Dave Ryan Needs To Go

We talk about male friendships, being the life of the party, and our favorite field trips.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Alrighty, here we go with the Minnesota Goodbye Friday Day edition,
and it looks like today is going to be a
lot of emails, which I love. I always love to
see what you're thinking of, and let's see what we got. Hello, Dave,
Jenny Bay Levant. This is from Anders First. I'm sure
you will read this in the morning. So Happy Friday.
My wife and I have today Friday off for work

(00:22):
of work for her twenty ninth birthday. Wondering if you
can give her a shout out. Her name is Alexandria.
Absolutely so happy twenty ninth birthday, Alexandria. Second, I listened
to the clarifying cows Ass episode from yesterday. Love the
title Bailey and the part where you're discussing young men
and Professor G's new book. As a thirty year old man,

(00:44):
I somewhat resonate with the loneliness feeling mostly stemming from
attempts to connect with other men around me on a
deeper level but getting mostly brushed off. I've got two
maybe three guy friends who actually listen to who I
feel actually listen when there's a serious topic at hand,
which is sad and as a man, I wish men
felt more comfortable talking to each other. But I think

(01:04):
for the young men who are coming into adulthood now,
for the last five years, a lot of them are
confused about their plays in this world. Society does. Societal
dynamics are changing, and for some reason, young men are
having perhaps the toughest time. Maybe not, I could be wrong.
I guess Scott Galloway's book may help shine some light
on the topic. Anyway, I wanted to share my thoughts

(01:25):
and thank you for discussing it. I think we need
to bring up the fact that men are struggling and
we need each other. So I think that's true, and
I think that, yeah, I think it's true. And I
worry about my boy Carson because I don't he's so quiet.
I never know exactly what he's thinking or worried about.

(01:46):
But I think he has buddies that he can talk to,
you know what I mean, Like if something's going wrong,
I hope he has somebody to talk to.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Which I think I like about what Anders said is
that we need each other. And I think men need
each other like they need each other men, you know,
And I think that's where they could have, you know,
better relationships with other guys, so you know, talk about
your feelings because it's not gay to talk about your
feelings or whatever.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Like I get to talk about my feeling I have
one friend that I really talk about my feelings, whether
that's Curtis, and Curtis is gay, and I think that
makes him softer, if that's the right word for it.
So I can talk about, you know, whatever's going on
that's troubling me or whatever. And he's a great listener
to the point where it's almost flawed. He is like

(02:32):
an interviewer. So how is that going with Alison?

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Does he work in like therapy?

Speaker 1 (02:37):
No, he and I told him one time, I said,
you should be a therapist. He works in design. He
works in it's a little interesting what he does. He
is a buyer and a designer. So he goes to
shows and he'll set up a display for a company
that sells things, seasonal things, for example. So he'll go
to an empty space and he'll set up an entire

(02:59):
display of Christmas things, because there's an art to setting
up a display. Then buyers retailers will come by and
look at it and go, oh, those little lamps that
look like a Christmas tree. I want to order fifty
of those for my shop in shockapie type of thing. Okay,
but he's like nationwide, he goes to Atlanta.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
What nothing about therapy?

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Then nothing about therapy now so they want a staff
writers sticker and secretary Brie has got your email and
a mail and we're gonna send that over.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
To you, Nance Anders and happy birthday to your wife.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Very cool.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
I your friends, Anders, ask them how they are?

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Well, I think that's the thing he said he does,
but again gets brushed off, like, you know, if somebody
I don't know, if somebody came to me is like, man,
I'm just really having trouble, you know, with my marriage,
and you know, I mean I'd be like, oh.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
That's what's a bummer to me.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
And that's what I've seen with like people responding to
that Galloway guy. Like, I think he makes good points,
but I do think he's saying, like, hey, in order
to talk about your feeling, is like you kind of
need a wife or a girlfriend to talk about those
things too, and you don't. You just need friends who
will be able to talk to you about it or
willing to talk to you about it.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
I think it's just the fact though that like men
were not taught to be vulnerable. Yeah, and that's what
the struggle is is, like you see it as such
a weakness, so you're not willing to be vulnerable with
your friends.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
And I just I don't know.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
I mean, I can speak as a woman, but let
me tell you, when people are vulnerable to me in relationships,
it makes me feel so much closer to them. And
I know that it's different like manned Man, I get that,
but I just wish there wasn't this stigma.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
As a guy. I will say, it's that it's not
that we don't want a guy to talk to. There
just really is and always a guy to talk to.
My best friend Mike or Brintley was my guy to
talk to. And that's one of the reasons I miss
Brintley because I could talk to that guy about a
anything and we would like, you know, kid around and

(04:59):
like he was just guy that you could do anything,
and he would laugh. Like I remember we were driving
in his truck one time and he was always very
proud of his hair and I'm like, you have the
prettiest hair. Stop it you have no seriously, can I
touch it? I don't care. Go and I would actually
play with his hair to make him uncomfortable, and I
think he kind of liked it that it was very gay.

(05:20):
It was very gay, but we were no, it was
very gay, but we were pretending. There was no like
testing the waters. It wasn't like, well, now can I
play with your nipples? You know, look you're.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Tony where he's like, is it gay that I do
this with my friend? It's gay?

Speaker 5 (05:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (05:40):
You know.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
See, if I would have played with his nipples, I'd
be like, look at how gay you are. You're letting
me play with your nipples. You're gay. I could probably
take my pants off because you're so gay. You're gay,
all right? Next one, Kaylee writes in Longtime No Talk
life has been lifing, but I'm happy to be throwing
my two cents in again, Jenny. I was cracking up

(06:03):
when you were stirring the pot about people having both
a bridal shower and a bachelorette party, because honestly, you're
not wrong. And lately I've been noticing the same thing
with baby celebrations. There's a gender reveal, a diaper party,
and a baby shower. Like we're one onesie away from
a full blown festival, totally overwhelming. But hey, I guess
if it makes them happy, good for them. Also, sorry,

(06:24):
you're feeling sore, but get it girl. Dave says that
last part in the Alison voice for full effect. Please
and thanks. Okay in the Allison voice, Oh my god, dad,
Sorry we're feeling sore, but get it girl.

Speaker 5 (06:41):
Yes, I will. No, I won't. Honestly, I don't want,
ever want to feel this pain again.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
You will, though, I hope so, Bailey. I have been
thinking about what you said about not knowing if you're
actually having a good time on dates or you're just
the kind of person that people naturally have fun around.
As your resident gen Z therapist, let me say, being
the reason someone has a good time is kind of
the whole point. You're not accidentally enjoyable. You are enjoyable.

(07:07):
I would agree with that one. That's part of what
makes you you. And you're right one date isn't enough
for a long term verdict, but sometimes I think people
just need a second lap to show they can keep up.
You got this, girly, I think that's true. I think
there are people you remind me of, like Steve in
a way and extreme Jamie in a way. You're always chatty,

(07:29):
You're always comfortable to be around, and it's like you're
easy to talk to. Like when Jamie, I don't want
to be, you know, like weird. But when Jamie, who
used to work here years ago, when he would come
to work, he lit up the room when he came in.
He brought an energy with him that was like, hey, guys, Hey,
how's it going. He was always happy. Same with Steve.

(07:50):
Remember how happy Steve was.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
I was going to say that I feel like with Steve,
like he would be going through shit and we would
sort of know because he'd make like a joke about it,
but like he would just come in and like he'd
always bug me when I'd be in I used to
work in Von Studio for Foreverady come in and say
the stupidest shit. And I just remember like after he
was like, oh, I like cried at the thought of
like not having him randomly come in and asking me

(08:13):
something really fucking dumb.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
He was just a funny guy. And I remember one
time he came to my Super Bowl party and his
little boy, Isaac was probably two, and he brought Isaac along,
and the entire time he stayed in the basement with
Isaac playing with Carson's train set, and it was like, man,
the life of the party wasn't there. He was down
in the basement and it was a boring super Bowl

(08:37):
party and people like, no, it was great, we had
a good times, Like, no, you didn't. It was a boring,
awful super Bowl party because Steve was not there was
nobody there to be the life of the party. Sure, yeah,
I remember Fallin and Meatsaw showed up and they sat
on the couch like a couple of lumps the entire time.
And I don't fault them for it. You can do
whatever you want at my party. But I was kind

(08:59):
of down falling to be a little to the life
of the party and she was just not not that day.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
So can I take the nacho platter and just like
put it on my lap like it's a regular plate.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Is that what I can do at your party?

Speaker 4 (09:11):
Well, he means more like you're talking to everyone, not
just like show.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Not just eating all the nachos. Yeah, no, that's not
what I can do at your party. No, that's what
I planned.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Well, I think I might have one more super Bowl party,
but the staff here is so small now, that like, Okay,
if half the staff didn't show up, that would mean
three people would show up at my super Bowl party,
So all right. Next one. Lastly, Dave Bailey's impression of
you licking your lips on Instagram had me absolutely crying
laughing because I'm not gonna lie. It was painfully accurate.

(09:42):
Now I can see it when I watch YouTube live
and I kind of hate that for me. Lmaoh, all jokes, Dave,
Do I lick my lips a lot?

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (09:52):
I don't realize that at all.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, You're not like you don't lick your lips. You
just like put your tongue down in the bottom, in
your bottom lip. Yep, that's what you do. I do
all the time.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Yepper wow, like a little lizard.

Speaker 5 (10:05):
I see.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
The thing is is like the way that the microphones
are adjusted for us. I can't see your face most
of the time, so I think Bailey gets the the
only thing I see all the time, your face weird.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
But.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Truly was not aware of that. I'm not going to
try to change though.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
No.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Next one, Tara writes in longtime Listener, first time writer here,
thanks for all you do. I look forward to listening
to the each morning on my commute to work, and
now in the afternoons through your podcast. My question is
for Dave and requires you to think back to the
early two thousands, specifically between two thousand and one and
two thousand and three. At the time, I was in
junior high and your morning show was just a was

(10:44):
a part of my daily getting ready routine. At some
point in that timeframe, the radio station started dropping hints
or ads that the show might be going off the air,
pulling on my young heartstrings. It even got to a
point where the station had a countdown to some sort
of I have a stating news prompting me to fake
being sick so I could stay home and hear what

(11:05):
was happening and not miss out on this announcement. Long
story short, your show obviously did not get canceled, and
the news ended up being some other announcement related to
an event like a concert or whatever. But my young
globle self could not bear to miss it. Wondering, Dave,
if you remember this whole bit, because whoever was in
your PR marketing department did a fantastic job grabbing me

(11:27):
as a listener. If you have any details remember this,
it'd be fun to hear it. Thanks for all you
do for Tara, Well, Tara, thank you for listening all
this time, and thanks for writing in. I don't remember
specifically that one, but there was one where it's like
KATWB is turning off the power, KATWB is shutting out
after thirty years, KATWB is finally turning off the power,

(11:50):
and people thought that meant, oh, we're signing off, and
it was something like we're going to pay your electric
bills something stupid like that. But I don't remember another one,
and that could be the one you're talking about. It
feels like the right timeframe. Did you say it was
two thousand and one to two thousand and three, okay,
And that would definitely fit the right time frame for that,

(12:11):
So I'm gonna guess that's probably what it was.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
When I remember because we had a different boss at
the time. We didn't have Rich and I remember I
was working at City ninety seven and he came in
and he was trying to teach me radio stuff because
I was very new, and he played me this promo
thing and it was like the Dave Ryan Show is leaving,
and I was like, oh, I remember that one.

Speaker 5 (12:31):
And that was to promote you guys going to Mexico.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yes, I reminded.

Speaker 5 (12:35):
He was like, does that intrigue you?

Speaker 4 (12:37):
And so you're just kind of teaching me what I
like what we do in radio to get people hooked
and wanting to listen and stuff, and it did. I
was like, new to radio, So I was like, what
does that mean of it where they goes?

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yes, I remember that one very specifically.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
We were going to do something, but we don't have
the budget for it. Dave Ryan needs to leave and
put up billboards. Dave Ryan needs to leave. Dave Ryan
needs to go and make people go like, oh my god,
oh there are people that don't like Dave and yeah,
Dave Ryan needs to go, and then people would talk
about it, and then the the reveal on the billboard,
Dave Ryan needs to go to the Bahamas and you're

(13:14):
invited to go to So if that ever happens and
you see a billboard up that says Dave Ryan needs
to go, no, it's a it's a promo. We were
gonna do one, remember this one. And I don't think
you were here, but maybe you were. I think maybe
you were. We were going to do something blacker, bigger, better,

(13:34):
blacker is that what it was, And we were going
to put up billboards that said bitter bit, bigger, better blacker,
and then we really I was going to spend my
own money putting these up because it would make people talk.
But then vont rean it by some of his family
and they said I kind of rubbed him the wrong way,
and we're like, well, the last thing we want to

(13:55):
do is piss off the black community or people who
would be pissed whatever. So we said, nah, sounded like
a good idea. It would definitely get attention, but.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
Probably not the good people.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
Also spilled the beans too early because you were going
to do it as like a surprise, and then you
started talking about it on the show right away and
you're like, I have this new.

Speaker 5 (14:13):
Idea and we were like, no, shut up, we were
gonna maybe do this as a billboard. Well yeah, talking
about and I was like, well, there there goes that.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
The most effective billboard I think we ever did was
the Ugly Kids billboard campaign, and I don't want to
describe it. I've told the story so many times, but basically,
we put up pictures of me and my co host
Angie at the time, and when we were in fifth
grade kids and they knocked out our teeth and made
our eyes wonky, and the billboard said ugly kids, and everybody,

(14:41):
just the Mendot had us take it down because people
were slowing down on the freeway to look at it.

Speaker 5 (14:46):
That's so crazy.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
This was twenty years ago, and the reveal was ugly
Kids become DJs, Dave Ryan in the Morning, Katie WB
and then it showed us as you know, adults, ugly kids.
And the reveal weeks later was become DJs. And it
was so successful to make people talk about us that
it got stolen all over the country and I was

(15:08):
like just kind of pissy about it because it's like, bitches,
I came up with that. You know, you you people
in San Diego or Milwaukee or whatever, you didn't come
up with shit. And I get tired sometimes of coming
up with ideas that other people fucking feed off of. Yeah, like,
come up with your own shit. I'm a fountain, a

(15:29):
fountain of ideas. I can't help it.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
I can't stop help me.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
And then the one, one of my favorite ones lately
was Dave Ryan gave me crabs, And you remember that one.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
I remember that one. Yeah, okay, yeah, all.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Right, here we go. How are you doing for time?
Jennie be doing all right?

Speaker 5 (15:45):
Yeah, we got like three and a half minutes.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
All right, let's see what we can do here. Hello,
morning show. A couple of quick things I thought of
while listening talking about listening to audiobooks rather than reading sometime.
Something people often forget is the majority of humans existence
there there were no books. All stories, events, and history
were shared through the spoken word, same as audio books.
But I don't shame anybody who listens to an audiobook.

(16:08):
I think there's a different experience of cuddling up in
you know, with a cat on your lap and reading
a book, yeah, or listening to an audiobook on your
walk or in your car. Yeah, they're both. You're hearing
stories and learning whatever.

Speaker 5 (16:22):
Faily really quickly, what can you get?

Speaker 4 (16:24):
You can get something from the library that's digital, right, yeah,
so you can read.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
The app is called Libby, and that's it's a library app.
So all you need is a library card and you
just connect it to the app and then you can
like borrow either like physical books quote unquote that are
on your phone or audio books.

Speaker 5 (16:41):
And then okay, can you do like Kindle stuff with it,
do you know?

Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (16:46):
So I mean I don't have a Kindle, yeah, but
like I think you can download the Libby app to
your Kindle.

Speaker 4 (16:50):
And just trying to figure out what to ask for
for Christmas from Santa. Yeah, because I feel like I
want one of those, Yeah, just to like travel with
because carrying physical books it really it takes.

Speaker 5 (17:00):
Up a lot of space.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Get a Kindle.

Speaker 5 (17:02):
I know, that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Is that the same thing I think?

Speaker 5 (17:05):
Yeah, I think that's what I want to get or
ask Santa for. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
My mom always, my mom goes really crazy with Christmas still,
and I'll always be like, Mom, I don't need anything.
I don't need anything. And then she continues to bug
me and she's like, tell me what you need. And
finally I like cave and I'll think of things.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, it's like top of this, I'm gonna write it down,
write it down, presence because Olydia's great.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
Next one last one from Taylor. I randomly remember a
field trip we took in high school that I hope
they would never do today. I was in a family
studies elective in high school and our class went on
a field trip to the local school for pregnant and
teen moms. We went to this pregnant and teen mom's
school and we walked around looking at the teens like
they were in a zoo. My god, yes, do you

(17:46):
remember anything in high school that would never happen today?
Fallon went to a Budweiser brewery tour when she was
in high school or middle school. I don't remember anything
like that, you know, like if you went to the
Morgue or something like that. I don't know if anything
come to mind.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
Oh, No, we didn't do anything weird.

Speaker 5 (18:04):
Yeah, in school. I wish we did. That would be cool.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
I mean, as a senior, we went on a tour
of the courthouse.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
But that's not like weird. It was just boring.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh really was it boring?

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Well, it was like it was for a law class
or something or other.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
And well, what were your favorite field trips? I'll start
while you get a chance to think about it. Chian
Mountain Zoo. When I was a kid, I mean, your
third grade shout out miss Christie. She was one hundred
and seven years old back then, but I loved her.
She was great. She read Charlotte's Web to our class
in her little New Jerseyish accent, and she took us
to the Chayenne Mountain Zoo and the Pioneer Museum, and

(18:40):
it was just if field trips were what was the
best field trip?

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Jo?

Speaker 4 (18:43):
Mine was always town to Milwaukee. They had the Mitchell
Park domes and so it was kind of like what
the arboretum is and stuff like that. We're just domes
with flowers and stuff.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
And but you loved it, loved it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
I loved the Oliver Kelly Farm so much so I
started working there. That's fibulars. And then there was this
giant like wooden playground. I don't remember where it was,
but it was huge, a huge playground that looked like
a castle. And we would go there all the time.
I don't know why, but that was a field.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
Trip for us. It's going to this giant wooden playground.
It was dope.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
I mean, that's cool when you're a little kid.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
It was so cool. It had a big metal slide. Oh,
it was dope.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
We went in high school to a recording studio in Denver,
and I still remember hearing. This is the only thing
I remember about it. None of the walls or even
the floor in the ceiling were perpendicular to each other,
because if they were, the echo would be wrong. Yeah,
so in a recording studio the ceiling and the floor
are not perpendicular or any of the walls, and they

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