Getting closer, ever closer to the Friday long holiday Fourth of July weekend.
Very excited. We were talking about what we're doing over the weekend, and
what are you doing over the Fourth of July weekend? So many people are
going to the cabin. I talked to a friend of mine who is a
radio guy. He lives in the Quad Cities and he does very well,
and he's got a cabin in Wisconsin, so about four or six hours away,
but he goes for a long time at a time, and he said,
Hey, you should buy the island in the middle of our lake,
seventeen acres. How much do you think is seventeen acre island in the middle
of a beautiful lake that's about two miles across is going to cost in Wisconsin?
Seventeen acre island? Oh god, No, one point five million.
And there's a cabin on it, but it's a three season cabin and you'd
have to get out. The only way to get out there to have him
build a new one is you're gonna take a boat out there. And he's
like, you should buy it and build on it. I'm like, number
one, I don't have one point four million dollars loosely laying around a cookie
jar. And can you imagine the construction costs on building a nice cabin on
this land, with the construction crew back and forth on a fucking boat every
day. You have to have a snowmobile then to get off of it,
if you like, you went there in the winter. Basically apparently, yeah,
yeah, it sounds so that sounds even less appealing than like a normal
cabin. I think that's why nobody's built on it, and it's got a
cabin on there. But he said, Abe, Lincoln wouldn't live in this
cabin. And I looked at the pictures and he was right. Then he
showed me a picture of his cabin and it's it's beautiful. It's like eight
hundred thousand dollars and it's kind of an a framish looking thing, so picture
like an a frame with all the glass and all the stairs going up to
the second level, and it's and it's beautiful. And he's not rich rich,
but he does well. So do you ever want to get a cabin?
Because I'm going to tell you something that I've learned here in Minnesota.
We never had a cabin. We've never had a cabin. We got our
cabin in Colorado, which is a little inconveniently located and it's not on a
lake, but we really love it. Do you and Jake ever want to
get a cabin? No? I think so. Initially Jake did want to,
but honestly our house is so close to Minnetonka we don't feel like we
need all right, Okay, but I have shared before my dream dream,
dream of dreams would be would be to have like a small cabin town home
something I don't want to guy, I don't need a bay house at Lake
Tahoe. That would be my absolute dream scenario. U. But yeah,
I mean that'd be super cool. I think the thing about that one is
you it's kind of like my Colorado house. You be limited the number of
times you can get out there because it's not a drive. It's a flight
and then a drive and then a drive to find a reno and not even
Tahoe. Somebody asked when I'm gonna be calling Bingo for the fourth of July
In chan Hassan, it is presented by the chan Hassan Commission on Aging and
Beyond the Yellow Ribbon. Chan Hassan eleven am until one at City Center Park.
They'll be in the tent. It is free and his free bingo with
prizes. All donations and proceeds support Minnesota Assistance Counsel for Veterans, and your
donation support m acv's important mission to end veteran homelessness in Minnesota. So I
am calling bingo. I did it last year. We had so much fun.
They asked me to come back and do it again, and I am
delighted to And I tell jokes, so um, you know, I might
do the whale joke. Gott to warm the crowd up a little bit.
So you're eleven, am opener. No, no, no, you gotta
get the crowd to like you before. Somebody once told me a DJ,
a very wise DJ named Charlie McCraw, still a friend of mine, worked
within in Las Vegas, and he said, you gotta get people to like
you before you put the lamp shade on your head. Okay, And I
thought that was really wise, because if you go to a party, nobody
really puts the lamp shade on their head. But the cliche is you have
such a wild person to party. Oh, they got the lamp shade on
their head. He said, you don't walk into the party, put your
lamp shade on the head right away. Got a warm up to that.
Okay, that's fair. I mean tell that joke about the dildo. Oh
yeah, save that one from the family Beings. I don't know what to
say. By the way, going back one second, I was going to
recommend a show but only five minutes of each episode, and I was trying
to find what it's actually called. It might just be called The Cabins or
something, Cabin Chronicles. It's a yeah, the Cabin Chronicles. I think
if you just type in show about cabins you'll find it. But it's a
show on one of the streaming services and it's just people showing off their super
cool cabins. Oh wow, all over. And there was one we watched.
It was Grand Moray. I was like, oh, that's great,
but they're thirty minute episodes. You do not need thirty minutes. You need
five minutes of each episode. You see the cabin, I don't need to
hear how Sarah was an art director at x y Z and then had this
idea like, I don't need their backstory, so it's Jake and I watched
five minutes of each episode and so we got to watch an entire season pretty
quickly. But yeah, there was We haven't watched all the season's one in
Grand Moray, but I thought that was cool because I like seeing people's cabins.
That is kind of cool, all right. Next one email says I'm
sitting by Fall River on vacation in Estes Park, Colorado, listening to the
Minnesota Goodbye when I heard the email from the lady looking for recommendations in the
Black Hills area because I love it, and I gave some recommendations. My
boyfriend Golden retriever Loo and I just finished a three day trip there before I
headed down to Colorado. I agree with everything you said, day, but
I have a few more things to add. You definitely need to check out
the Custer State Park Wildlife Loop. Around sunset time, we saw elk,
bison, antelope, prairie dogs, and the beautiful sunset. Also while in
Custer State Park, checkout Sylvan Lake. It is beautiful with a one mile
hiking trail around it. If you want to get adventuresome, you can hike
up Black Elk Peak, which is the highest point east of the Rockies.
My boyfriend and I also rented a side by side and took a four hour
trip through the trails of the Black Hills. Side by side sounds like one
of those, like a mote, like an ATV. I think, is
that a side by side contected in the other day? I thank yeah,
okay, thank you guys for your daily podcast of Minnesota. Goodbye is always
the first listen on my rotation of daily podcasts I got to keep up with.
Thank you. My boyfriend, who is more of a ninety three X
listener, always calls it the Dave and Ryan Show. At first, he
was serious and thought that's what your show was called than that Dave was two
people. Now it's just an inside joke. Thanks for all the laughs and
the work that you put into the show and podcast. That is from Olivia.
Thank you, Olivia. That is very kind and I appreciate that.
Love the Black Hills cannot get enough. Let's hearken back to the wrestling belt
guy. About two or three weeks ago, somebody sent me a DM and
said, I drive by this guy's garage every day and he's an older guy,
and he's got a bunch of wrestling belts hanging from the ceiling and he
sits there as if he's waiting for people to come up and ask him about
the wrestling belts. So the woman that rode in, I said, you
should go up and talk to him and ask him about the wrestling belts.
And she's like, no, I am wait much of an introvert. I'm
not going to go up and talk to him, but we would. We
were imagining a guy who was probably seventy seventy two and he was a former
wrestler, and he's got these championship belts hanging from the ceiling and he wants
people to come up and ask him because he wants to relive his glory days.
And she's like, no, I don't want to, So I think
her. His daughter called in and said, those aren't his belts. Those
are part of his collection of souvenirs from the eighties and just like just different
things that he has souvenirs from. He's a collector. So we said,
okay, well, maybe not as interesting as we thought, but still cool.
Whatever. Got an email from a guy named Darius. He says,
I'm a huge fan of the show. I listen all the time. You
did a show on June eighth about a guy that would sit in his garage
with wrestling belts. Well, I was driving home from work and I saw
him, So I turned around and went back to talk to him, and
I said, you're a local celebrity. You've been on the radio. He
laughed and he said, yeah, I heard that from some people. He
also, Dave doesn't even know how much stuff I have here, and he
can post my picture with the bingo dot. I'm not sure what hap Oh
yeah, yeah, okay, thank you. I was like, maybe he
didn't want us covering his face. He's a real cool guy named Chuck.
He's got a ton of member a billion in his garage. I just wanted
to share it with you. Also, here's a photo of us as well.
Thanks for laughing entertainment. That is from Darius. So let's scroll down.
There's Darius and Chuck, who is flexing. Well, you turned around
and went and got a picture with him, and he's got everything from it
looks like a collection of miniature football helmets to wrestling belts, pinata, an
inflatable basketball, a giant inflatable miller like glass. It looks like there's just
I mean, very cool Chuck. He's just got some really cool stuff in
there. Apparently he's really proud of the wrestling belts because those feature prominently in
his collection. And Darius, man, I love you for doing that.
That is so cool that you took the time to stop and talk to this
guy. I think you probably made his day and I think it probably made
your day too, So very cool. Next one, and it's our buddy
Dan from Apple Valley. You'll you'll recognize Dan's story. He's been on the
show many times. He almost always calls in for no phone screen or Friday.
Dan hit a tree on an ATV years ago. He hit it so
hard that the two front tires wrapped around the tree and popped each other.
Dan went from totally functional in every way to don't I don't want to describe
him without brain. Let's just hey, brain injury, traumatic brain injury.
And he's a great guy and he's still got so much personality that he's aware
that he's got a traumatic brain injury. But he wants to be an inspiration,
so he says, Hey, Dart Liquors, Dan from Apple Valley here,
I'm usually positive for what I've been through. I feel like people look
at my progress and I want to be an inspiration to all even though I
don't know them. Thanks for your radio show. I feel like you're a
great friend. Sincere Daniel. Daniel, and he put up a picture of
himself back before he had his injury, and um, I'm gonna tell you,
Danny, you were even uglier in this picture. Now. See,
this is what her friend does. This is what a friend does. You
give your friends shit. You don't tell your friend, Oh, Dan,
you're a handsome looking guy. Those glasses look really good on you. You
call your friend ugly, sweaty, stupid, unloved. Harry, Harry,
this is what friends do. I don't do that to my friends. I
usually, but we give each other they're not your real friends. No,
I don't you look like shit? Abby. I don't do that because that's
not your real friend. Aby is my truly real friend. Not until you
say she looks like shit. I make fun of certain things, like her
pointy boobs. Okay, I call him the pointers. Well, it's like
Jenny. I mean, we tell Jenny that because somebody somebody rode in and
said that Jenny has a horse face, which cracks us up, because Jenny
is beautiful. Yeah, and so now once in a while we'll make fun
of Jenny and tell her she has a horse face because she's our friend and
she knows we're kidding, and then we'll do the the horse sound. I
can't do it. M Yeah, Jenny's coming. And then she's got a
work part time at Canterbury. This weekend too busy weekend. That's your busiest
time of year. That is going to be almost it for the Minnesota goodbye.
But let me see if I've got one more. I do. Andy
bright sand And says, Hey, you were talking this morning about drumsticks and
how you love drumsticks, not the chicken drumsticks, but the ice cream tree.
How did you not know they sold just the tips only, so you
can buy just the tips of drumsticks. I love that, but I do
want the full cone because it's like working to the delight. It's like people
who sell muffintops. Yeah, muffintops are actually I would probably just want the
muffintops. That's a bad example. Those sound delightful, but I honestly want
the full ice cream drumstick. Then I spread the word call me if you
want Dave. Do you remember Buckhill when I wrecked Angie Taylor's coat from sliding
down the hill on the couch that I made. Okay, let's back up
a second. I've been listening for twenty years plus. His name is Andy.
So here's the story about the couch on Buckhill. This goes way back
to about two thousand or so, when Lee v Alswick was still in the
show Jenny Jones. Do you remember Jenny Jones and the talk show hit Glasses.
Yep, And Jenny Jones wanted publicity, so she said, okay,
radio stations around the country making out rageous video that shows me how much you
want to be on the Jenny Jones Show. And if we pick you,
then we'll fly you out to Chicago to be on the Jenny Jones Show.
And it was brilliant of her because she needed the publicity. So she basically
and then you had to vote, and I think there was another thing,
have your listeners vote for you. So it was tons of publicity for Jenny
Jones. We said, well, let's go down Buckhill on a couch.
So we asked a listener and this was Andy, to make a couch with
skis on the bottom. So we put a couple of skis on the bottom
of a love seat. We all climb up. We climbed on it.
We pushed at the top of Buckhill, not the top of maybe like two
hundred yards up. We slid down it and it fell over and it rolled
and nobody was hurt, but it could have been dangerous. And we showed
the video to Jenny Jones and we had our listeners call in and vote,
and we got at the Jenny Jones show. So now Jenny Jones, being
you know, she needs publicity, she said, when you come out,
do something outrageous. When we bring you out on the stage, do something
outrageous. So we said the PlayStation three or whatever was very popular at the
time. You could not get one. It came in a brilliant blue box.
So we told listeners, send us your empty PlayStation box. We got
about twelve of them. We packed him in a suitcase. We took him
to Chicago backstage at the Jenny Jones show, and then in the dressing room
we unfolded them and made them into PlayStation boxes and we carried armloads of them
out on stage and started handing them out. The people in the audience were
trash, and they dove over each other, through chairs, at each other.
They tackled us. They grabbed those PlayStation boxes, only to realize they
were empty. But it was funny and chaotic and TV magic yep, And
they cut it out of the show. They cut it out of the show.
No, and we got on and they show us coming out holding PlayStation
boxes and then cut to us sitting there calmly on the stage talking about many
of them. Why they would cut that seems like they would want that because
she did have trashy stuff on her show, not as trashy as like a
Doctor Phil or More I guess more or Haraldo. Yeah, but all those
shows in that time had a level of trash to them and that's why that's
why we thought it would work. And it got attention, but it didn't
get left on there. And then the follow up was they had us on
a shit airline on the way home, like Allegiant Air or something that's not
even in business anymore, and the landing gear was stuck in the frozen down
position, so they couldn't take off because the landing gear was stuck frozen down
and it was like ten degrees below zero, and they're out there trying to
figure out We're looking out the window of the airport and they're trying to figure
out a way to thaw the landing gear so they can retract it, and
they couldn't figure out. We waited in the midway terminal all night, from
like nine o'clock until ten o'clock the next morning as they tried to figure out
how to and they had it up on a jack and we're watching and they
might as well had a bucket of warm water and a hair dryer out there.
And then finally the next morning they either found a new plane or they
figured it out. So we get on the airplane. It's eleven o'clock whatever.
The next morning, we're finally going home and we're so tired and the
airport was cold all night, so cold all night we couldn't sleep. And
we are on the airplane and as we're taxing out, the flight attendant is
going and to take advantage of our bonus miles, just go online to sosa
blah blah blah dot com. And Auntie Taylor, who was with us on
the show, she said, we don't care. We just want to go
home. And the whole plane broke into applause because we didn't fucking care about
frequent flyer mileage on alleged air road, but did ride that airline again after
that experience. Anyway, he'd like, no, I don't want to be
on this ever again. I felt bad for the flight attendant. She's just
doing her job, but it was like, nobody wants to hear about this.
We just want to go home, and that is the Minnesota goodbye.
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