Keep Your Cat In Your Yard

We address what happened with Drake, feeling unappreciated, the reality show Jenny and her boyfriend should try to be on, tips for the Pinewood Derby, and more!

Episode Transcript

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Well, we have an interesting Minnesotagoodbye today and we're gonna talk about Drake
and leaving the show because this isI don't know. I've always prided this
up, the fact that we're prettyopen and honest with you and things happen
on the show. Okay, I'llgive you an example. Steve was he

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was laid off from the show becausewe had budget cuts and we love Steve.
We didn't want to see Steve go. And I'm gonna go ahead and
jump in. I'm gonna go aheadand take credit for a couple of times
they said we need to cut budgets, what about Steve? And I said,
no, you cannot cut Steve.Okay, next time budget cuts rolls
around, we need to cut budgets, who can we cut? Can we

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cut Steve? I said, no, you can't cut Steve. Finally,
they did it without asking me becausethey needed to cut and they didn't give
me a say. And that's honest, it's the truth. And we missed
Steve and we love Steve. Andyou know, Steve is just such a
He's just such you know Steve too. He was a smart ass, He
was funny, He could take thetension out of any moment, and he

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was let go and not let go. He didn't do anything wrong. They
just said, find a place inthe budget where we can save this amount
of money, and they said,okay here. It is kind of the
same with Tina. I mean Tina, we love Tina, and I know
that they purposely looked past Tina manytimes until they couldn't anymore. Does that
make sense, Yeah, I meanher position around the country basically wasn't existing

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in most markets anymore, and theydid keep her around like much longer than
other markets that had that similar position, and that person was gotten rid of.
There have been other people in theshow who have left. I mean
Angie Taylor left for a bigger show, not a bigger show. She left
for another show, I'm not goingto say a bigger show. And now
she's got her own big radio showyears later. I mean she's been gone

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twenty years. Corey Foley left becauseshe just wasn't really you know, for
whatever reason, she didn't want todo it anymore here and now she does
radio somewhere else. Intern John leftfor a different opportunity and now he's a
huge DJ in d C and Baltimore. So and then there have been people
who have been fired, and I'mnot gonna pick on anybody, because you

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know, even after all these years, I don't want to embarrass anybody that's
been fired from the radio station.But I can only tell you that when
somebody gets fired, whether it's fromyour place or from a radio station,
you don't just go, hey,you know what, you know what sounds

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good? You're gonna fire somebody?You know? You just you just don't.
Yeah, I mean, And that'sreally all I can say about it,
and there's really not and I willgo a little bit deeper with Drake
as a person. Drake was kindof, like I joked earlier, I
said, he's like the son thatI never wanted. Drake was kind of
a you know, goofy, irresponsible, laid back, very funny, friendly,

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positive, always a warm hello,always a war goodbye, always acted
like he was glad to see you. So there's no personal animosity with Drake
at all, and we wish himwell. And is there anything that I
missed? No, I don't thinkso. I think that's pretty much everything.
I will only go on to saythat, you know, I've been

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doing this for a long time.I've been at thirty almost thirty one years
here at this station. People comeand people go. Sometimes people last.
For you know, Steve was herefor fifteen years, Fallon was on the
show for twelve years. She movedup to her own show. So a
lot of people thought, and it'sfunny how people want to speculate, just
like we look at the the KateGate thing with Kate Middleton, we're like,
oh, there's something people aren't tellingus. And maybe it's like,

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hey, maybe she's sick and shedoesn't want people to know. Well,
there's nothing that we're not telling youexcept what we can't tell you. And
I will tell you that We've gonethrough this before and we always bounce back
and we always will. And people, I mean, it was so funny
because when people when Steve left theshow, people said, that's it.
I will never listen to the showagain. That's it. I'm done.

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I'm done with this show. Andthe ratings actually got bigger after Steve left,
not because Steve left, but forwhatever reason. And when and when
Lena left, oh, people werelike, oh god, well, now
that Lena left, I'm never goingto listen to the show again. But
then they fell in love with fallon, So I don't know it will will

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move on because that's what you do. You know. It's kind of like
if you break up with somebody.You don't go, well, I'm going
to become a nun and I'm nevergonna date ever again. You go,
well, this sucks, and thenyou sit around and mope about it for
a while, and then you godate somebody else. Exactly, Jenny,
you're not much help today, butI appreciate you why you're doing analogies.

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I don't know what else do youwant me to add to it? I
don't know anyway, So Drake isnot here anymore, And if you want
to know more than I guess,you could say, ask Drake. But
then again, you know he mightnot want to talk about it either.
All right, I do want totalk about this. I brought this up

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earlier. It's funny because we weretrying to record the podcast earlier and we
got about two minutes into it.Of what the computer froze up? Jenny,
I don't know. Something started firingoff in my headphones and you didn't
hear it, and then I gotscared something was happening with a station,
so we just had to stop wewere talking about a friend of mine who
and this is kind of a conversationI want to have that's nothing to do

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with what we just talked about.But she said, I'm a mom,
I'm a grandma, i am awife. I do everything for everybody.
Nobody ever does anything for me.She said, I'm getting tired of doing
things for other people and nobody doesanything for me. And I said that
sucks. And I said, I'llbet we all feel like that at some
time or another. Whether I thinka lot of moms feel that way because

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they got a couple of rotten kidsthey got to take care of. They
might have a partner that you know, doesn't really help as much as they
should, or they don't appreciate it. And I think a lot of people
do. And I think sometimes thereare the people who do, and the
people who let other people do,and the people who let other people do.
Maybe we're guilty sometimes have taken themfor granted. Would you say that's

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true? I mean absolutely, thereare definitely people in my life. My
mom, for example, I've definitelytaken her for granted. She's there for
me through like everything, and Iget annoyed sometimes when she calls me and
just wants to talk and I'm busy, you know, but she's always there
for me. Yeah, And Ithink that's true. It's kind of like
I think I feel that way sometimestoo, because I really like doing things

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for people, and I'm not talkingabout monetary things, and I'm not talking
about you know, whether it's monetarypick you up at the airport, or
help somebody along in their career orwhatever. And a lot of the time
there's just no it's like, whatare you gonna do for me? I
mean, I've had people like friendsof mine say hey, will you take
me flying? Will you take meflying? Will you take me flying?
And I've kind of stopped in away because they just don't seem appreciative,

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you know. Yeah, it's like, oh, you take me flying,
Well, it's gonna cost me aboutfour hundred dollars to take you flying.
I love to take you flying,but when I get so little appreciation for
it, I'm just like, eh, no, but I'll give you a
phone number as somebody who will,but you gotta pay for it on your
own. So if you feel unappreciated, you're not alone. Yeah, Ben,

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if you got a story about it, send me an email to Ryan
Show at KTWB dot com. Let'sget into the emails. Jenny, you're
ready, I'm my day. Let'ssee what we got here. Hold on,
I got to push the right taband see what we have. Some
have come in from earlier this morning. Let's try this one. What's up,
gang, I hope you're having agreat day. I'm emailing to ask

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why Drake is gone. Okay,so that's funny that you asked that,
and basically we just we just talkedabout that, so there's your answer already.
But thanks, totally understand you asking. And then let me move down
to this one. Happy Tuesday.I hope you're all having a dart licking

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week. To make it short andsweet, I would love advice and opinions
from you guys and listeners regarding yourparents trying to help you with your finances
as a young adult. Here arethe details. Is it normal for your
parents to ask about your finances asa young adult. My dad is my
best friend and has helped me budgetand knows how much I make, and

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I ask him for advice before takingjobs or paying to do anything that costs
a lot. But is it normalor does this happen more than I realize.
I absolutely know it's none of hisbusiness, but I also know he's
trying to help me and get meset up for my future. I'm also
very thankful for that. But overall, I'm sure somebody has some type of
situation. How do you handle it? I don't mind you saying my name,
but if you can avoid it,I would appreciate it. Case my

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dad listens from Alabama, Thanks inadvance, and keep on dart licking.
I would like a stay Rider stickerif possible, so I will take a
picture of your address and send youone. I think it's really cool that
your dad knows all your finances,because this is somebody who, as your
dad, wants nothing but the bestfor you. Did she say how old

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she was or no? She saidyoung adult. She does not say exactly,
but no, I'm gonna guess probablymid twenties or so. She lives
in Texas, by the way,which is really cool that she listens in
Texas. They say, I knowit's none of yours, none of his
business. He's also trying to helpme. Is this common? Susan helps

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Carson a lot with his finances becauseCarson. He makes a lot of money
when he's doing the tours, butthen he makes a little bit of money
doing his part time job when he'snot touring. And I'm not good with
money in finances because I just don't. My basically thing with money in finances
is I just I don't really spendit. I'm not a money hoarder kind
of a person, so I don'tconcern Susan is much more concerned with money,

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so she advises Carson on finances.Alison doesn't need it, Beth and
Chase don't need it. What doyou think. I just never had a
parent who was involved, like newenough themselves to be able to help me.
So my parents have never been inmy business about finances. But I've
had other people who I'm like enviousof their relationship with their parents because their

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parents help them get like an investmentportfolio going and helped with roth Ira and
all of this stuff. And soI think, like, if that's where
your parents are helping you, thenit's I would be willing to tell my
parents how much I was making them, But for right now, there's no
reason that I would tell my parents. Yeah, yeah, I totally get
that. I think that some peopleare very involved in their kids' life and

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finances. And I know a lotof parents give their kids money because they
could afford and the kids need money. And we've been guilty of that too,
because Carson lives in LA and theonly way to get deep into the
music business is to live in LosAngeles. Well, when you move to
Los Angeles without a job, youcan't afford to live in Los Angeles.

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So we've helped him out with theidea that you know, hey, you've
got to be really ambitious and youget to really work in a high try
hard, and he has so yeah, no regrets. This email is mostly
for Jenny. I've been on arecent binge of old Amazing Race episodes and
I think you and Andrew would bethe perfect pair to compete on the show.
From what I can tell, bothof you are in great shape for

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the physical aspect of the game,intelligent for mental challenges, seem to have
great communication with each other, verysociable, and of course love to travel.
You've also got a decent social mediapresence and appear very marketable for TV.
I can't help but think how youwould kick ass racing around the world.
You can have about this though,right we have. There was like,
I don't know, a year ago, it got brought up somehow and

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we thought about it, and sowe were like watching audition videos from people
like who literally like they were onthe show, and they explained what they
did in their audition videos, andit kind of we kind of forgot about
it, honestly because we're like,oh, we should try it, But
then it did seem like a lotof work because you can't just you can't
just fill out an application and likebe like cool, maybe they'll reach out
to me. You have to putsome effort into your audition videos, and

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it just never was like a toppriority. Andrew wants to be on Survivor
more than anything. But when itcomes down to it, and we've discussed
this recently, Andrew doesn't have aTV presence. He is not a public
speaker. He shuts down when acamera gets put in front of his face.
Even if it's just me hanging outwith him at home and I try
to record something funny he's doing,he stops. So I just don't foresee

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us. And I'm not saying wewouldn't ever try, but I don't foresee
us getting picked as like a couplebecause I don't know that we would stand
out and be like the characters thatthey're looking for those shows. I get
you, because you know what theyare characters. I mean you think about
like when it goes all the wayback to like what's the one Big Brother?
Right big Brother? And Survivor andJersey Shore, all of those people

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that are supposedly on a reality show. They don't cast people who are quiet.
They cast people with big personalities.If you think back to the original
season of Survivor, they had Tinathe white trash or Tina the nurse.
They had the white trash trucker.They had Richard the gay guy, and

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they were all characters and none ofthem were like, you know, polite
and shy, and if they did, they did not last very long.
So I get it. You andAndrew would be great on Amazing Race because
you would fit all those things.But Andrew just probably would kind of shrink
if he was on TV. Yeah. Yeah, Hello, Dave. I
want to ask for any tips ofresources for the Pinewood Derby, anything from

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websites to cool recommendations or just thingsyou've learned through experience. Would be incredibly
helpful. It's my son's first yearin Scouts and first time participating. He's
so excited. My husband's pretty handy, but it's his first time doing it
as well. Hearing about your loveof Scouts and good things you've had to
say about it made me feel goodabout getting him involved. I know you're
busy, so thanks in advance andI'll email her back. But I thought

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it was kind of funny. Thereare actual books of how to make your
racer go faster, and a lotof it is they I think it's a
five ounce weight limit. You putthe drill a hole in your racer,
and you drop fishing sinkers in there, and you weigh it on a posted
scale until it is five ounces,and then you go to the way in

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and then you be ready. Ifit's a little bit heavy, you be
ready to take some of that wouldfill route and take a weight out,
but get your up to five ounces, and then also put graphite powder on
the wheels. The wheels are soimportant. They get to spin freely.
And we did really well in thePinewood derby. Because there are actual books

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that you can buy that'll tell youhow to build a good racer. Okay,
maybe I would say, maybe I'mnaive to this, but is that
a boy scout thing? Yeah,it's all okay, okay, okay,
because I was like, I don'tremember ever doing anything like that. Girl
scouts do it too, and Ithink it's open to any groups. I
mean, it's not exclusively a cubscout thing, but that's kind of what
cub scouts are for. And II mean, that's not what they're for,

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but that's where they usually do it. And she shows a picture of
her little eight year old Cub scoutand his name is Jonas and he is
adorable. He looks so proud.And I'm gonna tell you that scouts,
I'm a big, big scout advocatebecause if you're gonna play sports, you're
gonna recognize that the people who sayaccel like sports are fast, big,

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tall, or strong. A scout, whether they're a boy or a girl,
doesn't have to be any of thosethings to succeed in scouting. Like,
for example, I mean, Allisonplayed volleyball and she was tall,
but not fast and not really strong, and she also didn't have that you
know, like you can call itthe eye of the tiger, you know
what I mean, like the herfactor. Yeah, she didn't have that.

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You can succeed in Scouts without anyof that. You can be a
quiet kid, kind of shy kid, and you're gonna love it. You're
gonna have a great time. Sothere's my lug for Scouts. Yeah,
okay, I think we're getting kindof near the end here. Here we
go real quick. I too heard. Oh they were talking about the Okay,

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never mind, they're talking about somethingthey heard on the show that they
didn't like but they thought was funny. So I'm gonna move on from that
one and I'm gonna go up tolet's do this one. Last week on
the Minnesota Goodbye, you were talkingabout the woman who asked for advice on
owning her a new home. Youmentioned how you keep your pets in your

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own yard. She wanted advice onbuying a new home, right, Yeah,
just to be like a homeowner.Any advice of being a new homeowner.
And I said, go meet yourneighbors because they're going to be great
when you need somebody to like,Oh, I forgot to shut my garage
door. Will you shut my garagedoor? Or Skippy is gonna need to
be fed for a week. Canyou feed Skippy while we're out of town?

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Can you get my mail while we'reout of town? And plus,
it's nice to be able to walkout of the mailbox and see somebody that
you know, even if you don'tneed them for a favor. You mentioned
keep your pets in your own yard? Can we talk about that more,
particularly where people that their cats roamthe neighborhood. I'd like to give a
PSA. In most cities, it'sillegal to let your pet off leash outside
your property that includes cats. Please, people, keep your damn cat in

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your own yard. I keep mydog in my own yard or on a
leash. Cat owners should be justas responsible. It's not that hard.
I'm so tired of one my dogtrying to eat all the cat shit deposited
all over the sides of the streetwalk, and two trying to keep a
dog quiet in her own yard whilethe neighbor's cat sits five feet out of
reach and sits in stairs taunting mydog. Keep your damn cats off the

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streets, please, dart lick Katefor Motamede. We have a street cat
in our neighborhood and that's well,it's like someone's cat, but they let
the cats roam whenever the cat lovesto go outside, and I thought it
was a missing cat. Once I'mcoming home from the gym and I see
it and I was like, here, kitty, kitty, like trying to
talk to it. And then Irealized the owner was outside and I was
like, oh, is this yourcat? And they're like, yeah,

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she just likes to roam. It'slike, oh, okay. I used
to be guilty of that. Iused to have a cat that I would
let go outside and I never eventhought about it, and he would roam
around. We live by a marsh, and he would roam down by the
marsh, and I think one ofthe neighbors finally said something about the cat,
like they'd call and they'd be like, your cat's in our backyard,

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and I was like yeah, Sothen I finally got the idea. So
then I don't remember if I putthe cash out the cat out on a
tie out or what. I don'tremember, but I was guilty of that,
so I never even thought about it. Was it because like did you
grow up with like barn cats orsomething? Because I was gonna say,
I'm my best friend's family. Growingup, they had so many barn cats,
so like that was pretty normal forthe cats to just roam outside and

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do whatever. Yeah, it wouldn't. I'll be honest. It wasn't really
a barn cat. It was apet cat. But we lived on five
acres and the cat would go outsidewhenever they wanted to. It was like,
oh, cat wants outside, andthey'd go roam around and yeah,
so and that is going to doit for the Minnesota Goodbye. If you
want to comment on anything about Drake, don't ask me too many questions because

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I can't answer. Also, ifyou want to talk about whether you feel
like you're appreciated or not, andwhat you go through and what you do
for people but you don't get thingsback in return, and anything else you
want to bring up on the MinnesotaGoodbye, send that to Ryan's show at
KDWB dot com and thanks for listening.