Speaker 1: Big news on the Minnesota Goodbye Valley Fair opens this weekend.
Speaker 1: A favorite ride of Valley Fair, Steel Venom Wild Thing
Speaker 1: is a great ride. Steel Venom is terrifying. And this
Speaker 1: is the one that's shaped like a U. So you
Speaker 1: start at the bottom of the U. You back up
Speaker 1: and then you go way to the top and then
Speaker 1: you sit there for a minute and then you wait
Speaker 1: for it to drop and it clicks, but it doesn't drop.
Speaker 2: Is that the one that spins at the top two
Speaker 2: like it twirls down.
Speaker 1: A little bit. Yeah, it does twirl a little bit
Speaker 1: at the going forward end, I believe, And then it clicks,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't drop, and you think, oh my god,
Speaker 1: something's wrong, and then it drops. But now that I
Speaker 1: say that, No, my favorite ride is Power Tower, no question.
Speaker 1: Power Tower is ridiculously high. Every time I go on it,
Speaker 1: I'm riding up. I can't believe how high I am.
Speaker 1: I hate heights. But then I go, why am I
Speaker 1: on this ride? So any thoughts on rides at Valley Fair.
Speaker 2: I like a roller coaster, but it has to just
Speaker 2: be like a tame roller coaster. So is it one
Speaker 2: of the wooden ones I can? I can deal with?
Speaker 2: One of the wooden ones. But if it goes like
Speaker 2: up down, up down, up down, up down, I don't
Speaker 2: like it. And if it goes like up up up
Speaker 2: up up up up and then has a huge drop,
Speaker 2: like if it's more than a sixty foot drop, I'm
Speaker 2: not doing it period. I'm too scared.
Speaker 1: When are you gonna start living your life?
Speaker 2: I'm too scared. I like I like Splash Mountain, I
Speaker 2: like Evers, I like the Disney roller coasters, but I
Speaker 2: can't do I can't do a really big drop like
Speaker 2: the wild Thing is too scary. Can't do it.
Speaker 3: I don't think ben a Valley fair like twice. I
Speaker 3: think total in my lifetime because I didn't grow up here,
Speaker 3: so I would say steel Venom's probably my favorite. However,
Speaker 3: I do have a story of I grew up going
Speaker 3: to Six Legs in Gurney, Illinois, and there was a
Speaker 3: a wooden roller coaster called Viper, and we would purposely
Speaker 3: not try to have our seatbelts buckle as tight or
Speaker 3: like the sing as tight because it was so rickety
Speaker 3: and it just like shut.
Speaker 2: Like just shake really back. Yeah, and you'd like.
Speaker 3: Fly around and stuff, and I mean obvious, they still
Speaker 3: a common check and make sure you're like decently secure.
Speaker 3: But I remember, like, I'm pretty sure I peed my
Speaker 3: pants one time, laughing so hard because I was not
Speaker 3: in secure at.
Speaker 2: All and I was just flying everywhere and it was
Speaker 2: so fun.
Speaker 1: Wow, nights bad idea. Yeah, A little myth that you
Speaker 1: might have heard is that the wooden roller coaster at
Speaker 1: Valley Fair used to be in the Excelsior Amusement Park.
Speaker 1: That's not true, However, the carousel at Valley Fair used
Speaker 1: to be in the Excelsior Amusement Park, and you might
Speaker 1: be going, there was an amusement park in excels Here.
Speaker 1: There was right where Maynards is now. There used to
Speaker 1: be an amusement park right along the shore of Lake Minnetaka,
Speaker 1: and it was there from maybe the thirties until like
Speaker 1: the seventies or so, and then they tore it down.
Speaker 1: Here's another fun fact. Yeah, and I bring this up
Speaker 1: once in a while. There used to be in the
Speaker 1: parking lot of Maynards, so you got Maynards on one
Speaker 1: side of the road. Across the street from Maynards. There
Speaker 1: used to be a a nightclub, like a teen dance club,
Speaker 1: and I forget what it was called, But the Rolling
Speaker 1: Stones played there one time before they were really really big,
Speaker 1: and it was burnt down by some stupid thug that
Speaker 1: lived around there. And I was talking to somebody who
Speaker 1: rents jet skis in in Lake Minnetonka, and he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I grew up with that guy. He was an asshole.
Speaker 1: Oh so yeah, so a little bit of history perience.
Speaker 3: Yeah, isn't it always creepy when you see the abandoned
Speaker 3: amusement parks? Like there aren't any around here? I know, yeah,
Speaker 3: no one in Denver or no, there might have been.
Speaker 2: Maybe No.
Speaker 3: I think that that actually is like running. But I
Speaker 3: just feel like when you see those abandoned amusement parks,
Speaker 3: it's like, how many ghosts are haunting that ghost?
Speaker 1: I'm now thinking of a video game I played that
Speaker 1: took place in an abandoned amusement park, and now I
Speaker 1: can't remember what it is. But all right, let's get
Speaker 1: on with the emails on the Minnesota goodbye and see
Speaker 1: what we've got here we go. Well, here's the announcement.
Speaker 1: We're excited to open Valley Fair for the season Monday
Speaker 1: or Sunday, May eleventh, and if you are interested in
Speaker 1: filming a story on May eleventh. Well, we don't film anything,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I got.
Speaker 3: That email too, jam, which is just always fun to
Speaker 3: get emails that. It's like, I work in radio. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I won't be bringing my news team out there.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: We probably could though, because radio people do social media videoing.
Speaker 3: Well, we could, yeah, but I just feel like the
Speaker 3: way that it was worded was a very generic press
Speaker 3: release sent out to all media personnel that they thought
Speaker 3: are most likely TV people.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 2: You know. It's nice though, just speaking of ally Fair,
Speaker 2: if you go on their website and you can actually
Speaker 2: watch little videos of all of their rides from like
Speaker 2: a point of view of being on the ride.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's cool.
Speaker 2: So I think I could handle Excalibur. That's the one
Speaker 2: that I'm looking at right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's the one that me and Pattia Ebert wrote
Speaker 1: on one hundred and one times back in about nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety four.
Speaker 2: This drop, I can see the bottom, so that's good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's still there, so kind of a wooden one
Speaker 1: with a little bit of metal. I think the tracks
Speaker 1: are met well, most roller coaster tracks are metal. Now
Speaker 1: they think about it, How.
Speaker 2: Long did it take you to ride it? All day.
Speaker 1: We started it probably one Yeah, we started about eleven
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, I guess it was on a weekday.
Speaker 1: And we went out there and pat and I rode
Speaker 1: the EXCaliber and I think we rode probably too about
Speaker 1: thirty times, and then we started to feel sick, so
Speaker 1: we took a break and then we rode ten more times.
Speaker 1: Then we were really sick.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: And I think it took until probably evening, like maybe
Speaker 1: six o'clock, but we did get all one hundred and
Speaker 1: one rides in. It was not a lot of fun, no,
Speaker 1: and there was a plaque at the loading area of
Speaker 1: Excalibur for years that said Dave Ryan and Patty Eberts
Speaker 1: from KWB rode this hundred one times.
Speaker 2: Not there anymore, No, it's not there. I mean it
Speaker 2: would have been so cute to like go back and
Speaker 2: remember that, though it would Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well maybe this summer you should go ride it one
Speaker 1: hundred one times.
Speaker 2: No, never mind, I'll write it once.
Speaker 1: Michelle writes in Hello Dave, Jenny vontam my girl, Bailey,
Speaker 1: I hope you had a great weekend. I know I did.
Speaker 1: We didn't do much. It was nice as always. Thanks
Speaker 1: for keeping me fucking sane for four hours a day. Well,
Speaker 1: you're welcome. I have one thing I would like from
Speaker 1: you all. Please please please mix up some of the
Speaker 1: old songs with the same ones you play every day.
Speaker 1: I mean, what happened to Taylor Swift, Pink Backstreet Boys,
Speaker 1: Eminem etc. Okay, I can't wait for the State Fair.
Speaker 1: I will be there giving you all shit this year.
Speaker 1: Thanks for being you. Have a great fucking week from Michelle.
Speaker 1: A love the attitude, Michelle, Thank you very much. All right,
Speaker 1: next one, it says, Okay, it's from Aaron, and she said,
Speaker 1: I feel the need to follow up on this. Have
Speaker 1: been catch it up on Minnesota goodbyes, and I heard
Speaker 1: some more feedback. Let's jump in and see what she's
Speaker 1: talking about. She is the one who wanted to write
Speaker 1: she wrote about getting the puppy. Yes, Okay, isn't she Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know if she's the one, but we've
Speaker 3: been talking about someone who wants to get a puppy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's her. So anyway, So she's heard some feedback
Speaker 1: from people saying, if you can't afford it, don't get it.
Speaker 1: Your mom and dad shouldn't be paying for things. I
Speaker 1: want to clear some stuff up. I've been on my
Speaker 1: own since twenty two, paying my own bills, moved out
Speaker 1: at twenty three, and paying rent my own rent since
Speaker 1: the only thing my parents were paying for is my
Speaker 1: car insurance, and that was because they bought the truck.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure why we never transferred the payment. It
Speaker 1: just never came up until I bought a new truck
Speaker 1: and obviously was then responsible for my own insurance. Okay,
Speaker 1: and yes, every now and then I would get a
Speaker 1: large scary bill from my old ass truck and would
Speaker 1: complain about it, not ask for money, and sometimes my
Speaker 1: parents would help by giving me money to help pay
Speaker 1: for it. I am a responsible adult who works full
Speaker 1: time with two part time jobs full time, two part
Speaker 1: time jobs. I just have a very expensive hobby, and
Speaker 1: sometimes my parents like to help me with that because
Speaker 1: a horse truck and trailer is a lot to put
Speaker 1: on a young adult. The maintenance of a truck alone
Speaker 1: is a lot more expensive than a normal car. Regardless,
Speaker 1: I've always assumed at the expense that come with orning
Speaker 1: a horse truck and trailer. Anyway, I told my parents
Speaker 1: about the puppy. They took it very well. Maybe a
Speaker 1: little annoyed at first, but overall they know my love
Speaker 1: for animals and they get it. They have an old
Speaker 1: dog at home and she is my girl. We know
Speaker 1: she doesn't have much time left, as she's been declining
Speaker 1: fairly quickly. I think the puppy is a good distraction
Speaker 1: for everyone but me, especially when the time comes. PS.
Speaker 1: Somebody said, buy a fucking plant. Remember that?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, ps.
Speaker 1: I do have many houseplants, but they do not cuddle
Speaker 1: quite the same as a dog does. Anyway, I appreciate
Speaker 1: the feedback. I'm very fortunate to have parents that have
Speaker 1: been able to support my hobby growing up, and even
Speaker 1: more fortunate to have been able to continue to enjoy
Speaker 1: my hobby through my early adulthood. I am really excited
Speaker 1: about welcoming a puppy into my life. You know what,
Speaker 1: if it works for you, and it works for your parents,
Speaker 1: it doesn't affect me, then I don't care. Good for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, and I hope it's cute and snuggy.
Speaker 1: Next one, let's see, here we go. This is it
Speaker 1: in New York City. I've been meaning to write in
Speaker 1: for a long time, so I'm currently typing this mail
Speaker 1: email at my desk at work. I'll try to be brief,
Speaker 1: but here are some random questions. My sister is having
Speaker 1: a bachelorette party in Charleston, South Carolina, and we're trying
Speaker 1: to figure out a theme for one of our nights out.
Speaker 1: We're trying to strike a balance between fun and simple.
Speaker 1: We don't want to make everybody buy new clothes or
Speaker 1: accessories because the trip as expensive as it is. What
Speaker 1: are your thoughts. I have no thoughts on this. I
Speaker 1: don't know, m.
Speaker 3: Okay, because they don't want to buy accessories. I was
Speaker 3: gonna say, just buy some cheap wigs, because I always
Speaker 3: think that that's fun and easy, and then you can
Speaker 3: wear whatever you want. But you know you're in the
Speaker 3: bachelorette party if you're wearing a wig. But if you
Speaker 3: don't want to do that, I would say, just find
Speaker 3: a color scheme of like obviously, the bridewear is white,
Speaker 3: and I've seen a lot of like more like fluorescent
Speaker 3: colors together, Like just see what people have or color
Speaker 3: coordinates with what people have already. It's always easy to
Speaker 3: just have everyone wear black and the brideware white too.
Speaker 1: Okay, what about an activity? I mean, do you think
Speaker 1: she's looking for activities.
Speaker 3: Oh there's Charleston's like one of the top etcera destinations
Speaker 3: now for hoping. So I'm sure they've got it planned
Speaker 3: by now.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, then, Sid says commenting on the woman who
Speaker 1: wrote in about getting a dog and still needing help
Speaker 1: from her parents, which we just covered. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: if you can't afford something, you don't get it. To me,
Speaker 1: if you're making a choice like that to spend money
Speaker 1: on something you don't technically need, you don't have a
Speaker 1: right to ask your parents for help. You don't get
Speaker 1: to buy your wants and beg for your needs. Believe me,
Speaker 1: I totally understand early adulthood and parents helping out, but
Speaker 1: this isn't the same thing. If you're concerned about pet cots,
Speaker 1: look into pet insurance. Well that's when they can really
Speaker 1: nail you, is when you take your dog in because
Speaker 1: they're you know, they can't poop or they won't eat,
Speaker 1: and then they go, oh, yeah, she needs surgery. It's
Speaker 1: going to be thirty two hundred dollars, and that is
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, it's like you have a choice,
Speaker 1: then let the dog die or get the surgery.
Speaker 2: And usually you'll get the surgery.
Speaker 1: You will. My dog Rex could not poop. He was older,
Speaker 1: and I think we spent five thousand dollars to tighten
Speaker 1: up his butt anal muscles so he could poop again.
Speaker 1: And he lived probably another year after that. But you know,
Speaker 1: he was our boy, yeah, and we were fortunate to
Speaker 1: be able to afford it. Question for the group, what
Speaker 1: is on the top of your bucket list? Not your
Speaker 1: wish list bucket list, but the list of things you
Speaker 1: will actually be devastated about if you don't get to do.
Speaker 1: For example, I have items on my bucket list like
Speaker 1: go into Wimbledon or traveling to New Zealand, but I
Speaker 1: only have two items on my real bucket list, having
Speaker 1: children living abroad. So I guess what she's saying is, Oh,
Speaker 1: it would be really cool if I could own my
Speaker 1: own theme park one day, but that's not going to happen.
Speaker 1: It's the thing that you really want to do, and
Speaker 1: if you don't get to do it, you will feel
Speaker 1: like you missed out on something in life. Anything come
Speaker 1: to mine, Jenny, anything to come to mine.
Speaker 3: Ugh, I mean mine's all just travel based. I just
Speaker 3: wish I could go take six months off and travel
Speaker 3: all around like South America or Southeast Asia maybe eure up,
Speaker 3: that's probably mine.
Speaker 2: And might's just go to Graceland with my mom and
Speaker 2: own a house. Those are two things that I think
Speaker 2: I could potentially do in my life, okay, and I
Speaker 2: will likely do them both at some point in time.
Speaker 2: Me and my mom literally talked about Graceland yesterday and
Speaker 2: we're like, let's actually get some shit on paper, so
Speaker 2: we do it instead of just talking about it.
Speaker 1: I don't really have a lot. I do want to
Speaker 1: ride the motorcycle to Alaska one day, so cool. I
Speaker 1: think that'd be really cool. But now we might take
Speaker 1: the RV. The problem Jenny with the RV is it
Speaker 1: gets and this is awful. This is what I fucking
Speaker 1: hate about it because I'm really like, I care about
Speaker 1: the environment. I pick up things when I go for
Speaker 1: a walk. I picked up two cigarette butts and a
Speaker 1: bread twisty tab you know the little square ones with
Speaker 1: a hole in it. Found that on the path, So
Speaker 1: I don't like fucking up the environment. The RV gets
Speaker 1: about eight miles to the gallon, which is like absurd.
Speaker 1: It is that means ten gallons of gas to go
Speaker 1: eighty miles. So if I'm going to go from here
Speaker 1: to Red Wigan back, that is ten gallons of gas. Ridiculous. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I would like to do that. Also, would like
Speaker 1: to go to the Cascades. Like you know, I've never
Speaker 1: seen like mountaineer in Mount oly the Olympus. I don't
Speaker 1: know whatever is out there now.
Speaker 2: I'm blanket even though I've been.
Speaker 3: I think it's Olympia. I'm going to look it up though,
Speaker 3: because i've literally, oh it is No, that's in Greece.
Speaker 1: Okay, well mountain, but that's why I don't know anything
Speaker 1: about it. But I would love to see the Cascades,
Speaker 1: and that is on my bucket list I really don't have.
Speaker 1: I'm not like I want to go to Fiji. I
Speaker 1: want to go to Iceland. I don't want to go
Speaker 1: to Greece. I don't want to go I'm not a
Speaker 1: traveler kind of a person. I think there's enough to
Speaker 1: see here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I have a lot of My algorithm
Speaker 3: is travel based, so I see a lot of things
Speaker 3: that it's like I've traveled the entire world and these
Speaker 3: are my top countries, and the United States is always
Speaker 3: in it because the just diverse landscape that we have here.
Speaker 2: It really is.
Speaker 3: But also the United States is huge, whereas like Iceland
Speaker 3: is the size of Texas or whatever, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's oh, I think it's even smaller probably.
Speaker 2: And actually probably is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But a lot of people say, like, you know,
Speaker 3: people feel like they have to go to Europe to
Speaker 3: experience different like the mountains in Switzerland and stuff, but
Speaker 3: really there's so much in the United States too.
Speaker 1: I've never been really to driven through Utah, but never
Speaker 1: through the pretty part of Utah. I've never been like
Speaker 1: northern California in like the Redwoods, Washington, Oregon, what else
Speaker 1: is up that way?
Speaker 3: Idaho, Washington. I just think like the Pacific Northwest is
Speaker 3: probably my favorite area of the country. And I don't
Speaker 3: know why, like what I could nail down, because there's
Speaker 3: mountains in multiple different states. But it's like the smells,
Speaker 3: it's the trees, it's just like also being close to water.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I know about that.
Speaker 1: But what troubles me is how crowded everything has become.
Speaker 1: Like in Colorado, I grew up there and it was
Speaker 1: it never seemed crowded back then, But now to get
Speaker 1: up into the mountains on Interstate seventy. You go from
Speaker 1: Denver up into the mountains on weekends, there's a traffic jam.
Speaker 1: Coming back. On Sunday afternoons, there's a traffic jam in
Speaker 1: Colorado Springs. Going up in a highway twenty four, there's
Speaker 1: a traffic jam and coming back. And that's what I
Speaker 1: worry about with the crowds. A friend of mine went
Speaker 1: to the Grand Canyon last summer with his family. There
Speaker 1: was a five hour wait to get into the front
Speaker 1: gate or one of the gates at the Grand Canyon.
Speaker 1: Five hours. Yeah, and I think about going to Yosemite
Speaker 1: because I've always wanted to see Yosemite, But it seems
Speaker 1: like it's just people, people, people, cars, cars, cars everywhere,
Speaker 1: and I would be one of those. So I can't
Speaker 1: blame the other people, but it just kind of where
Speaker 1: can you still go in the United States where there's
Speaker 1: not crowds.
Speaker 3: Well, you got to go in the off seasons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why.
Speaker 3: But unfortunately, you know, Glacier, you can't experience most of
Speaker 3: Glacier in the off season, like roads are closed down,
Speaker 3: it's dangerous, like you don't have access to a lot
Speaker 3: of stuff. So that's why it becomes so busy in
Speaker 3: the summer and there is such a long wait because
Speaker 3: that's the only time you can go to certain things.
Speaker 1: Well, there's a thing in Glacier called going to the
Speaker 1: Sun Road, and we tried to drive up, but we
Speaker 1: were there, I think in July and the snow was
Speaker 1: still too deep on going to the Sun Road and
Speaker 1: we couldn't go. Yeah, it's like, well fuck, if you
Speaker 1: go during the wintertime, there's no way you can go
Speaker 1: up that road. So anyway, what is on your bucket list?
Speaker 1: What would you recommend? Where do you go to get
Speaker 1: away from the crowds? What do you want to talk
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