Speaker 1: All right, we have a smattering of emails here on
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Goodbye, and we're gonna start off with the
Speaker 1: It depends it's a little bit political, but it is not,
Speaker 1: so let me just read it to you and to
Speaker 1: see what you guys think. Hello friends, from Aaron. I
Speaker 1: hope everybody's having a beautiful day. I was listening to
Speaker 1: yesterday's Minnesota Goodbye on my way home and it ended
Speaker 1: shortly before I got my house, so I turned on
Speaker 1: the radio. The only station playing a song I liked
Speaker 1: was one of the country stations. And while I liked
Speaker 1: the song, I've come to learn that the artists and
Speaker 1: his wife are very conservative leaning in their politics and beliefs.
Speaker 1: I consider myself liberal, and why I know you don't
Speaker 1: dive into politics on your show. I'm curious if you
Speaker 1: felt so strongly about a certain political or social policy
Speaker 1: that would make you delete an artist and their music
Speaker 1: from your playlists. I know a lot of people have
Speaker 1: been upset with Taylor Swift endorsing the Democratic Party, and
Speaker 1: many users on social media made a point to condemn
Speaker 1: her and her audacity to make a political statement. I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to stir the pot. I know that spont's job,
Speaker 1: but I'm curious of your thoughts. Thank you for all
Speaker 1: you do to bring happiness and light into my day.
Speaker 2: From Aaron, I know who she's talking about for sure
Speaker 2: is that it's probably Jason Eldan and his wife. They've definitely
Speaker 2: riled up people a lot with their opinions on certain things.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, my answer would be absolutely not. And I
Speaker 1: think that's one of the problems in our country right now,
Speaker 1: is that you can get canceled or can or unfriended
Speaker 1: or disliked or shunned for having one political opinion or another,
Speaker 1: and I think that's just stupid. I just I don't
Speaker 1: like that. I would never cancel anybody because they were
Speaker 1: extremely one way or the other. I might think a
Speaker 1: little bit less, but certainly not. We would never not
Speaker 1: play them. But I will say we would never really
Speaker 1: play kid Rock on the show again, because somebody would
Speaker 1: get pissed off and call and say, why are you
Speaker 1: playing kid Rock? So we just don't, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. But if it came up, it's not like
Speaker 1: you'd be like, oh, we can't play kid Rock.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's not really our demo, so we don't
Speaker 2: have to really worry about that.
Speaker 1: But I do love that then and making funny things.
Speaker 1: And we were smoking funny things, making love outside of
Speaker 1: the lake bah with the ba the bang the bang,
Speaker 1: Biggie Biggie Biggest said the boogies ump jump the boogie
Speaker 1: b No, nobody.
Speaker 3: I like picture the best, but your picture.
Speaker 4: Oh, I hate that song that was so overplayed.
Speaker 5: Anyway, I'm a cowboy baby.
Speaker 1: Kid jams back in the day. No, I think that
Speaker 1: that's UH. I watched the debate last night, and I
Speaker 1: thought it was great that neither of the two UH
Speaker 1: candidates were nasty and awful, and I think that that's
Speaker 1: the way you should go back to. I think you
Speaker 1: should be able to have a political discourse without being
Speaker 1: nasty and awful.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I will say so, like I won't necessarily stop
Speaker 5: listening to an artist, like if they just say like, yeah,
Speaker 5: I feel this way and I don't agree. Like I'm
Speaker 5: gonna make this about Broadway for a second, but there's
Speaker 5: just this one Broadway artist. Her name is Laura Astnas,
Speaker 5: and she's a little bit problematic, but she has one
Speaker 5: of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard. I'm not
Speaker 5: gonna stop listening to her just because I don't agree
Speaker 5: with the things that she thinks and says unless she
Speaker 5: was being like harmful about it and like seeking out
Speaker 5: ways to harm others before like her beliefs. So like,
Speaker 5: there are other kind of people in entertainment that I
Speaker 5: won't necessarily support anymore because they are actively like trying
Speaker 5: to hurt people by being so opinionated so loudly in
Speaker 5: like a harmful way.
Speaker 4: So like JK.
Speaker 5: Rowling for Harry Potter, like she's a garbage, really terrible
Speaker 5: person who is seeking out trying to hurt other people
Speaker 5: because she believes a certain thing. And so like, I'm
Speaker 5: not gonna go out and you know, wave a flag
Speaker 5: saying I love Harry Potter so much. Harry Potter's my
Speaker 5: favorite place because I know the things that she has
Speaker 5: said have hurt so many people that I care about,
Speaker 5: and I care about those people more than I care
Speaker 5: about telling everyone that I like Harry Potter.
Speaker 1: Uh well, but would you still read Harry Potter?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would still read it.
Speaker 5: I just would Like I'm not gonna say that Harry
Speaker 5: Potter wasn't a big part of my life because I'm
Speaker 5: a millennial. So like, yeah, Harry Potter was a huge
Speaker 5: part of my life. I still enjoy Harry Potter, but
Speaker 5: I'm not going to like buy new stuff that Harry
Speaker 5: Potter creates. Like now, right now, I can still watch
Speaker 5: the movies, I can read the books because that's what
Speaker 5: I grew up on, but like, I'm not going to
Speaker 5: continue giving money to JK. Rowling because she's just garbage.
Speaker 1: I'm going to take you to Universal Studio and buy
Speaker 1: you anyone you want.
Speaker 4: If you're paying for it, then I'll go.
Speaker 3: You see how quickly she's like, Okay, say I will
Speaker 3: support it.
Speaker 5: But like, I think that's different because that's like a
Speaker 5: I don't know if she's getting money straight from Universal
Speaker 5: for Harry.
Speaker 1: Every penny that you spend in Universal, part of that
Speaker 1: penny goes to her. She has got a money machine
Speaker 1: at home that spins faster than a gas pump. It
Speaker 1: is like, are you serious? You know she's raking in
Speaker 1: the bucks NonStop forever?
Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, yeah, I mean I'm not gonna disagree that
Speaker 5: she's making a ton of money. I'm also like, if
Speaker 5: somebody said I'm taking you to Universal, I'm not going
Speaker 5: to say no. But what I'm what I mean to
Speaker 5: say is that, like, you're not gonna go out of
Speaker 5: your way to support her. I'm not going to go
Speaker 5: out of my way to support her. Before about Chick
Speaker 5: fil A, Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4: Go to Chick fil A either.
Speaker 1: What do you not go because of the fact that
Speaker 1: they're closed on Sundays or what?
Speaker 4: No I go?
Speaker 3: I don't go.
Speaker 2: But I feel like this is I don't know enough
Speaker 2: about the big corporations, because you can argue so many
Speaker 2: different corporations support so many different things, but Chick fil
Speaker 2: A has been the most open one. I feel like
Speaker 2: that is anti LGBTQ, and I know that they have
Speaker 2: worked to change that in the pat like previous years
Speaker 2: and stuff, but I've just known that about them for
Speaker 2: a while, so I've never gone there period.
Speaker 1: It just cracks me up. It's like how many people
Speaker 1: are like, you know, I really support and I demand
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. But you see that line at fucking
Speaker 1: Chick fil A is around the block every day of
Speaker 1: the same people who were going, I don't like what
Speaker 1: they stand for, well, then go to knes you bid.
Speaker 4: Now, I'll just go somewhere else.
Speaker 2: I will admit I went one time because when the
Speaker 2: timberl when the Timberwolves have the posing team missed two
Speaker 2: free throws in a row in the fourth quarter, then
Speaker 2: you can go get free Chick fil A the next day,
Speaker 2: and so Andrew and I hit up like six different
Speaker 2: Chick fil As and got.
Speaker 3: A bunch of free se Remember that, And I'm okay with.
Speaker 2: It because that was like financially kind of hurting them actually,
Speaker 2: And also honestly, after eating home, I don't I didn't
Speaker 2: think Chick fil A was great. I thought it was gross. Anyways,
Speaker 2: I would never choose to go there to get their food.
Speaker 1: Anyway. We had this big discussion on the show a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago about what really is better KFC,
Speaker 1: and I think we all agreed, or at least I
Speaker 1: said KFC is better. But but nobody really goes to
Speaker 1: KFC anymore because it's your dad's favorite chicken restaurant, because kines,
Speaker 1: because canes and Chick fil A. But see really is
Speaker 1: superior Bone in Chicken where everything else it's Chicken Tenders,
Speaker 1: And I love it, don't get me wrong, But I
Speaker 1: like Bone in Chicken too, But you go to KFC,
Speaker 1: and there's one I think we mentioned down in Apple Valley.
Speaker 1: On one corner there's a Canes, a Chick fil A,
Speaker 1: and a KFC, and my daughter Alison, her husband Justin
Speaker 1: lived down there. He says, I go to KFC because
Speaker 1: I feel sorry for him. There's never a line at KFC.
Speaker 1: I will say. I read a study that says the
Speaker 1: fastest fast food restaurant. This is totally incongruent with everything
Speaker 1: we're talking about. Okay, fastest fast food restaurant is what?
Speaker 1: Take a guess?
Speaker 3: Taco Bell.
Speaker 1: Yes, you're right, Jenny, how'd you know?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 2: Because I feel like it is always the fastest one
Speaker 2: I've gone through any drive through before.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, because I go to Taco Bell maybe once a
Speaker 1: month or so, and it's amazing that you order all
Speaker 1: this stuff and you pull up and just about the
Speaker 1: time you put your brakes on, they've already got their
Speaker 1: food bag dangling out the window.
Speaker 4: Dang.
Speaker 2: I feel like McDonald's is pretty slow, at least the
Speaker 2: one near my house, because we have waited a very
Speaker 2: long time, and a McDonald's drive through.
Speaker 1: McDonald's is slower. KFC is fast, they say, because everything
Speaker 1: is made. They're not back there making the chicken. It's
Speaker 1: sitting under a heat lamp. Yeah, Culver's is very slow,
Speaker 1: but Culver's is like, it is so good it is
Speaker 1: made just for you right there. So that was a fun,
Speaker 1: interesting different email. Let's see what this one brings. Says
Speaker 1: love the show in the podcast, thanks for all the
Speaker 1: hours of entertainment. The reason I'm writing is because this
Speaker 1: summer we bought a bunch of puzzles at the Minnesota
Speaker 1: State Fair and the Merchandise Mart. They're kind of fun
Speaker 1: because the picture on the box doesn't exactly match the puzzle,
Speaker 1: so it's more of a challenge. They do that deliberately.
Speaker 4: Exactly which kinds of puzzles you're talking about?
Speaker 1: Anyway, I was working on the State Fair theme puzzle
Speaker 1: last night and I asked, is that Dave Ryan? And
Speaker 1: I said, I highly doubt it, but I showed me.
Speaker 1: But he showed me the box. Oh he said, they
Speaker 1: say my but they didn't put the noun in there,
Speaker 1: whether it's my husband or my wife. So I asked,
Speaker 1: Dave Ryan, is that Dave Ryan? And I said, I
Speaker 1: highly doubt it, but he showed me the box. I
Speaker 1: was like, damn, that very well could be Dave Ryan.
Speaker 4: I want to see I'm coming.
Speaker 1: It's a DJ with a microphone. It doesn't look like me,
Speaker 1: but I think it's kind of meant to be like
Speaker 1: a generic DJ broadcasting from the State Fair. I will
Speaker 1: go ahead and yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and say
Speaker 1: that's me. Sure, Yeah, why not? I went out there
Speaker 1: more than the narrative. Tell me anybody else that's ever
Speaker 1: broadcast more from the State Fair than me? Dave Ryan,
Speaker 1: name one person.
Speaker 3: I I don't know, So Bailey might know more than me.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I only ever went to there.
Speaker 1: All dead. Oh they're all dead dead, well dead dead dead.
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's very cool. I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and say that is me, so thank you. Neil, who
Speaker 1: lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Neil, tell me about Atlanta because
Speaker 1: I've heard that. I've got a friend that goes there
Speaker 1: for business and they hate it. They go to Dallas,
Speaker 1: Vegas and Atlanta regularly for business and they hate Atlanta. Oh,
Speaker 1: they say it's just gross.
Speaker 4: I've been there once, Like.
Speaker 3: It's dirty, there's litter, Like, what are we talking about?
Speaker 1: I don't know. They just said it's gross.
Speaker 4: There's Coca Cola World there that's really neat museum.
Speaker 1: Also the home of the world's longest escalator.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, they have got a good aquarium.
Speaker 2: You all the most random shit, Like who knows that
Speaker 2: the longest esque?
Speaker 1: Is that true?
Speaker 4: Coca Cola world.
Speaker 5: You'd walk down a hallway and then there would be
Speaker 5: like these fountains that would go over.
Speaker 4: Your head with coke and them. That was pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Able to drink it.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you jumped high enough, maybe you could
Speaker 4: get your face in there. It was super cool, you know.
Speaker 1: Bailey, Okay. Another one, This one says, this is a
Speaker 1: response to if we think emails like blowjob poop stories
Speaker 1: are fun, because we brought this up the other day
Speaker 1: about a blumpkin and that's when you give a blowjob
Speaker 1: to somebody who was on the toilet. Yeah they're pooping. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And we said, you know, if you don't want to
Speaker 1: hear stories like this on the Minnesota Goodbye, let me know,
Speaker 1: because we're not here to like grossh out or turn
Speaker 1: you off or be sillacious. This person says, I'm a
Speaker 1: longtime listener. I got to tell you. The story made
Speaker 1: me lol and get weak in the knees. It was
Speaker 1: so funny. Please keep contents like that as part of
Speaker 1: the Minnesota. Goodbye. I think you and the team do
Speaker 1: a good job giving a disclaimer that something's going to
Speaker 1: be spicy. By the way, what happened to naughty Tuesday?
Speaker 1: Naughty Tuesday was a concept that we had where you
Speaker 1: would write in your naughty stories of like a hookup
Speaker 1: that went bad or something that you did that was
Speaker 1: a little bit spicy, or maybe you made out with
Speaker 1: somebody in the stair well at work and they were married,
Speaker 1: or you know something, but it never really caught on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we just never really.
Speaker 3: We get a random one every once in a while.
Speaker 5: But it's like naughty spattering day. It doesn't matter which
Speaker 5: one it is.
Speaker 1: Now that sounds dirty, naughty spattering, super dirty. We are
Speaker 1: only about twelve minutes into the podcast now, and usually
Speaker 1: we try to go at least fifteen. That's kind of
Speaker 1: our benchmark. So, Jenny, what's on your mind?
Speaker 2: Okay, So Andrew and I are going out on a
Speaker 2: trip to like Colorado, Utah area to hit a bunch
Speaker 2: of national parks in like a week and a half.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go to Zion and Zion is where they
Speaker 2: have angels landing.
Speaker 1: I know exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: No, thanks, you wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Okay, so Bailey, you can google angels landing. There's a
Speaker 2: where it is just like ridgeline drop offs on each side.
Speaker 2: There are some chains. You don't hook yourself up to it,
Speaker 2: but there's like some guys a long way. You do
Speaker 2: have to win a lottery to be able to do
Speaker 2: that hike, and obviously we don't have that, but they
Speaker 2: do day of passes too, so there's like we can
Speaker 2: gamble and see if maybe when we're around there we
Speaker 2: could get one for the day. But would you guys
Speaker 2: do no, Dave, No, No, I don't.
Speaker 1: Like heights, so no, I would not. But you're is
Speaker 1: there a chain that you can walk along in like
Speaker 1: a handrail chain.
Speaker 3: There is a chain that goes from.
Speaker 1: Those along the ridge of a mountain by the way, Yeah.
Speaker 3: It goes from post to post, but you don't like
Speaker 3: hook up to it.
Speaker 2: And it's I mean, there is a lottery, so it
Speaker 2: keeps it decently less populated, but there's still a lot
Speaker 2: of people who get to do it because of the lottery,
Speaker 2: so you are most likely going to pass people like
Speaker 2: on one side or the other.
Speaker 1: No, I'm looking at a picture and it is crowded
Speaker 1: as fuck. It is crowded like Disneyland. And maybe I
Speaker 1: just found a bad picture, but I'm looking at these
Speaker 1: people scrambling over this beautiful mountain and there's probably forty
Speaker 1: people almost elbow to elbow, scrambling up this mountain.
Speaker 2: I don't know how many people they allow now, but yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean they do so many permits for the day.
Speaker 2: I don't think you have a specific time you can go,
Speaker 2: So I think a lot of people are not early
Speaker 2: morning hikers. Andrew and I are for big hikes. We
Speaker 2: definitely get up very early for big hikes, and we
Speaker 2: would for something like this. So I think, like, if
Speaker 2: you're starting to hike at eight in the morning, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're probably going to be around more crowded people doing it.
Speaker 1: That's one of the things about the Great Outdoors now
Speaker 1: is God, it's so crowded.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I grew up in Colorado and back in my day, yeah,
Speaker 1: the road up into the mountains was you know, it
Speaker 1: was moderately busy, but it wasn't crazy. But on Saturday
Speaker 1: mornings and Sunday mornings in Colorado, when you go up
Speaker 1: into the mountains, it's bumper, not quite bumper to bumper,
Speaker 1: but on Interstate seventy from Denver up into the mountains.
Speaker 1: It's a fucking traffic jam, and you're going through some
Speaker 1: of the most rugged terrain in the world. And it's
Speaker 1: a six lane highway and it's crowded, and you're coming
Speaker 1: home from Breckenridge. If you come from Breckenridge or Winter
Speaker 1: Park back down seventy, you're stopping go. You're literally your
Speaker 1: GPS is turning red. And the Manitu Incline in Colorado Springs,
Speaker 1: which is if you look up manituin Incline, is probably
Speaker 1: one of the most famous hikes in Colorado because it's
Speaker 1: ridiculously steep, even though it's only a mile long, but
Speaker 1: it's gotten so busy. You have to get a permit
Speaker 1: and register.
Speaker 3: Oh you have to get a permit for that, now me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't just go there. Oh yeah, you got
Speaker 1: to know that. You got to register in advance to
Speaker 1: get on the Manitu Incline because it's so popular. And
Speaker 1: that's one of the things about beautiful places anymore is
Speaker 1: I don't I want to go to Yosemite before I die,
Speaker 1: But I've heard Yosebite is like so low. You got
Speaker 1: to wait in a four hour line to get in.
Speaker 1: A friend of mine went to the Grand Canyon last summer.
Speaker 1: He said, we waited in line five hours at the
Speaker 1: entrance gate in their car.
Speaker 3: I think you.
Speaker 2: Really just have to go during off seasons because we've
Speaker 2: done Yellowstone and the Titans end of September, beginning of October,
Speaker 2: and yeah, there were people there, but like it was nothing.
Speaker 2: And it's because everyone goes during the summer because they
Speaker 2: take their kids and they're on summer vacation and stuff.
Speaker 2: So I feel like you got to go to nash
Speaker 2: Parks if you don't want to deal with those tourists,
Speaker 2: which we are ourselves in the off season.
Speaker 1: Well, the thing is, yeah, if you want to go
Speaker 1: somewhere and avoid crowds, you can either go somewhere that's
Speaker 1: not very popular, or go during November or March. And
Speaker 1: we went to the Grand Canyon during March a year
Speaker 1: and a half ago and it was fine. You know,
Speaker 1: it was you know, we took the bus tour and whatever.
Speaker 1: It was fine. But there's just so like if you
Speaker 1: go to the Boundary Waters. Boundary Waters is also permit based.
Speaker 1: You can't just go. I don't think you can't just
Speaker 1: go unload your kayak and your canoe with the boundary waters,
Speaker 1: you got to get a permit, and I don't.
Speaker 2: Think they can regulate that though everywhere because there are
Speaker 2: so many entry spots.
Speaker 1: You might you might be right about that, And I
Speaker 1: know that when we were there with the boy Scouts.
Speaker 1: It's the campsites are first come, first served, and so
Speaker 1: you'd paddle for like two hours looking for a campsite. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that doesn't have somebody there, and the one that's left
Speaker 1: is shit and it's got puddles full of mosquitos and
Speaker 1: there's no flat spots. So there's too many people in
Speaker 1: the world.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think there's a positive to that, though,
Speaker 5: is that at least people are like looking to do
Speaker 5: things out like in nature, and that's like a nice thing.
Speaker 5: I agree, because like I could be because I mean,
Speaker 5: I don't have really a horse in this race. I
Speaker 5: don't really know what you guys are talking about here
Speaker 5: when it comes to some of these places. But I
Speaker 5: get a plenty of cultural experiences that have barely anybody
Speaker 5: in the audience, and I would love it if more
Speaker 5: people would go to those. But hey, at least they're
Speaker 5: going outside, you know.
Speaker 1: Well, I think there's the I think the subtle difference
Speaker 1: is when you go to a movie, you don't mind
Speaker 1: a crowd. If I go down to the local cineplex,
Speaker 1: I don't mind if I'm sitting right next to somebody.
Speaker 1: But if I go to Yosemite and I'm trying to take,
Speaker 1: you know, like I don't know, enjoy the waterfalls, and
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of people there doing Instagram shit and
Speaker 1: their kids are screaming because they want to fucking ice
Speaker 1: cream cone. And I sound like Juanita, don't I Where
Speaker 1: is Juanita anyway? Juanita has disappeared.
Speaker 5: She was.
Speaker 1: She's overdue for this week.
Speaker 2: I thought it was a Friday special from her. I
Speaker 2: thought she was given a give.
Speaker 1: I don't know anyway. That is going to do it
Speaker 1: for the Minnesota. Goodbye. Go look up Angels Landing and
Speaker 1: stay home so when I go out you're not there.
Speaker 1: I love you, but I don't want you to be
Speaker 1: there when I go there. Go to the theater instead,
Speaker 1: fair enough, Go see Bailey in a theater production and
Speaker 1: leave the outdoor shit to me and Jenny.
Speaker 2: Yes, please, God, fuck's crushing crouch.
Speaker 1: Go all right, that's it for the Minnesota. Goodbye. We
Speaker 1: love you, thanks for listening. Ryan Show at katiewb dot com.
Speaker 1: That is the email address