October 27, 2025 • 18 mins
We talk about Dave's birthday dinner, recount our 21st birthdays, and put a date on the calendar for lunch, finally.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do you ever have anybody at work that you walk
by and you say hi and greet them warmly and
they're like, Hi, I just did that on the hallway
a minute ago, and it's like, you know, hey, how's
it going, And a couple of people like hey, morning,
you go flying lately, and somebody else like hey, hi,
not even a glance.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I usually say hi, how are you? And I don't
expect an answer, and I can.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
You just throw that pod up from me real quickly?
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Yeah, okay, sure, yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:24):
Sorry, behind the scenes, behind the scenes, I think I
probably have a guess as to.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You you're telling you know exactly who it is.
Speaker 5 (00:30):
Yeah, And also it's not the same person. But I
also was walking to the bathroom like thirty minutes ago
and saw someone and would have said hi, but they
like didn't even look in my direction. And I was like, oh,
that's interesting this. Yeah, I don't want to give any
more detail. But it's not the same person you're talkinget No.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
But I bring this up because I wonder if you
have anybody at your work that it's just like, you know,
they just that's just the way they are. Yeah, So
I always try to say hi, to people, even the
little people. You know, when a little person walks to
me and this is you know, I thank god, thank
God that he made me so humble. Thank God that
he made because I'm a big deal.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, it's hard to be humble when you're perfect every way.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I can't wait to look in the mirror because I
get better looking each day. Yeah, to know me is
to love me.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
That's what I've heard.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I must be a hell of a man.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Lord, it's hard to be humble. But I'm doing the
best that I can.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
And that's what I like.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Do you know that song?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
That's my one of my grandpa'savorite songs.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
That was a movie quote. First, I had no idea
to be.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Humble, but the joke continues. Thank God that I'm so humble.
So when I hang out with little people like you,
I know how to act now. I learned that joke
from a TV clown that I grew up watching. It's
one of my favorite encounters ever with a celebrity. There
was a TV clown that I grew up watching, and
(01:57):
about fifteen to twenty years ago, I tracked him down
and I took him to breakfast, and his name was
Blinky the Clown. And if you ever want to see
a video of me meeting Blinki the Clown, just go
on YouTube and search Dave Ryan Blinky the Clown.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
And I kind of you did that.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Oh no, it was twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Oh for some.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Reason, I thought it was in the last like five ish.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
No. And it was like I idolized this clown when I
was a little kid, and I never got to go
see him. The story was my mom said, if you
stop wedding the bed, I will take you to see
and be in the audience for Blinky the Clown, who well,
I never saw him. So I think either I just
outgrew Blinky or I never stopped wedding the Bed.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I think it's the second one.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
You never said that could be. So I met Blinky
at his antique store in Denver and I took him
out to breakfast and he told me that joke and
then he made a really funny face afterward because he
still had it. Even though he was like eighty five
years old and had heart problems, he still knew how
to make a funny face.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I feel like that's a good lesson too. And if
you don't ask, nothing will ever happen. So like you
could have just said, oh, I wish I could see
this blinky the clown guy.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Eh, why would he ever say? Yes? Well, you asked
what he said, yeah, which is fine.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I think it's a great lesson in life. I saw
something over the weekend and most of the stuff this
guy puts out on Instagram is offensive, but this one
was like, you can sit there and wish and pray
for a better life, but going to the gym is
a prayer that gets answered. Eating better is a prayer
(03:24):
that gets answered. Getting out of your house and going
to exercise and have a life is a prayer that
gets answered. And I thought, Okay, I kind of see
what he's doing because we can all sit around and
wish for a better life and hope for and bitch
about how we don't have something, or we can you know,
if you can't afford to go to the gym, you
can definitely afford to like, you know, go for a
run around the block, or you know, maybe eat a
(03:46):
little bit less food. So there are certain things that
we can do that they're more effective than wishing. And
I don't want to, you know, like undermine or demean
prayer but I think sometimes there's action we can take
that are more powerful than that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
And double them up with prayer, action and prayer.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Again, I'm not going to diminish prayer, because sometimes sometimes
prayer is all you.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Have sometimes sometimes.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
All right, let's check out some emails here on the
Minnesota Goodbye. I saw Jenny on Friday night at Mystic Lake.
My husband and I were on a date night checking
out the new hop house, and Jenny was with a
friend going to see the comedy show. All I'm going
to say about Jenny's new friend is Jenny. Get it.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
I know who it is. Yeah, Hi, the names Becky. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Becky and her husband were very sweet because they helped
us get drinks. It was just really busy, so they
kind of let us in their area and we're like,
we'll help you out, we'll get the bartender's attention. We've
been chatting with them, so they were very helpful.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah. She said, it was so nice to meet you, Jenny.
You really are just how I've imagined you to be
after all the years of listening to you. My husband
and I walked away after giving you our bar spot
and he said, you really never met it before that
interaction just now, I said, nope, first time you are,
so I go down to earth, kind and easy to
talk to. Chatting with you felt just like catching up
with an old friend. Thanks for taking the time out
(05:06):
of your night to chat with us. I hope you
had fun of the comedy show. My husband and I
bol put twenty dollars into a slot machine when we
left hop House. I was up to thirty eight dollars
at one point, but I lost it all. My husband
lost all of his right away. Then we went home
and went to bed. Anyway, hope you have a good week.
Thanks to each of you for being the friends that
I've never met except Jenny. Except Jenny. Now, thank you,
(05:30):
Becky Nice Nice.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
I met a lot of people at Mystic on Friday night.
If there was any anytime a event involves a lot
of people who listened to katiewb it is a reality
TV comedian because the girl who was a comedian she
I think she got her start on Summer House and
she does social media and a podcast and all that
stuff now too. But lots of people there, So if
(05:53):
you're listening, HI, I know I probably met you. There's
four drunk girls screaming across hop house like.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Ada, and then when I look like we knew it.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Was you and I was okay, hey, next one from Samantha.
I need to rant. I went to a wedding over
the weekend. We got shuttled to the hotel. Back to
the hotel. As I'm waiting to get off the bus,
a man proceeds to ask, when are you do? I said,
I already had my baby, and he goes, no, the
(06:25):
one you're carrying now? I said, nope, not pregnant. I
had my baby a little over three months ago. I
thought I looked good, but damn, that just kicks you down.
Can we please stop asking people if they are pregnant?
Looking back, I wish I said something snarky, but I
was just shocked. Have a great week from Samantha. I
have learned in my life to never even if you're
(06:45):
certain someone is pregnant, to don't acknowledge it. I mean,
there's certain times when it's like, you know, if they're
wearing obviously maternity clothes and they're the size of a
of a you know, a stick, and they get a
big pregnant belly, then maybe yeah, but I would never
look at somebody who might be pregnant and say something
about it. If I don't say anything about it and
(07:08):
they are pregnant, that's much better than saying something about
it and they're not pregnant.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Right exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
If they are and they want you to know, they
could mention it. But otherwise, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Well an audible thing tack on.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
How tacky that is when she already said, like I
already had the baby.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yeah, because then to do it, you know what? Fuck him? Yeah,
that's that's my anger curio for that interaction.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, next one, Uh, Dave, I've been waiting wanting to
buy your book, take a shower, show up on time,
adun't steal anything for a long time. Imagine my excitement
I found a copy during my periodic checks on Amazon.
I couldn't wait to open it would arrive today. Now
imagine my surprise and joy when I see it was
(07:55):
autographed by the Dave Ryan. However, upon further inspection, I
see that was personalized to Carol. I must admit I
was pretty bummed to learn that this book is to
face with somebody else's name, and more importantly, who is
this ungrateful bitch Carol? In the words of Dave Ryan,
I'm kidding anyway, I thought i'd share this riveting story
about the book. I'm looking forward to reading it. Thank you, Melissa. Yeah,
(08:19):
you know, I've I've run across that a couple of
times where somebody will buy a copy of it and
it turns out that they'd read it and they got
rid of it, you know, and that's fine, happens. Yeah.
You know, when you read the book, there's a couple
of things in there that don't stand up to the
test of time. And there's as you read it, you
might run across a chapter that's like, oh, that seems
(08:40):
a little sexist or a little dated, or you know,
a little whatever. And you know, that's the thing about
writing a book is it is there for eternity. But
there's certain things. Most of the things in the book
I still stand behind. I love the chapter Stop at
Lemonade stands, send thank you notes, don't lend anybody money,
don't borrow money. There's you know, most of them still
(09:01):
stand the test of times. Yeah, but some of them
you'll see him as you go through and be like, oh,
that's probably one of the ones that is a little
bit dating.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Apparently Carol didn't like it. Anymore apparently all.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Right, continuing on, let's try this one. You ready, yeah,
okay or not?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Here we go. Happy birthday, Dave. My twenty first birthday
is on Monday. I'll be in the books. But also
a bottle of prosette prosheko, oh okay. Here's she gets
to the question. It's a little bit odd, but Hannah
wants to know how did you spend your twenty first birthday? So,
first of all, happy birthday, Anna, birthday, the big two one.
(09:47):
I remember clearly my twenty first birthday. I was working.
I worked the nighttime radio show in Colorado Springs, and
I was arguing with my girlfriend, so I was alone.
She was not home to meet me or to go
out or whatever. So I stopped at the liquor store
on the way home. I bought a bottle of Jim
Beam bourbon, like the you know, the pint size, the
flat one. Is that a fifth of bourbon?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Whatever, but I bought that because I was twenty one.
And I went home and I think I probably had
a sip or a glass, and I watched TV and
went to bed. That was my twenty first birthday. It
was lame.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
We went to Applebe's for my twenty first birthday, me
and my friend Megan and Rachel, and neither of them
were twenty one yet. So it was just me having
a margarita and that was it. Like, that's all we did.
We didn't party or anything. I had like one margarita
at Applebee's for half off apps.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
After Oh really, that was your old twenty first birthday?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
That was it?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Not much from me all.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Clearly I was the alcoholic because I basically partied for
seven days straight. I had a party in my Dinkytown
apartment and then we bopped around to the bars in Dinkytown.
Then I took the megabus down to Milwaukee the next
day and partied in Milwaukee before the next day leaving
to go to Vegas for five Wow days with my
sisters and friends, and then came back from Vegas and
(11:06):
went to Bruno Mars at the Rave in Milwaukee.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
So I basically boozed for seven days.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Straight for my twenty first birthday.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Wow, that's impressive, you know it was.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
But my liver wasn't happy with me.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
No, so your memory, you're fine.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
I think I'm okay now.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
But next one, this came in on Friday, Dave where
birthday Buddies. Today marks my forty ninth trip around the Sun.
I love the Minnesota Goodbye and listen to the show
when I can. I was also a guest on Dave's
show Up on Time podcast a while back. And I'm
(11:43):
also a huge fan of Buffalo Wild Wings Nice. Sadly,
my husband is not a b Dubs fan, nor are
my nor are my friends. So if you ever need
a wing woman, see what I did there. I am
tired of eating alone. Also, I grew up in chan Hassen.
It still feels like him. Have a great day and
spoil yourself. And we did have a good birthday. We
(12:06):
went to Benny Hanna and it was very cute because
I feel bad for Justin because Justin the seating always
goes Me and susan On went into the table, Alison
around the corner, the two girls and Justin at the
far end, and I feel bad for Justin because he
doesn't get to join in the conversation a lot, and
I feel bad that he comes to things like this
and he's just bored.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
And just to clarify, if you don't know Justin as Allison's.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Husband, correct, Yes, the two girls were adorable. They were
a little afraid of the chef, and I said, no,
it's going to be exciting with fire and like a
train whistle. And Evelyn started crying before he even started.
But he was so great. He was like, hey, it's okay.
I can make the onion with no fire. The volcano.
(12:51):
You have to make a volcano. He's like, I can
make it with no fire, just smoke. Okay. But by
the end of it, they were going, yay, chef, yay.
And I gave Ava, who is five. He was working
at the next table. By the time we were finished,
I said, go give this to Christian, the Benni Hanna chef.
So she walked over. She said hi Christian, and he
(13:14):
was busy with another table, but he reached down. He's like,
oh hi, and he took the twenty dollars show. That's
nice because he did some extra work. So uh and
really that was kind of it.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Did you have any birthday sets?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Oh? Gross, You said no, it was.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Going to be before Benny Hannah though, because he didn't
want to be like bloated.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Can you imagine you're coming home, you're smelling like garlic,
You're bloated with right, sauce, shrimp sauce, and it's like.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Her birthday perk off perks my birthday.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
You leave Benni Hanna, you always smell like Benny Hannah.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I wouldn't know.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
You've never been either. Really, you've never been to Benny Hannah.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I've never been with you, Dave, You've never.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Been, though you've been.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I've actually, I don't think I've been to Benny Hannah,
but I've and to the equivalent at Epcot, which is
pretty close.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
I was not planning on going to Beni Hanah. But
back way back in the day, I was meeting Mike
the web guy at the Mall of America he used
to work on the Morning show, and then Fallon and Raven,
our old Night Girl, also were there and everyone was
doing Christmas shopping, so it's like okay, sweet, and then
they're like, oh, We're going to Benni Hanna for lunch,
and I was like, this feels way too fancy for
(14:26):
what I thought was a quick shopping trip. So like
it kind of like stressed me out, Like I felt
like I wasn't mentally prepared for my first time at
Benni Hannah. And that's my only experience and it was great,
but I wasn't prepared.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Food.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Yeah, great food.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
If you go. The pro tip is, you know most
people know this, get the chicken fried rice. So they'll
be like when they take your orders, like, okay, I'll
have the Hibachi Supreme, well whatever that is. And okay,
do you want fried rice, white rice, chicken fried Yes,
get chicken fried rice, and then don't bother. They give
(15:00):
you two little bowls. One is for Yum yum sauce,
which is an orange creamy sauce. It's also known as
shrimp sauce, but they call it Yum yum sauce. And
then one is for ginger sauce, which is a watery,
ginger flavored sauce, which is fine, don't bother with it.
Get both. You can say I want to shrimp sauce.
(15:21):
They will give you a big, fat ladle of shrimp
sauce into your little bowl, A nice delicious Now you've
got two of them.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
When you get your fried rice, you have two things
to do. You can leave it in the bowl and
dig a little hole in it with your chopsticks. Then
pour one of your bowls or shrimp sauce into it.
Or empty your chicken fried rice onto your plate and
pour your shrimp sauce over the top. But the best
thing at Benihana is not the steak. It's not the seafood,
(15:50):
it's not the shrimp. It is the chicken fried rice
with shrimp sauce. Wow, that's the best.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I wish you could explain that to us while we're
sitting around and getting Bennie Hannah and eating Bennie Hannah together.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
At Benny Hannah.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
I thought I was going to.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
End with him saying, like, okay, so Tuesday, at like one,
we'll go there and experience this together.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
All right, bitches, pick a day and we'll go this week.
You want to go this week? Pick a day? This week?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
The one week that I could do. I could do. Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
This is why I never asked, because I know there's
no way that you guys will all can.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Do Wednesday I could do.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I could do.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
We can't do Thursday. It's boo bash.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I could do.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
True. Friday is out of here?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
You today? Well, no, I have to get my car.
I could do Friday.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Nope, not Friday.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
All right?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Next pick a day.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I could do next Monday.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
It's very better.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Are gonna wait vaunting here. We're gonna pick a day
to get to Bennie Hannah right.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Now, mondays, I wouldn't be available to like one.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
This is what I'm not going to lunch at one o'clock.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
I know that's no Monday.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Pick a day for Bennie Hanah right now, von so
come on.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
In here, Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
We're why you know no, I said, let's let's.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Do it, but I know what's going to happen. You'll
never agree on a date. We can never go Jenny Canton.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Wednesday the fifth? Can you do Wednesday the fifth? Font? Yeah,
I'm writing it down.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Are you sure we doing nighttime Vibe? They don't know
we're doing like eleven thirty lunch time?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Hell you Benny Hannah, got it, It's written down.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Yeah, this is a monumental day. I can't believe this
happened on the Minnesota Goodbye. We have to come back
and go live and tell everyone that this is happening.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Well or should we be careful? We don't need people
like showing.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
To just say we're putting a date on it.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Well, we did literally just say that well on the
Minnesota Bye God damn it.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I don't think anybody's going to show up.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
We're going to be at Well, it might be the
one in Coon Rapids.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
As far as we know, there is not one in
Coon Rapids. There's one in Maple Grove, isn't there are
shops at Arbor Lakes? Yeah? I could be wrong. I
mean I don't know. Okay, but there it is next
Wednesday at noon, Bennie Hannah. Yeah, which one of you
all will cancel first?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Not me?
Speaker 5 (17:55):
I don't have anything on my schedule. Is I'm good
with that. I'm happy we are and aren't doing this week.
It's hell week at my gym, and I'm trying to
accomplish every single day I'm going. And so I can't
have Benny Hannah sitting in my tummy for that.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Bennie Hannah does sit in your tummy. It does, all right.
So there it settled. Thank you for How did that
even come up on the show?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
You were talking about Bunny?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Somebody asked about your birthday and you talked about Bunny Hannah.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Okay, and that is it for the Minnesota goodbye? Are
you gonna call this one? Benny Hannah?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Okay? Good all right, have a great day. Send your
emails to Ryan's show at katiewbat dot com. Maybe tell
us what you did on your twenty first birthday. That'd
be kind of fun.
Do you ever have anybody at work that you walk
by and you say hi and greet them warmly and
they're like, Hi, I just did that on the hallway
a minute ago, and it's like, you know, hey, how's
it going, And a couple of people like hey, morning,
you go flying lately, and somebody else like hey, hi,
not even a glance.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I usually say hi, how are you? And I don't
expect an answer, and I can.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
You just throw that pod up from me real quickly?
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Yeah, okay, sure, yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:24):
Sorry, behind the scenes, behind the scenes, I think I
probably have a guess as to.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You you're telling you know exactly who it is.
Speaker 5 (00:30):
Yeah, And also it's not the same person. But I
also was walking to the bathroom like thirty minutes ago
and saw someone and would have said hi, but they
like didn't even look in my direction. And I was like, oh,
that's interesting this. Yeah, I don't want to give any
more detail. But it's not the same person you're talkinget No.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
But I bring this up because I wonder if you
have anybody at your work that it's just like, you know,
they just that's just the way they are. Yeah, So
I always try to say hi, to people, even the
little people. You know, when a little person walks to
me and this is you know, I thank god, thank
God that he made me so humble. Thank God that
he made because I'm a big deal.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, it's hard to be humble when you're perfect every way.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I can't wait to look in the mirror because I
get better looking each day. Yeah, to know me is
to love me.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
That's what I've heard.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I must be a hell of a man.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Lord, it's hard to be humble. But I'm doing the
best that I can.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
And that's what I like.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Do you know that song?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
That's my one of my grandpa'savorite songs.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
That was a movie quote. First, I had no idea
to be.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Humble, but the joke continues. Thank God that I'm so humble.
So when I hang out with little people like you,
I know how to act now. I learned that joke
from a TV clown that I grew up watching. It's
one of my favorite encounters ever with a celebrity. There
was a TV clown that I grew up watching, and
(01:57):
about fifteen to twenty years ago, I tracked him down
and I took him to breakfast, and his name was
Blinky the Clown. And if you ever want to see
a video of me meeting Blinki the Clown, just go
on YouTube and search Dave Ryan Blinky the Clown.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
And I kind of you did that.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Oh no, it was twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Oh for some.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Reason, I thought it was in the last like five ish.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
No. And it was like I idolized this clown when I
was a little kid, and I never got to go
see him. The story was my mom said, if you
stop wedding the bed, I will take you to see
and be in the audience for Blinky the Clown, who well,
I never saw him. So I think either I just
outgrew Blinky or I never stopped wedding the Bed.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I think it's the second one.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
You never said that could be. So I met Blinky
at his antique store in Denver and I took him
out to breakfast and he told me that joke and
then he made a really funny face afterward because he
still had it. Even though he was like eighty five
years old and had heart problems, he still knew how
to make a funny face.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I feel like that's a good lesson too. And if
you don't ask, nothing will ever happen. So like you
could have just said, oh, I wish I could see
this blinky the clown guy.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Eh, why would he ever say? Yes? Well, you asked
what he said, yeah, which is fine.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I think it's a great lesson in life. I saw
something over the weekend and most of the stuff this
guy puts out on Instagram is offensive, but this one
was like, you can sit there and wish and pray
for a better life, but going to the gym is
a prayer that gets answered. Eating better is a prayer
(03:24):
that gets answered. Getting out of your house and going
to exercise and have a life is a prayer that
gets answered. And I thought, Okay, I kind of see
what he's doing because we can all sit around and
wish for a better life and hope for and bitch
about how we don't have something, or we can you know,
if you can't afford to go to the gym, you
can definitely afford to like, you know, go for a
run around the block, or you know, maybe eat a
(03:46):
little bit less food. So there are certain things that
we can do that they're more effective than wishing. And
I don't want to, you know, like undermine or demean
prayer but I think sometimes there's action we can take
that are more powerful than that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
And double them up with prayer, action and prayer.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Again, I'm not going to diminish prayer, because sometimes sometimes
prayer is all you.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Have sometimes sometimes.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
All right, let's check out some emails here on the
Minnesota Goodbye. I saw Jenny on Friday night at Mystic Lake.
My husband and I were on a date night checking
out the new hop house, and Jenny was with a
friend going to see the comedy show. All I'm going
to say about Jenny's new friend is Jenny. Get it.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
I know who it is. Yeah, Hi, the names Becky. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Becky and her husband were very sweet because they helped
us get drinks. It was just really busy, so they
kind of let us in their area and we're like,
we'll help you out, we'll get the bartender's attention. We've
been chatting with them, so they were very helpful.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah. She said, it was so nice to meet you, Jenny.
You really are just how I've imagined you to be
after all the years of listening to you. My husband
and I walked away after giving you our bar spot
and he said, you really never met it before that
interaction just now, I said, nope, first time you are,
so I go down to earth, kind and easy to
talk to. Chatting with you felt just like catching up
with an old friend. Thanks for taking the time out
(05:06):
of your night to chat with us. I hope you
had fun of the comedy show. My husband and I
bol put twenty dollars into a slot machine when we
left hop House. I was up to thirty eight dollars
at one point, but I lost it all. My husband
lost all of his right away. Then we went home
and went to bed. Anyway, hope you have a good week.
Thanks to each of you for being the friends that
I've never met except Jenny. Except Jenny. Now, thank you,
(05:30):
Becky Nice Nice.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
I met a lot of people at Mystic on Friday night.
If there was any anytime a event involves a lot
of people who listened to katiewb it is a reality
TV comedian because the girl who was a comedian she
I think she got her start on Summer House and
she does social media and a podcast and all that
stuff now too. But lots of people there, So if
(05:53):
you're listening, HI, I know I probably met you. There's
four drunk girls screaming across hop house like.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Ada, and then when I look like we knew it.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Was you and I was okay, hey, next one from Samantha.
I need to rant. I went to a wedding over
the weekend. We got shuttled to the hotel. Back to
the hotel. As I'm waiting to get off the bus,
a man proceeds to ask, when are you do? I said,
I already had my baby, and he goes, no, the
(06:25):
one you're carrying now? I said, nope, not pregnant. I
had my baby a little over three months ago. I
thought I looked good, but damn, that just kicks you down.
Can we please stop asking people if they are pregnant?
Looking back, I wish I said something snarky, but I
was just shocked. Have a great week from Samantha. I
have learned in my life to never even if you're
(06:45):
certain someone is pregnant, to don't acknowledge it. I mean,
there's certain times when it's like, you know, if they're
wearing obviously maternity clothes and they're the size of a
of a you know, a stick, and they get a
big pregnant belly, then maybe yeah, but I would never
look at somebody who might be pregnant and say something
about it. If I don't say anything about it and
(07:08):
they are pregnant, that's much better than saying something about
it and they're not pregnant.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Right exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
If they are and they want you to know, they
could mention it. But otherwise, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Well an audible thing tack on.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
How tacky that is when she already said, like I
already had the baby.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yeah, because then to do it, you know what? Fuck him? Yeah,
that's that's my anger curio for that interaction.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, next one, Uh, Dave, I've been waiting wanting to
buy your book, take a shower, show up on time,
adun't steal anything for a long time. Imagine my excitement
I found a copy during my periodic checks on Amazon.
I couldn't wait to open it would arrive today. Now
imagine my surprise and joy when I see it was
(07:55):
autographed by the Dave Ryan. However, upon further inspection, I
see that was personalized to Carol. I must admit I
was pretty bummed to learn that this book is to
face with somebody else's name, and more importantly, who is
this ungrateful bitch Carol? In the words of Dave Ryan,
I'm kidding anyway, I thought i'd share this riveting story
about the book. I'm looking forward to reading it. Thank you, Melissa. Yeah,
(08:19):
you know, I've I've run across that a couple of
times where somebody will buy a copy of it and
it turns out that they'd read it and they got
rid of it, you know, and that's fine, happens. Yeah.
You know, when you read the book, there's a couple
of things in there that don't stand up to the
test of time. And there's as you read it, you
might run across a chapter that's like, oh, that seems
(08:40):
a little sexist or a little dated, or you know,
a little whatever. And you know, that's the thing about
writing a book is it is there for eternity. But
there's certain things. Most of the things in the book
I still stand behind. I love the chapter Stop at
Lemonade stands, send thank you notes, don't lend anybody money,
don't borrow money. There's you know, most of them still
(09:01):
stand the test of times. Yeah, but some of them
you'll see him as you go through and be like, oh,
that's probably one of the ones that is a little
bit dating.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Apparently Carol didn't like it. Anymore apparently all.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Right, continuing on, let's try this one. You ready, yeah,
okay or not?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Here we go. Happy birthday, Dave. My twenty first birthday
is on Monday. I'll be in the books. But also
a bottle of prosette prosheko, oh okay. Here's she gets
to the question. It's a little bit odd, but Hannah
wants to know how did you spend your twenty first birthday? So,
first of all, happy birthday, Anna, birthday, the big two one.
(09:47):
I remember clearly my twenty first birthday. I was working.
I worked the nighttime radio show in Colorado Springs, and
I was arguing with my girlfriend, so I was alone.
She was not home to meet me or to go
out or whatever. So I stopped at the liquor store
on the way home. I bought a bottle of Jim
Beam bourbon, like the you know, the pint size, the
flat one. Is that a fifth of bourbon?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Whatever, but I bought that because I was twenty one.
And I went home and I think I probably had
a sip or a glass, and I watched TV and
went to bed. That was my twenty first birthday. It
was lame.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
We went to Applebe's for my twenty first birthday, me
and my friend Megan and Rachel, and neither of them
were twenty one yet. So it was just me having
a margarita and that was it. Like, that's all we did.
We didn't party or anything. I had like one margarita
at Applebee's for half off apps.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
After Oh really, that was your old twenty first birthday?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
That was it?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Not much from me all.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Clearly I was the alcoholic because I basically partied for
seven days straight. I had a party in my Dinkytown
apartment and then we bopped around to the bars in Dinkytown.
Then I took the megabus down to Milwaukee the next
day and partied in Milwaukee before the next day leaving
to go to Vegas for five Wow days with my
sisters and friends, and then came back from Vegas and
(11:06):
went to Bruno Mars at the Rave in Milwaukee.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
So I basically boozed for seven days.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Straight for my twenty first birthday.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Wow, that's impressive, you know it was.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
But my liver wasn't happy with me.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
No, so your memory, you're fine.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
I think I'm okay now.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
But next one, this came in on Friday, Dave where
birthday Buddies. Today marks my forty ninth trip around the Sun.
I love the Minnesota Goodbye and listen to the show
when I can. I was also a guest on Dave's
show Up on Time podcast a while back. And I'm
(11:43):
also a huge fan of Buffalo Wild Wings Nice. Sadly,
my husband is not a b Dubs fan, nor are
my nor are my friends. So if you ever need
a wing woman, see what I did there. I am
tired of eating alone. Also, I grew up in chan Hassen.
It still feels like him. Have a great day and
spoil yourself. And we did have a good birthday. We
(12:06):
went to Benny Hanna and it was very cute because
I feel bad for Justin because Justin the seating always
goes Me and susan On went into the table, Alison
around the corner, the two girls and Justin at the
far end, and I feel bad for Justin because he
doesn't get to join in the conversation a lot, and
I feel bad that he comes to things like this
and he's just bored.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
And just to clarify, if you don't know Justin as Allison's.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Husband, correct, Yes, the two girls were adorable. They were
a little afraid of the chef, and I said, no,
it's going to be exciting with fire and like a
train whistle. And Evelyn started crying before he even started.
But he was so great. He was like, hey, it's okay.
I can make the onion with no fire. The volcano.
(12:51):
You have to make a volcano. He's like, I can
make it with no fire, just smoke. Okay. But by
the end of it, they were going, yay, chef, yay.
And I gave Ava, who is five. He was working
at the next table. By the time we were finished,
I said, go give this to Christian, the Benni Hanna chef.
So she walked over. She said hi Christian, and he
(13:14):
was busy with another table, but he reached down. He's like,
oh hi, and he took the twenty dollars show. That's
nice because he did some extra work. So uh and
really that was kind of it.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Did you have any birthday sets?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Oh? Gross, You said no, it was.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Going to be before Benny Hannah though, because he didn't
want to be like bloated.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Can you imagine you're coming home, you're smelling like garlic,
You're bloated with right, sauce, shrimp sauce, and it's like.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Her birthday perk off perks my birthday.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
You leave Benni Hanna, you always smell like Benny Hannah.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I wouldn't know.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
You've never been either. Really, you've never been to Benny Hannah.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I've never been with you, Dave, You've never.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Been, though you've been.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I've actually, I don't think I've been to Benny Hannah,
but I've and to the equivalent at Epcot, which is
pretty close.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
I was not planning on going to Beni Hanah. But
back way back in the day, I was meeting Mike
the web guy at the Mall of America he used
to work on the Morning show, and then Fallon and Raven,
our old Night Girl, also were there and everyone was
doing Christmas shopping, so it's like okay, sweet, and then
they're like, oh, We're going to Benni Hanna for lunch,
and I was like, this feels way too fancy for
(14:26):
what I thought was a quick shopping trip. So like
it kind of like stressed me out, Like I felt
like I wasn't mentally prepared for my first time at
Benni Hannah. And that's my only experience and it was great,
but I wasn't prepared.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Food.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Yeah, great food.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
If you go. The pro tip is, you know most
people know this, get the chicken fried rice. So they'll
be like when they take your orders, like, okay, I'll
have the Hibachi Supreme, well whatever that is. And okay,
do you want fried rice, white rice, chicken fried Yes,
get chicken fried rice, and then don't bother. They give
(15:00):
you two little bowls. One is for Yum yum sauce,
which is an orange creamy sauce. It's also known as
shrimp sauce, but they call it Yum yum sauce. And
then one is for ginger sauce, which is a watery,
ginger flavored sauce, which is fine, don't bother with it.
Get both. You can say I want to shrimp sauce.
(15:21):
They will give you a big, fat ladle of shrimp
sauce into your little bowl, A nice delicious Now you've
got two of them.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
When you get your fried rice, you have two things
to do. You can leave it in the bowl and
dig a little hole in it with your chopsticks. Then
pour one of your bowls or shrimp sauce into it.
Or empty your chicken fried rice onto your plate and
pour your shrimp sauce over the top. But the best
thing at Benihana is not the steak. It's not the seafood,
(15:50):
it's not the shrimp. It is the chicken fried rice
with shrimp sauce. Wow, that's the best.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I wish you could explain that to us while we're
sitting around and getting Bennie Hannah and eating Bennie Hannah together.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
At Benny Hannah.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
I thought I was going to.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
End with him saying, like, okay, so Tuesday, at like one,
we'll go there and experience this together.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
All right, bitches, pick a day and we'll go this week.
You want to go this week? Pick a day? This week?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
The one week that I could do. I could do. Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
This is why I never asked, because I know there's
no way that you guys will all can.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Do Wednesday I could do.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I could do.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
We can't do Thursday. It's boo bash.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I could do.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
True. Friday is out of here?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
You today? Well, no, I have to get my car.
I could do Friday.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Nope, not Friday.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
All right?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Next pick a day.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I could do next Monday.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
It's very better.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Are gonna wait vaunting here. We're gonna pick a day
to get to Bennie Hannah right.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Now, mondays, I wouldn't be available to like one.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
This is what I'm not going to lunch at one o'clock.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
I know that's no Monday.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Pick a day for Bennie Hanah right now, von so
come on.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
In here, Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
We're why you know no, I said, let's let's.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Do it, but I know what's going to happen. You'll
never agree on a date. We can never go Jenny Canton.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Wednesday the fifth? Can you do Wednesday the fifth? Font? Yeah,
I'm writing it down.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Are you sure we doing nighttime Vibe? They don't know
we're doing like eleven thirty lunch time?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Hell you Benny Hannah, got it, It's written down.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Yeah, this is a monumental day. I can't believe this
happened on the Minnesota Goodbye. We have to come back
and go live and tell everyone that this is happening.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Well or should we be careful? We don't need people
like showing.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
To just say we're putting a date on it.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Well, we did literally just say that well on the
Minnesota Bye God damn it.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I don't think anybody's going to show up.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
We're going to be at Well, it might be the
one in Coon Rapids.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
As far as we know, there is not one in
Coon Rapids. There's one in Maple Grove, isn't there are
shops at Arbor Lakes? Yeah? I could be wrong. I
mean I don't know. Okay, but there it is next
Wednesday at noon, Bennie Hannah. Yeah, which one of you
all will cancel first?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Not me?
Speaker 5 (17:55):
I don't have anything on my schedule. Is I'm good
with that. I'm happy we are and aren't doing this week.
It's hell week at my gym, and I'm trying to
accomplish every single day I'm going. And so I can't
have Benny Hannah sitting in my tummy for that.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Bennie Hannah does sit in your tummy. It does, all right.
So there it settled. Thank you for How did that
even come up on the show?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
You were talking about Bunny?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Somebody asked about your birthday and you talked about Bunny Hannah.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Okay, and that is it for the Minnesota goodbye? Are
you gonna call this one? Benny Hannah?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Okay? Good all right, have a great day. Send your
emails to Ryan's show at katiewbat dot com. Maybe tell
us what you did on your twenty first birthday. That'd
be kind of fun.
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