Speaker 1: Minnesota. Goodbye. Let's start off with this one. You guys
Speaker 1: are part of my morning routine. Jenny in the morning
Speaker 1: zoo is great and we'll welcome that full time when
Speaker 1: it is time. Which is it now? Lol? This or
Speaker 1: Mike by the way, but happy the band is back together.
Speaker 1: When you have time off from work, how long does
Speaker 1: it take before one you start thinking about work, two
Speaker 1: you think about your co workers, or three you dread
Speaker 1: the return to work? See you Friday at cub and
Speaker 1: that is from Mike. Okay, when you go on vacation,
Speaker 1: how long does it take before you start thinking about work?
Speaker 1: I kind of am really good at shutting it off enough,
Speaker 1: but I never really shut it completely down because I'm
Speaker 1: always looking for ideas like, oh, that's something funny that happened.
Speaker 1: I'll put it in my phone or you know, make
Speaker 1: a mental note or whatever. How often you think about
Speaker 1: your coworkers? I mean, you know, I love you guys,
Speaker 1: but it's not like I'm going, God, what's Jenny doing
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know? Oh yeah? And how long before or you
Speaker 1: dread the return to work? I don't really dread the
Speaker 1: return to work. I mean, I like I dread getting
Speaker 1: up early, I dread the alarm going off. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't really have a problem with that. What about
Speaker 1: you guys.
Speaker 3: I think mine's a little bit different. It's it's evolved
Speaker 3: over the years. I'm used to I used to get
Speaker 3: very stressed when I would take vacation because truthfully, you
Speaker 3: guys relied on me for so much back in the day,
Speaker 3: and now I've got like Bailey and volunteer, and it
Speaker 3: was just a different dynamic back then.
Speaker 2: So, like, you know, I was.
Speaker 3: Getting texts about things and all of this stuff when
Speaker 3: I would be on vacation, and so I feel like
Speaker 3: I didn't get to turn it off a lot of
Speaker 3: times because I had to be there to help you
Speaker 3: guys with certain stuff, which was fine, but I just
Speaker 3: like took on the pressure of being stressed, leaving you
Speaker 3: guys hanging, even though I earned my vacation days, right,
Speaker 3: So I think I used to think about it a lot,
Speaker 3: But now my brain is like, vacation, baby, let go
Speaker 3: dread going back to work if it's a longer vacation,
Speaker 3: and I feel like that hits me the last couple
Speaker 3: of days of it. If it's a short like couple
Speaker 3: days off, I don't feel like that's enough time for
Speaker 3: me to.
Speaker 2: Feel one way or I'm not sure, right, yeah.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I've honestly only gone on a two day
Speaker 4: vacation since starting here.
Speaker 1: But you've got a week or two now, right, Well.
Speaker 4: Next in a couple of weeks, I'll be gone for
Speaker 4: like three or four days. Okay, Yeah, so I can
Speaker 4: report back to you there. But like I'm always thinking,
Speaker 4: if something happens, I'll write it down. But mostly if
Speaker 4: you guys are on vacation and I think about something
Speaker 4: that I want to tell you, I feel weird texting you.
Speaker 2: But like I had to tell you last week that I.
Speaker 4: Sat next to some Mormons at Costco and what they
Speaker 4: were talking about, because I was like, Dave might think
Speaker 4: this is interesting.
Speaker 1: What were they tell you? Did say me that I
Speaker 1: don't remember that.
Speaker 4: It was like they were on It was kind of
Speaker 4: like a first date because they were like, so, what
Speaker 4: kind of music are you interested in? And we were
Speaker 4: talking about Mormons or something, so it was on my
Speaker 4: brain that would be interested.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But yeah, mostly I'm just thinking, like, oh, I can't
Speaker 4: bother them because they're on vacation. But sometimes you I
Speaker 4: don't mind.
Speaker 1: I don't mind because it's a friend kind of a thing. Yeah, like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: let's do I think it is time for Ranger Jessica.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure I got her name right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Ranger Jessica. You ready, I'm ready. Let me find the
Speaker 1: button to push, and here we go with a fun
Speaker 1: fact from a real park ranger.
Speaker 5: Hello, Ranger Jessica. Do you know why it's snowing in May?
Speaker 5: That white fluff floating around and getting on everything is
Speaker 5: actually the seeds of the cottonwood tree. The cottonwoods are huge,
Speaker 5: gigantic floodplain tree species, and they release their seeds at
Speaker 5: about the same time that the floodwaters from the Mississippi
Speaker 5: River are receding. And that's so that these teeny tiny
Speaker 5: seeds will land in the mud that's left behind after
Speaker 5: the floodwater receeds. And these trees are incredible. They can
Speaker 5: grow up to six feet in their first year, so
Speaker 5: they are super fast growing. And they also have a
Speaker 5: star shape on the inside. There's a very cool Native
Speaker 5: America can tail. But why that star is there? So
Speaker 5: if you crack open a branch of a cottonwood, you'll
Speaker 5: see the star inside the cottonoo trees. I could talk
Speaker 5: about those trees forever. They are amazing, But just wanted
Speaker 5: to let you know why it's snowing in May.
Speaker 1: Range Route Range Route Cool, jess a question for you
Speaker 1: because I walked through him Intewahta Park and there are
Speaker 1: giant cottonwood trees that two people would have trouble ramping
Speaker 1: their arms around together. How old are those trees? Do
Speaker 1: they go back before pre European times like four hundred,
Speaker 1: five hundred years? Are they one hundred years old? My
Speaker 1: friend Curtis lives over in Saint Paul and they say
Speaker 1: the oldest tree in Saint Paul is in his backyard.
Speaker 1: Oh how does he know this? Because he was looking
Speaker 1: out his back window one time and it's not like
Speaker 1: you know, it's not like it's got an alley, it's
Speaker 1: not fenced off, and there's a bunch of girl scouts
Speaker 1: out there, and so he wanders outside. It's like, Hey,
Speaker 1: what's going on. They're like, this is the oldest tree
Speaker 1: in Saint Paul, And I would say maybe three people
Speaker 1: would have trouble wrapping their arms around. It's you've never
Speaker 1: seen anything like it huge. So, Ranger Jessica, tell me
Speaker 1: how long cottonwood trees grow because you walk through like
Speaker 1: a path by your house and see a giant cottonwood tree.
Speaker 1: Is it one hundred years old or is it four
Speaker 1: hundred years old?
Speaker 4: If it grows that fast in one year, six feet
Speaker 4: in one year, then maybe it's relatively young.
Speaker 2: It just grows fast.
Speaker 1: Let me know.
Speaker 4: There's a really big tree right by the Lake of
Speaker 4: the Aisles and it had been marked to get like
Speaker 4: cut down, and somebody, I don't know, tree activist or
Speaker 4: something put a sign on it that like dated it,
Speaker 4: and so it said, like, this tree is this many
Speaker 4: years old, This tree has seen all of these historic events.
Speaker 4: Do not cut down this tree. And they didn't cut
Speaker 4: down the tree. So I don't know how old was it.
Speaker 3: Do you remember?
Speaker 4: Oh it was like I don't like one hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty years old or something, and it said, like this
Speaker 4: tree is older than anyone who's living on earth today.
Speaker 2: Sure yeah, And like here's all of the things that
Speaker 2: this tree has seen in this area.
Speaker 1: Well, this is what I like to think about, to
Speaker 1: look at an old tree like that and think this
Speaker 1: predates Europeans coming here, like like a Native American might
Speaker 1: have leaned against this tree, or you know, walked by
Speaker 1: this tree or walked around this tree, and I like
Speaker 1: to think about that, and the same thing in Colorado.
Speaker 1: The trees on the brea where I live in Colorado,
Speaker 1: they can be about two hundred or three hundred years old,
Speaker 1: well before Europeans came, and I like to think how
Speaker 1: many natives from two hundred or four hundred years ago
Speaker 1: walked right by this tree.
Speaker 2: History is fascinating, it.
Speaker 1: Really is, you know, Okay, next one writes in, I
Speaker 1: want to say love listening to the show every morning.
Speaker 1: Oh please don't say my name, so I will go
Speaker 1: back and I will delete your name. I need some advice.
Speaker 1: I've been in my current job for a while now,
Speaker 1: and honestly, I do absolutely nothing. I am bored out
Speaker 1: of my mind. It's starting to feel like my brain
Speaker 1: is turning to much. I'm always asking for more to do,
Speaker 1: but there just isn't much work coming in my way.
Speaker 1: Frustrating because I'd like to stay busy and challenged. I'm
Speaker 1: wondering if I should wait it out and hope things
Speaker 1: pick up, or if this is a sign I should
Speaker 1: start looking for something new. I'm nervous about making another
Speaker 1: move too quickly, but I also don't want to waste
Speaker 1: my time in a role that's not helping me. Any
Speaker 1: advice on how to handle this kind of situation. Should
Speaker 1: I stick it out or start the job search? Thanks
Speaker 1: so much, Love you guys. First reaction is start the
Speaker 1: job search, because if it concerns you enough that you're
Speaker 1: writing into the Minnesota Goodbye, then it's concerning enough that
Speaker 1: you just need to leave.
Speaker 4: Well if you're asking to, if you're asking for more
Speaker 4: work and they're not giving you more work, I wonder
Speaker 4: if you ask for more work in conjunction with saying
Speaker 4: if I don't get more work, I'm going to find
Speaker 4: another job, if they would give them more impetus to
Speaker 4: give you more work.
Speaker 1: There is also the risk that if you ask that
Speaker 1: they'll be like, oh, then we don't need your position.
Speaker 4: True.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: A friend of mine worked for She was an office
Speaker 1: manager and during the pandemic, nobody came into the office anymore,
Speaker 1: so she literally had nothing to do. She would try
Speaker 1: to find things to do, but she couldn't find anything
Speaker 1: to do, so she put up you know, she started
Speaker 1: printing up a company newsletter. Okay, well, that kept her
Speaker 1: busy for an hour or two a week, but Eventually
Speaker 1: they looked at her and she was making eighty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a year doing nothing. Yeah, and she was not
Speaker 1: lazy at all, but she got laid off because they realized,
Speaker 1: we're paying you eighty thousand dollars a year, we don't
Speaker 1: need you.
Speaker 3: I'll be honest, when people say that they don't have
Speaker 3: enough work and like aren't given more work, that surprises
Speaker 3: me a little bit. I know I don't understand everyone's jobs,
Speaker 3: but like anytime I've been in a job like that,
Speaker 3: I have made work for myself. So honestly, before I
Speaker 3: got on the Day Ryan Show, I used to be
Speaker 3: on a morning show down the Hall, and I had
Speaker 3: such little responsibility that I just started like going across
Speaker 3: to a different studio, learning from another guy who did
Speaker 3: all this production, and like learning different things, and I
Speaker 3: would just like infiltrate myself into different stuff to make
Speaker 3: sure I had work to do, because I was just
Speaker 3: sitting in a studio pretty much every morning doing barely anything.
Speaker 3: So I feel like there's always something you can figure
Speaker 3: out to do. I obviously can't speak for every industry,
Speaker 3: but I really feel like there's something you can figure
Speaker 3: out to do.
Speaker 1: When I worked at Sambo's back when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: That was my summer job between junior and senior year.
Speaker 1: The boss said, there is never an excuse to sit
Speaker 1: around doing nothing. There is always something to do. My
Speaker 1: title was dishwasher, but that also meant toilet cleaner. Yes,
Speaker 1: supply bringer in her truck, onloader anything. He said, if
Speaker 1: you ever find yourself with nothing to do, you're not
Speaker 1: doing your job. There's always something to do, so I
Speaker 1: can't imagine. And same with this job. There's always something
Speaker 1: we could be working on, answering emails, writing new bits,
Speaker 1: writing whatever. All right, Janita is here with her rant.
Speaker 1: And did you not play Janita's rant when I was
Speaker 1: here last week?
Speaker 2: I want to.
Speaker 1: I wanted you to hear it. Yeah, I want to
Speaker 1: hear it too. I'm glad that I didn't miss hit. Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go on eat.
Speaker 6: Hey, Hey, y'all, So this week's rent is about white
Speaker 6: people that want black people to do white people shit. Now,
Speaker 6: let me explain. So this past holiday, we were hanging
Speaker 6: out with our friends and family, and the one couple
Speaker 6: who we've been friends with for like over twenty years.
Speaker 6: They're always asking us to do shit. They just know
Speaker 6: black people don't do. One weekend, they asked us to
Speaker 6: go bungee jumping, not happening. The next time, they asked
Speaker 6: us to go canoeing, not getting in the water. They
Speaker 6: wanted us to go to a pool party. Black people
Speaker 6: will go to the pool party, but they ain't getting
Speaker 6: in a damn pool. So just this past murial, I
Speaker 6: mean just this past holiday. So they said that we
Speaker 6: should all we should go camping with them. I'm not
Speaker 6: fucking going camping. I'm not sleeping outside of the tent.
Speaker 6: You know, we don't do that. Stop asking me that
Speaker 6: I am not sleeping outside. Black people normally don't sleep
Speaker 6: outside unless they get evicted. Now sleeping outside the tent
Speaker 6: anywhere with bugs and bears and whatever the hell else
Speaker 6: is roaming around outside, I'm not doing it. So then
Speaker 6: she says, well, we could do a practice run and
Speaker 6: we can set up tents outside in the backyard. Not
Speaker 6: sleeping outside in the backyard. No, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 6: Stop asking us to do white people's shit. It's not
Speaker 6: gonna happen. Well, that's why I read for this week.
Speaker 2: I love you guys. Bye.
Speaker 1: Okay, that is kind of funny.
Speaker 2: That's funny because Vaughn just went on kayaking.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he's break breaking the rules here.
Speaker 1: I did notice, and this is I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and say this because it's in my mind and I'm
Speaker 1: known for saying what's in my mind. In Yellowstone Park,
Speaker 1: I did not notice a lot of people love color.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's just because that was
Speaker 1: just there weren't but nearly everybody out there is what, Oh, Japanese, Man,
Speaker 1: I tell you there are a ton of Japanese people.
Speaker 1: And I would say, man, I'm not quite really exaggerating.
Speaker 1: Close to half of the people that I saw in
Speaker 1: Yellowstone Park were Japanese. Interesting, and I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 1: I thought, wow, that the economy in Japan must be
Speaker 1: really really good because to fly over here and go
Speaker 1: to Yellowstone Park, which is like, you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: fly to Jackson Hole or Billings rent a car going
Speaker 1: to the park. So I thought that was really interesting.
Speaker 4: I wonder if you, like, if you are living out
Speaker 4: of the country and you google like a big park
Speaker 4: in USA, if Yellowstone is just the first one, though,
Speaker 4: it must.
Speaker 1: Be like most desirable and maybe they don't have anything
Speaker 1: like that in Japan.
Speaker 2: Do you remember when you went to Japan if they
Speaker 2: had big national parks or something.
Speaker 1: I don't. They do have a Mount Fuji Okay which
Speaker 1: you can, like, you know, drive up part way or
Speaker 1: maybe all the way. I don't remember, but it could
Speaker 1: be because you know what, that might seem just as
Speaker 1: exotic to them as Kyoto seems to us. Yeah, so, Wanita,
Speaker 1: thank you for the rant to miss you. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Here's an interesting one. I was listening to an episode
Speaker 1: where a listener wrote in that works for the airlines
Speaker 1: and pretty much worked every job is there is for them.
Speaker 1: I'm curious if she could shed some light on something.
Speaker 1: Since marijuana is legal in a lot of states, is
Speaker 1: it true that TSA doesn't really check for single vape, pens, gummies, edibles,
Speaker 1: et cetera, as long as it's not a huge amount.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you can't just bring flour through, right. I
Speaker 1: have friends that fly often and say, you know, you
Speaker 1: can bring those with you. I've literally put my wallet,
Speaker 1: THC pens, keys, phone in the bin and watch it
Speaker 1: go through and the stuff has returned. No bigie at all.
Speaker 1: I've personally done a few times but left it in
Speaker 1: my carry on where it's not in the open for
Speaker 1: everyone to see. Does TSA really check or care for
Speaker 1: that stuff? Can you still get in trouble? Find THGC
Speaker 1: that is not nicotine? Thanks for all you do. Lickety
Speaker 1: lick dart lick. That is from Lucas. I don't know
Speaker 1: anything about it. I know that it used to be
Speaker 1: when you were in Colorado where lee weed was legal,
Speaker 1: that it had a sign that said you cannot fly
Speaker 1: we marijuana out of Colorado, so you can drop it
Speaker 1: in this courtesy box over here, or if we find it,
Speaker 1: you can be subject to a fine and arrest. And
Speaker 1: I never tried to fly weed out. I'm not a
Speaker 1: big weed guy. I don't really enjoy weed, but I
Speaker 1: did try to bring some back for Fallon and Steve
Speaker 1: one time. No I tried to mail.
Speaker 2: You tried to mail it.
Speaker 1: I tried to mail it, Yeah, and they figured out
Speaker 1: they flagged it. I got a letter from the post
Speaker 1: office that said, we've got a box down here at
Speaker 1: the post office that we think is the illegal and
Speaker 1: if you want to come by and pick it up,
Speaker 1: we will have to open it to give it to you,
Speaker 1: or if you ignore this letter, we'll throw it away.
Speaker 1: So I bought weed for Steve and Fallon in Colorado
Speaker 1: and it never got to them.
Speaker 6: All.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 3: It's so funny because I mean we almost Steve liked
Speaker 3: to engage in stuff like that, but Fallon didn't. And
Speaker 3: you don't like that stuff, so it's funny that you
Speaker 3: went out of your way to do that.
Speaker 2: Was it for a bit?
Speaker 1: I love my friends, so yeah, I don't know if
Speaker 1: somebody's listening who knows about that one. I have a
Speaker 1: friend Tracy who works at TSA, but I don't really
Speaker 1: like to bother him because I think I asked him
Speaker 1: one time and he said, yeah, don't put me on
Speaker 1: the radio about that. But somebody will know.
Speaker 4: Well, someone did email in last week saying that they
Speaker 4: had like a bunch of different jobs in the airport.
Speaker 4: So that's why this person's calling there or emailing to ask.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, and that is going to be it for
Speaker 1: the Minnesota goodbye. There are something we didn't get to
Speaker 1: so if you wrote in going her you never read mine,
Speaker 1: we'll try to get to it tomorrow. But also we're
Speaker 1: always looking for new fresh emails, so send those in
Speaker 1: Ryan Show at KADIWB dot com and we will get
Speaker 1: you on tomorrow here on the Minnesota Goodbye