I'm going to start off with the Minnesota Goodbye, an apology for yesterday's Minnesota
Goodbye, because apparently it was not the episode. Originally. We did fix
it, but it was about four minutes of me recording promos for today's show.
Did you say anything inappropriate in those promos? Because I fucked it up.
I'm the one who uploaded the wrong thing, So did I screw something
out? I got damned so stupid idiot. Well that's what I do,
and I don't know why I do it, but I'll be like, Okay,
tomorrow on the day Ryan Show, We're gonna be ba God damn it,
you stupid fuck and show. That's just what I do because I like
chied myself and I like I don't know, but nobody said anything about that.
They just said it was four minutes long and just recordings for the actual
warning show. Probably a technical air, but I'm curious if I was the
only one this happened to. No, we had a bunch of messages yesterday,
so we did get it fixed at about four o'clock yesterday. After Dude,
I don't know what I was doing. I must have been doing multiple
things at once because there's no reason I should have uploaded that instead of the
actual podcast, so I apologize it is my fault. Yeah, well thanks
Jenny. If it does happen again, you know, let us know.
And because sometimes we make mistakes too, Dave Ryan's show. My girlfriend is
a huge fan of your show, but listening to you guys for years,
I'm not sure how to do this, so I hope this works. I
want to give her a birthday shout out during the Minnesota Goodbye. Her name
is Rachel. She's from Corkoran, Minnesota, and now we live in Seattle,
Washington. Her birthday is Saturday the fifteenth. Would it be possible to
give her a shout out sometime this week during one of the shows. Absolutely,
happy birthday to Rachel in Seattle, Washington from Chris and everybody here on
abb birthday. That is super cool. I'm going to be out your way
in a few weeks on hiking or climbing out there. Yeah. I'm going
to be in Seattle for like a day or two, and then we're going
to be near Lovenworth, Washington for a few days to hike. See.
I envy that so much because I love hiking and I'm probably gonna go do
the Pike's Peak hike at the end of July. So I had to pump
it back from the end of June because there's still snowed toward the summit and
you literally have to wear snowshoes to get up there. I am not wearing
snowshoes hiking up Pike's Peak. Does this snow ever fully melts though near the
summit? Okay, guess i'd say because that is the highest peak in Colorado.
Correct? Absolutely, Actually it's not. That's kind of the misconception.
There are about twenty they call them fourteen ers that are peaks above fourteen thousand,
and there are probably about twenty of them, and they're probably Pikes Peak
is maybe the seventh highest or something like that. Yeah huh. Next one
from Sarah from the southeast edge of Minneapolis. She shares, I love Bigger,
better, Blacker and Bailey Mornings. Seriously, Bailey and Vont are amazing
additions to Jenny and Dave in the morning. I'm so proud of all of
you for your dedication and hard work. It does not go unnoticed. First,
Bailey, you are a bright light. You've inspired me to lengthen my
daily walks from about a mile to three to six miles. So thank you
for that boost. I'm impressed with how seamlessly you joined the show. Did
we read this yesterday? Yesterday? I think we read it out of the
air, did No? I think we've read it on Minnesota goodbye. Oh
okay, well I'm gonna read it again. Okay, you are hilarious.
Please never stop being exactly you and fuck that guy that said you're homely.
Yeah, we did read this yesterday. Can I say sure you didn't read
this one? I wasn't in the studio because I don't remember them. I
think I read it to Bailey off. Oh, I think you did,
because I feel like I might not have been in the studio because this is
new to me. Oh, I have a comment about the walks that.
First of all, I'm proud of you for lengthening your walks. Great job.
But yesterday I went on a seven mile walk. It was so nice,
and the week before the day before that six point five. Usually I
only do like four and a half to five miles, but it's been so
beautiful. The weather is truly the most perfect weather ever. So I was
like, you know what, I have to go on a walk and I
started walking through like Saint Louis Park and I could feel Jenny in the air.
So I get a text her like where do you live? I feel
like I'm walking by your home and I was nowhere near Jenny's home. She's
like, I feel your presence right now? Where do you live? And
I was like, all right, creep. I was like no, yeah,
she said she has a little wait, can I get your walking motivation
and routine? In other words, what motivates you? And also do you
carry like a water bottle? Do you got your earbuds in? What do
you do? Yeah? So it's funny because the whole motivation thing I definitely
agree with the if you make it a habit, it turns into you know,
motivation that way. So obviously it's the weather that motivates me. And
like the first I don't know, fifteen minutes of a walk is just like
okay, here I go. But then you like hit adrenaline or whatever and
you're like, yeah, I'm breathing the air, I got vitamin D.
I'm just gonna keep on going. And now I feel like a dog where
I'm just like when's walk time? Can I go on? A walk.
When is the walk I want to go on a walk. And yeah,
I listen to a podcast usually or audio books on my walks. But then
sometimes like if the birds are really singing pretty, I just turn off my
audio and I just listen to birds. And then I look at houses that
I want to live in, and then I google the houses, and so
usually I'm looking up you know, the number on the house and the street
address and everything, and I'm looking it up to see if I can find
pictures of the house on the inside. Oh that's cool, Like you look
up Zillow or whatever and see whether it's yeah, where you can look inside.
Yeah, And it's always like a nice houses, right one hundred.
Well, no, usually they're like tiny, I mean tiny quote unquote cottage
kind of looking houses because I just want a little house. Yeah, And
I look them up to see could I afford that house? The answer is
no, No, I could never afford that house. We did that.
We were in any Dinah the other day for a party and we were looking
at houses that were like across the street to see what they sold for.
And I was surprised they didn't sell for as much as I thought because they're
not on a lake. You put that same house any Dina on a lake
double the value. You take a two million dollar e Dina house, put
it on a lake, and now it's four million dollars. Yeah, I
could maybe afford a house on a highway. So fingers crossed. Good luck,
get good luck getting out of your driveway. Yeah, yeah, no
kidding. I'm with you, though. When I hiked up Pike's Peak,
I also didn't have music on or a podcast. I just wanted to enjoy
the sounds of like birds and wind. So yeah, feeling you need to
have music on. Second, I want to mention how absolutely hilarious it is
to me when Jenny calls Dave babe most recently heard on Friday's Minnesota did buy
like tears streaming down my face, laughing. I can't tell if it's accidental
or it's like when you say to a dude, oh hey girl. Either
way, I love it and please never stop. Thank you, especially David
for being my strongest and longest Paris social relationship. It means more than I
could ever say. Hold on, we're going to adjust some volumes. Okay,
we're adjusting volumes. Okay, good love y'all, Sarah T from the
southeast edge of Minneapolis. So thank you Sarah a very positive, nice email.
Here is another Sarah without an h Hello everybody. I was shocked when
Dave brought up the movie Untamed Heart on the podcast today. That was a
movie we watched all the time growing up, and so many people haven't heard
of it. I had no idea it was filmed here in Minneapolis. Now
I want to rewatch it and see what locations I can recognize. Here are
some other topics I want to hear you chat about, Dave. Are you
going to do the Twin Cities ten miler this year? Probably not. I
have no plans to Bailey, did you I was supposed to though last year,
right, I wasn't was canceled because of the HEU Right? Yeah yeah,
Bailey. Did you enjoy working in Disney? I told my husband I
want to move there in fifteen years after the kids are grown, to work
there. My dream would be to work at the Golden Grill Garden I'm sorry,
Garden Garden Grille. Yeah. My husband keeps sending me tiktoks of alligators.
Bailey, what's your favorite ride? What's your favorite resort? Do you
like Hanted Mansion. That's Dave's favorite ride, and I don't get it.
So let's go back. Did you like working there? Yes, I liked
working at Disney. I worked there for about a year and a half and
I really did enjoy it because you got to be with your friends, you
got to go to the parks all the time. But I ended up leaving
because they pay you garbage, really absolute garbage when I started. Granted,
I started in twenty thirteen, and I got paid seven seventy three an hour,
and a lot of our payment was taken out for rent, so you
would get maybe one hundred dollars a week to live. Oh wow, and
then a lot of that money you recycle back into buying, you know,
like mini mouse ears that you wear in the park because you go constantly.
But overall, I loved that job and I can close my eyes and picture
myself anywhere in Disney World, which is a blessing. Did you get food
along with the rent? No? No, no, wow, No,
Bailey. What's your favorite ride? My favorite ride is probably Haunted Mansion.
I do really like that one. What is your favorite resort? The Boardwalk?
I've never stayed, but I like Jelly rolls, which is a dueling
piano bar that's on the boardwalk. Okay, cool, and Jenny, have
you tried physical therapy for your knee. I'm no expert. It's a long
time runner and frequent googler, and I found my knee pain was resolved after
I started doing lots and lots of clamshells. It builds up the stabilizing muscles
in the glute meds, it says. Okay, anyway, Jenny, no,
I have not. Honestly, I had to do physical therapy for my
risk for a while until they finally told me I needed surgery, and then
I did about eight months physical therapy after the surgery. So physical therapy does
not sound very fun to me right now. So I just endure the pain
and maybe in a year or two I'll look into it. And I probably
should sooner rather than later, because I'm getting old and I don't want to
have bad knees when I'm like forty five, to the point where I'm like
struggling to do things I like to do. So, Okay, my wife's
got bad knees, and she they said, put off getting a knee replacement
as long as you can, because that's going to last you for life.
So if you get your knees replaced you I guess you can only do that
one arm snakes. Let's get onto snakes any right, san We got snakes
in our yard. Now this came up because our landscaper said, oh,
you got snakes out by your pond, snakes and ants. And we said,
okay, well we call this snake removal person and we said, come
by, we got snakes. They said, okay, we'll come by.
Then an actual park ranger, like a certified naturalist scientist park ranger said,
no, snakes are good snakes in Minnesota not poison in most parts. You
probably got a little garter snake or maybe like a bowl snake or something that's
a little bit burt bigger. But they eat rats and voles and mice and
other varmuts, so they're actually a good thing. So unless you've noticed them
and they're a nuisance, don't get rid of snakes. They're harmless, they
said. We live on two and a half acres of mostly woods and new
olms, so they're definitely around. My husband is tairfied of snakes. Apparently
he saw a snake skin in our yard. And he freaked. Last summer,
my dog got a snake and it must have bitter face. She swelled
all up. I called the vet said it's probably a little infection, not
venomous. The swelling went down on its own. She's a happy, healthy
girl. So just to let you know if something ever happens with Josie.
I saw an old baby snake in our basement last week. Our house is
one hundred and fifty years old, so not crazy weird, I told my
husband. He said, if we see anything bigger than that, we are
moving asap. And he won't let me get rid of our cat now because
he caught it before I noticed the snake. Not that getting rid of that
little mouse catcher was ever an option. But yes, nakes are everywhere.
As long as they're outside, I don't mind. But in the house is
a different story from Hannah. Let's go back to the fact that your house
is one hundred and fifty years old. That would put it in eighteen seventy
four. Now, New Alm is a really really old town. German it
is, yeah, And as matter of fact, there's a statue outside of
town called Herman the German. Did you know that? Yes, it's called
Herman the German. He's wearing like a helmet and he's got a sword in
his huge he is huge. New Alm is such a charming, very cool
little town. We usually go down there once a year and we stay at
the holiday Inn and swim at the indoor pool and we go to beagles Kaiserhoff
and then they're shopping along the main street and it's just cool. But New
Olm was during the su uprising of eighteen sixty two, which you never heard
of, No I have have you heard of? Thee and in the New
Alm like historical Society, and it's interesting because it's like written by definitely two
different groups of people. So it's like one side is like the Native Americans
were in the wrong, and then the other side are the Native Americans were
in the right. And it's a very interesting museum. Yeah, and so
that's where a lot of the settlers. So here's what happened in eighteen sixty
two. Here's a little bit of history, and it's fascinating. The Indians,
the Natives, they got treated like garbage. And there was an in
they're gonna use the word Indian because that's what they called them back then.
But no, disrespect. There was what they called an Indian agent who was
supposed to bring the Indians their flour and their sugar and their coffee and their
whatever it was. And they were late all the time, and they were
supposed to pay them, but they were late all the time. And so
this Indian agent said, let him eat grass. Those were his words,
let them eat grass. The Indians were pissed, rightfully so, because they
were starving. So there was an uprising and they went around and they killed
and raided a bunch of settlers homes, about four hundred, they don't know
for sure. European settlers died because the Indians were like, let's fight back,
and you can't blame them because they're starving. And the Indian agent was
found with it. He was found dead with his mouth stuffed full of grass
because he had said, let them eat grass. So a lot of the
Europeans fled to New Olm for protection, and there's a great story about that.
They also fled to a fort called Fort Ridgely, which is on the
Minnesota River. And the Indians were terrified of cannons because they didn't know what
you know, Cannons were scary and they were loud, and so they used
the cannons to keep the Indians away. And you can still visit Fort ridgely
and there's the footprint of all of the buildings in the square of the fort
and it's historic and it's fascinating and it's isolated and it's beautiful, and there's
such rich history out there. And New Alms got really cool. That historical
society is really neat. And I will say a lot of Native Americans also
died in that uprising as well, not just the Europeans. Well, no,
of course. Yeah, but here's the tragic end of the story.
So they found something like hundreds of Native Americans guilty and they were going to
be hanged, like one hundred or more, and then President Lincoln said,
we're going to pardon or excuse most of them. But thirty eight Natives were
hung in man Cato, all at the same time in a big square,
huge scaffolding, and that's like the largest mass execution ever ever in the United
States history. So yeah, just a tragic, sad end. And so
there's a little bit of history. There's a lot of very rich and tragic
Native history in Minnesota. Let's move on to the next one. Let's see,
I'm going to go back to some episodes that I missed and I had
to email in about January twenty ninth. Gushion about discovering things your significant other
is spending money on. Long story short, my husband and I wanted to
buy a house, so I pulled our credit reports. Holy cow, what
was on his report was a shock. His scores were the lowest I've ever
seen. And we found out that my husband's ex wife took out multiple twenty
five thousand dollars car loans with my husband listed as either the primary or co
signer. Then she did not pay any of them. So not his spending
halfits, but definitely discovered his lack of attention to things, including that he
doesn't open his mail. It took me a couple of years, but it
got fixed and we were eventually able to buy a house and I manage all
the mail and bills now lol, And we've recently added identity theft alerts on
all of our credit bureaus. That's all nothing too exciting, but a psa
that people should definitely monitor their shit. Credit Karma is free. I didn't
know credit krma no that either. Do you have a good credit score.
I don't know. How do you know what your credit score is? I
don't know. I mean usually comes when you do things like take out a
loan or something like that. You can see like a car loan, get
a preapproved for a house, stuff like that, but you can just like
go check as well. I think a lot of apartments require a decent day
scot or four nowadays. I think, I mean I pay my credit card.
Do you pay it all off at once? I do every month,
So then you're probably pretty good, okay. I think when you carry a
high credit card balance, sure, that is when things are not so good.
But it's also more than just credit cards. It's like your debt in
general. Yeah, so if you have like student debt, like I can
take a hit on you sometimes too if you're not paying that. Yeah.
I miss like two student loan payments right at the beginning because I didn't know
how it worked. But then so I probably had bad credit and then it
now it should be okay. No, I don't think missing too. Did
you pay them later? Yeah, I think you're probably fine. It wouldn't.
It maybe knocked you down a little bit at the beginning, but you
should be fine. This will never buy a house now. I have terrible
credit creditible you should your credit card. I don't think so creditre is free.
I will check it out. I'm googling it now. I think though,
that there when every time you check your credit it affects your credit though,
so they not is that true, that's a myth. Oh, I
heard the same thing. I heard that if you check your credit it lowers
your score. But then somebody else said that's a myth. Somebody will let
us know. We got all kinds of intelligent finance people that listen to the
podcast, so hush no. I was lucky that I think when I think
that some people that grow up poor are end up being really bad with money,
and then some people that grew up poor are really good with money.
I'm not. I wouldn't say I'm good with money. I just don't spend
a lot, so we save a lot, and I always have. Even
when I made, like, you know, seven hundred dollars a month,
I still didn't overspend. And I got a Seers credit card with a two
hundred dollars balance on it, and I was like, damn, I got
a credit card. Well, back then, you could buy a lot more
for two hundred dollars, but I always paid it off. Is so I
just never really carried a balance. I think it's just like, I don't
know, it's whatever makes you happy, because I grew up with no money,
and me and one of my sisters are very very good with money and
more very frugal. Another sister, though, is not so much. She
spends money like she's rich as can be, and she does well for herself,
but she doesn't do as well as what she spent. She spent.
Yeah, would you say that's my sister too. She eats orders out all
the time all the time, Like, girl, with what money? You
have a baby? What are you doing? Anyway? I have family members
that are also, like you know, nobody in our family is rich.
I mean, if they are, they're distant families like uncles or cousins or
whatever. But there are people in my family that they are not rich by
any means, but they spend like they are rich. And I used to
get some details of like, yeah, well this and this and this,
we couldn't qualify for this. And I don't really hear the stories about their
finances anymore, which kind of tells me that they're not good. I think
just some people. I know people that when they get money they have to
spend it. It's almost like a disease, like I got three hundred dollars
at the casino. I must go spend this money. Well, it is
a form of addiction. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, because you get like
a dopamine head every time you buy something, or like I mean, online
shopping has screwed so many people because it's like, oh, one little click
and then I get to or something arrives at my door and it makes you
happy. How easy do you remember? On Amazon? It used to be
buy with one click, so you would see something like I don't know a
pair of shoes, yeah, and you would hit buy with one click.
And it doesn't let you do that anymore. Well really, yeah, you
have to take two steps. Still, it's very easy. Yeah, but
it's no longer buy with one click. You must spend some time on it.
That is going to do it for the Minnesota good bye, Thanks for
being here. Send emails to Ryan's show at kadiwb dot com.