All right, here we go with the Friday Minnesota Goodbye. We're gonna reflect
back to something that kind of interesting here that we've been talking about on the
show a couple of times, and basically it is Chicago and Fallon hate Chicago.
She said Chicago should be replaced by a giant gravel pit. I didn't
say that, if you go back and listen to podcast, but I did
say, pretty sure popular opinion. I just don't get Chicago. It does
nothing for me. And I said, I kind of get it, but
I've never gone there just to visit. Really. I've always gone there for
a show or a concert or whatever. And then I was there a year
ago exactly for a radio convention and we did take a Saturday and we said,
let's go down to Navy Pier. Navy Pier sucked. Navy Pier was
a bunch of kind of like closed up shops and ice cream stands. I
think we bought have gone the same day you did. And we did the
carousel and that was it, and I was like, cool, Yeah,
it's glad. And we walked miles to get here for this. Yeah and
so and so we said, hey, tell us what we're wrong about and
so we're getting some emails here. This one says can this as she says,
good morning, morning show. I'm writing in to respond to Fallon's comment
about Chicago. Was born raised in Gumi, Illinois, which is forty five
minutes south of Chicago. I don't know how you say it. I can
totally validate what Fallon is saying. However, I don't have much experience in
Chicago as an adult because I moved to Minnesota at eighteen. I would recommend
adding other towns experiences to your Chicago trip next time you come down. I
do recommend Gumy Oh, Gurney, hold on Gurney, Okay. It looked
like an eminence an R Gurney. Okay, since we have six flags Great
America. Way better than Valley Fair in my opinion. Hey hey, hey,
hey hey, you watch that? And just a smidgemore northwest of Gurney
is Lake Geneva, where I live now. Yeah, that's beautiful. It's
a small tourist town, Laketown, but still pretty in fun for a day
or two away. As always thinks we're being an awesome group of people from
Candice. Okay. So, in other words, to make a Chicago.
Visit more enjoyable. Don't go to Chicago. That's I got out of that
perfect another one. Let's see, I want to keep Chicago in the theme
here. Okay, some insight on visiting Chicago from Allison. I've lived here
eight years originally from Minnesota. Yes, there are more than five things to
do. Get out of Get out of the loop, core downtown areas.
Spending your entire trip there is the equivalent of going to New York City and
not leaving Times Square. Chicago has tons of neighborhoods, each with their own
flare, food vibe. Go up the Lake Shore. There are beautiful beaches
for miles north and south. There are so many parks. Just get out
of downtown. Chicago is a big city to live in. Chicago or New
York City is a big city to visit. Walk The neighborhoods of Chicago pop
into shops and restaurants in the summer. There is a street fest with music
and food every weekend in one of the neighborhoods, Garfield Park Conservatory. It
is incredible and so many breweries. I could go on, but cut the
slanders, Smiley face, more of the stories. Get out of the Loop
downtown, you'll see what Chicago really has to offer. Okay, I'll be
honest with you. Strolling through neighborhoods and going into a shop is not really
worth a six hour drive to me. Yeah, and I got breweries here
in Minneapolis. Everywhere there's a freaking brewery and they're awesome and I love it.
Yeah, I'm trying to think, Like, obviously I like food,
but there's only so much you can eat, so I'm sure every neighborhood has
their food flare. But like, okay, like Door County, for instance,
why would I think Door County is better than Chicago. Well, endless
hiking trails, you can go kayaking, powder, all kinds of water activities.
You can take a ferry to an island for a day. They do
have there. There was a day we did like cute shopping and shops,
But I don't want to do that every day, Like I would do one
day of shopping for sure. Like if I'm in like a big city,
Yeah, I know that's not your thing though, Well I mean I'm not.
I'm not really a shopper. Like if I go to Breckon Ridge,
Colorado, for example, there's a big main street of shopping, and it's
souvenirs and cool like wine glasses that say brecon Ridge and coats that say brecon
Ridge and candle that say breckon Ridge and soap that's made in Colorado. You
know that'll take me an hour, you know what I mean. I'm not
a big shopper. Really, I'd rather go to Best buyer them all.
But thank you a listen. I appreciate that one. And let's see what
else we get here. I want to make sure I'm reading ones that are
for the Minnesota. Goodbye, Okay, here we go, Hello, Dave,
Fallon, Jenny and Drake. I'll try to keep this short and sweet.
I've been thinking about writing you guys for a long time, recently had
my sign to do it. First of all, though I listen to you
guys every day, usually throughout the day on the podcast, through the good
and bad times, your guys voices have been there for me and sometimes been
the one thing that could get me out of bed for the day. Knowing
I'll get to catch up on the show and smile and laugh along with you.
I know I'm not alone when I say your show means the world to
me, and I appreciate you guys more than I can put into words.
I never ever want to take that for granted. I never want to read
something like that or hear something like that and then just move on, because
that means so much to me. And that is what one of the reasons
I got into radios, because radio meant the same thing to me when I
was a kid with the radio was always playing shout out to k v O
R in Colorado Springs k Triples and Colorado Springs KYS and in Colorado Springs because
Z ninety three in Colorado Springs. As those radio stations were what they were,
the background, the soundtrack of my life basically, So I get it.
DJ's were a big thing back then, but they were more like,
you know, they'd tell a little joke, yeah, and they'd give the
temperature in the forecast, and they would introduce the music or whatever. But
we're different kind of a radio show, and it's more like you know,
fallon samorrhoids, that type of thing, you know what I mean. We're
more about you're human, we're human, and we talked about the things we
have in common. So I will never take it for granted that you appreciate
us. Okay, now onto I'm writing in today. I've noticed the past
few weeks Dave randomly has said the name Helen on the show multiple times.
I have. My grandma's name was Helen. Here's an interesting thing. This
is Dave not reading a letter. My grandma's name was also Helen, and
so when I say grandma Helen, I think that's where it comes from.
Okay, Helen Wheeler was my grandma, and there's some commonalities here. She
grew up on a farm in Montana during the Great Depression. This is back
to the email now. Was pulled out of eighth grade to help earn money
for the family. So during the Depression they didn't have any money, so
she had to probably go sell peaches in you know, like I don't know,
Bozeman or something like that. She married my grandpa when he came home
from serving in the army durned World War Two, and together they raised twelve
amazing children. Helen event eventually earned her ged at the age of forty nine,
during a year she did not have a child graduating, so she could
have her own graduation year. She also earned the Honorable Montana Mother of the
Year award. But she surely didn't need the title to prove how amazing she
was. She was an avid pekuckle player and passed her love of the game
down to many of her kids and grandkids. So every year I hear you
guys mentioned pinuckle, every time I hear you guys mentioned pe knuckle on the
show, usually wondering what it is, because we do, We're like,
how do you play pinuckle? That sounds fun, Maybe we should learn it.
It brings a huge smile to my face. She was my best friend
and I miss her greatly. I took hearing her name multiple times as my
calling to write to you guys and all show share a bit of her life
and keep her memory alive. I love that. And what's funny is my
grandma Helen also lived in Montana, but she was not born there. She
was born in Kansas in eighteen eighty nine and went to Montana. We think
in a wagon. Okay, we're not positive. Maybe part way by train,
but at least part of the way by wagon. Well, I mean
that's a good story to tell anyone. Yeah, I believe our loved ones
send us messages once in a while to let us know they are okay,
and hearing Dave say something along the lines of Helen was letting loose, Oh,
Helen was letting loose in loss of Vegas made my heart so happy.
Ha ha. Sincerely, p one listener, Beth, Beth, I'm really
glad that it touched your heart, and I understand that you want to keep
Helen's memory alive. And I had great admiration for my grandma too, because
she was you know, I don't remember her young at all. I don't
remember her until she was probly seventy five years old, maybe a little bit
older. But she was always very sweet and she loved to play scrabble or
she called it, no, it was spilling spell. There was a name
called spilling spell where you shook up a bunch of lettercubes and you pour them
out on a TV tray and then spell words with him with a timer.
And she would say, do you want to spill a spell? And I
thought it was very sweet that an old lady was probably really tired, took
time for a lot of grandkids because there were a lot of us. So
thanks for bringing back that memory and I appreciate that. All right, this
is about sties because I have a stye in my eye. Do you just
see my eye patch that I wore in this morning? Oh I didn't see
it. Yeah, you put it in the microwave. A listener recommended this
to me, is little la beads in there. You put it in the
microwave for fifteen seconds. You put it on your eye. And Susan was
making fun of me last night for looking like a pirate. Well, I
mean, you know, some would argue pirate looks cool. I know you've
gotten five thousand emails about sties. My boyfriend gets them constantly. And eye
doctor told them to wash with a warm washcloth and baby body wash because it's
tear free, works like a charm. Okay, I haven't done that.
I don't rarely. You know, I got so many at home remedies I
got. There was somebody who said it. They wrote yesterday. They're very
charming. They said, I'm Mexican, so of course we have some sort
of home remedy for it. And it was something like I don't remember what
it was, but it was definitely something that was unique. Yeah, probably
to that culture, probably, And I don't remember what it was. But
the cookie who listens to our show said phillis shot glass with warm salty water.
Put it over your eye and open your eye and look into it and
roll your eye around in blink. And I didn't tried that one, but
basically warm compress on the eyes. Warm saltwater fixes a lot of things.
Now, you got an endorsement with the Hemorrhoid Preparation H people because you had
hemorrhoids and you am it paid off for you. I did. So maybe
somehow, like um, I can get the the thermal thermal on mask people
or I patch people to hear this and maybe they'll give me an endorsement for
having a stop being a victim of Styes, yeah, I will say preparation
H is more of a household name than what you just read, so that
I think you're right. Somebody use hash Do you gotta take a picture of
yourself, put it on Instagram, put hashtag stye and then they'll fight.
That's how literally how the person. But I'm not young and cute either.
I mean you you're you're the You're the good face of preparation age. Thank
you. I'm not young and cute. It's like exactly, yeah, so
probably something that happened like Jenny would come into with a sty and all of
a sudden, the thermal on people would be like, oh God, let's
get her, like she's young and cute, and I'm like, hey,
background with swallowed eyes a year, let's see. That is kind of more
for the morning show. And so there's really not a whole lot left.
Um. I will only say, let's talk about what we're doing this weekend.
Um, it is Friday right now as we record this, it's Friday.
We love our weekends just like you love your weekends. And I have
no plans this afternoon. I'm going to the gym or at eleven. Somebody
told me yesterday I looked a lot thinner, which I appreciate. You.
Yeah, And actually you know what I will I notice the yesterday your belly.
You know one thing I was going to tell you when you wear T
shirts, it makes you look thinner than when you wear button up shirts because
your button up shirts are too big. They are yea and they so they
like the make it your stomach look bigger than it actually is. I was
going to tell you that yesterday and forgot too, because I think we went
to talk. That's where I lose it. First, I think in my
bellies, in my face, and then Susan because she's insecure and she is
worried that young college women will now be attracted to me, which, no,
not well, I'll put the mask on so they want to. But
so she said last night, she said, you don't want to get too
skinny, because then your face SAgs and you look gone. And I said
to myself, she's trying to keep the college girls away. Yes, she
is. God, it's so hard to be I was gonna tell you a
little story, but it's it's a story for another time. What are you
doing this weekend? The girls are coming over, so Ava three, Evelyn
one coming over tomorrow afternoon. So that is our plan from about four o'clock
until about noon or two on Sunday. The girls need constant attention. It's
not a bad thing. But you really don't get to plan anything with the
girls there. What are you doing we I don't think we have anything today,
And I'm honestly so happy. I've been so busy. I looked at
my calendar to make plans with a friend and I only had one weekend night
open for the rest of the summer one and it was one night. So
I am doing nothing and it's going to be glorious. Tomorrow we have a
barbecue thing for Jake's stepdad at their his mom's house, and then Sunday I
have a little playdate for all of with a friend. Okay. Yeah,
and Jake's going Sunday to the Three thing. Oh he is going is okay?
That's very cool. Yeah, the three of them. I mean,
if you're into Gulf, that is a big, huge tournament this weekend,
So have fun with that. Thank you for listening to the Minnesota Good Buy.
Maybe a little bit shorter than our average episode, but only by a
couple of minutes, So thank you for listening. Send emails, thoughts,
suggestions, critiques of Chicago to Ryan Show at KDWB dot com.