Speaker 1: And here we go with the Minnesota Goodbye, Welcome back Jenny,
Speaker 1: so we get a chance to talk about whatever we
Speaker 1: want in the Minnesota Goodbye. So give me something about
Speaker 1: your trip that if somebody said, tell me about your trip,
Speaker 1: give me your lead story, what do you lead with?
Speaker 2: I would just say that, I mean, we've never done
Speaker 2: anything with a camper van before, and I just think
Speaker 2: that there's so much you can do with camper vans
Speaker 2: that you wouldn't expect, Like you can go camp at
Speaker 2: free campsites in areas that there's not really anyone around.
Speaker 2: So if you're trying to go on a trip and
Speaker 2: not be hoarded by tourists and you know, be like
Speaker 2: stuck with a bunch of people out of KOA, you
Speaker 2: can go to a free camp site.
Speaker 1: Is it funny how we hate tourists yet we are, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we are at the same time. Let me ask you,
Speaker 1: because you mentioned the KOA and I'm a big KOA fan.
Speaker 3: What does that stand for campground?
Speaker 1: No, it does Campgrounds of America. Oh yeah, it's spelled
Speaker 1: with the k Campgrounds of America community formed in Billings,
Speaker 1: Montana in nineteen sixty too. The original one is still
Speaker 1: there on the banks of the Yellowstone River, and I've
Speaker 1: stayed there before and it's fabulous. Did you see when
Speaker 1: you so you weren't at the koa, but when you're
Speaker 1: wild camping, were there other wild camper vans nearby?
Speaker 2: There are there, but it's like in a distance that like,
Speaker 2: and especially if you get in late at night, you
Speaker 2: can not even like see anyone else because there's no
Speaker 2: lights or anything. But yes, there definitely are other people nearby.
Speaker 2: There were a couple places where we were pretty secluded
Speaker 2: and not really close to anyone, but yeah, I would
Speaker 2: say the biggest lesson we learned with the camper van
Speaker 2: lifestyle is don't wait until it gets dark to find
Speaker 2: your your campsite, because then you're dealing with rough roads
Speaker 2: because I mean it's not paved roads ye where you're
Speaker 2: rolling up into your doing like really rough roads. And
Speaker 2: then also you might find a spot that you think
Speaker 2: is going to be open and then it's not, and
Speaker 2: then you have to like search around somewhere else. So
Speaker 2: I don't know, it just it was a very different
Speaker 2: trip than anything I've ever taken in my entire life.
Speaker 2: And I also didn't grow up camping, and so I
Speaker 2: was scared of so many things because I assumed I
Speaker 2: wouldn't be I was scared of not being able to
Speaker 2: shower in a normal shower. We improvised and use this
Speaker 2: water pressure or sprayer thing that Andrew has for his plants.
Speaker 2: I know, I was nervous about the bathroom situation just
Speaker 2: because I don't have like I have issues, and so
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, this is not.
Speaker 3: Going to be fun.
Speaker 2: I bought a toilet for the van.
Speaker 1: Did you ever use it?
Speaker 3: No, we never used the toilet.
Speaker 2: We didn't use it once, but.
Speaker 3: Like it's still a good thing that you had it
Speaker 3: just in case.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I'm happy that we have it, no doubt about that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I just think it was very unique and
Speaker 2: I am a huge fan of just getting on the
Speaker 2: road and going. We really didn't have a plan. We
Speaker 2: had a plan of like seeing national parks, but we
Speaker 2: didn't have super specific things set in stone. So like
Speaker 2: a couple of days ended up being a little different
Speaker 2: than what we thought they'd be because we saw other
Speaker 2: things that were cool to visit and I just love that. Whereas,
Speaker 2: like I think on a normal trip you kind of
Speaker 2: have to have a little bit more of an itinerary
Speaker 2: because you're in a civic city and you have to
Speaker 2: do all these things where in the camera van we
Speaker 2: kind of were free to go a little the way
Speaker 2: or something.
Speaker 1: I'm really jealous. I mean, that looks like that is
Speaker 1: my kind of trip, and it wouldn't really be Susan's
Speaker 1: kind of trip. She would rather have like the amenities
Speaker 1: of like all the you know, she wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: not take a shower for four days, and she wouldn't
Speaker 1: want to poop in a hole in the ground. And
Speaker 1: you know, I like to poop in a hole in
Speaker 1: the ground, you do. I actually did that one time
Speaker 1: at boy Scout camp because we were at Filmont in
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, and there's one part where they have most
Speaker 1: you know, it's a very primitive thing, but they have outhouses. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they it was very interesting because they said, don't
Speaker 1: they call them red roofs because they all have red roofs.
Speaker 1: And they said, don't pee in the red roof because
Speaker 1: what makes an outhouse stink is the interaction of urine
Speaker 1: with poop. You can poop in the red roof in
Speaker 1: the outhouse up yourself from peeing. Just p outside, pee
Speaker 1: against a rock or something.
Speaker 3: P first and then once you feel that the poop
Speaker 3: come in.
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, okay, And so they were right. So
Speaker 1: they let us all into the red roof and they said, smell.
Speaker 1: You couldn't smell anything because without the interaction of urine,
Speaker 1: it doesn't smell in there. What who knew? Doesn't sound true,
Speaker 1: but it is true.
Speaker 3: Sound true.
Speaker 1: What was your favorite National Park?
Speaker 2: Probably Bryce Canyon. I would say it was just very interesting.
Speaker 2: I've never seen landscapes like that. They're called hoodoos. That's
Speaker 2: like the main part of it, and I just felt
Speaker 2: like it was I don't know, it was just breathtaking. Everyone,
Speaker 2: every single one was breathtaking, I will say, and it's
Speaker 2: probably an unfair rating of it, but Arches was so
Speaker 2: underwhelming to me. We did, however, go when it was
Speaker 2: a pouring rain and we couldn't do a whole time.
Speaker 2: But it's kind of like the Redwood's forest. You see
Speaker 2: one huge, ginormous tree, you've seen them all, and that's
Speaker 2: kind of how Arches felt. Whereas like the other National parks,
Speaker 2: I feel like you just had different landscapes, more different
Speaker 2: landscapes and just more I guess, bigger views. But once again,
Speaker 2: I might not be giving it a fair rating because
Speaker 2: it was stormy and rainy when we were there.
Speaker 4: I kept saying that it looked like you were in
Speaker 4: different like Star Wars planets, because I never knew until
Speaker 4: your pictures, I never knew that half of these places
Speaker 4: even existed. I was like, I've never seen this before.
Speaker 4: I've never seen this before. How is this in the
Speaker 4: United States? Like I've never considered it. I guess it's
Speaker 4: just never come into my my feed of my eyeballs,
Speaker 4: but it all felt like Star Wars to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Great Sand Dunes is exactly I mean when
Speaker 1: that one, did you go sandboarding?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: We didn't.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say I didn't see the pictures.
Speaker 2: No, we we had plan on doing it. But just
Speaker 2: like timing, why is it worked out better for us
Speaker 2: to just get up? You have to like you know,
Speaker 2: you know this because you've done it. You have to
Speaker 2: rent them from a store, and the stores didn't open
Speaker 2: till like nine, and we really didn't want to wait
Speaker 2: that long, so we ended up just getting up and
Speaker 2: doing a hike instead right away. But let me tell you,
Speaker 2: we did not follow the All Trails trail, and that
Speaker 2: was a huge mistake. To the point that like I
Speaker 2: almost had like a little mini panic attack in the
Speaker 2: middle of the sand dunes because I realized we were
Speaker 2: so far away from the start of the trail. We
Speaker 2: were on the wrong part of the trail to get
Speaker 2: to this big star dune dune that we're trying to
Speaker 2: get to, and I just felt like there was nobody around.
Speaker 2: We didn't see a single person on that hike, and
Speaker 2: I just started kind of like panicking, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: do we have enough.
Speaker 3: Water, do we have whatever?
Speaker 2: And truthfully, it's the one time I felt like we
Speaker 2: weren't prepared because on the way back, I felt delirious,
Speaker 2: like I felt dehydrated, hungry, My back hurt that Andre
Speaker 2: had to end up carrying my backpack the last like
Speaker 2: half mile because you know this too, like trudging through
Speaker 2: sand is just so hard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like going through snow kind of right.
Speaker 2: It was just insane. So seven miles literally felt like
Speaker 2: fourteen miles, and you know, like one bottle of water
Speaker 2: and then a little bit more than that was not
Speaker 2: enough for that hike.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people underestimate the amount of
Speaker 1: water they need to take on any hike like that.
Speaker 1: People you go up with one and it's like, no,
Speaker 1: you need like a camelback with like a gallon in there.
Speaker 1: All right, moving on, and if you want to see
Speaker 1: pictures of Jenny's trip, it is super cool. It is
Speaker 1: on Dave Ryanshow dot com or on Jenny KTWB on Instagram. Hello,
Speaker 1: it's Rachel from Michigan. I've been a huge fan for
Speaker 1: almost ten years now as a daily listener, never missed
Speaker 1: a podcast or in Minnesota Goodbye until a year ago
Speaker 1: when my twins were born. I knew kids were gonna
Speaker 1: be a huge adjustment, but holy cow, I had no idea.
Speaker 1: It's been beautiful, crazy, busy, sleep deprived. But now that
Speaker 1: they are one and going to daycare a few days
Speaker 1: a week, I've finally had some time to start listening again.
Speaker 1: But wow, am I lost for contexts. Last time I listened,
Speaker 1: Fallon was still on the show. I don't even know
Speaker 1: where to begin to figure out what's happened in the
Speaker 1: last year or so. Can you please give me a
Speaker 1: sixty second update on the new people and any big
Speaker 1: changes that have happened. I've missed you all. Rachel from Michigan.
Speaker 1: Welcome back. Fallon left about August of last year to
Speaker 1: do the afternoon show, and she's done very well in
Speaker 1: the afternoon show. She was first with Zach Dlon and
Speaker 1: then they moved Zach to do his own morning show
Speaker 1: on Cities and so now she's on with Colt, so
Speaker 1: it's Balin and Colt in the afternoon. So at that time,
Speaker 1: that left me and Jenny and Drake, and that was
Speaker 1: until probably winter ish of this year, just the three
Speaker 1: of us, and then Drake was let go and then
Speaker 1: Vont was basically hired, so that it was me and
Speaker 1: Vont and Jenny and there was no overlap, I don't
Speaker 1: think with Drake and Vont, maybe a little bit no overlap.
Speaker 1: And then Bailey came in in May, and that is Bailey,
Speaker 1: and Bailey would fill in when Jenny was gone, and
Speaker 1: she did such a good job we said, well let's
Speaker 1: have Bailey. So because I always thought I wanted four
Speaker 1: people on the show, just because I think it's like
Speaker 1: more personalities, like friends would never have been as good
Speaker 1: if it was just three of them, but with six
Speaker 1: of them, and in our case, four of them, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's great. Yeah, So there is your update.
Speaker 1: Now you know everything, Okay, Okay, next one from Lexi.
Speaker 1: I got a bag of candy from a promotional thing
Speaker 1: Walmart had going on. I'm five years old at heart,
Speaker 1: so of course I wanted a free bag of candy,
Speaker 1: fully prepared for it to be shitty, cheap candy, you know,
Speaker 1: the kind that's small and either hard to break it
Speaker 1: breaks several teeth or automatically turns to dust the instant
Speaker 1: they hit the bottom of the trigger treat bag. But
Speaker 1: I was pleasantly surprised when I pulled out a hundred
Speaker 1: grand bar. Yama hadn't had one of those in years,
Speaker 1: and I was reminded of how underrated that candy bar is.
Speaker 1: So that leads me to the question, what candy bar
Speaker 1: to uchi you think is underrated? One hundred grand bar
Speaker 1: is mine because it's basically really soft caramel covered in
Speaker 1: chocolate and the crispy bits on top just pull it
Speaker 1: out together. Hot. Damn. That was a treat today. Can't
Speaker 1: wait to hear your thoughts. Okay, I will start because
Speaker 1: nobody likes this one, but I actually love the Three
Speaker 1: Musketeers bar. That's probably my favorite candy bar, and I
Speaker 1: know it's simply nougat with a thin layer of chocolate.
Speaker 1: But that's my favorite because to me, it's just got
Speaker 1: a great mouth feel, and I just that's really all
Speaker 1: I need.
Speaker 4: Bably I would say, so mine's not a candy bar.
Speaker 4: But I also am the only one who likes red
Speaker 4: vines the licorice.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I.
Speaker 3: Don't really care.
Speaker 4: I mean, I will eat Twizzlers, but I don't really
Speaker 4: care for Twizzlers, Like I'm not gonna buy twizzlers from
Speaker 4: the store, but I will buy red vines because there
Speaker 4: it's so soft and it actually tastes like I mean,
Speaker 4: I know licorice is technically like black licorice, and so
Speaker 4: it doesn't taste like Annis, but it tastes like what
Speaker 4: red liquorice to anis and a n I s e.
Speaker 3: That's the flavor of black live.
Speaker 1: You're making a joke about it, like funny, like we
Speaker 1: say porn instead of porn, and ANNIS is a flavor.
Speaker 3: It's a flavor. Yeah, it's a flavor of black licorice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I love red and I feel like Twizzlers
Speaker 4: just kind of taste like plastic to me.
Speaker 2: Jenny, mine would probably be mounds, Okay.
Speaker 1: I like bunce too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my dad always had those and he'd throw them
Speaker 2: in the freezer. So if you've ever ever frozen them before,
Speaker 2: you got a lot of thaw a little bit before
Speaker 2: you bite into it. But I just feel like it's
Speaker 2: really good when it's kind of frozen.
Speaker 3: Oo yum.
Speaker 1: This is somebody who did not hear their email on
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Goodbye, but I assure you we did read it.
Speaker 1: But just to reiterate it was very interesting. Said, my
Speaker 1: name is Connor. I've been listening for about eight years.
Speaker 1: I live in Michigan now, but I lived in the
Speaker 1: Twin Cities for six years and I'm an Augsburg alumni.
Speaker 1: You guys were talking about Dave's towel warmer and how
Speaker 1: he feels bad about it going into a landfill. This
Speaker 1: was last week when you were gone. I think yes,
Speaker 1: And I said, my towel warmer broke. I've had it
Speaker 1: for six or eight years. I love it. It just
Speaker 1: stopped working, so I said, I hate to throw it
Speaker 1: in the garbage. It ends up in a landfill. Well,
Speaker 1: he went on to say, and we did read this
Speaker 1: last week. I think Jenny is right. There are people
Speaker 1: called scrappers who will take appliances, electronics, metals, plastics, et cetera,
Speaker 1: and take them to companies that shred them down and
Speaker 1: sell the materials to foundry steelmakers and more. Did we
Speaker 1: read this.
Speaker 4: I don't remember this specific one, but I remember talking
Speaker 4: about it, but it might have been somebody else who Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyway, just a little PSA to google scrap junk metal
Speaker 1: recycling in your area, Get some extra dough for your
Speaker 1: end of life items, and know you're doing the right thing.
Speaker 1: Keep kicking butt. Love you guys. Dartiest of darts and licks.
Speaker 1: That is from Connor. Thank you Connor.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 1: Uh Okay, this is Charlie. I am currently listening to
Speaker 1: the Deja Vu episode with my dad and I had
Speaker 1: to rant about the bathroom issue. So when I was younger,
Speaker 1: I went to YMCA summer camps. I went to one
Speaker 1: camp we'd go swimming, and there were two bathroom changing
Speaker 1: rooms for girls and boys, So in the girls one.
Speaker 1: So in the girls one, there was one shower and
Speaker 1: one stall that had a curtain, and the only one
Speaker 1: that were allowed to use the stall were counselors. So
Speaker 1: the girls had to get dressed in this one big
Speaker 1: cold room together which had no door, just a damn
Speaker 1: hole in the wall, and nobody would say in anything
Speaker 1: at all. We would just stare at the walls and
Speaker 1: randomly make eye contact while we were trying to get dressed. Okay,
Speaker 1: the counselors were so strict about us not using the
Speaker 1: stall like they wanted us just they wanted us just
Speaker 1: fucking staring at each other the whole time, and they
Speaker 1: wonder why we're lesbians. Okay. Also, girls bathrooms smell like soap.
Speaker 1: This is my second email, but I didn't get a
Speaker 1: staff writer sticker, so please send one to her address
Speaker 1: dart Lick from Charlie. Any thoughts on that email about
Speaker 1: changing rooms and changing I remember in swimming lessons when
Speaker 1: I was a boy scout, we had to change in
Speaker 1: you know, you get all the way naked in front
Speaker 1: of the other boys, right, and it was a very
Speaker 1: quick pop your suit off, immediately, have your underpants ready
Speaker 1: to go, and so you're not naked.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I would always change facing the wall anytime we had
Speaker 4: to change in front of each other.
Speaker 3: I hated it.
Speaker 4: I would always use a stall, but if the stalls
Speaker 4: were taken, I would just be in a corner facing
Speaker 4: the wall and still do that.
Speaker 2: I remember in like fourth and fifth grade. I think
Speaker 2: in elementary school they started having us change us into
Speaker 2: gym uniforms, but then we'd always have to shower afterwards.
Speaker 2: So you're like in their shower and you're literally going
Speaker 2: as quick as you can to grab your towel to
Speaker 2: cover yourself up. Yes, And it was just such a
Speaker 2: self conscious thing because you, I don't know, unfortunately society
Speaker 2: with women at least, like you grow up self conscious
Speaker 2: about your body, and so you're like just try and
Speaker 2: get your clothes on as quick as you can. And
Speaker 2: I just hated it.
Speaker 4: I would have just rather sat in my sweaty, sweaty
Speaker 4: air than shower in front of anyone.
Speaker 1: Well, for what it's worth, you know, you said self
Speaker 1: conscious with women, boys are so concerned about their penis size. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I mean I know I was, because the first time
Speaker 1: you really have to take a shower in gym class
Speaker 1: is in seventh grade, and seventh grade boys are at
Speaker 1: different varying stages of development. I had not hit puberty yet,
Speaker 1: so I was very like self conscious about changing, you know,
Speaker 1: because when a boy hits puberty, things get bigger. They
Speaker 1: just do, and maybe you don't know that it doesn't
Speaker 1: stay the same size it goes from about the size
Speaker 1: of a pinky finger to me about the size of
Speaker 1: a No, we're a loaf of bread. Wow, So because
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, yeah, that is impressive.
Speaker 3: But also I always a burden. What feels like a burden?
Speaker 1: Well, I always said that mine was bigger than a breadstick,
Speaker 1: but smaller than a compact.
Speaker 2: Car, somewhere in between them.
Speaker 1: Somewhere in between a breadstick and a compact car. Okay,
Speaker 1: are you writing down a title for the show right now?
Speaker 3: Yes? And it feels like a burden, feels like a bird.
Speaker 1: And anyway, so no boys go through that too, because
Speaker 1: there's like one kid who will be like, you know,
Speaker 1: he'll be the same age as you, but he'll have
Speaker 1: a giant wag and you'll because he's already gone through
Speaker 1: the puberty thing and he'll have hair, and you'll look
Speaker 1: down and you have no hair and you look like
Speaker 1: you got a roll of tombs. And it's it's.
Speaker 4: Girls, I think, yeah, except as your boobs are bigger
Speaker 4: than everybody else's.
Speaker 1: And then you're like, well, I wonder if you have
Speaker 1: like big boobs in seventh grade, if you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: look at me, I got big boobs.
Speaker 3: My sister had boobs in fourth grade, like she started getting.
Speaker 1: Them, proud of them, are embarrassed by embarrassed.
Speaker 4: Super embarrassed. Yep, but different times, different times, different times.
Speaker 1: But I think there's gonna be like that's always gonna
Speaker 1: be the same. It's like, no matter what you know,
Speaker 1: if you go to swimming lessons or whatever, you're always.
Speaker 4: Gonna feel self conscious of the part of growing up fam.
Speaker 1: It's pretty true. Okay, this one says, I want to
Speaker 1: make sure we didn't read this one. Okay, they are
Speaker 1: inviting you to go ice fishing, Bailey, Oh me, Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: small thing first, Baylor. My dad's get a nice ice house.
Speaker 1: He sets out on Prior Lake. It's comfy, cozy, and
Speaker 1: super fun. You're always welcome to come out if you're interested,
Speaker 1: or if Minnesota decides to be normal and have a
Speaker 1: white winter.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: Next random question, what was your favorite Halloween costume you
Speaker 1: have done in your life? Oh? God, and what is
Speaker 1: a favorite costume that you have seen somebody else wear before?
Speaker 1: I just missed being a kid around Halloween. Nostalgia hits
Speaker 1: me hard. Anyways, Thanks for the thanks, guys. Lick all
Speaker 1: the dart all right from Kristen. Mine was probably post malone,
Speaker 1: but I've done a bunch post malone. Though I was
Speaker 1: post op malone. You're right where I had an IV
Speaker 1: bottle attached to my arm and I carried around, but
Speaker 1: I was post op malone. But it was a legit
Speaker 1: post malone. Nobody gave a fuck. I thought people would
Speaker 1: rave about my costume. I didn't even get a second look,
Speaker 1: and it really taught me, like, you know, you never know, Jenny,
Speaker 1: what was your favorite costume?
Speaker 2: I would have to say a couple's one that Andrew
Speaker 2: and I did a couple of years ago where he
Speaker 2: was Dora the Explorer and I was Backpack and I
Speaker 2: thought it was funny, so that was good.
Speaker 1: But that's cute. I like that one.
Speaker 3: That's cute.
Speaker 4: As a kid, I was a clown a lot. But
Speaker 4: I think like my favorite one. I was maybe four
Speaker 4: and my sister was five, and we were Dracula and
Speaker 4: the Bride of Dracula, and it was Dracula and my
Speaker 4: mom has the picture of us looking just so stink
Speaker 4: and cute, and she went all out with our makeup.
Speaker 3: So I've never looked cooler than four years old.
Speaker 1: Is Dracula and it's been downhill ever since, exactly. All right,
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