It's the Minnesota Goodbye the Fallon and Jenny version today. Dave's on vacation.
He'll be back on Monday and I'll be gone, so you know it's a
block flop blop. Yeah, this one. I'm not going to read the
full one, not because it's too long, but because it's like recommendations for
me to Olympic National Park. That's where I'm going on Saturday. But I
did want to read this because I thought it was nice. Hello Jenny in
the morning Zoo or Fallon in the Funny Farm question mark right, and the
Dopeds. That zinger is hilarious in my head because I'm still rolling my eyes
at that one. Lady, we all know who I'm referring to. That's
you have. Jenny hasn't been a part of the podcast, okay. So
it's like an email about someone annoyed with dreg talking about smoking weeds so openly.
Okay, she says, you can say my name, So let's give
you a little shout out here, Katie. This might get long because I'm
excited, but I understand if you need to condense for sanity reasons. I
grew up in the Twin Cities. I currently live in Olympia, Washington.
When I heard Fallon was going to visit Olympic National Park, I squeaked with
excitement. Dude, it's magical. The trees are humongous, and there's so
much natural beauty here. I've been living here for a couple of years and
it's one of the best things I've ever done for my mental health. So
far, I've noticed a few things about being here. So she goes on
to talk about the driving, the weather, the food differences in National Park
things, and she sent some photos and I am just so thankful. So
Katie, I appreciate it. She said, I'm down for some iced coffee
if you have time. I don't know if I'll have time. I'm going
to be very you know, in with the full family, so we'll see
how that goes. Yeah, Fallon and I when we take trips, we
don't do like specific itineraries, but we definitely have an itinerary of the things
we want to do. And then there's built in Instagram scrolling time in my
opinion or TikTok scrolling time like the time where you decompress from the activities and
as usually at the end of the day because in state parks. I have
found that it's pretty much rarely ever there's Yeah, so this is what I
have for my itinerary. Yeah, what do you got? Okay, there
are like so Olympic National Park is weird. You have to like kind of
go through everything to get to it and then retrace your steps to go back
home. Yep, it's a very weird park. So um day one,
I like one day family park Day one. I picked things that are easy
for full families, kids and older fellas and ladies. Yep. So I
have Hurricane Hill, which is three point two miles okay, sold Duck Falls,
Mary Mayor Falls, and possibly Madison Falls. Those are all near us.
The farthest away from a stay, I have the rainforest, a hole
like it's called hole in the Walletic Beach area, and then Ruby Beach.
I have extra days to visit Cape Flattery. So Cape Flattery is the farthest
west point of the country. So when you're going to all of these,
are you like going to be retracking some of these things you're already seen?
Like when you're going to that far one, are you like going the same
way you've already gone to see a few times? Yes, okay. And
then there's one other one that I want to do, and that's the big
crazy one for me. It's like a moderate seven and a half mile and
it's to a place called Lena Lakes, and that one's not as popular,
and that one I won't be retracing any steps to get too. We'll see
if we make it to that one. I hope so, because it's like
one of the first tiktoks I saw where you can tell they overly did the
you know, saturation and contrast on the video to make it look even more
green and magical. But it's very pretty. So anyway, Katie, I
have your email saved, and I am so thankful you sent that to me,
so thank you. I gotta say that one thing I aspire to do
is like if I travel, I try my absolute best to not filter nature
pictures because I think, like, yeah, you love following these people on
Instagram that have these beautiful videos and reels and they're so beautiful and everything,
but it's like so much stuff is filtered and that's not a reality, and
like it's usually so beautiful in person no matter what, and so I get
like, straight, you can never capture in a video like how beautiful it
is in person? But I agree. It's like you get there and I'm
like, wow, did I just feel like a really overcast, crappy day?
And it's like, no, it's because they took this downloaded it on
a computer. And I'm like the type of person that I'll show Andrew something.
He's like, that's edited, Jenny, And I'm like, what,
like it like breaks my heart out the time? I was like, what
do you mean? Fantasy? All right? This next one says please don't
say my name. It's a long email, and that is fine. I'm
okay with that. I can read it for you. The last couple of
days on the podcast, there have been write ins about weed and finances that
vaguely loop around politics. I'm all about finance, so I'm not here to
talk drugs or take sides as much as i am to throw out some historical
statistics in general logistics. Again, again, it's a lot, but it's
a complicated topic. Why not let's dive into it. Yeah, let's hear
it. Regardless of the salary, people are needed for every type of job
to keep this country running. Someone has to pick up garbage, deliver your
mail, take your vitals at the hospital, or teach your children. Some
jobs are careers out of necessity, and there are people who grew up not
being pressured to go to college or even have the funds, and don't make
a fuss with the life they've been given. I'd like to think most people
take up a career because they're passionate about it. Financial stability is great,
but it's a luxury, and you can't fault people for accepting mountains of debt
for poor pay when the job they are passionate about needs a degree. Regardless,
it's not the teacher's fault they get paid shit, nor is it their
fault that they had to pay one hundred thousand dollars for a degree. They
needed a degree to teach and a master's if they want to make more money.
The caveat to all this is having to pay the loans back and to
an institution with no competition, so they can pay pretty so they can pretty
much charge you whatever they want. Sure, you could choose a less expensive
college, or pick a different career, or have the opportunity for scholarships.
But why blame the student when the real issue is the system and the question
people should be asking is why does the system allow this to happen? Let
me explain in regards to millennials parents. Sure they were told to go to
college, but their college was much cheaper even when you oculate inflation. According
to Forbes, the average annual cost in nineteen eighty was ten thousand dollars in
today's money. They could get a summer job and pay for an entire year
of school. A wedding in nineteen eighty cost ten thousand dollars in today's money.
Specifically, for Minneapolis, the average price of a home in nineteen eighty
was sixty four thousand, seven hundred dollars or two hundred and fifty three thousand
dollars in today's Sorry I had an email come in one overtop of this,
Okay, two hundred and fifty three thousand in today's money for a house,
the median household income was twenty three thousand or eighty five thousand today. The
meeting household income in Minneapolis in twenty twenty three is seventy thousand. So not
only have prices increased and exponential and at exponential rates, but the income in
the last forty years has stayed the same and the Federal Reserve would have people
believe the wage hikes are part of the reason for inflation to get higher in
the first place. We are playing a game most aren't even aware of,
in which we will never catch up to and that is sickening to more paragraphs
just you know. Yeah, this isn't about left or right because quite frankly,
they're all corrupt and we all know it. Those right in the country
are being legally bribed by corporate companies to either pass certain bills or not aka
lobbying, and some of the same people that believed in trickle down economics in
the eighties are still in office. I am so sick of people picking fights
over trivial issues when the economy is collapsing from out of control government spending and
corporate bailouts. Social Security will not exist when I'm sixty five because they never
intended it to last that long. Wealth in the world is now out of
balance, and not because those people worked harder. Wealth isn't everything, but
it becomes a lot more important when the leaders of the world are fucking you
over. It's not about giving people money that didn't earn it. It's about
giving people enough money so they can simply live and realizing that if those standards
aren't already in place, then there's a problem. So don't blame the teacher
for wanting to be a teacher. Blame the institution that they decided they weren't
worth a livable wage or an affordable healthcare. Clop clop, clop, clop
clap. There's one more paragraph. I am aware I left out a lot
of what ifs, like race disparity, race disparity, recessions, mental health,
and other worldly problems of the last forty years. But if I included
them all, this would be a thesis, not an email, and my
point would remain the same. We're not always in agreement with each other,
but we're all being fucked over in the same way. It's not an overnight
fix, and I certainly don't have the answer, but I know bitching at
each other for their personal choices is not going to change anything. They're doing
the best they can, same as you. So show some compassion, some
grace, and except that not everyone has the same story as you. In
the end, what matters is what helps everyone in some form or the other,
not just to select few. It's not socialism it's just kindness. I'd
be really surprised if you read this, so thank you, I suppose if
you do. I think that that was very well written. Yep. And
it is always interesting to find the actual correlation between the price of tuition back
in the day into what it would be today and then like the cost of
how and stuff like that. That's always very interesting because I think sometimes people
don't fully understand the inflation aspect of it, and so like they think,
like, you know, someone making thirty thousand dollars in nineteen eighty, like
that was good money. So then they think, oh, well, you're
making how much I made in nineteen eighty What do you mean you don't make
good money. That's how much I made when I was like twenty three years
old, And like that's not always brought into the fact that thirty thousand doesn't
get you very far nowadays. You know, that argument is very frustrating.
And I think we've had these discussions before on the podcast on like what like
like deserving quote unquote deserving a livable wage and whether you deserve it or not.
And I've said, if you work full time, I do believe you
do because in my point has always been kind of what she said. We
need people who are doing this, that and this and that. Maybe you
don't want to do it, but we need someone to do it right.
So if everyone said I'm not doing that because blah blah blah. So anyway,
I think I thought it was a really well written email, and I
really appreciate you writing and I'm glad we got to read it, so thank
you. We don't have a ton of emails today. Those are the two
main ones I got, so feel free to email Ryan Show at KDWB dot
com. And this is going to be the shortest podcast maybe unless you had
anything else you wanted to add today. Jenny, No, but if anyone
I'm thinking about doing one thing and I don't know, like listen, I
don't have a good eye for design, like interior design, I should say
specifically. And so I've been in the middle of painting our half story,
which is where our main bedroom is, and I am struggling because I painted
it white because I just could not grasp what was going to look good in
there, because it is a decently the large room and I couldn't pick just
one color. And if I painted it one color and I hated it right
after, I would be so devastated. So I'm thinking about doing like some
color blocking on walls, or like putting a mirror up and kind of just
like painting that specific area around the mirror to kind of give it some pop
and stuff. And so I'm wondering, like I kind of want to do
the thing on TikTok where I'm like, all right, somebody helped me yea
and post like a video on my room and then have like hopefully someone pick
it up where they have that design. But if you happen like this kind
of a like I'm asking for help right now, if you happen to know
anything about interior design, you want to reach out to me, holler at
your girl. I'm not made of money, so I don't know that I'm
gonna be paying anyone a ton of money to help me, but I'd appreciate
any help or any suggestions someone might have. I think that's great. I
mean, there may be someone who's just starting out and they need like to
build a portfolio, yeah, portfolio or something. All right, that's it.
Have a great day. Thanks for listening to the Minnesota Go bye,