me this time. Now I must ask you you
ever had a time when the universe was looking out
for you? Have a great rest of the day.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Signed.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Please don't say my name off the top of my head. No,
I really I I I'm sure there have been times,
but I can't think of one off the top of
my head. Jenny, have you got anything.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
No that's like a that's something I'd have to rack
my brain on. I'm sure there are, I just can't
think of one. I think the police one has happened
to everybody where. You'll like, you know, be putting something
into your GPS and then put your hands back on
the wheel, look forward, and then see a cop car
and you're like, oh man, good thing.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I wasn't putting this thing into my GPS.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Right when I right.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yeah, But like I think those pop up and you're like,
oh cop, wow, good thing.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I'm not speeding right now. But there's plenty of times
that you drive by cops you don't even realize it.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
So it's just because you see them that you're like,
I've been the universe is looking out for me.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Maybe it's just a coincidence.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I was driving into work one time. I was coming
down I think on Northwest Boulevard in Plymouth. I used
to live on fifty fourth Avenue North in Plymouth, and
I'm coming into work. It's dark, and I saw something.
I don't know what it was that I saw, but
it made me slow down. And an instant, an instant later,
a deer ran in front of my car. Oh So
(04:50):
I don't know what it was that made me slow down,
but I guess maybe that was the universe looking out
for me.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
And get a deer and for the deer.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah, thank you for that one. Let's go to the
next one. This is from Nicole obligatory, longtime listener, first
time writer mention. I've been meaning to write in for years.
I'm finally getting around to it. After telling myself I
got to share this story with Day before he retires.
I'll do my best to keep it short. I'm Alison's
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age so which means about thirty two. Grew up in
Door County, Wisconsin, in a family that didn't have TV.
Because we didn't have TV, my siblings, three of us
spend our time free time that would most likely been
watching TV watching YouTube videos on the family computer. Well,
it was around two thousand and seven. I'm in high school.
We started across your parody the Hollister song, and we
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had no idea who Katie will be or Dave Ryan was,
but the song quickly became a staple in our house.
My dad, who is sixty now, found it hilarious and
was always quote and still does quote the Oh my god, Alison,
give me a break. We're on a beer budget. You
got champagne tastes as he was is a proud frugal individual,
(06:04):
which is the reason we didn't pay for cable in
the first place.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Huh Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
And by the way, when I do that line, it's like,
oh my god, alis soon give me a break. Great,
because I'm trying to do the ludicrous place.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Fast forward to early twenty fifteen. Moved to Minneapolis after
graduation for a job and quickly started listening to your show.
I lived in Minneapolis for two years before moving to
Illinois to be with my now husband. Since I fell
in love with your show in Minnesota, I could continue
to listen while living in Chicago. Listen in one day
at work in Chicago and I heard you mention the
Hollister song and my jaw hit the floor. I had
(06:40):
never made the connection until that moment that the Hollister
song I grew up listening to was created by you.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Woh wow wow, Yeah, talk about science from the universe.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It felt like my world's colliding. Like, what are the
odds that the parody song that was a staple in
my house growing up was based on the same city
I randomly decided to move to post college and created
by the radio show I fell in love with while
I lived there. And I didn't even make the connection
before moving to Illinois. Why that blows my mind? Cool,
that's really blows my mind.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Now years later, lived back in the beautiful state of
Wisconsin and Lake Geneva with my husband of five years
and our two kids still listen to the show. I'll
admit not as regularly as my as I like, but
my life has become so much busier than it once was.
But I always make sure to save up the Minnesota
Goodbye episodes to binge while I'm rocking my three year
old at night. I just wanted to share this random
(07:34):
connection and say I love your show and all that
you do, and let yes, my dad still quotes the
Hollister song to this day. Hmm, thanks for being great.
That is from NICKI.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
That is so cool.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
That was like the email of the month.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Yeah for me, that's so neat too. Because then also
like the fact that instead of having TV, you would
just like mindlessly scroll on YouTube and you just happen
to find the Hollister song.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
That's just so cool of all of the things.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, and the fact that she didn't know that it
was connected to Katie WB and then all of a
sudden you realize, like, oh my god, the radio you're
the ones.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
That came up with the Hart song.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
That's so cool.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I years ago we did a video. It was trending
at the time before trending was even a term, and
the trend was shit Minnesotan say, or shit you know whatever,
like police officers say or shit teachers say. And so
I did shit Minnesotan say, and it went viral, and
(08:36):
it was pretty funny, like shit Minnesotan say, like, oh, yeah,
you know my friend's neighbor's brother is friends with Joel Mauer.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Or the Halloween blizzard.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Oh remember that Halloween blizzard.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
So you can still look it up to this day
if you just look up shit Minnesotan say on YouTube.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
But I was open your first recollection of going like viral.
Once that became a thing.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
The first viral we ever did was white trash people
problems and that was you know, it was when Twitter
was new, and so we did white trash people problems
like rasslin is on the same time as Nascar okay,
or don't have enough money for both beer and cigarettes?
White trash people problems, and it went immediately viral, and
(09:26):
for about a half an hour, we were the number
two trending topic in the world. Dang cool, she is
right behind one direction trending number two in the world.
You guys, White trash people problems. And it was a
blip and it was done a half an hour later
and we got back down to you uncountable territory. Yeah,
(09:48):
but we all looked at each other and said that
was cool. What good did it do us?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
True?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, you know to trend and go viral, and that's
something to think about. What good does it do.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
You unless you get way more followers or things by.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
That crue And I don't know whether we did or not.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
But Twitter was is probably harder, I think with video
now nowadays on Instagram and TikTok though, that like hooks
people more, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Like, I'm not going to start like being.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Obsessed with a show because I saw a funny hashtag,
you know, yeah, Like I don't even know that I
would correlate it back to the show. Whereas if you
like go viral for something with the Morning Show, then
I'd be like, oh, they seem like a funny show, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Like if you see a funny video that goes viral
of like you know Jenny, you know, using her hand
on her arm, which did go viral, h yeah, and
it got about five million views and it still does.
But then we were told by management to not pin
it to the top of our.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Instagram to inappropriate, they said, And it is inappropriate, but
then you know, there's other stuff that I've seen other
DJs do that are just as inappropriate, but we were
asked to take it down.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
So okay, whatever, But back to the show. Minnesotan say,
I was up in Duluth and I'm having dinner at
the Outback Steakhouse in Duluth and I'm sitting there with
Susan and the kids, and the servers like, oh my god,
are you the guy in the shit Minnesotan Say video?
And I'm like yeah, and they're like, oh my god,
(11:18):
I've watched it a million times. It's so funny. They
didn't know who Dave Ryan was, they didn't know what
KATWDB was. They only recognized me from that video, which
I thought was hysteric. Okay, next one, a question for you.
What would you say your comfort or average amount of
credit card debt is for your credit cards with mortgage
(11:40):
and expenses. I'm at a point where I feel like
I cannot afford to pay off my credit card every month,
so there's always a balance. But I'm curious on your
thoughts of it all. Do you pay it all off
every month or have a balance on it at all times,
and what is your comfort amount? I do want to
be more frugal with this just being too dang social.
I guess that's from Amelia. We are fortunately able to
(12:04):
pay off our credit card every month. We don't carry
a balance at all.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I pay off mine every month as well.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Okay, yeah, I do too.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
But I also don't spend money on a lot of
different things, like I don't really go out to eat ever.
I don't go to the movies, like a lot of
things that people do, I don't really do. So I
can keep my credit card pretty low.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I remember back when I was probably in my twenties
and had a new credit card. I think I had
a balance of like four or five thousand dollars on it,
and I would pay off, you know, as much as
I could. And I remember my daughter Beth, her mother
gave her some really stupid advice, and her advice was
always try to pay the minimum balance on your credit card.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Oh my god, all you're paying then it's just.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Going to keep it's going to keep growing. You're never
going to pay it off. Yeah, the credit card company
wants you to pay the minimum balance. Yeah, because it's
going to you know, you're stacking up eighteen percent interest
a year something like.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
That, Right, I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
I always my thought process with it was, I if
I can't afford to pay off my credit card every month,
I don't need a credit card. And so I didn't
even get a credit card until I was maybe like
twenty eight. I just had a debit card. Okay, So
it's like never occurred to me like that. I could
potentially just let it rack up and rack up.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah, you know what, I don't know what to tell you.
It sounds like everybody on the show pays off their
credit card. But I would say, try to really not
carry a balance. But I know that's easier said than done.
If you are struggling to make ends, meat, it's you know,
you gotta buy milk, you gotta buy laundry soap, and
you gotta buy toilet paper, and you gotta go have
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a pizza once in a while.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Yeah, but the minimum, don't I mean not just the minimum.
I think that's something we could all agree on, like,
don't pay just the minimum. See if you can add
on to that.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Well.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I think sometimes we get a windfall of cash and
we want to go do something fun with it, and
we should pay off like that credit card. Like if
you win a thousand dollars on KWB, I always say,
go buy yourself a kayak. Yeah fuck yeah, that's fun.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
But honestly, if you know, the practical thing is, and
it's boring that nobody wants to do, is.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Pay down that debt.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah, but that's what you should do, because if you
don't pay it down, you're going to be, you know,
paying for it longer anymore.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
When we got those like checks during the pandemic, like
the random thousand dollars checks that we randomly got, I
don't know I did. I did not, well a little
fancy you anyway, I did, but I paid off my car.
So yeah, I will follow them just to pay off
my car because then I now that's one payment that
I don't have to make every month anymore, which is nice.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Good, good for you, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Next one, Dave Jenny Bailey vont I listen to your
show ever since I can remember. I'm wondering if you
guys can talk about older women dating younger men. I
really need thoughts on this topic, and I think I'm
going to forward this to you, Jenny, so we can
use it on the regular show. I'm forty six years old,
and I cannot seem to find anyone in my age
range that I'm attracted to.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Remember they're forty six. I don't look my age, so
I'm constant being hit on by younger men. I feel
a good age range would be forty to fifty years old. Currently,
there's a young man that I'm attracted to that seems interested,
but he's thirty one turning thirty two in August. Here's
my dilemma. My son is twenty six turning twenty seven.
My brothers are thirty three and thirty five, so it
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feels like this new man in my life is just
too young for me. He's literally only five years older
than my son and basically the same age as my brothers.
I don't know if I should just say fit and go,
give it a go, or close the door permanently. But
how do I stop thinking about the age difference to
give this new relationship a fair chance. I'm hoping we
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can just talk about this on the radio and I
can listen to the discussion and see what other people
have to say about it. It seems normal for older
men to date younger women, but not the other way around.
I appreciate you guys a loyal listener. The first thing
I did is I looked up her name to see
whether she does look younger. She's forty six, and yes, indeed,
he do. She does look much younger.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
So because a lot of people think that, they think, well,
I don't look my age. Yeah, Well the truth is,
and it's actually in my book, Yeah you do look
about your age. Yeah you might look good for your age.
But the truth is we all look about our age,
you know, or sometimes a little older, some are younger.
But she does look younger. I think the problem with
that dating the guy he's thirty one and thirty two,
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it's about a fourteen year age difference. That's getting pretty significant. Yeah,
you're going to be entering different phases of life that
he is not going to relate to. You're going to
start getting AARP card offers in the mail in the
next two years, and he's just going to be like
mid start of his career. So I think that will
become a problem. But if you just want to go
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jump on him and have some fun and see what happens,
there's nothing wrong with that either.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Yeah, I think it definitely depends on like what is it,
What is it that you're looking for. Are you looking
for like a long term relationship or are you looking
to just like, you know, have a good time. Because
I'm all for having a good time. Though I agree
with the like in different phases of your life because
my last boyfriend was ten years older than me and
I was just even that was like ten years like dang.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
And you and being and being like in our traditional society,
if the boy is older than the girl, somehow that
seems more palatable.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Yeah, so it was still like weird, like it felt
like we were in different moments of our lives.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
And I heard this, Yeah, when you would talk about him,
it sound like, well, he didn't sound like he was
the guy for you anyway. But yeah, I mean I
date when I was twenty four. I dated a woman
who was forty four ooh, And we were never serious.
We knew it was never going to last. We just
like had fun going to movies and she played video games,
so that was fun. I mean, a forty four year
old back then that played Bubble Bubble, What a crazy lady.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
It was crazy. Who so Jenny, what do you think?
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Uh see, I actually am all for her going for it.
I just think it's a matter of are you going
to be able to get over the fact that your
son is very close in age to him, and is
is this thirty one year old emotionally mature to the
level that you would want, because I would argue that
there's a good chance he's not at thirty one and
you're at at forty six, and the life you've lived. Now,
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I'm just going to assume that that guy's maybe never
been married, probably doesn't have kids, So you have just
such a different life experience than he does, and so
I don't know how well you would connect.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Yeah, I think that's fair.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I mean it kind of boils down to that because really,
I mean, how long do we usually live. If we
live an average of eighty years, you are about one
quarter of a life older than him, Maybe not one quarter,
but maybe one fifth of a life older than him,
older older. So anyway, that is going to do it
for the Minnesota Goodbye. That was fun. Send your emails
(18:43):
to Ryan's show at KDWB dot com. We'll get you
on the next episode of The Minnesota Goodbye
We're gonna start calling this podcast. Please don't use my name,
which would be a good name for a podcast. So
I just think, please don't use my name.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Everything is anonymous that you submit, Please.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Don't use my name.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Can I something interesting we brought up on the show?
But on Facebook? What should we talk about less on
the show? And one of the things that people that
they I love it and some people love it. And
I think it's kind of like split is no Phone
Screen or Friday? And I'm not sure what reminded me
(00:32):
of this, but on No Phone Screen or Friday. Some
people love it, some people hate it. One of the
things that people don't like is kids calling in on
no Phone Screen or Friday, because you know, mom will
have little Jacqueline in the back seat and be like,
let's get Jacqueline on the radio. So it's like, hello,
you're on the radio. What's your name? Silence, silence, silence.
Hello are you there, Jackeline? Hi, Jacqueline?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
How are you? Tell them? How old are you? How
old are you? Jacqueline? Tell them how old you are? Five?
And and people hate it? Yeah, people hate it.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
I mean it's because the kids don't want to necessarily
be on the radio, but the moms are yeah, you know,
it would be cute if my kid was on.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
And so people have said no phone screener of Friday,
you can't have kids on. But I think the only
because I don't want to hurt kids feelings say no
kids because they're adorable and they listen to mom, and
I don't want them to think that that mean old
DJ on the radio doesn't want them to be on
the radio. But I think maybe we can make a
rule on no phone screen of Friday. You've got to
be at least sixteen years old to call in, Jenny, what.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Do you think I think that's fair. I just think
that a lot of times we make rules and people
don't follow them. Yeah, the amount of times people call
in and plug some you know, a little tournament their
kids in over the weekend, or like shout outs and stuff.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
So I think you can do it. I just don't
know that at all.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
I have.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I have an idea.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
We have an obnoxious rules violation horn. Okay, so whenever
somebody violates the rules with a kid on the phone
or plugging their event or uh yeah, I want to
do a shout out to my son Bobby hang his
violation horn and then we hang up, and then it
becomes kind of funny, sure, rather than cruel.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
See, I agree that I think it's annoying when the
kids are on and they don't know what to say
because they don't know how to talk on the phone.
But one time, I swear we had like a twelve
year old boy call and he was hilarious because he
had a plan. And I think even adults call in
without a plan for what to say, and so like,
if you're a kid and you have a plan, by
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all means, call in.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Because that kid was hilarious.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I remember him. But that is a very rare occurrence.
And I love kids, and I love the fact that
they're listening to with their mom or dad or whatever.
But you know, we want to keep doing no Phone
Screener Friday because it fills a hole. Jenny is like, yes,
this producer of the show, Jenny loves something that fills
those shows, the holes in the show. So all right,
here's an email, and it starts, don't say my name,
(02:57):
Please don't say my name. Today the gods were looking
out for me. I was driving home from work and
I usually speed. However, for some reason, I look in
the mirror, and from far away, I'm wondering, is that
a cop car behind me? Of course I slow down
so I'm only going about five over. Now the cop
creeps up closer and bam, it is a police car.
(03:19):
The universe was looking out for me. I usually never
look behind me when I'm driving on that highway. I
don't know what led me to look more closely behind
me today, but the speeding ticket did not catch up
to me this time. Now I must ask you you
ever had a time when the universe was looking out
for you? Have a great rest of the day.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Signed.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Please don't say my name off the top of my head. No,
I really I I I'm sure there have been times,
but I can't think of one off the top of
my head. Jenny, have you got anything.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
No that's like a that's something I'd have to rack
my brain on. I'm sure there are, I just can't
think of one. I think the police one has happened
to everybody where. You'll like, you know, be putting something
into your GPS and then put your hands back on
the wheel, look forward, and then see a cop car
and you're like, oh man, good thing.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I wasn't putting this thing into my GPS.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Right when I right.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yeah, But like I think those pop up and you're like,
oh cop, wow, good thing.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I'm not speeding right now. But there's plenty of times
that you drive by cops you don't even realize it.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
So it's just because you see them that you're like,
I've been the universe is looking out for me.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Maybe it's just a coincidence.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I was driving into work one time. I was coming
down I think on Northwest Boulevard in Plymouth. I used
to live on fifty fourth Avenue North in Plymouth, and
I'm coming into work. It's dark, and I saw something.
I don't know what it was that I saw, but
it made me slow down. And an instant, an instant later,
a deer ran in front of my car. Oh So
(04:50):
I don't know what it was that made me slow down,
but I guess maybe that was the universe looking out
for me.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
And get a deer and for the deer.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah, thank you for that one. Let's go to the
next one. This is from Nicole obligatory, longtime listener, first
time writer mention. I've been meaning to write in for years.
I'm finally getting around to it. After telling myself I
got to share this story with Day before he retires.
I'll do my best to keep it short. I'm Alison's
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age so which means about thirty two. Grew up in
Door County, Wisconsin, in a family that didn't have TV.
Because we didn't have TV, my siblings, three of us
spend our time free time that would most likely been
watching TV watching YouTube videos on the family computer. Well,
it was around two thousand and seven. I'm in high school.
We started across your parody the Hollister song, and we
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had no idea who Katie will be or Dave Ryan was,
but the song quickly became a staple in our house.
My dad, who is sixty now, found it hilarious and
was always quote and still does quote the Oh my god, Alison,
give me a break. We're on a beer budget. You
got champagne tastes as he was is a proud frugal individual,
(06:04):
which is the reason we didn't pay for cable in
the first place.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Huh Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
And by the way, when I do that line, it's like,
oh my god, alis soon give me a break. Great,
because I'm trying to do the ludicrous place.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Fast forward to early twenty fifteen. Moved to Minneapolis after
graduation for a job and quickly started listening to your show.
I lived in Minneapolis for two years before moving to
Illinois to be with my now husband. Since I fell
in love with your show in Minnesota, I could continue
to listen while living in Chicago. Listen in one day
at work in Chicago and I heard you mention the
Hollister song and my jaw hit the floor. I had
(06:40):
never made the connection until that moment that the Hollister
song I grew up listening to was created by you.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Woh wow wow, Yeah, talk about science from the universe.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It felt like my world's colliding. Like, what are the
odds that the parody song that was a staple in
my house growing up was based on the same city
I randomly decided to move to post college and created
by the radio show I fell in love with while
I lived there. And I didn't even make the connection
before moving to Illinois. Why that blows my mind? Cool,
that's really blows my mind.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Now years later, lived back in the beautiful state of
Wisconsin and Lake Geneva with my husband of five years
and our two kids still listen to the show. I'll
admit not as regularly as my as I like, but
my life has become so much busier than it once was.
But I always make sure to save up the Minnesota
Goodbye episodes to binge while I'm rocking my three year
old at night. I just wanted to share this random
(07:34):
connection and say I love your show and all that
you do, and let yes, my dad still quotes the
Hollister song to this day. Hmm, thanks for being great.
That is from NICKI.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
That is so cool.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
That was like the email of the month.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Yeah for me, that's so neat too. Because then also
like the fact that instead of having TV, you would
just like mindlessly scroll on YouTube and you just happen
to find the Hollister song.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
That's just so cool of all of the things.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, and the fact that she didn't know that it
was connected to Katie WB and then all of a
sudden you realize, like, oh my god, the radio you're
the ones.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
That came up with the Hart song.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
That's so cool.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I years ago we did a video. It was trending
at the time before trending was even a term, and
the trend was shit Minnesotan say, or shit you know whatever,
like police officers say or shit teachers say. And so
I did shit Minnesotan say, and it went viral, and
(08:36):
it was pretty funny, like shit Minnesotan say, like, oh, yeah,
you know my friend's neighbor's brother is friends with Joel Mauer.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Or the Halloween blizzard.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Oh remember that Halloween blizzard.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
So you can still look it up to this day
if you just look up shit Minnesotan say on YouTube.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
But I was open your first recollection of going like viral.
Once that became a thing.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
The first viral we ever did was white trash people
problems and that was you know, it was when Twitter
was new, and so we did white trash people problems
like rasslin is on the same time as Nascar okay,
or don't have enough money for both beer and cigarettes?
White trash people problems, and it went immediately viral, and
(09:26):
for about a half an hour, we were the number
two trending topic in the world. Dang cool, she is
right behind one direction trending number two in the world.
You guys, White trash people problems. And it was a
blip and it was done a half an hour later
and we got back down to you uncountable territory. Yeah,
(09:48):
but we all looked at each other and said that
was cool. What good did it do us?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
True?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, you know to trend and go viral, and that's
something to think about. What good does it do.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
You unless you get way more followers or things by.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
That crue And I don't know whether we did or not.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
But Twitter was is probably harder, I think with video
now nowadays on Instagram and TikTok though, that like hooks
people more, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Like, I'm not going to start like being.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Obsessed with a show because I saw a funny hashtag,
you know, yeah, Like I don't even know that I
would correlate it back to the show. Whereas if you
like go viral for something with the Morning Show, then
I'd be like, oh, they seem like a funny show, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Like if you see a funny video that goes viral
of like you know Jenny, you know, using her hand
on her arm, which did go viral, h yeah, and
it got about five million views and it still does.
But then we were told by management to not pin
it to the top of our.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Instagram to inappropriate, they said, And it is inappropriate, but
then you know, there's other stuff that I've seen other
DJs do that are just as inappropriate, but we were
asked to take it down.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
So okay, whatever, But back to the show. Minnesotan say,
I was up in Duluth and I'm having dinner at
the Outback Steakhouse in Duluth and I'm sitting there with
Susan and the kids, and the servers like, oh my god,
are you the guy in the shit Minnesotan Say video?
And I'm like yeah, and they're like, oh my god,
(11:18):
I've watched it a million times. It's so funny. They
didn't know who Dave Ryan was, they didn't know what
KATWDB was. They only recognized me from that video, which
I thought was hysteric. Okay, next one, a question for you.
What would you say your comfort or average amount of
credit card debt is for your credit cards with mortgage
(11:40):
and expenses. I'm at a point where I feel like
I cannot afford to pay off my credit card every month,
so there's always a balance. But I'm curious on your
thoughts of it all. Do you pay it all off
every month or have a balance on it at all times,
and what is your comfort amount? I do want to
be more frugal with this just being too dang social.
I guess that's from Amelia. We are fortunately able to
(12:04):
pay off our credit card every month. We don't carry
a balance at all.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I pay off mine every month as well.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Okay, yeah, I do too.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
But I also don't spend money on a lot of
different things, like I don't really go out to eat ever.
I don't go to the movies, like a lot of
things that people do, I don't really do. So I
can keep my credit card pretty low.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I remember back when I was probably in my twenties
and had a new credit card. I think I had
a balance of like four or five thousand dollars on it,
and I would pay off, you know, as much as
I could. And I remember my daughter Beth, her mother
gave her some really stupid advice, and her advice was
always try to pay the minimum balance on your credit card.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Oh my god, all you're paying then it's just.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Going to keep it's going to keep growing. You're never
going to pay it off. Yeah, the credit card company
wants you to pay the minimum balance. Yeah, because it's
going to you know, you're stacking up eighteen percent interest
a year something like.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
That, Right, I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
I always my thought process with it was, I if
I can't afford to pay off my credit card every month,
I don't need a credit card. And so I didn't
even get a credit card until I was maybe like
twenty eight. I just had a debit card. Okay, So
it's like never occurred to me like that. I could
potentially just let it rack up and rack up.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah, you know what, I don't know what to tell you.
It sounds like everybody on the show pays off their
credit card. But I would say, try to really not
carry a balance. But I know that's easier said than done.
If you are struggling to make ends, meat, it's you know,
you gotta buy milk, you gotta buy laundry soap, and
you gotta buy toilet paper, and you gotta go have
(13:42):
a pizza once in a while.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Yeah, but the minimum, don't I mean not just the minimum.
I think that's something we could all agree on, like,
don't pay just the minimum. See if you can add
on to that.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Well.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I think sometimes we get a windfall of cash and
we want to go do something fun with it, and
we should pay off like that credit card. Like if
you win a thousand dollars on KWB, I always say,
go buy yourself a kayak. Yeah fuck yeah, that's fun.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
But honestly, if you know, the practical thing is, and
it's boring that nobody wants to do, is.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Pay down that debt.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah, but that's what you should do, because if you
don't pay it down, you're going to be, you know,
paying for it longer anymore.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
When we got those like checks during the pandemic, like
the random thousand dollars checks that we randomly got, I
don't know I did. I did not, well a little
fancy you anyway, I did, but I paid off my car.
So yeah, I will follow them just to pay off
my car because then I now that's one payment that
I don't have to make every month anymore, which is nice.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Good, good for you, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Next one, Dave Jenny Bailey vont I listen to your
show ever since I can remember. I'm wondering if you
guys can talk about older women dating younger men. I
really need thoughts on this topic, and I think I'm
going to forward this to you, Jenny, so we can
use it on the regular show. I'm forty six years old,
and I cannot seem to find anyone in my age
range that I'm attracted to.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Remember they're forty six. I don't look my age, so
I'm constant being hit on by younger men. I feel
a good age range would be forty to fifty years old. Currently,
there's a young man that I'm attracted to that seems interested,
but he's thirty one turning thirty two in August. Here's
my dilemma. My son is twenty six turning twenty seven.
My brothers are thirty three and thirty five, so it
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feels like this new man in my life is just
too young for me. He's literally only five years older
than my son and basically the same age as my brothers.
I don't know if I should just say fit and go,
give it a go, or close the door permanently. But
how do I stop thinking about the age difference to
give this new relationship a fair chance. I'm hoping we
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can just talk about this on the radio and I
can listen to the discussion and see what other people
have to say about it. It seems normal for older
men to date younger women, but not the other way around.
I appreciate you guys a loyal listener. The first thing
I did is I looked up her name to see
whether she does look younger. She's forty six, and yes, indeed,
he do. She does look much younger.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
So because a lot of people think that, they think, well,
I don't look my age. Yeah, Well the truth is,
and it's actually in my book, Yeah you do look
about your age. Yeah you might look good for your age.
But the truth is we all look about our age,
you know, or sometimes a little older, some are younger.
But she does look younger. I think the problem with
that dating the guy he's thirty one and thirty two,
(16:25):
it's about a fourteen year age difference. That's getting pretty significant. Yeah,
you're going to be entering different phases of life that
he is not going to relate to. You're going to
start getting AARP card offers in the mail in the
next two years, and he's just going to be like
mid start of his career. So I think that will
become a problem. But if you just want to go
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jump on him and have some fun and see what happens,
there's nothing wrong with that either.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Yeah, I think it definitely depends on like what is it,
What is it that you're looking for. Are you looking
for like a long term relationship or are you looking
to just like, you know, have a good time. Because
I'm all for having a good time. Though I agree
with the like in different phases of your life because
my last boyfriend was ten years older than me and
I was just even that was like ten years like dang.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
And you and being and being like in our traditional society,
if the boy is older than the girl, somehow that
seems more palatable.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Yeah, so it was still like weird, like it felt
like we were in different moments of our lives.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
And I heard this, Yeah, when you would talk about him,
it sound like, well, he didn't sound like he was
the guy for you anyway. But yeah, I mean I
date when I was twenty four. I dated a woman
who was forty four ooh, And we were never serious.
We knew it was never going to last. We just
like had fun going to movies and she played video games,
so that was fun. I mean, a forty four year
old back then that played Bubble Bubble, What a crazy lady.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
It was crazy. Who so Jenny, what do you think?
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Uh see, I actually am all for her going for it.
I just think it's a matter of are you going
to be able to get over the fact that your
son is very close in age to him, and is
is this thirty one year old emotionally mature to the
level that you would want, because I would argue that
there's a good chance he's not at thirty one and
you're at at forty six, and the life you've lived. Now,
(18:11):
I'm just going to assume that that guy's maybe never
been married, probably doesn't have kids, So you have just
such a different life experience than he does, and so
I don't know how well you would connect.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Yeah, I think that's fair.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I mean it kind of boils down to that because really,
I mean, how long do we usually live. If we
live an average of eighty years, you are about one
quarter of a life older than him, Maybe not one quarter,
but maybe one fifth of a life older than him,
older older. So anyway, that is going to do it
for the Minnesota Goodbye. That was fun. Send your emails
(18:43):
to Ryan's show at KDWB dot com. We'll get you
on the next episode of The Minnesota Goodbye
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