Surf & Turf

We talk about parenting regrets, psychics, field trips, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, here we go with another delightful Minnesota Goodbye.
We're going to dive into the emails right away and
see what they bring. Here we go. It was out
with girlfriends at a coffee shop and the Loop Coffee
Company on Saturday. Jenny was there for a puppy yoga class.
Yeah yeah, sorry. Jenny was with a boy, an attractive

(00:24):
young man, and I wasn't about to bother her during
her personal time. I couldn't have anyway, since I was
so dumbfounded by seeing her, I never thought I would
react as if as I did. I'm hoping Jenny didn't
see me and wonder what was wrong with the crazy
lady that didn't know what to do with herself? Hug
any idea? Who this is?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
No?

Speaker 3 (00:39):
I was in my own world, I think so. No,
I did not see you acting any sort of way.
Everyone in the coffee shop looked like they were enjoying
their coffee or working or maybe on a first day
or something.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
So No, this is from Heather. She says she's been
listening to Kato Wodbe since the Steve Cochran days. Who
was the guy that was on before me? And she said,
I saw Dave at a distance and said the State Fair.
Back when Katie WB was by the Haunted House, Angie
was probably the co host. I just realized on Saturday
that outside of this I haven't seen any of you
in person. That's weird because you're all such a big

(01:13):
part of my life, whether you know it or not.
I realize this when I found myself in the same
location as Jenny and not knowing what to do. Jenny,
Hope you had a great time at puppy Yoga.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yes, I was so fine.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
This is my first time writing in and I guess
I don't actually have a reason to be writing. Yes
you do.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Thanks for brightening all my days from Heather. Thank you
Heather for listening all these years. Yeah, appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Okay, with a nice, good looking young man, any.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Update do you want to give us any update on this
good looking young man?

Speaker 5 (01:41):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:42):
I mean, are you exclusive now with this guy?

Speaker 2 (01:44):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Exclusive in the suns that I'm not seeing anyone else
and neither is he. But not exclusive in the sunse
that I'm gonna call my boyfriend.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
No, we're not there.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yet, next one, Angelique, says Dave and Crewe. Of course,
I appreciate you all so much. Last week you were
all talking about songs with a story. We talked about
the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and we talked about
the Penia Kalata song because there was a woman on
the show who realized that if she were to meet
another guy after she got divorced, she would like him

(02:13):
to be just like her husband. Then she realized, maybe
I don't want to get a divorce because he's quite
a catch. And that's kind of the theme of the
Pena Kalata song where they go and I said, I
never knew that you like Penya Colat and she said,
Harry Chapin is an excellent songwriter. Check him out, Dave.

(02:33):
Others appreciate him as well. Dave and I are similar
rages and we seem to have similar interests. Harry Chapin
wrote this song cats in the Krayle and the Spoon,
and it's a great sad story song about a dad.
You've heard the song before. If I played it, you'd
recognize it. Dad is too busy with his work and

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his little boy is like, Dad, can we play ball? Well,
I'd love to, but I don't have the time. And Dad,
you know, can you read me a story, and Dad's like,
I don't have time. And then his kid grows up
and the dad is like, hey, can you come and
visit us? And the kids like I'd love to, but
I don't have time. And then he realized that his
kid was doing just what he did and not spending

(03:17):
enough time. And it's a good lesson for any parents.
It's kind of a tear jerker of a song because
you realize you want to give your kids some time
when they're young, not just because you want them to
pay attention to you when you're old, but because they
deserve it and it means so much, right.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
Or else, that's what they'll remember about you.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah. Yeah, So I always try to give my kids
more than enough time, and I still have regrets. I mean, like,
I know that I spent tons of time with Carson,
no regrets there. But with Alison, I think my biggest
regret was two things. Number One, she wanted to learn
how to play guitar, and I told her, I said,
you really can't play. Your nails are too long. She's

(03:59):
like seven, eighth, ninth grade. I said, you really got
to cut your nails or you won't be able to play.
Guitar and she wouldn't. And then so one day for
my birthday, she bought me a guitar so we could
learn together, and we never did. We might have played
a couple of times, and the guitars are ignored and
forgotten down in the basement. And that's one of the

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things where it's like God, I have a big regret
where I wish that I would have at least spent
more time with her trying to teach her a couple
of three chords so she could play guitar. Yeah, and
I never did.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Oh, buddy, An, it's.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Okay, okay, let's see. So thank you Angie for that one.
Next one. When Gary Spivey's on the morning show or
at boobash or in the past, does the station or
the show pay his hourly rate or does a show
get a discount? Last time I saw his rate for
a reading on his website, it was five hundred dollars

(04:55):
for thirty minutes. I also noticed some other radio shows
have psyche to any info would be interesting, thanks and
happy weekend. He wrote this on Friday. That is from
thing and the thing I would say, No, we don't
pay Gary at all. Gary gets free advertising on the radio.
So Gary comes on, does readings for free, and we

(05:17):
give his phone number in his website. Yeah, so therefore
it's like he gets paid, but not directly. He gets
paid by advertising publicity.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, What do you think about Gary charging five hundred
dollars for thirty minutes?

Speaker 5 (05:30):
I don't know what the normal rate is, so like,
if that's a normal rate.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Then no, I don't think that's a normal rate. I
think that's a rate for someone who's been doing it
for a really long time and has made a name
for themselves. I think a normal rate would be like
one hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Depends on the psychic, I guess.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, I don't know, but I don't. I feel like
I can't say anything. Gary has been a psychic for
as long as I've known him, which is ten years,
and he's been doing it for as long as Dave's
known him, So I can't really.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Speak on this.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
He gets paid what the market will bear. Yeah, people,
you know you wouldn't go to I don't know. I'm
trying to think of like some kind of sort of
a street fair and there's a a tarot card reader
or a crystal ball person or a psychic. You wouldn't
pay them five hundred dollars an hour because you don't
know them. They don't have a reputation. But if you're

(06:20):
going to go to like the Long Island Medium, maybe
you're a big fan. I would not personally spend money
on a psychic. I have Gary answer questions. And Gary
came in the other day and I said, hey, can
I borrow it? I pulled him into another room by ourselves.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
What you guys talk about it?

Speaker 1 (06:34):
So no, I'm not going to tell you guys talk
about it's about life and love and you know things
do you guys talk about?

Speaker 4 (06:41):
You want to give us any details.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Life and love? Stop being so nosy.

Speaker 4 (06:46):
You want to give us any details?

Speaker 1 (06:48):
But I wouldn't pay him for it. But you know,
if you can go see the Long Island medium, maybe
somebody like, oh, she's the best. I'd pay her one
thousand dollars for a half an hour.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
M my mom, I remember by in the day.

Speaker 5 (07:00):
Remember that guy he was on TV and he would
like talk to like the other side.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
It was like, oh, I'm talking to you.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
I know exactly who you're talking about. Yeah he was
two thousands, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:11):
Yes, my mom loved him, and I feel like she
went to see him at one point in time and he,
like I don't know, gave her some kind of message
from like her aunt or something, and she was full believer.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
We used to watch that guy.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
John Edward, John Edwards, John Edwards, Yeah, John Edward. Yeah.
He had a show called Crossing Over with John Edward.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
Yes, yep.

Speaker 5 (07:34):
And I think she went to go see him and
she was just like wowed by whatever he said. But
that was I guess that was you know, short lived
moment of time and like you know, two thousand and
one or whatever that was, but I remember that he
was just.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Popular in the two thousands, along with Sylvia Brown. I
always thought Sylvia Brown was kind of a joke, and
I'd seen videos of her getting things absolutely wrong right,
and I don't know, And.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
I think that's a risk you're taken with any any
psychic ever or any you know, tarot card reader or
whatever is that it might not be accurate, but if
you're getting something from it, Like Gary was like Bailey,
you don't believe in it, and he's like, I'll get
this box from around your heart, but you have to
believe in it.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
I was like yeah, I believe.

Speaker 5 (08:23):
He's like, no, you don't, so I thought, well, I
guess then I can't be healed because I don't believe.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
You know.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
I think it's kind of like a religion. You have
to have the faith, you know what I mean. It's
like I mean with any religion, there's you know, God
doesn't appear to us, you know, in the elevator at
work and say, you know, remember I'm real, I'm right here,
and then who vanishes?

Speaker 5 (08:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
So it's all based on faith. And I think if
it works for you and you believe in Gary Spivey
or psychics or whatever, then it's very powerful. I'll give
you a better example astrology. I don't believe in astrology.
I think it's a bunch of hooey, a bunch of
bull corn, as Bailey would say. But if you believe
in it and you find it powerful, then it works for.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
You not harming anybody.

Speaker 5 (09:04):
Yeah, I think as long as it doesn't harm anybody,
yeah for it.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Next one, it says. Catching up on podcasts from Leah,
Bailey mentioned one of her favorite field trips was going
to a giant wooden playground, but couldn't remember exactly where
it was I think it was the old wooden playground
at Elm Creek Park in Maple Grove. Maybe Okay, we
went there a few times when I was little and
I loved it. Sadly, I think they've replaced it with

(09:29):
more modern equipment. Field trips were always so fun for
being whether it was the State Capitol, the Art museum,
even the one with the cherry and the spoon, or
the very fun end of the year Valley Fair trip.
I question why there aren't field trips for adults. I
would love any excuse to leave work. Was some of
my co workers to stroll around a museum. I guess
they'd call that a team building exercise anyway, love the show,

(09:52):
you guys are awesome.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
That's funny.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
We used to have field trips for when I worked
at Mill City Museum. We would go on field trips
as like a staff on a day that, like the
museum was closed and granted we went on like field
trips that would help us, you know, in our job.
So like, we toured some mills, like the cereal mill
that General Mills has. We got to tour an entire

(10:16):
like working mill, which was really cool, and we got
to tour the like water power building right on Sant
Anthony Falls. We got to see how like the water
power worked there.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
That was really interesting. Yeah. Cool.

Speaker 5 (10:29):
So we got to do some field trips. You just
have and also you can take yourself on a field trip.
You can just walk into the Science Museum any day, honestly,
except for Monday.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
I think I think I went to the Children's Museum
with Carson as a chaperone, or maybe it was Allison
and I chaperoned a couple of things. I chaperoned a
trip when Allison was about in fifth or seventh grade
to Highland to go skiing, and and that was fun.
It was cute, and I think there's at the age

(11:00):
where they're proud that your their dad or your mom
is along. And when Carson was about second or third grade,
I chaperoned a trip to the Children's Museum and that
was a nightmare because there's always one little ass whole kid. Yeah,
then I have to wrangle. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
I remember Blake Gust.

Speaker 5 (11:15):
He was always in my group because Gust is close
to Hess in the alphabet Yes, and his dad was
always our chaperone and he was the dopest chaperone ever.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Blake, really he brought cigarettes.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
I know he brought cigarettes. He held our hands.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
I was great, Oh god, Okay, all right. Next one,
Samantha says series of weird questions for you all. Do
you prefer your pizza more saucy or more cheesy? Now
you're asking us, but as you're listening to the show,
what is your answer? Do you prefer your pizza more
saucy or more cheesy? If I had to make a choice,

(11:48):
I'd probably say more saucy.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
I agree, yeah, saucy. I want a wet pizza.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
I like wet pizza pizza.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
I'm just a Wisconsin girl, So give me all the cheese, Okay,
I just need it to slide down.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Do you like more butter or more salt on your popcorn?

Speaker 4 (12:03):
Butter?

Speaker 1 (12:03):
I would say salt, Oh, butter, butter? Okay? Bacon or sausage? Well,
it depends on the the the.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Kind of sausage.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Well true, but also the scenario.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
No, seriously, because some have like a skin to it,
and it's just weird when you bite in and it
like squeaks and you feel like you're eating something way
too processed. At that point, I can't do those kind
of sausage like sausage patties. You like sausage patties, sausage,
I like those.

Speaker 4 (12:32):
Yeah, I still like bacon dust. Bacon is so good.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah, I think at this point in my life i'd
choose bacon.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
But as a kid, I hated bacon because I hated fat,
and so if any piece of bacon had fat, like
I needed it burnt for me to be able to
eat it.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Basically, I like my bacon really really crispy. I'm gonna
recommend Jimmy Dean fully cooked turkey sausage. They're links and
this is a regular of hours because they're turkey, so
they're a little healthier. It's still sausage. Don't kid you're
self into thinking any of this shit is healthy. But yeah,
Jimmy Dean fully cooked turkey sausage links are pretty legit.

(13:11):
Next question, continuing kind of on a food theme, here
toast that's done just right or mere burnt. I obviously
want mine done just right.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
Just right?

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, yeah, right, yeah, yep. Spaghetti and meat sauce or
spaghetti and meatballs, Jenny.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Meatballs, Mine sausage.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Okay, mine's meatballs because I enjoy I mean, if you
go to a good Italian restaurant. They'll give you like
one or two really good meatballs.

Speaker 5 (13:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
You know, you can make your own with like a
little meatballs the size of a golf ball or smaller,
but I like the ones that are like the size
of a tennis ball. Yeah, and they're really good meatballs.

Speaker 5 (13:46):
Every time I go to a restaurant, the pasta always
looks good, but I never ever order pasta at a restaurant,
and I wish I did. Like what am I missing
out on a giant meatball that sounds delicious?

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Maybe there's a game here, maybe we play. I don't know,
it's in my mind, the menu game. And we send
you to a restaurant. What are you going to order?
So we're gonna send you to Olive Garden? Don't think
too long about it. What are you gonna or?

Speaker 4 (14:08):
I would get the endless soup, salad and breadsticks.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
That's okay, I would get Okay, fine, Jenny, you're gonna
go to Olive Garden? What are you gonna get?

Speaker 3 (14:14):
I'm probably getting just a regular apasta with red sauce
with meat.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Balls, yeah, lasagna for me. You're going to McDonald's, Jenny,
What are you gonna get?

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Chicken nuggets.

Speaker 5 (14:22):
Okay, sauce honey, okay, honey, getting a mcdouble and a
large fry.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Okay, twenty piece nuggets, hot mustard, sauce fries. Okay, Okay.
You're gonna go to a Japanese place that sells everything
from sushi to ramen.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Buffet, not a buffet.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Sorry, but but okay, let's do a buffet. You're gonna
go to leanne Chin's. You're going to lie Chins. What
are you gonna get?

Speaker 2 (14:47):
I'm getting orange chicken, orange chicken, good choice.

Speaker 5 (14:49):
Yeah, yeah, I'm getting whatever is closest to like a
stir fry, like a subgum, kind of like lots of vegetables,
fried up.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
Beef and broccoli for me. Now, what about a side.
I'm gonna get an egg roll. I really like the wantons.
They're a little bit too. They feel like they've been
sitting there a long time. Egg rolls with a spicy mustard, Jenny,
I would do wan toons.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
I love wantons, how long they've been sitting there.

Speaker 5 (15:11):
I would do an egg roll as well. It's all
like mashed up in there, but tastes so good, so
so good.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
Okay, you can go to a steakhouse. Now this is
a steak and seafood place. Now there's no cost is
not an issue. I would probably get the filet with
a lobster tail, Jenny.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
I would just get King Crab and the kind if
it's bougie enough, it's already like cracked open spork and
it's that's the best meal I've ever had at a
really nice place.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
Was King Crab that was already cracked open.

Speaker 5 (15:36):
Yes, I would also want King Crab, but then I
also want a steak, like, can do they do?

Speaker 4 (15:41):
I never bet one of those fancy.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Called it's combo.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
Yeah, okay, combo, that's what I would get. So it's
like a surf and a turf.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
Surf and turf, yeah yah, yeah. Well, you always know
it's going to be like okay, Like it'll say market
price for your King Crab legs and it's like, oh,
what does that mean? Is that forty nine or eighty
nine dollars? Oh gosh. The menu game. I think we
kind of exhausted it. I don't think we need to
do anything more than that. Yeah, Taco Bell seven layer
burrito and nachos Bell Grande Trap Supreme.

Speaker 4 (16:10):
I would get the crunch Trap Supreme and then one
of the Dorito tacos. Those are so goodcos.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
House of Prostitution. I would get over. Out of time.
We are out of time?

Speaker 4 (16:20):
Is Jenny there?

Speaker 1 (16:23):
And what I'm motivailable?

Speaker 2 (16:24):
I'm on the menu. What would you like voting?

Speaker 1 (16:28):
And that is the Minnesota Goodbye. That is from Sammy
and Og, listener of The Dave Ryan Show and now
a consistent listener and staff writer of the Minnesota Goodbye. Hey,
We'd love to hear your email to send it into
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