Why Can't We Be Friends

We talk website-building, millennial music on the radio, and more on religion!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Minnesota Goodbye. We're going to start off with an email
for Jenny in the Minnesota Goodbye. In case you've never
listened or you've been a while away, is mostly emails
that we respond to and you get to ask all
kinds of candid questions that we probably normally wouldn't answer
on the radio. Jenny, first one is for you. Are
you listening? Okay? I didn't share? What wasn't? Sure? Head

(00:22):
hoes on it? No?

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Oh my head phone?

Speaker 1 (00:24):
No I don't, I didn't. Yeah, I see that now, Jenny.
I've really enjoyed following along with your travel blog. Your
posts always have such great tips and they inspired me
to get out and travel more. I'm currently in the
process starting my own business and starting to plan a website,
but I'm lost on where to start. I was wondering
if you'd be open to sharing what platform you use
for your site, and if you have any tips or

(00:45):
advice or somebody building their first website really appreciate any guidance.
I've admired how polished and engaging your site looks, and
I'd love to learn more from your experience. Thank you
all so much for bringing joy and laughter to my days.
If you want to see it only for educational purposes.
What is your website?

Speaker 2 (01:00):
It's called meetmeoffgrid dot com. Okay, so I did a
lot of research looking into this. I'm not sure what
kind of did she say. She didn't say what kind
of business she's starting, did she? Okay? So I mean
that kind of could play a role in what kind
of website you need, because you could have a more
basic website. But I would go with WordPress if you
want a website that's going to need to be developed

(01:21):
more because there's just more opportunity to build out a
WordPress website, that's probably the best one. And then I
use the hosting site host Gator, but there's a lot
of different ones. I would do your research on that.
I don't know that I would like for sure use
host Gator again, it works for me for right now,
but I might switch my hosting site. And then I
tried so fucking hard to build that website on my

(01:42):
own for like a year, a solid year, and finally
I bit the bullet and I hired a website development
marketing company.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
I got to build that.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
So they built out like the basics of it, and
then they gave me tutorials of how to add my
own website like pages and stuff. So I'll give them
a shout out because I mean, I paid for them
to build my website and they did such a fucking
good job, and I mean, you said, you like the
way it looks. They're called Integrated Marketing in their base
out of Prior Lake and they just really like took

(02:11):
my ideas and ran with it and then some So
I'm very proud and happy how it turned out. And
they were a joy to work with. They're very good
at what they do.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Okay, that's good. That's I think people have an advice,
an idea, but they get a roadblock because they don't
know how to do it. Like so many people want
to start their own podcast, and you know, every Yahoo
in the world has a podcast. But let's say you
wanted to start one about dogs, but you don't even
know what I mean, what equipment do I need? And
how do I get it online? And will it show
up on iHeartRadio or Apple podcasts? And I think that

(02:43):
just stops a lot of people. They put it in
the what I call the too hard pile, and it
is it's a little bit of a challenge, but you
only have to learn it once. Once you learn how
to open up a website, you'll have to learn that once.
Next one interesting we where was Rebecca? The ultra marathon
runner was on the show last week and she was
talking about how she ran like fifty six miles in

(03:05):
eleven hours or something. That was very fun and impressive
to learn about her. But she's also an agricultural cattle
and calf feeding specialist. So Christie writes in it says,
I'd love to get in touch with her, which, by
the way, congratulations. But anyway, my niece is in her
first year at SDSU for the exact job Rebecca has,
except she wants to be a sheep and lamb nutrition specialist.

(03:29):
So if Rebecca would have any tips or tricks on
what to do to get your foot in the door
a bit sooner, I would greatly appreciate any information. Have
a great day, and remember you're kind of hot. You
are too, Christy, thank you, so if you are listening.
That was what was her name? Anyway, Rebecca, send me
an email Rebecca, and I will forward it over to Christy.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Did you guys have her on the show last week?
When I was gone?

Speaker 1 (03:53):
We reread we read her results.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Oh well, I just want to give her a shout
out because she came to my fit club and she
had not I don't know what she's set in her email,
but she wasn't telling anyone she was doing that ultra
and she told me, and I think she had told me.
She hadn't even told her family, like her husband or anything.
And she's like, well, I was like, well, keep me
posted on how it goes. She's like, well, probably only
if I like complete it. And she sent me a

(04:15):
long DM and gave me the details. And so I
just want to give her a congratulations too, because that's
fucking awesome.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
She was completed something like eight miles that she did.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
It's something like that.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, I can't remember, but it is something.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
It was to run as far as you could in
a certain amount of time. And I think she took
a break for an hour or something like that. But yeah,
that is amazing. Hello, Dave, Jenny Vant and Bailey taking
a break from doing some chores. Ended up scrolling through TikTok,
I came across a girl who listens to different War
of the Roses or similar episodes and reacts to them

(04:48):
while others comment and join in I attached her profile.
Not sure if you've seen her before, but I thought
it was pretty fun and entertaining. Also, I'm really excited
for Boo Bash. I haven't been able to get through
her tickets yet, but I'm going to keep trying. Last
year was my first time going. I was dressed as
a strawberry and my fiance dressed as a farmer. Oh cute,
I remember you too, so thank you for coming to

(05:11):
Boo Bash. I'll click on that link later. I'm not
sure whether it would play on the radio right now,
but thank you for the link. And another one. This
is from Justin. Justin here first time raider writer, not
raider writer. Insider radio question here. Sometime over the past
couple of weeks, I was listening to KATWDBE and heard

(05:31):
the song Sugar Sugar by Baby Bash come on the radio.
It made me realize how long it had been since
I last heard that song. It got me thinking what
happened to the music millennials grew up with When we
were growing up the radio played the music that our
parents grew up with, or the music in the top
forty What happened to our music? Did it disappear? Why

(05:52):
don't we ever hear music from twenty to twenty twenty
anymore on the radio? I don't expect katable to be
due to the top forty format, but I knew two
thousands music is thrown in every grade once in a while.
Why isn't there a station dedicated to millennials music? Why
don't we still hear Backstreet Boys in singing, Brittany Eminem,

(06:13):
Fallout Boy, etc. On a radio station? I realized millennials
are much more likely to reach for our phones for
our music. However, I can't feel but we've always been
more likely to do that because the music we grew
up and has always been underrepresented on free radio. Yes,
I realized sious as a few stations dedicated blah blah blah.
I was curious if you guys knew, why does it

(06:33):
cost more? Does big radio not believe it would perform anymore?
And then they said, thanks for letting me ramble kind
of get a staff writer sticker, So yes, Justin, I
will send you your staff writer sticker thanks to Secretary
Brion Hudson, Wisconsin. I don't know what's interesting is radio
stations periodically would change formats every few years, not us.

(06:55):
We've been in the same format for sixty five, sixty
six years, something like that. But I think radio stations
are afraid to change formats because everybody's afraid of making
a mistake. Everybody is owned by a corporation. So let's
say there was an underperforming radio station in our building.

(07:16):
Let's say that, like Okay Jazz ninety six and a
half was underperforming. People would be so afraid to change
that format and have it fail and lose their job
that they would rather be pussies and just keep it
the same format, because you'd rather be safe than make

(07:38):
a mistake. And I was talking to a friend of mine,
Matt Dunn, last night, who is a magician, and he's like,
he also runs screen Town and I'm like, so what
do you do. He's like, well, man, you got to
take chances, you got to try new stuff. And I said,
that's my philosophy too, And that's one of the reasons
why I'm old as balls. But I'm still on the
radio on a really cool radio station because I like
taking chances, and a lot of radio people they're pussies

(08:01):
and they don't I know that we'd's vulgar and I
don't like it myself, but it's very descriptive, and they
don't want to take a chance because they're worried that
if it fails, they'll be fired, so they continue to
do the same bland shit that they've always done.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
I don't know that I know enough to contribute to that.
I think you know much more about that than I do.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
I feel you justin like, I'd love to have that
music on the radio because I think, yeah, it's kind
of once in a blue moon. Everything is very I
feel like because I'm I don't know one millennial out
of a bajillion who still listen to the radio, And
I have all of these different presets in my car,
and it's a lot of like adult contemporary from the

(08:42):
like twenty tens to now, and there's not really anything
that goes before that, and if there is, it's like
cool one O eight, where it's eighties and nineties, but
then it's even more like eighties nineties contemporary adult music
versus pop music.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Well it's funny. I somebody's making fun the other day.
It's like, hey, we're the best station for the eighties
nineties today. So today is from two thousand to twenty
twenty five. Yeah, seriously, time, that's a today today. I
think the last major format change that I can remember
in Minnesota Minneapolis was when WLTE, which was the light
rock station, they changed to Jack FM. Oh gosh, now

(09:19):
I remember it was about twenty ish years ago.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
There was the Go stations too, because it used to
be BE ninety six and then it changed to GO
ninety five and GO ninety six and ninety six was alt.
Ninety five was more like wrap R and B and stuff.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah, that's good, that's a true one. Yeah, you know,
I did really countfuls as much because that station had
such a week signal, they never really competed. Sure, they
did have a week second, and that's they were on
several different frequencies I think, and in the North suburbs
you'd listen to it on ninety six point one or whatever,
and the South metros like ninety six point five, And
so we competed with them. We beat the shit out

(09:54):
of those radio stations, I'm very proud to say. And
they were nasty competitors were They would talk shit about
KTWB all the time, and that was their only strategy apparently,
was not to do a great job in radio, but
to talk shit about KTWB, and a few years later
B ninety six went off the air because they never
concentrated on doing a good job. They just concentrated on

(10:18):
bad mouthing their competition. Can you imagine Coca cola being
Pepsi sucks? Drink Coca cola? Pepsi sucks? Well, why should
I drink Coca cola? Tell me how crisp and clean
and refreshing it is? No Pepsi sucks. Not a good strategy.
I have strong feelings about things, clearly, clearly, Yeah right,
yeah right. Next one, Sydney says, I'd like to add

(10:43):
to the thought process of possibly introducing various religions on
the Minnesota Goodbye. I'm fully in supportive people benefiting from
learning more about other religions. Maybe the best way to
do it is to check them out themselves instead of
listening to them on this podcast. I grew up Catholic,
and like many millennials, i'd call myself now call myself
an atheist if you want to assign a religion to me. However,

(11:05):
I've taken opportunities throughout my life to explore and understand
all sorts of religions, and although I have seen the
beautiful impacts of religion on various people, I still don't
feel like it's the outlet for me. I encourage more
people to go experience services or have conversations about religion
with people you experience in your life to understand them better.

(11:25):
Or I imagine there's maybe podcasts that have this purpose.
Go check them out anyway, Maybe this fat oh, maybe
this fart licking podcast could use more Jesus lol. Staff
writer Sidney. I think the word atheist always rubs me
the wrong way because I'm old, and atheist to me
always met anti God. But what atheist means there's monotheism,

(11:48):
which means you believe in many gods, no one god,
polytheism as you believe in many gods. Atheum is you
believe there is no God, and agnostic means you're not
sure about whether there is a god. So I always
there's a wager in philosophy. Philosophy that's like, and I
forget what it's called, but it's like the ultimate wager.

(12:10):
If you wager that there is a God and you
pray and you worship God or whatever, what do you
have to lose? Really? Nothing? But if you don't pray
and whatever and there is a God, what if you
have to lose ultimately everything because you're going to hell?
Does that make sense?

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Hard?

Speaker 1 (12:31):
So it's a deep philosophy that's like, you know, you
might as well bet that there is a God and
pray for forgiveness. And I'm not saying you should. I'm
just saying this is a philosophy that you should pray
for forgiveness and worship God because you have everything to
gain heaven and nothing to lose if you turn out
you're wrong. But if you bet against there being a God,

(12:54):
you have everything to lose.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
I think you could say potentially the same thing for atheists,
where they're like, why what I waste my time in
praying to a god that doesn't exist? Because then I
am taking all of this energy and I'm putting into
this thing that what if it doesn't exist, then I've
wasted my time. So I think you could switch it
both ways.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
You could, But then the philosophy is then you lose.
If there is a god, then you lose. So if
you bet that there is a God, you'll never lose.
In other words, what have you lost if you worship
a God that isn't there. What have you lost a
couple of minutes a day, But if there is a God,
you've lost your eternal soul. Yeah, but you're in hell.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Is being you know, religious or whatever a couple minutes
a day or is that lifestyle? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (13:38):
I was gonna say, I feel like you suddenly being like, oh,
I'm going to pray to God today, but I don't
really know that I believe in him like that feels.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
I think there's two I'll be honest with you. I
think there's a lot of people who doubt their faith
all the time.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Oh yeah, all the time.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
And there's not And I'm not sitting in Like Mother Teresa.
It was pretty well documented that at the end of
her life she doubted her faith because she couldn't wrap
her mind or around why God would let there be
so much suffering, Like, you know, That's what she did,
is she helped the poor and the starving and the
suffering in the down trodden, and at the end of
her life she I don't know if she admitted or

(14:12):
what that she had lost her faith, but she was
also Mother Teresa, and she didn't want to come out
and say, yeah, you know, what there is no God,
because all of the millions of people that adored her
would be like shit, Mother Teresia doesn't believe in God anymore. No,
it's also fascinating.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
There is so I talked about all the time, But
the Diary of a CEO podcast Neil de Grasse Tyson
was just on this past week and I am looking
so forward. I haven't had time to listen to it yet,
but he kind of touches on some religious things on
top of like science, because that's what he's known for.
But he is so brilliant and the clips I've already
seen of him, I'm like, I can't wait to listen
to that.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
He said that there is no evidence at all that
there is a God.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yes, but he also doesn't He is agnostic, is what
he defines himself as.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Okay, okay, yeah, okay, very interesting. Here's another one Taylor says,
talking about religions, I want to share my favorite religious facts. Christians, Jews,
and Muslims all believe in the same God. Christians believe
in the Bible, the Jews believe in the Torah, which
is the first five books of the Christian Bible, and
Muslims believe in a portion of the Christian Bible as well.

(15:19):
Christianity is based on Jesus Christ, who's related all the
way back to Abraham. Islam is based on Muhammad, who's
related all the way back to Abraham as well. The
only difference is they follow the lineage of Abraham's other
son Ishmael from his servant Hagar. Huh, yeah, it gets
pretty deep here. I am Christian, but I find out

(15:40):
the more I learn about other religions, the more I
understand my own. When you look into it, our beliefs
are actually much more similar than you would think. Yes,
so very interesting.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Oh why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends? Well?

Speaker 1 (15:56):
I think that they're you know, most most people that
are of other faiths, they will to be friends with you. Yeah,
it's the radical anything that is, the one who's like,
you're going to hell because you're a gay homosexual.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
They ruin it for the rest of the class.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Well now nine, well kind of like that. It's kind
of like, Okay, there are the certain, you know, like
extremists of whatever religion that are like you watch that
ed Geen story. His mother was an extremest Christian and
she was like you will not spread your seed with
a woman, You sinner, you fornicator and is like shit,

(16:33):
So she was an extremist. What a what a fun
life to live? Yeah? Yeah, next one subject hand washing
on Wednesday Show. The subject of washing your hands came
up many years ago. I had a biology professor say
the best method is to wash your hands before you
do your business. My body parts aren't that dirty, but
everything I've been touching previously could be. That being said,

(16:56):
I also never touch public bathroom door handle, stall locks,
urinal flushers. I always carried a napkin or tissue on
me just in case. I'm not a germophobe, but I'm
definitely germ conscious darting and licking if the opportunity presents itself.
That's Clark. Clark lives in Alabama. I kind of subscribe
to your way of thinking, Clark, and I will go

(17:17):
ahead and say that when you're when you're going to
the bathroom, you're probably touching your thighs, and you're probably
touching clean parts of your body. You're not getting poop
or pee all over you. If you are, then obviously
absolutely you should wash your hands. But I think that, yeah,
you get a good point. I'm touching this filthy countertop
right now. I got my hands resting on it that

(17:39):
colt and fallon and everybody sneezes and snots and spills
chicken noodle soup. Absolutely I do. And then I'm touching
it right now, so my hands are dirtier from this
than in any body part. And it took a shower
this morning. You take a shower every morning, every morning.
All right, A couple of more on the Minnesota Goodbye.
Let's see what we got. What is the name of

(18:00):
the new Taylor Swift album you talked about yesterday on
the show? Sales starting today at Target. Oh, Stacey, we
fooled you. We were making a joke that Taylor Swift
could record anything because she's such a capitalist cash grabber
that she's Now we were talking about how she's putting
out an album of her walking across the squeaky wooden floor,

(18:21):
and you can buy this exclusive album at Target and
it was going on sale at midnight tonight and there
are seven different colored vinyl versions. And it's just making
fun of Taylor Swift for being such a cash grab thing.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
Can I tell you it's not a real thing?

Speaker 1 (18:37):
Funny that you thought it was real. Though. There is
a story that we didn't tell on the Dirt today,
but it was basically that Taylor Swift's friend says that
she'll sit there, like in her limo or on the
airplane or whatever, and she'll go through gofundmes and she'll
be like, Oh, I want to donate to that one. Oh,
I want to donate to that one. Have you heard
this story? Yes?

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, that she's like using it like at social media
and just kind of scrolling for in being like complete, complete, complete,
but like, I don't know it's I want to know
if that's real or not, because I'm assuming if she
does donate it's anonymous. But then what you hear from
people who they were like, Wow, I got a random

(19:17):
fifty two thousand dollar anonymous donation to my GoFundMe and
wudn't people like be bringing that up and be like strange?

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Very good point, So let me read the story. Ruby
Rose hit up Instagram Tuesday and says that Taylor approaches
the donation site like a social media app and scrolls
clicking reach their donation, like most people hit the like
button so reach their donation. I'm not sure what that means.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
Like, so if you have like a ten thousand dollars
goal and you're still waiting on like five thousand dollars
of that, She'll just say, like, reach donation and donate
the rest of the money.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Rose defended Tay against charges of being a closet trumper,
writing as somebody who has spent many nights discussing the
world so injustice in life with the showgirl herself, I
refuse to say her name in the same sentence as
this group blah blah blah and blah blah blah, So
that wasn't really the point. I honestly, I think that

(20:13):
Taylor is so orchestrated that she probably this was part
of her media plan was to have Ruby Rose say
on Instagram on Tuesday, October fourteenth that Taylor Swift scrolls
through GoFundMe like she does on social media. I just
to become really not cynical, but more suspicious, of jaded

(20:37):
and suspicious of everything that Taylor Swift does because she
is no longer an entertainer. She is an empire. She
is like Coca Cola, Ford or IBM, and I think
that everything she does is so orchestrated that. It was
kind of like to me when she gave one hundred
thousand dollars tip to all of her truck drivers. She

(20:58):
didn't have to let anybody know, but it was very
carefully crafted and released. Jenny's looking at me cynically.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
I just think that we Yes, I do think it's
annoying the cash grab that is the latest album and
the amount of shit that she has gotten money for,
But I also look at it as like she's doing
a really good thing for a random person on GoFundMe
who doesn't have the money to afford their cancer treatment.
So why are we hating on her just because someone
she orchestrated someone to say that in the news so

(21:27):
that she got publicity for it. She could choose to
not give any money. She could choose to be like
other billionaires in the world that don't do anything with
their money besides make their lives better, which I don't.
I think most billionaires.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
Doesn't give any money to charity.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
But I'm just saying, like, I feel like we're getting
mad about her getting publicity about something she's doing that's good. Like,
I'll agree with me. If you have no money, you
can't afford the treatment that you need to like have
your child get through their cancer, and Taylor Swift gives
you money, I wouldn't give a fuck if it was

(22:04):
in the news and it was being publicized. I would
be happy that my child now is able to get
treatment because we have the money from Taylor Swift.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
I just want to know how come we're hearing about
it right now and we haven't heard about it before.
That's I'm not saying she hasn't done it. I just
want to know, like if she has, how come this
is like she's been a thing for over a decade.
How come we haven't heard about it until right now?

Speaker 1 (22:27):
So you're a little jaded, cynical, suspicious, Well that's suspicious.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
I just want to know, like, why haven't we heard
about it before? Or is it just like, oh, this
is a story from something that she did seven years ago.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah, right, And think about this is like the engagement
and the podcast all coincided with the album and this
it's kind of like, Okay, well we're going to get engaged,
but we should do it on September twenty third, because
my album comes out three days Like you know that
type of thing, and I you know what, It's brilliant
because it works and everybody talks about Taylor every day.

(23:00):
She is the biggest celebrity in the world, no question,
and it works. But I still look at it like
more analytically instead of organically. Does that make sense? Okay,
and that's it. We're done. Send your emails in to
Ryan's show at KDIWB dot com and we'll get you

(23:21):
on the next Minnesota. Goodbye.