All right, let's get started in the Minnesota Goodbye today. It's me and
Jenny Fallon is Indoor County. I'm sure we'll hear all about that when she
gets home. We're gonna start off with this one from Justin. Justin says,
and by the way, when I say this one, I mean emails,
because that is basically the heart of the Minnesota Goodbye is we read and
discuss your emails, and you just have the great variety of things, and
you think of things to think of and talk about that we don't think of.
So we appreciate that. Dave and all. You're all amazing and have
helped me stay sane through a lot of struggles. Dave, I actually met
you once at a Settlers of Gatan game nighted studio, and I had a
lot of fun playing and meeting you in person. I'm very impressed and jealous
of how you were able to make your listeners feel as though we are actually
hanging out with friends. Anyway, I heard one of the Minnesota Goodbye episodes,
the one where you mentioned trying lock picking. Okay, it is no
secret that any hobby interests me. Any hobby that you have interests me.
Yeah, whether it is Rollerblade, Ukulele magic. Did I tell you that
I ordered a crochet thing in the mail, Jenny? He did not.
Something came up on Instagram and it is like about the size of maybe an
orange, and you crochet a little bumblebee or a little ladybug, and each
kid is thirty bucks and it talks about how easy it is to do.
And I ignored it several times, but it must know that I like it,
So I ordered one. And I think it's a little bumblebee and you
crochet it and it's supposed to be easy, and it's supposed to be really
relaxing. And I said, that looks really cool. My wife, Susan
said, what the fuck is this? What the god? What the And
I said, hey, it could be really fun. I said, if
I don't like it, then I throw it away. It's thirty bucks.
If I if I didn't know you personally like I do, and know that
you've got like a financial advisor and you know like you're putting money away from
retirement and stuff like that, I would be genuinely concerned about you spending all
these money, all this money on a hobby. Is because I love hobby.
I love a hobby, but you get a new one every single week.
I feel like, yeah, no, I got the unicycle and I
haven't learned to write it yet, but I'm certainly not given up on it.
Rollerblades are the same thing. They're not. None of them are terribly
expensive. I'm not somebody who's like, you know, what I want to
do, start collecting Star Wars figurines and spend you know, eight thousand dollars
on them. Mine are all moderately expensive, but okay. Anyway, he
recommends lock pick picking, and he goes on for quite a while, and
that is actually I bought a lock picking kit about ten years ago and I
never even opened it. But he said it's a hobby and it's really cool.
He said, it's fun to learn how different locks work and in turn,
how to defeat them. It's very rewarding. They're actually useful in certain
emergencies. All legal. Of course, I recommend for Dave you to give
it a try. I will. I would say yes, but right now
I'm kind of fun. But I'm gonna save your email because there might be
a time when I want to get back to that. Jenny, what hobbies
do you want to try. Is there any hobbies you want to try?
Um? My latest is I do want to get into mountain biking because Andrew
got into that like two summers ago and he loves doing it, and I
like doing outdoor stuff. But it's like another very expensive hobby, like bikes
are so expensive, and then like you know, you might you fall often
when you mountain bike, and so I'm also not trying to like end up
in the er. So that's probably like the newest one I've been very much
interested in. But that's all I can think of right now. You know
what, I think that some hobbies and passions and activities like that, there
is a danger of injury. So like with rollerblades for me is slight danger
and the unicycle slight danger. With a mountain biking, yeah, you're going
to go over the handlebars at one point or another. You can fall off
and hit a tree or you know, crack your two front teeth out on
the handlebar. Jenny, how would you look with that without two front teeth?
Well, I would say I look like someone who shops at Walmart,
just getting I shop at Walmart. I'm not making fun of Walmart. I
shop at Walmart, but you know, can I just tell you tomorrow on
the show, speaking of Walmart, we're going to have a conversation about Costco.
Yes, we didn't have room to put it in the show on Monday,
so we're gonna build it on on Tuesday. And I would love to
hear what you think, because I posted on Dave Ryan Show on Facebook do
you hate Costco or do you love Costco? I have been in Costco three
times. I went for the third time on Saturday here in Colorado Springs.
And I don't know that I hate it or love it, but it is.
It was packed. It was amazed to get in the parking lot and
amazed to get out and people waiting and cutting people off and letting people in.
It is crrowded. Everything is a bulk item. I thought I need
to buy paper towels, but I literally didn't have room in my her for
the size of paper towels that they were trying to sell, and people go
through. Even the carts are bigger in Costco. If you notice the carts
are so much, man, they're bigger. You got to because you get
packs of things. It's not just like one almond milk. You get a
pack of eight of them. My daughter Alison has two little girls, ones
three and one's one, and she says for an activity, they'll go to
Costco. It's like a family activity, And I'm like, that's interesting that
you go for a family activity. I think Walmart used to be the family
activity place because they had everything from a claw machine to a little cafeteria,
to a place to get your hair cut, to a place to get your
nails done, your glasses fitted, whatever. So Walmart used to be kind
of an activity, like, hey, kids, get the car, we're
all going to Walmart. Did you ever do a Walmart activity your family.
I don't know if we did activity, but I remember Walmart was always was
that the one that always handed out the smiley stickers I believe, so okay,
So I remember like we absolutely had to get those every time that we
went in, and I know that there was like an iclinic attached to it.
There was a subway that they put in eventually to the one in my
hometown. So sometimes we would get stuff like that, but for the most
part, we were just trying to get those cheap prices, you know what
I'm saying, Rolling down prices every day, trying to get the cheapest.
No. So we did that with Kmart when I was a kid because it
was kind of an activity. I didn't have to buy anything to be happy.
We would go get lunch. They used to have a cafeteria in the
back of Kmart, and then I would go look at toys and model planes
and bikes and you know, baseball stuff or whatever, and it was just
kind of an activity, all right. Next email from Amanda, she says,
Hey, Dave, Phalingini, and Drake, you can feel free to
use my name of a hand A handful of weeks ago, you guys were
talking on the show about how you are better than you think. I texted
in and I thanked Dave for a speech, and I went on to explain
that I'm thinking of leaving my seventeen year career in childcare. Dave took a
little bit of time to remind me that I am better than I think I
am, and that I want to expand my knowledge and my expertise that I
should well. I went on a couple of interviews. I got a job
offer that's really amazing. I would be able to work from home and have
a capacity to help my sister with my niece and nephew. I would also
be able to flex my hours and finally be able to have a job that
works with a better work life balance. I just want to say I'm so
grateful for what you said one day. I don't have a dad in my
life, and sometimes your advice is really helpful when I could use a fatherly
type of love or fatherly advice. So I just wanted to say I was
better than I thought, and I'm so excited for my new journey. All
my love, thank you for doing what you guys do. From Amanda.
That's awesome. That is Amanda. Thanks. You didn't have to write back,
but it means the world that you did. And I think that's true
that you know. There's a chapter in my book that is I think it's
called you are good Enough All. And I was twenty three years old and
I was working in Columbus, Ohio, and I got a job offer in
Philadelphia. Now that is a huge jump in a radio market, going from
number thirty five or so to about number four or five. And I was
only twenty three, and so I went out for the job interview and I
said, man, I don't think I'm ready. And the guy said,
no, you're ready, you are good enough. I wouldn't be talking to
if I didn't think you were ready. And I listened to him, and
I turned down the job because I didn't think I was ready for Philadelphia.
So I learned at that point it's like, you are good enough, you
know, and if you just believe you are good enough, that's definitely better
than thinking, well, I'm really not sure. This one also has to
do with well, it has to do with the city on the East coast,
so let's start there. Hey, Dave, I'm going to Boston next
week for a short trip to see Fallout Boy at Finnway Park. I would
love some recommendations on things to do and eat. Your bestie, Megan.
PS, thanks for letting me do the COVID wedding on the year three years
ago. We are still happily married. Wow, that's awesome. I'm not
good with Boston. I've only been a couple of times. My son Carson
went to school there. I would say, take a harbor cruise, go
on the either Liberty Trail or the Freedom Trail, go to the JFK Library
and Museum, and then go to Boston Commons. Because Boston Commons is I
mean beautiful and amazing, But I wouldn't. I would look it up.
There's not besides the Harbor Cruise and some of the history stuff. I could
not tell you where to go in Boston, and I would not want to
leave anything big off the list. Do you remember any good food place as
you want to anyway? Like they go to Quincy Market. Quincy Market is
a cool place. But there is a part I think it's called Little Italy
where all the great Italian restaurants are and they have great pizza and great Italian
and great steakhouses in Boston. But I would say if there's a segment of
town called Little Italy, and I think there is, go and then Quincy
Market is really tooled too, So have fun. Let me know where it
worked out. Okay, next one hold on one second. My mouse isn't
working. It's really frustrating, Jenny. Oh, did you try turning it
on and training it back off, turning it off and turning on? Well,
no, I just tap it on the counter. Okay. Had to
send a follow up email regarding the baby Kim yea bit. Remember a couple
of weeks ago, a woman rode in and said, I remember ten or
twelve years ago you guy played a bit about baby kim Ya being still in
the womb and talking about pleasant their new fragrance. Firstly, I want to
say thanks so much for playing it. I had actual tiers of laughter listening
to it during my baby contractions, and have saved the podcast audio so I
can listen to it while on maternity leave when I need to pick me up.
I love this. I had to share that my two friends and I
ended up having our water's break within twenty four hours of each other. All
were at Maple Grove Hospital together and it ended up baby having our babies on
seven eight and seven ten, two of us delivered on the same day in
rooms next door to each other. You can't make this stuff up. Two
three four, they say, as an inside joke. Thanks for keeping us
in our new babies company on our maternity leaves. That's from Anna in Plymouth.
That is amazing that you and your friend delivered on the same day in
rooms next door to each other. That is crazy. That's what all friends
dream of doing. They dream of like, yeah, like having kids at
the same time, growing up together, but like actually delivering together. Just
pop right over there, afterwards and be like, all right, what does
your baby look like? All right, here's mine. That is amazing.
That's crazy. I'm glad that all worked out. And next one not able
to do that one. Okay, Dave and Fallon, I heard you this
morning talking about how you pay with a credit card tap or insert. I
had to share this story. I was at Olive Garden with some friends,
like all us cool suburban moms do, and when it was time to pay,
I inserted my card in the tablet and paid my check. Then I
passed the tablet to my friend and she inserted her card, but it didn't
work. The waiter came over and we asked for help. She said,
well, that's where the receipt comes out. But I'm like, well it
worked for me. Then I realized I had unknowingly tapped it on my way
to insert. We could not stop laughing at ourselves, and I haven't felt
that old sense. A waiter had to explain QR code to me. That's
funny. Anyways, love you both, Thanks for making me laugh every morning.
That's from Lindsay. Yeah, we had a big discussion last week on
the show whether you tap, insert or swipe your credit card, and I
don't tap because it doesn't occur to me. I usually insert what about you?
I'm the same, but I also get a little nervous because I'm not
entirely sure where to tap. And that's the thing you really sometimes you don't
know. I do my Apple Watch and that is really easy, but I
would say one time out of ten, it does not work. Okay,
let's see what we got here, Good morning, Morning Show. My husband
and I are about to bark embark on our honeymoon for two weeks next Saturday.
That would have meant a week from this weekend or this coming weekend to
the UK. Believe it or not, I only have one third of the
vacation plan due to the stress of graduate school, being on a cruise,
and now coming off a stint of the flu. Anyway, we plan on
hitting all the UK countries, England, Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland and
Scotland. And any of you ever been to any of these locations. I
believe Fallon has said she in the past she's been to Ireland. Any tips,
tricks, advice must see while we are there. Thanks in advance,
and don't worry. I always wait till the last minute to plan vacations and
always typically save money that way due to last minute ticket sales. Dartlick from
Kayley. I have nothing for you, Kayley at all. Jenny, do
you have anything. No, I've never been to Europe, so unfortunately I've
got nothing to offer either. But Kayley, you send me out because I
am a planer, and for you to not have any of that plan yet,
even though you said it always works out, I would be stressed.
I would say this. If you heard Kaylee's email and you got something that
she should go to, we can do a couple of emails tomorrow or the
next day with where she should go. I've heard Alison went, and when
she described to me what they did, it really didn't seem interesting to me.
I would like to go to England and you know, Great Britain and
all that someday, but it's not like, oh, I really want to
see this, I really want to see this. I guess I'd see Big
Ben and the Tower of London and maybe that giant Ferris wheel, and then
I wouldn't know what else to do. I really don't know what people do
there for fun. You have tea, That's what I heard you go and
you have a little tea party. Well, what's funny is a friend of
mine, nurse Wendy, is in the UK right now on a work trip,
and she said that they preserved I think they call it high tea,
where you go into a restaurant and you do a very formal afternoon tea.
Yeah. I only know any of that because of web girl Tina, because
she went and studied abroad there and then I know she's got a visit a
couple of times since then, and I was like, this is actually a
full blown thing. And also Naima, who lives works down the hall from
US at City ninety seven, her and I went to a tea party here
in the Twin Cities and then she told me how a proper tea party is
in London. That's funny. Yeah, I don't know anything about it.
Sorry, we're no good at this one. But I'm gonna hope the Kaylee
that somebody will call right in tomorrow for the Minnesota goodbye and we'll have some
information for you, or maybe we can ask Tina later on today and she'll
have something for you. So we'll see if we can do that. And
that is going to be it for the Minnesota goodbye for this time. Send
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