Speaker 1: Final Minnesota Goodbye of twenty twenty four. Next time we
Speaker 1: do this will be on Thursday, January second, and the
Speaker 1: holidays will be over and we'll have the tree taken
Speaker 1: down and Christmas stuff put away. And isn't there always
Speaker 1: like under your tree, like the day after Christmas there's
Speaker 1: one lonely present that the person didn't show up or
Speaker 1: they weren't there, they couldn't make it. So there's one sad,
Speaker 1: lonely present sitting under the tree, like on January fourth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did a photo shoot on my tree last
Speaker 2: night because we don't have like a ton of gifts,
Speaker 2: because we don't do a ton with people, or my
Speaker 2: sisters handle the presence for like my parents most of
Speaker 2: the time. And so I took a picture of my
Speaker 2: tree before coming in this morning because I feel like
Speaker 2: your guys's gifts took up half of the Christmas gifts
Speaker 2: under the tree, and I wanted that like magical picture
Speaker 2: before I started giving away gifts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true, and your tree looks great with presents,
Speaker 1: but it looks so sad. Yeah, And then you know
Speaker 1: most people, if you're anything like me, you water your
Speaker 1: tree diligently until about December eighteenth, and then you kind
Speaker 1: of go fuck it because it's gonna die anyway.
Speaker 3: You're the only person I know that has a real tree.
Speaker 3: I literally put my tree out yesterday. Oh really, It's
Speaker 3: just a tiny, little, like teeny tiny tree and it's
Speaker 3: got fiber optic lights on it. So all I had
Speaker 3: to do was take it out a box, and then
Speaker 3: I just never went to grab the box. So I
Speaker 3: was like, you know what, I have time, So I
Speaker 3: went and grabbed the box and threw it out. And
Speaker 3: I felt bad because my cat sat and stared at it,
Speaker 3: and I was like, you could have been doing this
Speaker 3: this whole time, and I was a bad mom.
Speaker 1: I one time, I Susan and I were not together
Speaker 1: at this time. I don't know if you know this,
Speaker 1: but we've been broken up a couple of times and
Speaker 1: then gotten back together. I was actually engaged to somebody
Speaker 1: else for a while, but then one Christmas, I was
Speaker 1: totally alone, lived in a nice town home, but I
Speaker 1: didn't have a tree. I didn't want to buy a tree,
Speaker 1: but I had a snow globe with a tree inside
Speaker 1: of it. So that was my Christmas tree. Wow, that
Speaker 1: was peticlt it.
Speaker 4: In your hand shaking it back and forth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I set it up on top of the fireplace.
Speaker 1: It was fine. All right, Here we go with the
Speaker 1: emails all the way from Dodgeville, Michigan. Dave, Jenny, vont
Speaker 1: and Bailey. I've been a longtime listener but never emailed.
Speaker 2: Then.
Speaker 1: Of course I've thought about it over the years, but
Speaker 1: never took the initiative. I felt they had to write
Speaker 1: in after hearing Jenny mention Mount Bohemia. Yeah, I live
Speaker 1: in the up about fifty minutes from Bohemia. If Jenny
Speaker 1: and Andrew decide to make the seven hour trip up,
Speaker 1: they can feel free to email me if you need
Speaker 1: recommendations in the area. It is a winter wonderland up
Speaker 1: here and really is beautiful. What did you say about
Speaker 1: Mount Bohemia, Well, we just we got.
Speaker 2: A season pass actually for Mount Bohemia because it's only
Speaker 2: ninety nine dollars.
Speaker 4: It was a ski area, Yes, it's a ski area.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we got a season pass and it actually
Speaker 2: works at like other places too, including Spirit up in Duluth.
Speaker 2: So we were like, well we might as well do
Speaker 2: that because we didn't go for like the big passes
Speaker 2: this year, like the Icon or the epic passes. But
Speaker 2: we are we don't know what we're doing yet for
Speaker 2: the holidays. We were going to maybe go up there
Speaker 2: this weekend already, but they're not getting a ton of
Speaker 2: snow yet. And maybe this person emailing disagrees, but Andrew
Speaker 2: says that it's only worth it to go there if
Speaker 2: it's loaded with snow, because it's very steep runs.
Speaker 4: It's almost all black diamonds.
Speaker 1: Oh really Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2: But it's like a grey It's one of the better
Speaker 2: places in the Midwest because, as you know, a lot
Speaker 2: of our ski hills here are more hills, not mountains
Speaker 2: and stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I've been in the Up one time, and I
Speaker 1: remember how thinking how sparsely populated it was. Y. It
Speaker 1: just there's not a lot of people up there, and
Speaker 1: I think it's because it's so remote. Did you know
Speaker 1: that to get to the Up, I think from before
Speaker 1: they built the macket is in the Macanaw Bridge, you
Speaker 1: had to take a ferry, Like back until the sixties
Speaker 1: or whenever, when they built that bridge, you had to
Speaker 1: take a ferry to get to the Up from lower
Speaker 1: part of Michigan.
Speaker 2: Okay, I was gonna say, you meet from Michigan because
Speaker 2: I was like, you obviously can drive there from Minnesota
Speaker 2: or Wisconsin, you just have to go a long route
Speaker 2: for Michigan. I will say that Andrew was telling me
Speaker 2: about mam Bohemia because I've never been there, and when
Speaker 2: we go, he says, you better get ready. It's going
Speaker 2: to be just a sausage fest. It like girls, I
Speaker 2: don't really go there, and still it's like when you
Speaker 2: walk in, they're all going to be like shocked. And
Speaker 2: the best part about it is like their promotional materials
Speaker 2: have like women in bikinis in it because they got
Speaker 2: this Nordic spa attached to it, and so it's like
Speaker 2: all these hot women in bikinis. And when you show
Speaker 2: me this, I was like, what are you going to
Speaker 2: the Hooters version of a ski resort?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And he's like, yeah, there's never girls there, and I
Speaker 2: was like, so they're just like getting people to come
Speaker 2: thinking all these hot babes are going to be there
Speaker 2: and there's it's a sausage vest.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna that's funny. I would have never realized that
Speaker 1: I'm going to throw out something that I think is true,
Speaker 1: but I could be wrong, and it's just kind of
Speaker 1: a thought, but skiing and snowboarding is not as fun
Speaker 1: as people think it is. Now stay with me, okay.
Speaker 1: I think people do it because it looks cool, and
Speaker 1: it is cool and it's a vibe. So I don't
Speaker 1: really enjoy, Like, is it worth it to me to drive?
Speaker 1: Like if I'm in Colorado to drive two and a
Speaker 1: half hours up to breck and Ridge, spend one hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty nine dollars on a lift ticket to snowboard
Speaker 1: for four or five or six hours, and to spend
Speaker 1: twenty dollars on a burger and seven dollars on a
Speaker 1: diet coke and then drive home two and a half hours.
Speaker 1: Is it really that fun? My answer personally, and I
Speaker 1: want you to turn this over in your mind a
Speaker 1: little bit. The answer is no, it is not that fun,
Speaker 1: but people do it because of the vibe, the fashion,
Speaker 1: the adventure being able to say I'm going snowboarding, I'm
Speaker 1: going skiing, But when I'm actually snowboarding down the mountain,
Speaker 1: which is the heart and soul of the snow sport,
Speaker 1: it ain't that fun. It's okay, maybe it's just me, Jenny.
Speaker 1: I know you disagree, show Okay, then go ahead.
Speaker 2: I really do. I think it is just as much
Speaker 2: of a hobby as it is for Bailey to go
Speaker 2: to the theater, for people who play pick a ball,
Speaker 2: for vont who likes to watch late night shows, whatever.
Speaker 2: I think it's just as much of a hobby because
Speaker 2: I find so al much join it. I the fashion
Speaker 2: aspect of it is my least favorite part. I fucking
Speaker 2: hate putting on snow pants and all the layers. I
Speaker 2: don't care what I look like when I go snowboarding.
Speaker 2: That's the best part about it, because you just put
Speaker 2: on a goggles and a helmet and stuff. But I
Speaker 2: really do love to snowboard. I think it's very fun.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean Andrew and I just like go
Speaker 2: by ourselves and maybe get a picture of us at
Speaker 2: the top of the mountain every once in a while.
Speaker 2: But I don't think we do anything that's like for
Speaker 2: social media. I mean supposed I do like a cool jump,
Speaker 2: and by a cool jump, it's like when I get
Speaker 2: like two inches off, like.
Speaker 4: And then you look back at the video and you're like, oh, wow, no,
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 1: And people love skiing and snowboarded long before social media
Speaker 1: and long before you know, taking like you know, digital
Speaker 1: pictures up on the on the slope. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just that has been my experience. I've liked skiing
Speaker 1: and snowboarding. But when I look at it now and
Speaker 1: maybe it's like an age perspective, there's so it's a
Speaker 1: five hour round trip. If I gonna go like here,
Speaker 1: I can go skiing over at Highland. It'll make me
Speaker 1: thirty minutes to get there from my house. Then I
Speaker 1: got to buy the ticket, and then I got to
Speaker 1: wait in the lift line and cold, I got snow
Speaker 1: going up my butt crack or down my butt crack,
Speaker 1: And to me, it's just not as fun as it
Speaker 1: should be for the effort that you put into it.
Speaker 1: And that's a personal thing.
Speaker 2: Have you ever done like a ski and ski out place?
Speaker 2: Yeah we have, hey, yeah, oh, Because I feel like
Speaker 2: that's a different experience and a lot of times it's
Speaker 2: very expensive, but like in Keystone, Colorado, it's actually very
Speaker 2: reasonably priced. Where you're in the ski village, you walk
Speaker 2: to the lift and you're right there. So like, I
Speaker 2: feel like you have a different experience when it comes
Speaker 2: to going to like the big mountains, because usually you're
Speaker 2: just saying Colorado and then you drive from your Colorado house,
Speaker 2: so you're not doing the whole experience of staying in
Speaker 2: the village and like stuff like that. That makes things
Speaker 2: a little bit more eat like easier.
Speaker 1: Okay, lad we've put it this way. I mean, what
Speaker 1: concert would love go see? Is it's like Taylor Swift
Speaker 1: might be your favorite concert, would you spend eighteen thousand dollars?
Speaker 1: There becomes a point where you go, I like Taylor Swift,
Speaker 1: but it's not worth eighteen thousand dollars. And I guess
Speaker 1: with me, I like skiing and snowboarding, but it's just
Speaker 1: the time, effort and expense is really what do you think?
Speaker 1: I mean, I get it. It's totally a personal preference thing,
Speaker 1: and so let us know who's right. I think I'm right.
Speaker 1: Next one, I want to thank you guys from the
Speaker 1: same person. I want to thank you guys for being
Speaker 1: a constant positive in my day. Over the years, you
Speaker 1: provided many laugh one of my favorite being when Dave says,
Speaker 1: you have to take a break, but we won't even
Speaker 1: know you were gone. I wouldn't have known it if
Speaker 1: Dave didn't tell us. Okay, that's funny. I will end
Speaker 1: this email before he gets too long. I'd love a
Speaker 1: staff writer sticker if possible. Thanks for all you do,
Speaker 1: and that is from Alana and Alanta. I will make
Speaker 1: sure that Secretary Brie gets you a sticker and shout
Speaker 1: out Secretary Brie for handling one of the more I
Speaker 1: don't know what tedious. Thank you, Jenny, so thank you
Speaker 1: so much. Next one, Tyler says, I got a slight
Speaker 1: complaint for Bailey. Oh she keeps saying the trip is
Speaker 1: from Northfield, but he is from He's from this I
Speaker 1: get it, which is next to Northfield. If somebody works
Speaker 1: in Dundas, I am sick to death of people thinking
Speaker 1: we are Northfield. Lol. Please give the attention the little
Speaker 1: town's need. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Yes, I understand that he is from Dundas, but when
Speaker 3: I met him it was because of the Northfield defeat
Speaker 3: of Jesse James days.
Speaker 5: So I want to make sure I plug Northfield. You
Speaker 5: know enough for that.
Speaker 3: And they're right next to each other. But yes, he
Speaker 3: lives in Dundas, right next to the two bars in town.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, so convenient, that's my boy.
Speaker 1: Happy holidays, y'all, Hoping each and every one of you
Speaker 1: have a great holiday season in New Year after today's
Speaker 1: podcast about servers and remembering orders. My questions for Jenny Jenny,
Speaker 1: I wrote in the other week about being super anal
Speaker 1: when going out to we eat, including checking the cleanliness
Speaker 1: of the restaurant, seeing how long a server takes, et cetera.
Speaker 1: My question is how many drinks could you hold in
Speaker 1: two hands? At my prime of bartending and serving, I
Speaker 1: could put three glasses in one hand and one in
Speaker 1: the other, so I could hand them out total of four.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's the top for me. I usually didn't do
Speaker 2: the three in one hand because my hands aren't that big,
Speaker 2: but I always did two in one hand and one
Speaker 2: in the other. Or I have gotten three in one hand,
Speaker 2: but that's yeah, that's the top.
Speaker 1: I never carry a tray.
Speaker 4: What's up the tray?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Trays are so inconvenient when it put down to it
Speaker 2: yet okay, And I had one awful situation when I
Speaker 2: was training at like a new restaurant job, where I
Speaker 2: was holding the tray full of like ten drinks and
Speaker 2: I made the mistake of emptying one side too quick.
Speaker 2: Oh oh yeah, fell over from the weight onto the
Speaker 2: table onto one of the guests of a party of
Speaker 2: like twelve, and I was like, ah, they're.
Speaker 4: Never going to hire me.
Speaker 2: I was like in trading and like they were pretty
Speaker 2: the customers were pretty nice. But yeah, trays are not.
Speaker 2: They're really more inconvenient than they are convenience.
Speaker 1: I did know that. Interesting. Okay, let's see, he says
Speaker 1: at my primate bar attending I could Yeah, he says that. Okay,
Speaker 1: I think it's a little tanky when someone tries to
Speaker 1: bring out three drinks but carries them with each hand
Speaker 1: on either side like a triangle, holding for dear life
Speaker 1: not to drop them at that point. Get a tray.
Speaker 1: I also don't want your fingers in my diet coke,
Speaker 1: so you're sticking your fingers down into the glasses.
Speaker 2: No, you don't do that bringing them to the table.
Speaker 2: If you're clearing a table off. I've done that before,
Speaker 2: but like not when you're bringing them to the table.
Speaker 5: Gross.
Speaker 1: I have the same rule five and under. I can memorize,
Speaker 1: but more than that, I write it down so I
Speaker 1: don't fuck up. And when you get your little ship
Speaker 1: heads that want to split ten fucking ways right down,
Speaker 1: helps too. Sorry a little rant there anyway, Have a
Speaker 1: happy holiday until next time, Lucas ps. We still have
Speaker 1: a few days left in the year to get some
Speaker 1: dart licking in.
Speaker 2: Oh right, Gus helped me pick out a refrigerator at Warnerstown.
Speaker 1: Are you serious?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he works for them, so he helped me get
Speaker 2: my refrigerator. Crapped out this time last year, and it
Speaker 2: wasn't cold out at this time, so you know, you
Speaker 2: think you could just put your shit outside, so I
Speaker 2: had to get one really quick.
Speaker 1: Next one, Mike says, all y'all have been a highlight
Speaker 1: of my twenty twenty four. I cherish your authenticity. You
Speaker 1: just being yourselves and talking on the radio. I feel
Speaker 1: like I know you the people you are, not just
Speaker 1: an image portrayed on the air. I appreciate that you
Speaker 1: bring an admirable life perspective. There are times to be serious,
Speaker 1: but not all the time. Better to take life as
Speaker 1: it comes, enjoy the ride, and then be serious when necessary.
Speaker 1: Thank you for all of that. I love y'all so much.
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, enjoy your time off, looking
Speaker 1: forward to twenty twenty five, and enjoying another year with y'all.
Speaker 1: Mike BFF, Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 5: I appreciate Mike.
Speaker 1: Happy New Year, Sean writes in says Will, what if
Speaker 1: all of your astrological signs and let us know if
Speaker 1: you relate to the description and traits of the sign.
Speaker 1: It's a fun way to learn about people. I'm a Scorpio.
Speaker 1: I truly don't know much about it.
Speaker 5: You're like the suxy one.
Speaker 1: Sex fiends I've heard were sex fiends or something like that,
Speaker 1: which is not true because I dated Cricket who was
Speaker 1: born on the same day, and she was far from
Speaker 1: a sex fiend.
Speaker 5: Of course, she was a lot younger birthday. What how romantic?
Speaker 1: Exact same birthday, one year older than me? What is
Speaker 1: your sign?
Speaker 3: I am a Virgo, which is apparently the ones that
Speaker 3: are very organized and kind of like anal retentive. And
Speaker 3: I feel organized but also like in a chaotic way,
Speaker 3: So I don't necessarily one hundred percent agree with it,
Speaker 3: but it does suit me.
Speaker 2: And I'm a Taurus and I'm just googled what characteristics
Speaker 2: are It says I'm grounded. I'm also stubborn, Yes, sensual, yeah,
Speaker 2: I feel like that does.
Speaker 5: Chores are strong willed well.
Speaker 2: It says tourists are very connected to their physical and
Speaker 2: sensory experiences and take their physical wellness seriously, So I
Speaker 2: would say that that does describe me.
Speaker 4: I'm very ah, what's the word?
Speaker 2: Just? Noises affect me a lot, Like I can walk
Speaker 2: into a room and hear like a million noises, whereas,
Speaker 2: like I think some people can tune things out. So
Speaker 2: I do think that, like my sensory ability is heightened,
Speaker 2: but I altill think that's because of anxiety.
Speaker 5: Bonta is a Leo and those are divas, and that
Speaker 5: checks out.
Speaker 1: Now that's funny because my brother is also a leo
Speaker 1: Leo and my ex fiance was a Leo and they're
Speaker 1: not divas at all.
Speaker 3: Well, I think it's like an entertainer type and I
Speaker 3: just used diva because that suits fut.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, hello, my favorite people. I hope your last
Speaker 1: day of work is going well. Question for Dave do
Speaker 1: you ever get tripped up by having two full names?
Speaker 1: Switching from Dave Ryan to Dave Flugelblinder on a daily basis,
Speaker 1: It's almost like two different people. I get tripped up
Speaker 1: sometimes from my married name and my maiden name because
Speaker 1: professionally I still go by my maiden name, but my
Speaker 1: legal name is my married name. I have clients who
Speaker 1: literally don't know my real name, because they all know
Speaker 1: is my professional maiden name. I imagine you probably go
Speaker 1: through something similar anyway. Hope you guys have a wonderful
Speaker 1: break and we'll hear from you next year. Anna, that's
Speaker 1: an interesting question. Not really, I don't have an example
Speaker 1: of why it does or does not bother me. But no,
Speaker 1: it's like my real last name, Kibbler. I don't try
Speaker 1: to hide it anymore because a lot of radio people don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, Jenny's last name is Lutenberger. There there's no
Speaker 1: damage from giving your real last name. But I chose
Speaker 1: Dave Ryan because you've got a chance to have a
Speaker 1: radio name, so I wanted a radio name. But no,
Speaker 1: I don't really you know what, When I'm with the
Speaker 1: boy Scouts, I'm Dave Kibler. When I'm hanging out with
Speaker 1: Ukulele Club, I'm just Dave. Dave. I'm just Dave. I
Speaker 1: don't really have a persona that's off the air. But
Speaker 1: when I pay bills and go to the dentist, I'm
Speaker 1: Dave Kibler. You know, yeah, I feel about like not
Speaker 1: that feel bad, but like fallen. She was fallin bon
Speaker 1: set and now she's pretty much fallen. Gottler. I don't
Speaker 1: know about on the radio, she's just Fallen Fallen Gottler
Speaker 1: or bon Set.
Speaker 2: I think she usually goes by Valan Gottler, but I
Speaker 2: feel like we always still call their fallI B. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: you know, like when she was on the show, I
Speaker 2: feel like it was always fallI B still even though
Speaker 2: she changed her last name to Scholar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, And I think that's all we have. Any
Speaker 1: final thoughts for the year for the Minnesota.
Speaker 2: Goodbye no thanks for the real extra content we do
Speaker 2: every day. Yeah, yeah, and contributing really fun.
Speaker 4: Actually it's your content, really, it really is.
Speaker 1: You're the staff writer. If you want to write emails
Speaker 1: for next year, you can be the first emailer for
Speaker 1: the new year. And if you want to go back
Speaker 1: and binge on Minnesota Goodbyes. There's some fun ones in there.
Speaker 1: There's an episode where we explain how dart Lick came
Speaker 1: to be and all right, and then there's I don't know,
Speaker 1: just randomly choose one. You never know what you're going
Speaker 1: to get, but it's one of my favorite things we
Speaker 1: do during the day, and so thank you because it's
Speaker 1: always fun to see what you have come up with.
Speaker 1: To write in for the Minnesota goodbye, and you can
Speaker 1: do that now or whenever you want over the holidays.
Speaker 1: Ryan's show at katie wb dot com. Happy Holidays,